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Weekend Confirmed 102 - SSX, Binary Domain, Vita
by Garnett Lee, Mar 02, 2012 4:00pm PSTGDC looms on the horizon next week but there's no quiet before the storm. Christian Spicer and James Stevenson join Jeff and Garnett for a show stacked with great games. SSX, Binary Domain, and Syndicate co-op lead the pack, and there's still plenty more to talk about with the PlayStation Vita. The conversations also cover some of your games that drive you right to the brink but keep you coming back for more and hoped-for inclusions in the rumored to be announced SimCity 5. And that's just some of the talk that races by along the way before Finishing Moves caps it all off.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 102: 03/02/2012
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Comments
Christian is right that anybody who went for UMDs are being punished and it's utterly ridiculous.
We should not be charged twice for the same game. The VHS/DVD analogy doesn't work here because it's a different situation - PSP games still work on the Vita.
VHS tapes didn't work on DVD players. Totally different situation.
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So let's talk about entitlement. I wrote before about ideology and how this can be relevant to consumerism. Entitlement has many nasty connotations, but is founded upon good ones. I hope you'll bear with me and go along with my reasoning.
Entitlement often has the negative connotation, where there are some that demand something that is unreasonable or are demanding it unreasonably. We have many that like the idea of welfare for individuals too poor to survive in American culture and we have many that do not like this idea. We won't discuss that, but we'll have something similar.
Imagine you are well-enough earning in our culture that you can sustain yourself and perpetually and can afford minor and infrequent indulgences. You happen upon a man who is not. He comes to you, begging for anything you can spare that will enable him to continue to sustain in the culture. Maybe not going as far as living, but enough that he can not wear tattered rags, afford a shower, or maybe a better meal that leftovers in garbage.
The entitled one is you. Based on it's definition, you are the one who can give out resource or not. You are in charge. You can give the man the ability/power to do what he wants or you can choose not to. Immediately, though, you now have responsibility to this person. You are responsible for either giving to him or not; both options lead to consequences from you. This is some cosmic shit right here! You've affected this person and he, you.
If you give him the means, lets say that he honestly does what he told you and gets the meal, the shoes, the whatever, but that doesn't really matter. You're entitled to what you do with your resource because it's yours to do with as you please. Morals and ethics don't matter with entitlement. HE is the one begging, not you. He can demand, argue, and rationalize all he wants about his "entitlement", but empirically he does not have the power. He is in no position to demand, make threats, or argue that he deserves it for all his rationalizations will be fallacies.
So. Who is the bum and who has the money when we apply that to games? Who has the money? Who wants the money? The consumer is entitled to do what he wishes with the money. The beggar has no say in what that consumer does with his money. They industry want you to give them their money-- of course! And we do! Gladly, too. We're all enthusiasts here and just love games. We dish out more money than most for their "industry". I had the money, I bought a Vita, I buy the games. If I don't, they are FOREVER affected by my decision and millions of others like me.
I love games. I buy more than I should, really. It's fine. I love so many types of games I feel I can't help myself sometimes. But don't anyone ever think for a second I'm naive enough to think I'm the beggar for their content. They're the beggar and they want MY money. They better damn hope I'm a good enough guy to want to help them (i.e., consume their content).
In the meantime, I'm really enjoying Lumines and Rayman: Origins on the Vita. How about anyone else?
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