http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2010/02/01/good-news-computer-gamers/ Quotations, comments, and whatever else I'm interested in at the moment. Tue, 22 May 2012 11:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2010/02/01/good-news-computer-gamers/comment-page-1/#comment-692 ChriS Greaves Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:05:24 +0000 http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/?p=2560#comment-692 " ... look around for a cloud every time you find a silver lining ..." Wouldn't have to. The cloud is always next to the silver lining (G&DR!) ” … look around for a cloud every time you find a silver lining …”
Wouldn’t have to.
The cloud is always next to the silver lining (G&DR!)

]]> http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2010/02/01/good-news-computer-gamers/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Nicholas Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:04:49 +0000 http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/?p=2560#comment-683 Spoilsport! I bet you'd be the kind to look around for a cloud every time you find a silver lining . . . Spoilsport! I bet you’d be the kind to look around for a cloud every time you find a silver lining . . .

]]> http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2010/02/01/good-news-computer-gamers/comment-page-1/#comment-682 ChriS Greaves Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:23:28 +0000 http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/?p=2560#comment-682 "... also enables troops to solve problems faster ...". "fallacious" comes to mind, or a word similar to that. I noticed this morning that (1) my two cats eat dry food, brought into the house in a large paper sack purchased at No Frills supermarkets and (2) they can jump to the top of a couch and thence to the top of the bookcases without effort (http://www.chrisgreaves.com/ExpertGroup/ClearThinking/CatHorsepower.htm). It follows that eating cat's dry food makes better jumpers. If i eat dry cat food, I'll be able (63 years old) to spring to the top of the bookcase. No. Perhaps the mental makeup that makes one good at video games is just the same mental makeup that makes one good at video controls. I read nothing here that tells me one causes the other, merely that they are co-incident. My friend Betty eats lunch at Tim Hortons every day; if only I could bring myself to do that, I'd be better at negotiating with shop keepers ... “… also enables troops to solve problems faster …”.
“fallacious” comes to mind, or a word similar to that.
I noticed this morning that (1) my two cats eat dry food, brought into the house in a large paper sack purchased at No Frills supermarkets and (2) they can jump to the top of a couch and thence to the top of the bookcases without effort (http://www.chrisgreaves.com/ExpertGroup/ClearThinking/CatHorsepower.htm). It follows that eating cat’s dry food makes better jumpers. If i eat dry cat food, I’ll be able (63 years old) to spring to the top of the bookcase.
No.
Perhaps the mental makeup that makes one good at video games is just the same mental makeup that makes one good at video controls.
I read nothing here that tells me one causes the other, merely that they are co-incident.
My friend Betty eats lunch at Tim Hortons every day; if only I could bring myself to do that, I’d be better at negotiating with shop keepers …

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