As much as I love P&T and Bullshit!, this episode was kinda crap.
Way too much time wasted on the obsessed dude with the "fire triangle". He shouldn't even have gotten on screen.
The Jack Thompson interview was a flop. All they got was Jack's polished presentation. They should have gone more in depth, asked about examples and detail, his past successes and their impact, etc. I guarantee there were lols to be had from successfully getting Jack off his script.
And the anti-game grandma, nothing funny there either. In that case, too, the interviewers could have asked her for some details about what goes on in games and how it relates to the real world.
A non-gamer might walk away from this thinking games are all FPS's and/or that FPS's are all about the violence. P&T could have set the latter point straight by using just a minute to examine things like competition play and showing how it hinges on things like teamwork, spatial skills, reflexes, etc. and any violence that goes on is just a context. It would also have dovetailed nicely into the main point: "look, here's a great (young) Counter-Strike player, he practices six hours a day and isn't a mass murderer, and guess what, none of his teammates and opponents are either".
Way too much time wasted on the obsessed dude with the "fire triangle". He shouldn't even have gotten on screen.
The Jack Thompson interview was a flop. All they got was Jack's polished presentation. They should have gone more in depth, asked about examples and detail, his past successes and their impact, etc. I guarantee there were lols to be had from successfully getting Jack off his script.
And the anti-game grandma, nothing funny there either. In that case, too, the interviewers could have asked her for some details about what goes on in games and how it relates to the real world.
A non-gamer might walk away from this thinking games are all FPS's and/or that FPS's are all about the violence. P&T could have set the latter point straight by using just a minute to examine things like competition play and showing how it hinges on things like teamwork, spatial skills, reflexes, etc. and any violence that goes on is just a context. It would also have dovetailed nicely into the main point: "look, here's a great (young) Counter-Strike player, he practices six hours a day and isn't a mass murderer, and guess what, none of his teammates and opponents are either".
