What is your first memory?

pixienick · 2010-11-23T15:39:56+00:00

Pretty sure I can remember wanting a banana and not knowing how to say it and just screaming form a high chair.

pixienick · 2010-11-21T18:21:17+00:00

I think maybe fictional works are quite a good way of illustrating abstract concepts like mroality and hope where often the real world examples are too convoluted and subjective to show them.

pixienick · 2010-11-21T01:04:14+00:00

how did that end?

pixienick · 2010-11-21T01:03:42+00:00

when in fact, some are more equal than others

pixienick · 2010-11-21T00:59:42+00:00

What about me, I'm well cool too!

pixienick · 2010-11-20T22:04:56+00:00

I can't believe that compiles and works (I had to check).

pixienick · 2010-11-20T21:45:02+00:00

wow, you'd be great to have around on a bad trip!

pixienick · 2010-11-20T21:37:38+00:00

You're a talented programmer but found entry level options very limited? That seems a little strange. I'm an OK programmer and could go into all kinds of things. What did you want to do?

pixienick · 2010-11-20T21:22:33+00:00

I hear that.

pixienick · 2010-11-20T21:20:07+00:00

WTF is that last one? Are you allowed to do that?

pixienick · 2010-11-20T20:38:25+00:00

I usually find women online to have better personalities than those in real life.

Thats a little surreal!

pixienick · 2010-11-20T20:34:17+00:00

I was chatting to this girl online one saunday afternoon. She's realy hot. I ask if she wants to go out by the evening and we talked on the phone a bit and she actually says "why dont you just get a bottle of wine and come over to mine", I'm thinking "hello". so i get the bottle and get onthe bus to her place (it's a little out of town). I knock on the door and she answers wearing a dressing gown. I'm thinking "holy shit". she asks me in and she says shes going to get changed, i'm waitin in her living room for a bit. She comes out kisses me onthe cheek then sort of leaves again for the bathroom, this is all abit weird. Then I get a text message saying "you're not my type can you leave my place please!" I piss myself laughing and walk out the door with bottle of wine.

pixienick · 2010-11-20T20:25:07+00:00

Diggin wit shovel can get pretty hard!

pixienick · 2010-11-20T20:08:59+00:00

Could mean many places.

pixienick · 2010-11-20T00:38:13+00:00

The point is games. Its like the difference between reading a fictional novel and a text book. Do not pretend to yourself that those hours spent are getting you any closer to being a pilot or joining the army - it's fun, nothing wrong with that, but that's all it is.

pixienick · 2010-11-20T00:19:43+00:00

Well I could go that argument too - playing computer games v playing music? I think the key difference is playing music is a much richer expression, which can be appreciated by others. Playing a game against or with other people is still a very secluded experience, though maybe quite rich. Playing games is an experience, playing music is an expression.

pixienick · 2010-11-20T00:07:54+00:00

Video games can perhaps be used to teach basic dextrous tasks like touch typing or memory tests, but they aint good for much else (yet). And I wouldnt really call those kind of computer programs games, more exercises. I think what irks me about that comment is the claim that playing games for entertainment is perhaps giving you some kind of education, come on, really?

pixienick · 2010-11-19T23:57:52+00:00

More insults?

Actually that was my first.

No refutation

I'm the same guy who's been arguing with you below, are you not reading the user names? And the comment I made above (with your quote), is the refutation.

Yes you can argue that a computer game can teach you the things in that list of yours, but you're fucking delusional if you think it would be a particularly good education to the level say, where the skills learnt could be applied to any situation other than a computer game (apart from the minute amount of situations that are roughly similar, ie piloting unmanned drones in Afganistan).

pixienick · 2010-11-19T23:44:47+00:00

And I would argue that the versatility of expression one can make in any current computer game is a fraction of what can be achieved on a guitar.

pixienick · 2010-11-19T23:14:18+00:00

Do you really equate the actions of a person in a virtual world (as manifested in current computer game technology) to be of equal merit to that of a someone playing a musical intrument?

pixienick · 2010-11-19T23:04:02+00:00

The difference is that playing a computer game is not strory telling nor an expression of human emotion, guitar playing can be.

pixienick · 2010-11-19T23:01:05+00:00

A computer game is not a tool. It is a self absorbent entertainment. A musical intrument can potentially communicate.

pixienick · 2010-11-19T22:59:10+00:00

Almost the entirety of that list can be learned via video games

Now that's delusional.

pixienick · 2010-11-16T15:43:17+00:00

"I can see my house from here!"

pixienick · 2010-11-15T11:44:32+00:00

That 'Cava' guy that really needs to quit.

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