[ExI] trivia for the day

[Adrian Tymes]

Video games have diversified a lot since then.  Some of the less
interactive ones, these days, are practically like reading a book - or
watching a movie, depending on how they use their visual component.

Most of them are more involved, though.  Some appeal to creators - write a
story within certain constraints and see how it turns out.  Many are, of
course, mindless action - but to dismiss all video games as that is quite
similar to dismissing all movies as plot-what-plot action flicks.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:45 AM MB via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I played with DonkeyKong and with Xaxxon (sp?) until I could beat the
> other folks in my home.  Then I quit. It wasn't as much fun as gardening
> or reading a book or taking a nap.
>
> Tremendous time waster though, if I had nothing better to do, which wasn't
> often with a family to raise.  About on the level of Solitaire.
>
> Regards,
> MB
>
> On Thu, April 2, 2020 11:31, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> > I find that a little sad.
> >
> > SR Ballard
> > Well. I did try Myst and it did not interest me - also the flying program
> > around 1980.  If I liked it I would do it and no one could stop me or
> > shame
> > me out of it.  So what's sad?  I did not miss anything I liked.  I had
> > some
> > experience at programming in grad school, and did not like that either.
> I
> > went to law school - dropped out- hated it.
> >
> > I can go down a rack of 100 coats and not like any of them.
> > And so on - picky.  Born picky.  Not apologizing for it either.
> > I had to learn to cook in self-defense.
> > I don't like most of Mozart.  Is that a sin?  What I do like I love!  I
> > was
> > within 10 feet of the Mona Lisa and did not go over and look at it.
> >
> > Just gimme the best you got, world.  I don't know who or what is in
> charge
> > of my brain, but I like it or I don't.  Doesn't matter how famous it is.
> >
> > bill w
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:54 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> > extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I find that a little sad.
> >>
> >> SR Ballard
> >>
> >> On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:34 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> >> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> My first and last video game was Pong.
> >>
> >> bill w
> >>
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