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If you live in Columbus and can pry yourself away from Grand Theft Auto IV for 90 minutes you might want to head down to Columbus State`s Nestor Hall Auditorium from 6-7:30 to listen to a panel talking about video games as the Convergence of Art and Technology. The Q&A panel will feature several smart people as well as one idiot from a local video game website (me). The topics will range from the morals and ethics of video games to ARG`s and more. The panel will open up to the public at some point so you can ask me fun pointed questions that I will answer with vague yet satisfying answers.
There`s also the Downtown Digital Arts festival going on which will be open before and during the panel. Thanks to the Fuse Factory for inviting me to participate.
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Me and Sean Colleli are coming. I guess we'll finally get to meet face to face after if been writing on the site for well over a month.
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nmurray wrote:Me and Sean Colleli are coming. I guess we'll finally get to meet face to face after if been writing on the site for well over a month. That ruins the mystery :) I still haven't met Randy and I only met Cyril last year after working with him for over 4.5 years :D
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The longer you delay meeting Chuck. the better. 
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Well, despite the fact that you'll be pulling yourself away from GTA IV, Chuck, there's no doubt that that'll be the topic du jour down there. The media's been having their expected feeding frenzy, and you might have some MADD mothers there, too, (whose concerns, in many gamers' opinions, are legitimate).
Informed gamers understand fully what situations, opportunities, and puzzling outcomes the GTA series can present. The ability to do so many things -- or refrain from doing so many things -- in a sandbox setting, has the propensity to present gamers with more moral conundrums *on accident* than any BioShock or Mass Effect can present *on purpose*.
But the unwashed masses are being fed a lot of lies, and that panel you serve on will be on the front lines. You may not be on Fox News, but you'll all probably have to pull off a Geoff Keighley, serving in the defense (without getting defensive, per se) of a still largely misunderstood form of entertainment. And this is society's New Devilry that they must come to know and understand -- but not necessarily accept. But it probably won't all happen today. Or tomorrow. When paperback novels were introduced, they were going to corrupt the moral fabric of society. When movies were introduced, they were going to corrupt the moral fabric of society. And now videogames are being introduced to larger populations of society, and society is nothing if not a creature of habit.
It'd be useful to polish off some candid responses for those types of people. If anyone on that panel starts answering questions indignantly, then it would fuel an unfortunate fire.
You know all that, I know -- I'm just sayin'.
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Randy Kalista wrote:Well, despite the fact that you'll be pulling yourself away from GTA IV, Chuck, there's no doubt that that'll be the topic du jour down there. The media's been having their expected feeding frenzy, and you might have some MADD mothers there, too, (whose concerns, in many gamers' opinions, are legitimate).
Informed gamers understand fully what situations, opportunities, and puzzling outcomes the GTA series can present. The ability to do so many things -- or refrain from doing so many things -- in a sandbox setting, has the propensity to present gamers with more moral conundrums *on accident* than any BioShock or Mass Effect can present *on purpose*.
But the unwashed masses are being fed a lot of lies, and that panel you serve on will be on the front lines. You may not be on Fox News, but you'll all probably have to pull off a Geoff Keighley, serving in the defense (without getting defensive, per se) of a still largely misunderstood form of entertainment. And this is society's New Devilry that they must come to know and understand -- but not necessarily accept. But it probably won't all happen today. Or tomorrow. When paperback novels were introduced, they were going to corrupt the moral fabric of society. When movies were introduced, they were going to corrupt the moral fabric of society. And now videogames are being introduced to larger populations of society, and society is nothing if not a creature of habit.
It'd be useful to polish off some candid responses for those types of people. If anyone on that panel starts answering questions indignantly, then it would fuel an unfortunate fire.
You know all that, I know -- I'm just sayin'.
/2 cents I honestly don't know what to expect for tonight. I get the feeling that it's going to be semi-academic but I've got a few things to talk about if things get pear shaped. I'm hoping that it's an academic discussion that's about the fusion of art and technology but you never know. We're getting together before it starts to go over topics and what not so it's going to be a little last minute. I'll try and post something tonight/tomorrow about the discussion. I'm certainly no N'Gai Croal but I'll do my best to represent.
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