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Without PC gaming and getting into modding as a teenager, I'd have never become a programmer. Not to mention all the experience unborking computers after trying
by megaman22 9y ago
Without PC gaming and getting into modding as a teenager, I'd have never become a programmer. Not to mention all the experience unborking computers after trying to install something trashed the system. Or the history and geography I picked up by osmosis playing strategy games.
Those hours were much more valuable in the long run than most of the time I spent in the classroom.
- eat_veggies 9y agoModern mobile/social games and even some PC games are pretty locked down and difficult to mod, which makes them way less educational than the PC games of your time.
- megaman22 9y agoI'm sort of glad that my parents never got me and my sister any game consoles; we had the PC for my mother to write test reports, and do the taxes, and type up my father's logging invoices. Consequently, I had the advantage of getting to frig around a lot with getting games to run, and with PC games that had a thriving, if rough-around-the-edges modding scene. I don't think I would have gotten anything like the same learnings if I'd been playing on a SNES or Genesis, vs a Pentium clone. Not to mention the dramatic skew in the kinds of games that are available on the different platforms.