Good Evening,
Welcome to confused ville here in my bed room as i sit trying to decide what the hell it is I am supposed to blog about. The three articles that we where given to read are in my opinion defiantly just rants of people about Star War type videogames.....for someone not hip to the videogame scene i do not know a damn thing they where talking about. I feel as though I just read a bunch of gibberish. Beside that point I am not only hip to videogames as I am defiantly NOT hip to Star Wars or anything to do with Star Wars. The closest I have even been to watching it is seeing a commercial on TV. The End!!!!
Although I do have to point out that in the reading "Bow Nigger" I found it interesting as to the way it was documented that he played by the "rules". Why do we think he put "rules" in this form? The other thing I wonder is with this other person calling him this does it relate back to the book and the multi player aspect of game playing "For one thing, my screen name has nothing to do with my ethnicity and for another, it's only a game and the fascist doing the typing is probably hundreds of miles away and far beyond anything you could call an actual influence on my life." Does this maybe relate back to the book as the information communication stream we have seem to advanced to and now use on a consistent basis.
I feel now through playing games online and texting a lot that we have become bolder communicators. We feel that maybe we can call people these names, within a videogame because maybe we think we aren't calling these live actual people this, we are calling the avatar this name rather!? As well with texting I have found myself becoming more bold in saying certain things to people that I would feel uncomfortable with this coming out of my mouth even if it was on the phone same idea......
This all being said lets move on to the reads of the book........reading in the book it brings up lexicon...lexicon by a rough definition is the word bank that we have in our heads that we use when we talk or do any kind of communication....this being said, I feel that when a new form of technology comes out we adapt and expand our lexicon to this new "language'' this is making a wave in our life. When videogames where coming out with a rough general start of Pong and the Atari those people of the Era and generation started to learn the new language of "videogames" if you will....now with advancements to this genre videogames and those around them have continued to advance their lexicons as the genre grows and expands......
Phew that was rough.....
I too was confused when writing my post as well, at least we are in the same boat. haha.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I def see what your saying about becoming bolder with the way we send texts, instant messages, etc.. I'm pretty sure it mostly has to to do with the anonymity that one can hide behind a computer screen with little to no punishment for doing so.
I agree with you on that statement about the incident from "Bow Nigger", that feeling of detachment that some people feel while playing a video games can result in people doing things that they normally wouldn't. Then when someone get upset they are confused. To them they did not do anything wrong at all, they don't look at it like they insulted a real person. I wonder how video games effect human judgement and their sense of reality?
ReplyDeleteIt is great that people can express themselves better online because they remain anonymous. However, it is too bad that some people have an ugly personality that they feel the need to express. Freedom of speech is great until you're using it as a defense to use racial, gender, etc. slurs. What i don't understand is why people use them if they're losing, racial slurs do not equal winning.
ReplyDeleteI also didn't know what to write about in my blog, seems like this was a major issue this week.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right about people being emboldened by their anonymity online, but more because there's nothing that can be done really to stop them. Also, I think he was putting the word "Rukes" in quotes because he was referring to the unwritten set, not the actual set of game rules.