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Seems like the consensus is near-unanimous on this one. A more interesting question might be "Should all video games be worthwhile to the player?" to argue the notion that games have to have some worth in the first place.

Either way, perhaps a game doesn't have to be anything, as long as it fulfills the goals of the people who made it (creatively, financially, or otherwise)

Dan doesn't know anything about video games, like at all. This is barely hyperbole.

They certainly didn't bring him on for video game expertise in any way shape or form.

To clarify my post, yeah I like him and his personality meshes really well with Jeff's. Given enough training, hopefully he can grow into the role and not seem like such a backwoods weirdo

I enjoy Dan's enthusiasm, but his deep ignorance of very basic cultural things is really off-putting. It's actually scary to me to be confronted with a 30 year old American who proudly states that he's never tried (or perhaps had the resources to try?) a huge number of things that I take as fundamental aspects of being a first-world citizen, much less a cultured coast-dweller.

I guess I've just really been spoiled by living in a big east coast city all my life, and maybe middle America is really just that different from us.