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The Violence Fallacy
Death is so commonplace in today’s society that the common public has become desensitized to its influence. The loss of life is something that everyone should be sad of, but we seem to have lost the ability to empathize with others who experience that loss. On every phone, computer, and T.V. there are thousands upon …
Steaming the Day
Steam is a great platform for gaming! There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of video games lined ripe for the picking for the famished gamer. Earlier this week, I was one of the famished gamers and decided to peruse the site for possible games, and then I came across Slime Rancher. The most …
Video Game Addiction
Playing video games is fun for many people. The game industry has become bigger than every other entertainment outlet in the world. However, with massive growth like that, problems also appear. The idea of video games being as addictive as drugs has been floating around for a while, and recently it has begun to blow …
Accessibility of Video Games
Every gamer is surrounded by others who have played old games. These “others” proclaim that these old games are masterpieces and that they were ahead of their time. Games like Super Mario 64 and the original Legend of Zelda come to mind. However, newer generations hear these stories and try to get their greasy gamer …
Video Games and Film
Entertainment has been ingrained in the public mind for many, many years. Everywhere we go there are people talking about how the last football game ended or where the Soccer world cup is being held. As time moved on and technology improved, the entertainment industry shifted from being entirely physical to having a mixture of …
Passiveness vs. Interactivity
Video games are defined by the fact that the person enjoying it has to interact with the game. Without the inputs from the player, the video game holds no value and can provide no entertainment. Movies are the exact inverse of this; they are entirely passive. A viewer of a movie does not have an …
Beauty Can be Objective Too
Art is, for the most part, subjective. To one person, a painting can invoke feelings of magic and wonder and transport them to a world of joy. For others, however, that same painting can be as dull as an unlicensed box of tissues. Because of this huge divide in opinion, it is incredibly difficult, or …
Stories are the Souls of Video Games
As technology has advanced, so has video games. Originally, with early games such as “Tennis for Two,” the one and only reason one had for playing a game was the game play. It all revolved around the inputs of the player and what was happening on the screen; there was no need to create a …
Strike Force Heroes 3
Boredom is hardly ever a good thing. It turns perfectly fine days into monotonous slogs. However, there are a few instances where boredom can lead to something that isn’t entirely awful. Enter flash games, the short and sweet games available at any time in any place. These things have surrounded the newer generations since they …
Cheesecakeify My Opinion 