Overlooking the obvious fact that if you are writing about or even
making games for a living then having at least a competent level of
gaming skill is necessary, much in the same way being able to read is
important if you want to comprehend literature.
The real issue here is that there are those that don’t want to
acknowledge that gaming skill is a valid form of expertise. There are
reasons as to why this situation has come about but it’s mainly to do
with how the games industry is now currently structured.
In a political sense, if gaming expertise were to be openly
acknowledged as being useful to the medium then most people in
publishing would be out of a job.
Here we all were, innocently chucking rocks at the gaming press, when Old Man Forbes walks up and shoots it in the head.
I had this happen the other night playing survival mode. I was trying to clear out the Vim! pop factory and hadn’t slept to save in over two hours. My adrenaline perk was maxed out. I heard the beeping and just NOPED off roof of the building into the river.
Nick took the bomb like a champ.
My favorite ever pronoun story has to be one of my German professor’s. He fondly remembers being mugged by a gang of teenagers in Dresden, who used Sie (formal you) the entire time.