{"id":18,"date":"2006-08-21T00:26:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T07:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-08-21T00:26:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T07:26:04","slug":"from-gamer-to-shamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"From gamer to shamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to theater today to see a production of Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> and, while waiting for the show to start, I pulled out my DS Lite and played some Tetris DS<\/em>. A guy sat in the chair next to me and said “Wooooow, that looks like a neat little toy.” I responded feebly with “Well, I’m not interested in growing up any sooner than I have to,” but I felt like that was lame. I didn’t really know how to respond. I don’t think he meant it as an insult, but he certainly said it as if I were a child. Would he have said the same thing if I were watching something on a video iPod?<\/p>\n

If I say “Well, I review games for a living,” that’s too defensive (or just sounds like I’m bragging), but anything else feels like I have to rationalize what is, in my mind, a perfectly acceptable way to kill time in public in the year 2006. Yet I still feel like I have to make an excuse for liking video games to people who treat it like it’s alien or juvenile. I still feel some amount of shame.<\/p>\n

This was in downtown San Jose. I was a few blocks away from where they hold the California Extreme<\/a> arcade show, in a town where they named a street after the co-creator of Breakout<\/em>. And yet there it was–total ignorance of gaming’s increasing maturity.<\/p>\n

Will games ever get out of the social ghetto?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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