Diamond

It's hard to say because it was pretty gradual.  I had wanted a Gameboy for months after it came out, and by then I would say my mindset is much what it is now.  I will say that I didn't define myself as much as someone who loved video games before I had the GameBoy, but it wasn't really Tetris that did it for me.

9 complete here, but it's not like I would have won anyways.

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" @Meowshi said:

They don't write poetry. They've never created art. They've never explored the galaxy. They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

Can people also be measured the same way?  Certainly some people are more important than others.  Perhaps they shouldn't be treated as well either? "

No, such an attitude is incredibly bad for society, and in my opinion - that makes it wrong.   "

They don't write poetry. They've never created art. They've never explored the galaxy. They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

The system was put in place to help stop spammers and very obvious trolls.  If you really got karma banned and didn't break the rules you could PM the mods and explain your situation.  It seemed to me in the past that only VERY extreme cases resulted in a karma ban.

" I think everyone here is taking this way too seriously. If Hitman wins then he wins. 
 
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" To my understanding, a nerd is someone who sucks at everything, wears unpopular clothes, is socially inept, and spends all their free time studying because they're incapable of retaining information due to a learning disability. Also its a title given by cooler people, to lesser people. So that by definition sort of makes it a curse? "

" @Diamond:  Technically, you can't experience a game as its parts because you're always relating every part to every other part, whether you're referring to specific areas/levels or the various elements and mechanics. The Library levels in Halo 1 seem awful because of their sheer repetitiveness, lack of freedom and interesting design, etc. in comparison to the other parts of the game. If Halo: CE were more like Dynasty Warriors then the repetitiveness and linearity might not seem so stifling. It seems odd that you would deny that you form some kind of overall evaluation of the game, even when you're referring to a specific part: surely you abstract to some extent from the individual moments to make sense of the experience as a whole?  
Another example might be a game like Painkiller or Serious Sam which is structured in such a way that a narrative seems irrelevant, whereas flaws in the narratives of games such as Bioshock or Heavy Rain seem much more crucial. "