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[o Ventus]

You still spell better than most people. A typical conversation with someone: Do U wnt 2 go 2 the mall wit me? And knowing them it'll be spelled even worse.

 

Those people don't need Jesus. They need a lot of good books.

People don't learn English from books (I mean, they would learn it in a textbook, but by "book" I mean novels), they learn it from paying attention in class and by having conversations with people. Learning factual information and applying it to real-world scenarios is the best way to understand something, especially when it's something artificial and is constantly changing, like language.

 

If someone is on their phone or on a computer and they have to abbreviate their words with nearly unintelligible gibberish like you described, that just means they're an idiot, not that they don't read. Granted, there's a bit of overlap between the two, but they're not entirely tied together.

[Dio Demon]

People don't learn English from books (I mean, they would learn it in a textbook, but by "book" I mean novels), they learn it from paying attention in class and by having conversations with people. Learning factual information and applying it to real-world scenarios is the best way to understand something, especially when it's something artificial and is constantly changing, like language.

 

If someone is on their phone or on a computer and they have to abbreviate their words with nearly unintelligible gibberish like you described, that just means they're an idiot, not that they don't read. Granted, there's a bit of overlap between the two, but they're not entirely tied together.

I'm pretty sure they can communicate effectively vocally in real life. But I'm talking about purely in the written form.

[Cyonan]

People don't learn English from books (I mean, they would learn it in a textbook, but by "book" I mean novels), they learn it from paying attention in class and by having conversations with people. Learning factual information and applying it to real-world scenarios is the best way to understand something, especially when it's something artificial and is constantly changing, like language.

 

If someone is on their phone or on a computer and they have to abbreviate their words with nearly unintelligible gibberish like you described, that just means they're an idiot, not that they don't read. Granted, there's a bit of overlap between the two, but they're not entirely tied together.

 

Most of the time it just means they're lazy when typing or texting.

[o Ventus]

I'm pretty sure they can communicate effectively vocally in real life. But I'm talking about purely in the written form.

My favorite part is when someone abbreviates "whatever" as "whatevs", because you're saving a lot of time by removing 1 letter and changing another.

[Riven326]

I have yet to play a video game that was as good as something like The Shawshank Redemption or other amazing films I've seen. No matter how good these "cinematic" games are, they just don't come close.

[mybudgee]

Most of the time it just means they're lazy when typing or texting.

[SwobyJ]

Can they? Yes. And they do.

 

Are they, to me? Sometimes.

 

But overall? Nah. There's still a while to do, and I think video games have a lot of untapped potential before they eclipse other mediums in storytelling.

 

But I also think it'll happen, in my lifetime (I'm 25).

[TheChris92]

Why is the assumption that all games are trying to be cinematic? That's not really the goal. I'd argue that there's something games can do with storytelling, and narrative, which films and books can't. Atmosphere is the keyword. The idea of telling a story with as few words as possible.. It's something that doesn't translate all that well to film, as Christoph Ganz discovered with his terrible film adaptation of Silent Hill.