> It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others.
The implication to this sentence is that the west is unique in this regard. The only non-violent exemplar game you presented being a non-western game strengthens this implication.
The point of my post was to make an argument against that suggestion. If you didn't mean to imply that, then it really has no point.
However, if that was the case why mention the west at all? Particularly when the OP gave a non-western example (Mario) in the first place.
> The implication to this sentence is that the west is unique in this regard. The only non-violent exemplar game you presented being a non-western game strengthens this implication.
Unique? No. Distinct in character, yes.
> The only non-violent exemplar game you presented being a non-western game strengthens this implication.
Minecraft. Night in the Woods. Slenderman. Kerbal Space Program. SpaceChem, TIS-80, InfiniMiner, InfiniFactory, a huge portion of Stellaris's gameplay. Untitled Goose Game. Online Go. Candy Crush. Many many subgames in Roblox.
Can you stop this line of questioning now? It's boring.
>Minecraft. Night in the Woods. Slenderman. Kerbal Space Program. SpaceChem, TIS-80, InfiniMiner, InfiniFactory, a huge portion of Stellaris's gameplay. Untitled Goose Game. Online Go. Candy Crush. Many many subgames in Roblox.
Had you used those examples in your original post, then it would have had less of that implication.
>Can you stop this line of questioning now? It's boring.
If you weren't implying that the west has a "love and expectation of violent solutions" while the rest of the world does not, or that the west has more of a "love and expectation of violent solutions" than the rest of the world, then just say so.
Or you are free to stop responding if you're bored. I won't be offended.
I don't know what you think "distinct" means but it's obviously different from the sense I'm using.
> Had you used those examples in your original post, then it would have had less of that implication.
I've had several threads about this. Sorry I don't replicated every aspect of the entire conversation for your convenience. Most folks aren't bringing the "aren't you a japanophile insulting my gloriously progressive culture" angle to the table, so I haven't felt the need to specifically defend against that ridiculous argument in every post.
> If you weren't implying that the west has a "love and expectation of violent solutions" while the rest of the world does not, or that the west has more of a "love and expectation of violent solutions" than the rest of the world, then just say so.
Perhaps being less defensive would be more productive in the future. Sadly, I'm taking your offer to ignore you from here on out. Thanks for reminding me why this place is such a waste of time.
>Most folks aren't bringing the "aren't you a japanophile insulting my gloriously progressive culture" angle to the table.
Wow maybe you should tone it down a bit. You've actually manage to use an ad hominem in an attempt to accuse me of the of the same. Also notice that there's another person who had the same impression I did, so if you didn't mean to leave that impression, you should probably edit your post.
If you did, then you shouldn't be upset when someone offers a counterpoint.
>Perhaps being less defensive would be more productive in the future. Sadly, I'm taking your offer to ignore you from here on out.
Except for this one last attempt to get the final word in right? If you're going to ignore me, ignore me, you don't need to keep making one last reply telling me that you're going to do it.
The implication to this sentence is that the west is unique in this regard. The only non-violent exemplar game you presented being a non-western game strengthens this implication.
The point of my post was to make an argument against that suggestion. If you didn't mean to imply that, then it really has no point.
However, if that was the case why mention the west at all? Particularly when the OP gave a non-western example (Mario) in the first place.