Just like cassettes, be it audio tapes or VHS; cartridges, or vinyl, or even gramaphone before that... everything has its time. CD/DVDs are not exempt. It's called progress.

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Well said my man!

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@wox42: uh.. i dont know what part of the country you live in. im from the south, and nobody in my family or friends have ever said anything about being offended if someone has called them black.

race is a touchy thing here, and it makes sense why.. we still have living relatives that remember what they were doing when they heard the news that mlk jr had been assassinated. my grand parents still tell me of not being allowed to eat in certain places because of their skin color.. with living history of an era like that.. it couldnt be any other way.

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And don't get me wrong, I love liberal media, it's just when they do things like that I think they should stop and think of what they are actually doing.

It should be okay to use the skincolor to describe a person, just as long as it's only used as a physical trait and not a personal trait.

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Also, what's up with "Jerry Lawson"? How are White people supposed to tell African-Americans apart without seeing them, if they don't wear proper names like Trejean, Daeshanda or Norrece?




(And now I'm going to post this without a disclaimer. I'm crazy that way.)

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i was thinkin about that though as i typed it, i think that black people arent bothered by it so much as the people being afraid of not being "pc" by calling us black. its like, ive had more straight people get mad at me for saying faggot than gay people.

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As @Diverse-Nerd said; the trick is to acknowledge the difference and then not let if affect how you treat other human beings. Ignoring the difference is almost as bad as straight up racism itself. Acknowledging the fact this man achieved these things, in a time when it would have been very difficult for a black man, means accepting the past and the extreme difficulties black people faced in the not so distant past because of persecution from white people - and it's repercussions are still felt today. That doesn't take away from this man, it makes what he did even more amazing; he broke down barriers and surprisingly for the time - yes surprisingly - became known for what he could do, not what his skin colour was.

Why do you think people make such a song and dance about Obama being black? Because even as little as 10 years ago a black president wouldn't have been possible. Social acceptance of ethnic diversity has come a long way since the past and that deserves to be recognised for the benefit of black AND white. If you ignore it, and pretend it doesn't exist then you run the risk of it happening again.

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I'm conflicted. I don't want to be labeled an Internet racist (oh noes!) but this man created cartridges. How many people were actually sad to see cartridges go? Granted, it was better than hardwiring algorithms and controlling it with a switch. Still, cartridges, ugh.

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How many people were actually sad to see cartridges go? Granted, it was better than hardwiring algorithms and controlling it with a switch. Still, cartridges, ugh.

I understand what you are saying. And I know most were not saddened to see them go.

But it wasn't the fact he created something that could not be future proof, it was the fact he invented the swappable game media, so we have a console that can play interchangeable games... and not have to buy a damn Pong box for every new game to come out.

But all in all, I do get what you are saying.

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It reminds me of an exchange with Jefferson Twilight on Venture Brothers.

"Yeah, and I'm a Blackula Hunter."

"Shouldn't that be 'African-American' Dracula Hunter?"

"No, because I hunt Blackulas in London. There aren't African-America Draculas in London!"

"Oh... well, I guess that makes sense..."

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Besides, there's only so many shades of brown, and I for one can't keep them apart. [en.wikipedia.org]

Just think of the scenarios.

"Jenkins is that seal-brown fellow over there"

"You'd want to find the taupe-colored guy, he can help you"

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Of course, having the games on an internal hard-drive is even better assuming you get to keep the games, but that is a rant for another topic.

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I think wox42 was agreeing that it is over the top with "political correctness" and not supporting it.

And yes, some think it is out of line to say "black". Those same nuts are also no different than PETA, Greenpeace, and every other hypocritical brigade.

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The other incident happened at work, where we had just begun implementing the then new "Code Adam" system. We had a lost child (thankfully was found quickly), and I had described him by his clothes, his gender and his race. I had a superior come to me and tell me that I shouldn't indicate race because someone may get offended. I didn't stop from using it, for the simple reason that the safety of a child to me is far more important than some anal twit complaining about my description of skin color.

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So true.

It is so bad now, you cant even say their race without it being "offensive".

Man this world is going to snap one day, hardcore!

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BE: Have you played any video games since the 1970s? Have you kept up with video games?

JL: I don't play video games that often; I really don't. First of all, most of the games that are out now - I'm appalled by them. They're all scenario games considered with shooting somebody and killing somebody. To me, a game should be something like a skill you should develop - if you play this game, you walk away with something of value. That's what a game is to me.

If I was to say intelligence was a weight and say, "Let's take intelligence, weigh it in pounds, and say it's a hundred pounds." The way we measure intelligence today is if I have a hundred pounds of intelligence and I get from you 99 pounds, you're considered bright, right? My feeling is what "bright" is or what "genius" is - if I give you a hundred pounds of intelligence, you give me back 120. That means you take what you've taken and gone beyond that. You've learned other things, correlated the pieces, and put it together and added something to it. That's genius.

And what's wrong many times today is that we don't have any basis for teaching that correctly. See, we're taking away from children's imaginations. Video games today - they don't even want to see anything unless the graphics are completely high-toned, right? It used to be, "Oh, well that looks like a car." Well, looks like one, you know? No, they want to see a car, they want to see wheel spinners on it, and all the detail - infinite detail.

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