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Ron Perlman says he did the Fallout intro for $40 and a sandwich, he's never played it, and he's not interested in trying: 'The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fallout@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Lots of people don't play video games. Just like lots of people don't consume mass media. People can do what they like with their time, and that's just fine. I enjoy video games and reading books, others would rather spend time playing sports, skiing down mountains, learning to fly, whatever the fudge they want. I would rather play retro games than most new games too. That's what I like, but everyone should do the things they like, until it starts fucking with other people's shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I’m not out here saying everyone should be forced to play video games, or that people shouldn’t have the freedom to determine how to use their time.

    Just that it is closed-minded to ignore them categorically. Comics get the same short shrift very often. I consider games and comics media forms, no different than movies or books. I don’t say that lightly: my college degree is in English Literature so I hold books in high esteem. And I don’t have any respect for dismissing an entire media form, especially with the scale and depth that games have gotten to now, and their prominence in popular culture. When a video game is literally paying Mr. Goggin’s salary, you might think he’d at least get curious.

    Would you say that lots of people don’t read books and that’s just fine? Maybe you would. I would say that’s probably one of the big things that’s wrong with he world.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Lots of people don't read books, but that's a failing of the parents and the school system. Many also read books, but not about fantasy and science fiction. Rich people live in a very different world than you or me. They go to cocktail parties and soirees and travel the world. Actors also spend inordinate amounts of time on their craft, rehearsing, training, working out, etc... people are allowed to live their lives and don't have to like or care about what you do.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t know what being rich has to do with anything, or why you are so keen to make excuses for people who don’t read. But as you’ve strained to point out, what I think doesn’t matter, so fuck me I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It was just an example of different worlds people can inhabit. It's not that what you think doesn't matter, it's your opinion, like mine, but different. There isn't one true way to be or think. Maybe I'll influence you to think or see differently, maybe you'll do the same for me?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I’m familiar with the idea of people having their own opinions. I find it a mark of immaturity if someone feels the need to constantly respond to things with “well that’s just like your opinion man” because adults all know that people express their opinions when they speak. One should even be able to have opinions about other people without being reminded “well that’s your opinion and they have theirs.” I know.

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