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ug fixed, etc. and then we decided it was ready to ship. We've<br />

got a long road ahead of us, but we're encouraged by the adoption<br />

and usage that has far exceeded our bets pre-launch.<br />

314<br />

http://www.quora.com/l/boq-kevin-systrom<br />

video games<br />

Am I missing out by not playing<br />

any video or console games?<br />

David Cole, Designer at Quora<br />

Reasons why you might not be missing out:<br />

You consider art or recreation a waste of time in general. If<br />

you believe this, then you can toss video games into the same<br />

pile with novels, films, sports, hiking, and chess. I don't think<br />

there's any way around this, some people just want to feel<br />

productive with everything they do.<br />

You lack the capacity to derive meaning from video games.<br />

I don't think there's a category of art where I haven't connected<br />

to at least one piece (opera, maybe?) but I'd bet there<br />

are people for whom this is true. If you've given the form an<br />

earnest try and got nothing from it, I wouldn't blame ya for<br />

shrugging it off in favor of art you do find meaningful.<br />

You don't want to deal with learning or skill-based challenge<br />

in your art. Games are exceptional from other forms of art in<br />

that they often require skill to get through, or at least a learning<br />

period around the input methods. This can be alienating,<br />

and I don't blame people for being turned off by this. We've<br />

developed input and mechanical tropes (the platformer, the<br />

first person shooter) to help smooth out the learning curve,<br />

but you still need to learn one before you can play the rest.<br />

If this doesn't describe you, it might just be a function of misconception<br />

or inexperience:

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