Gothamist: Bring Your Video Game Skills...to the NY Public Library!

tch

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:53:28 -0500

Gentrifier, you might want to sit down before you hear this: the Donnell branch in Rockefeller Center actually lets patrons check outvideo games. How's that for your tax dollars at work?

Gentrifier

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:16:31 -0500

Good God, what the fuck were they thinking? The library is supposed to be a place where we gather the best of our culture, where we're supposed to aim higher than the ephemera of the commercial culture that we have to swim in every day. If kids want to go to the library, they're entirely capable of taking the initiative and doing it on their own. This is patronizing bullshit.

tien mao

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:41:57 -0500

MFer - doing what you see was a big enough pain already.

MFer

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:40:30 -0500

If I were doing that graphic, I would have put the PS3 in the middle. I would line up the other 2 to follow the perspective of the vaults (you may have to flip the xbox..egh!). Then a nice and subtle outer glow to separate them from the background. And if you really want to go crazy, do a perspective blur. I'm a genius.

JenChungsBra

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:20:07 -0500

You're right, I haven't played Guitar Hero. I've stood next to people who were playing it, but I've never played it myself. I have played actual guitars, plus a banjo or two, but Guitar Hero seems like that game Simon, the wheel-shaped battery-operated thing with four big colorful buttons that light up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:52:53 -0500

"All you're doing is pressing buttons to coincide with some colors scrolling by on your TV." To a degree, that's essentially ALL video games.

zodak

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:35:28 -0500

i got "next"!

thedroog

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:31:44 -0500

i think it's 'skillz,' yo.

nivek

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:22:09 -0500

#4 You're right. I stand corrected--let's change that to "knowing anything with regards to the arts (including literature, science, philosophy, mathematics, engineering, yada yada)."

Politburo

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:21:33 -0500

Spoken like someone who hasn't played Guitar Hero...

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:15:15 -0500

"many of our city's kids are pretty fucking dumb and uninterested in knowing anything." That's not entirely true. I'm sure they're interested in what Britney's wearing and how much crap P. Diddy has in his crib and how to make meth and where Paris is going to flash her crotch next.

JenChungsBra

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:12:03 -0500

I spent plenty of time playing video games, but Guitar Hero seems like one of the dumbest games ever. You're not actually playing a guitar or making music! All you're doing is pressing buttons to coincide with some colors scrolling by on your TV. How boring.

nivek

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:08:14 -0500

Reverse psychology huh? I don't think it'll work too well...many of our city's kids are pretty fucking dumb and uninterested in knowing anything.

Think twice

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:55:36 -0500

I hope it works. Just drawing in kids to the library might spark some interest in exploring the rest of it.