Comments on: 16-Bit Boy: On A Lovely Day Like This… http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/16-bit-boy-on-a-lovely-day-like-this/ Resolution Magazine: Diverse commentary on video games. Previews, reviews, articles and more. Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 16-Bit Boy & Hellraiser article fun… « Michael Sterrett’s Blog http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/16-bit-boy-on-a-lovely-day-like-this/#comment-24192 16-Bit Boy & Hellraiser article fun… « Michael Sterrett’s Blog Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:59:21 +0000 http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/?p=3505#comment-24192 [...] 14, 2009 by michaelsterrett Ello everyone, there’s a new 16-Bit Boy article up on the Resolution site and a piece about one of my favourite horror films Hellraiser in [...] [...] 14, 2009 by michaelsterrett Ello everyone, there’s a new 16-Bit Boy article up on the Resolution site and a piece about one of my favourite horror films Hellraiser in [...]

]]> By: Jazmeister http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/16-bit-boy-on-a-lovely-day-like-this/#comment-23355 Jazmeister Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:46:32 +0000 http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/?p=3505#comment-23355 Marry me! Marry me!

]]> By: DrEru http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/16-bit-boy-on-a-lovely-day-like-this/#comment-23354 DrEru Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:35:51 +0000 http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/?p=3505#comment-23354 I have a similar mistrust of anyone who says they enjoyed school. I can only conclude that they must have been so socially illiterate as to make them insensitive to the seemingly limitless catalogue of unpleasantness that made up every school day. The casual sadism, homophobia and racism. The dehumanising effect of a world crushed under the weight of petty restrictions and rules, none of which were designed to help or protect you. An asylum of as yet undiagnosed misery and madness. Just in case you are wondering I didn't even have a particularly hard time in school. I did okay in classes and wasn't bullied any more than anyone else. I just found watching the suffering insufferable. I have always believed that computer games (as they were called in my day) fulfill a similar role to television and books. They are an escapism. The danger they pose in indirect, in that addiction is a withdrawal from life. The ideal solution to excessive gaming is to deal with the source of unhappiness. Unfortunately there are so few levers of control available to you as a child that this is very often not an option. As for the 'dangers' posed by gaming in general I think it is the usual hypocrisy of demonising the youth. In a culture where immersion in television, alcohol and drugs is the norm for adults I don't think we should expect our children to be any different. To be fair though, this stigma against gaming is not what it was. I have noticed that the current generation of parents have grown up with games and do not have such an extreme reaction against them. In summary, I am not really sure what I think about it all but I am pretty sure that at some point I am going to use the phrase "...on a day like this...". I have a similar mistrust of anyone who says they enjoyed school. I can only conclude that they must have been so socially illiterate as to make them insensitive to the seemingly limitless catalogue of unpleasantness that made up every school day. The casual sadism, homophobia and racism. The dehumanising effect of a world crushed under the weight of petty restrictions and rules, none of which were designed to help or protect you. An asylum of as yet undiagnosed misery and madness.

Just in case you are wondering I didn’t even have a particularly hard time in school. I did okay in classes and wasn’t bullied any more than anyone else. I just found watching the suffering insufferable.

I have always believed that computer games (as they were called in my day) fulfill a similar role to television and books. They are an escapism. The danger they pose in indirect, in that addiction is a withdrawal from life. The ideal solution to excessive gaming is to deal with the source of unhappiness. Unfortunately there are so few levers of control available to you as a child that this is very often not an option.

As for the ‘dangers’ posed by gaming in general I think it is the usual hypocrisy of demonising the youth. In a culture where immersion in television, alcohol and drugs is the norm for adults I don’t think we should expect our children to be any different. To be fair though, this stigma against gaming is not what it was. I have noticed that the current generation of parents have grown up with games and do not have such an extreme reaction against them.

In summary, I am not really sure what I think about it all but I am pretty sure that at some point I am going to use the phrase “…on a day like this…”.

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