Recommendation: Extra Credits

2015-02-05 Daniel General Tips, Generating Ideas, Improving your Creativity, Inspiration, Learning, Music & other Art, Slightly Off-Topic Postings 0

“You [humans] reveal yourselves best in how you play.”
Q in Star Trek TNG: “Hide And Q”

“Extra Credits” on YouTube is an impressive, constructive and well drawn/cut video series on YouTube about games. As usual, I don’t agree with everything they say. For example, I partly disagree with their against-stance on #GamerGate. And in general, when it comes to unreasonable expectations regarding female characters, it applies to male characters as well, but is often harder to see. But they sure do have a lot of good points.

Their intro video pretty much sums up their stance:

For example, how video games can enrich lives:

esp. regarding issues essential to what we are:

or address sex in games:

or specific characters:

But there are also meta-topics, e.g., the term “Gamer“:

or Game Reviews:

or even cultural “issues” like toxicity:

and issues even beyond slightly beyond gaming:

Love the constructive avoiding-current-news approach.

This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Recommendation: Extra Credits