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I think he was being snarky in the "don't play video games, go do stuff" kind of way. fleitz: If interesting new ways to interact with games/computers isn't yo

• fleitz 13y ago
  Nah, it's more of a fundamental misunderstanding of the medium. Nerds have this idea that everything you can do in the real world can be done in computers, when the actual strengths of the medium are all the things you can't do in the real world. Lets take desktops, file and folders fucking suck but everyone wants to reimplement it, when the real advantage of computers is search. Imagine someone came to you and said "I'm going to make an audiobook of the Mona Lisa", you'd look at them like they were a fucking idiot and rightly so.
  • Osmium 13y ago
    > Lets take desktops, file and folders fucking suck but everyone wants to reimplement it, when the real advantage of computers is search. But files and folders have their place: they're for collecting groups of disparate items which wouldn't be found by a single search query (or at least not one that isn't inordinately complicated), e.g. to manage a project. Tagging files is a viable alternative, but there's no guarantee you won't forget and end up with orphan files. You have to save a file somewhere after all, and with folders you can ensure you can find them again...