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Conference July 26-30, 2010
Exhibition July 27-29, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center
Tracy suggested volunteering for this event.
Our visitors today reminded me an awful lot of these guys:
And I couldn't come up with any good questions because I was enjoying every answer they gave and let everybody else come up with things to say/ask them.
Interesting seminar today! I like that we got to hear about "mistakes" that have been made so maybe we have a chance not to make those... and probably make others instead. But, knowledge is always a good thing to have in any case. ^_^
I'm going to ruin all these movies. Be warned. If you would like to see any of these or do not want to hear about how I couldn't stand them, run away now.
You still have a chance.
Um, actually, I think I'll make you click to keep reading. Wow, nobody is going to read it now. Oh well.
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My fellow classmates,
Can we distinguish interactivity as anything you can touch move through, or change and immersion as the word for whatever else? David's notion of immersion in a novel works so much better for me if we call these both "the same" as well as different - regarding tools versus no tools & methods of receiving information/story. I know it seems stupid to have two words that ought to go hand in hand mean such complicated different things, but maybe that would reduce confusion and frustration.
We should make a list of interactive tools versus immersive information. We just need to include our own brains in some people's definition of immersion, which I still don't really see as immersion (because the, somehow, since my mind is always so many places, I would not seem to exist) but am willing to use the word if we can better attach meaning to it. Then we can use these words more freely and know what everyone means whether we completely agree or not.
Is this a good idea to put into use?
We should make our own definitions whenever we find ourselves lacking the right words for expressing ourselves.
IM Dictionary!!
Am I making sense?
Everybody in this program is really, really smart. I am so grateful and excited that I am in a group like this. I've never been able to have conversations that were equally intelligent and passionate about technology, games, society, the world... um, etc. even.
What I'm thinking, though, is that maybe part of it is still attitude? There was a lot of insistence by other participants in this conversation on Friday that some of the technology I'm talking about is no where near being accomplished. Okay, and why is that again? I'm still not sure I get it all. But I did hear a few key things in these arguments that even though I'm not sure I get why technology isn't advanced enough to do some of the things I think should happen that make me think even harder about society. I often feel that maybe I should have been born some time in the future. In some cases, I think that the attitude that something is so far away and can't be done yet can hinder progress and advancement. The good part is, though, that finally anybody who disagreed with me (well, responded at all) wasn't disagreeing because they were afraid of advancing technology. They just didn't think it was possible yet or that things could be changed from the way they are - or that it was important to do. Don't people usually get offended when someone disagrees with them so vehemently? I was so excited! It feels like there's hope for the world when people can disagree and articulate a reason for it.
Well my point is, we're the most creative, limit-pushing group that can be hoped for. So let's forget thinking that we can't do it, let's only ever think in "when" not "if" and "we can" not "we can't." After we can't make it work, and only then, should we say "we can't" and move on. At least, that's how I see it. How does that saying go? Technology can be so advanced that it looks like magic? Is that just in sci-fi writing or do lots of people know what that means?
I need to learn a lot more about, um, all sorts of technology. Feel free to point me to really good learning materials for anything interesting.
Check Out This Really Cool Music Video On YouTube
Also, unfortunately, the video looks cool but there IS a lemon in it... Must be some sort of conspiracy. ^_^
The actual competition part of a game is not generally what I like about a game. Believe it or not. Yes, you guys in my group for board games probably think I'm just super competitive, but I'm not really. I actually prefer games where I'm not pitted against other people in the room. Seriously! And come on, none of you actually lost a limb or eyeball or anything...
It's funny how Monopoly has gotten many hours of my life, deep in the competition of it all, and I actually don't really like to play it solo versus everyone else. Well, okay this depends on who I play it with. I suppose that's part of it. I really enjoyed playing both Ticket to Ride and Modern Art with my group in that I enjoyed playing with the group. I feel like we all got to "bond" over the game. In spite of how much I didn't like Modern Art, nor did I like losing... or being screwed over.
Since I'm not usually up for competitive games because I don't like being head to head so much, I have a hard time with the realization and acceptance of something Tracy was saying in class tonight. She only just touched on it: how Americans never want to play harder, more complex games because they don't want to learn how to play and then since they've never played they really don't want to bother to learn and play even more. That's funny to me, although it does strike me as true, because I don't mind learning a complicated game (although I get impatient and want to start and learn as I go more than to just sit there and read through a giant book of rules) but I do mind the competition part of it. I guess I would have guessed that this society would be very competitive and be excited to play games that pit you against each other.
After having played these games while thinking about how the games work and how the players interact, it seems a bit more like since we ended up bonding over the game, maybe that does fit with the American standard of not playing complicated games or not playing them much because we tend, as a society, not to want to get involved with each other. Maybe being a gamer, at least identifying as a gamer, means that an individual is more open to going against that tendency in society and being more open as a person.
In spite of my lack of desire to compete, I do consider myself to be much more open and open minded than society's standard. So... I guess somehow that matches up with how things work, in spite of how I didn't see things that way before.
Brownie points to whoever know where my subject quote is from. ^_^
Student Ethics Can Mean Academic Suicide... And It's Really Stupid, Too.
I do understand the desire to have somebody take the burden off your shoulders of doing a lot of work... but I really can't understand letting an idiot take over. This is essentially what you're doing by using one of these sites - and you're paying for it. Ouch. Pay to get kicked out of school and look stupid? Was that extra few hours (or maybe less!) really worth it?
So, yeah for me grad school is certainly a lot of work, but I bothered doing the work to get here and I've got tons of loans to help keep me here so just the idea of paying (money I don't have) for work that probably couldn't make me pass a class (even if I didn't mind looking like an idiot - and being one since the work here is lots of learning and production) is so incredible that I just cannot believe that it's quite this prevalent. The internet is not a secret people. Searches go both ways.
So, I was looking through my music for an old chocobo remix I had. Can't find it at all still, but I tried looking online. Of course, first, I just found really lame stuff and I probably won't be able to use any chocobo music in my narrative film for tomorrow, BUT, I did find this little gem:
Enjoy while I go back to sulking over how I can't find the music I want.