Recent content by Abnaxis

@Blindal: Lanbdslide was doing the telling, not being told. They were the PSA mouthpieces trying to get everyone to stop drinking Shard, which actually encouraged everyone to drink Shard. That's why they were needed--without Landslide, nobody would be inadvertently encouraging the populace to...

Albino Boo: I've been carrying on this conversation on Shamus's blog, but you seem to be knowledgeable about this so I want to post my question here. My problem with your position on this issue, is that it seems like your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that a claim has...

I've never understood why there hasn't been a class action lawsuit over this yet. Google is violating the DMCA with ContentID--when a false DMCA claim results in a scammer taking income from a video they did not produce, that is itself copyright infringement that Google is facilitating. All...

Sill, I wonder if hard liquor is antimicrobial enough to make it "safe"

I wonder if the hard liquor sterilizes the piss...?

I'm not sure what "market" nonsense has to do with any of this. People don't buy or sell labels. They either call something a "game" or they don't, no money changes hands if someone decides to call something a "video game". More to your point, it matters because how we define "game" shapes...

First, I wasn't saying that video games are exactly the same as other computer programs, but rather that video games aren't really a medium, the zeros and ones are the medium, and that medium includes more than video games. To answer your question, I would say both the examples you listed are...

What do you mean when you say "it"? Are you saying that any technological system where "interaction" input produces "entertainment" output is a video game? What about a Mutoscopes? Mutoscopes were devices from the early 1900s which ran on electricity, that would shows users a short film as...

I think a lot of the problem is that video games aren't really a medium all on their own. They're zeros and ones encoded on a platter, that carry no meaning until some electronic device interprets them. They are ideas made manifest through math. The problem is, there's lots of stuff that...

If I may ask, what definition of "failure state" are you using? I mean, I don't think games have to have a failure state either, but arguments like this confuse me. By this logic, no matter what happens while you are playing a game, it's not like the thing self-destructs on failure, so you can...

Oh absolutely, I'm with you 100% on the simulators front. To me, that example concisely shows what I'm talking about--that whether something is a "game" depends in its intended purpose. I can take the same widget about driving tanks and shooting terrorists, and if I market to the general...

Please tell me what the winning strategy is for roulette. In my mind, any definition which excludes numerous works that an overwhelming majority of people define as a "game" (or conversely, any which includes numerous works that an overwhelming majority of people define as "not a game") is...

If you would read my post closely, you will note that I am arguing against broadening the definition of "game" in common language. Also, the examples I brought up aren't just "fun." They are a set of arbitrary rules that serve no purpose other than being "fun." Jacking off by itself, while it...

You are incorrect. "Knowing when to hold them and when to hold them" refers to poker, a game where competing players are each given a set of random cards, and each player will wager based on the strength of their cards, other's players' betting behavior, and other players' physical...

Real world games that don't involve challenge: dice, roulette, Rock/Paper/Scissors, pretty much any game of pure chance. Video games that don't involve challenge: electronic versions of the above, video slots, Facebook games. Maybe those aren't games for you, but historically the real...