https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/08/02/hell-is-other-gamers-and-some-games/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/08/02/hell-is-other-gamers-and-some-games/comment-page-1/#comment-9794 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:01:25 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2048#comment-9794 I love this post–the only bit that gave me pause was the piece about rich social worlds not co-existing well with blatantly “post-operant” conditioning games like WoW and casual games. I see these games are a scaffolding for other interactions, and they don’t have to be very strong scaffoldings to produce rich worlds. LambdaMOO was about as low-featured as a game could get, and now there’s a lot of nostalgia for that type of game (though I don’t see people deserting the cinematic triple A titles for these stripped down DIY spaces). Racism and sexism in these games is not a bug but a feature for a lot of people–the persistent need for these behaviors is still so little understood but the heart of the matter it seems to me.

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