Comments on: They Drive Me Nuts

by: Cyrris

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:02:40 +0000

Not ashamed - irritated. It’s much less interesting to watch from where I’m sitting in the room. Besides, you don’t have Counter-Strike installed, and even if you did, you know it doesn’t count. It’s community is the bane of the online gaming’s existence.

Never thought of having a preview for the comments, but I’m pretty sure the blog software doesn’t support it on it’s own. There might be a plugin though.

by: The Brother

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:43:08 +0000

Is throwing a piece of rubbish in the bin really that much more mindless than, say, a quick game of counter-strike on some public server full of 12 year-olds? We all know that the team play and strategy is non-existant in those situations.

For what it’s worth, I wasn’t playing the rubbish-throwing game for very long. But I was playing Peasant’s Quest until I finished it (a few hours). Why? Quite a few years back this would have been considered a “respected game”, although I don’t see why I shouldn’t try games that only lots of other people like. The reason I was playing was because it filled a niche two-hour break that I didn’t want to spend shooting things up. “Get a decent RPG!” I hear you say. For want of two hours of entertainment, overkill is beyond an understatement. It would take me half the time to learn how to get started! Being able to finish the game in one sitting is both more satisfying and less addictifying.

If you’re ashamed of me playing them, maybe you’ve forgotten what a game is meant for. Just as a large computer program like Firefox is respected so are the little ones, like the app that tells me the temperature of my CPU. Sure, if I had to choose between them I’d pick Firefox in a second. I use it for much longer periods of time and get more useful work done with it — but I’m sure glad I have both.

How come we can’t preview comments before we send them?

by: Foil Wrapper

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:37:08 +0000

See, the thing about flash games is that if you’re one of the folks who play them all the time, you have no real experience about good games. But as a person who plays real games, you know better, erego you cant play em for too long. The worst is when a flash game annoys you because you cant beat it. But like someone else said, theyre a waste of time when you got time to waste. Kinda like former clan mates websites that you read, when youve got papers to do. Many, many papers. Hmmmm…. *runs off to do papers*

by: intelli

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:28:49 +0000

Personally I’m a sucker for some flash games - or more to the point, any flash game that has a software toy or ’sandbox’ element to it - a la the aformentioned Yeti games.

There are also other elements that appeal about Flash gaming - accessibility whilst browsing being one, novelty being another. The internet is a breeding groud of originality, free speech, and consequently bad taste.

Flash gaming in this sense is an outlet of a rising subculture of homegrown internet humor - the ytmnds, the Photoshop Phridays, the topical (or just plain obscure) webcomics - that brings out the gibbering teenager in all of us in a way that overemasculated men shouting ‘HEADSHOT!’ to the sound of a Dutchman screaming ‘LINK MEEEEEEE!’ somehow doesn’t quite manage.

by: JohnDoe

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:15:25 +0000

Because of the human need to overcome challenges, how silly they may be. If I get linked to another Yeti sports game, I’m sure to see what score I can get, but once I do, I get bored and move on.

Playing these games in same manner I play UT2004 or WoW seems weird to me, but just playing them occasionally seems perfectly fine. And if it isnt, well sir, than I dont want to be fine!