My social surplus, let me show it you...

[yakalskovich]

However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.

That article is something to thrust into everybody's faces when they claim we're wasting our time with pretendy funtime online games: at least we're not drinking gin or watching TV!

Comments

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

I nearly always watch TV while I work. Well, I don't really watch unless there is something really fascinating on. I use it rather as an audio book.
I have been doing this since school (always did my homework with the TV on).
I guess I have to do it so my ears don't get bored.
So, what's wrong with watching TV? :-D

[yakalskovich]

Nothing at all is wrong with watching TV. The only thing that's wrong/memetically on the way out is doing NOTHING BUT watching TV.

The bloke who wrote the article is right but is -- a bloke! Multitasking, which was the obvious reaction for me, and you, and Charlotte as well, seems not to enter his mind.

However, for me, it's not a question of 'pretending to be an elf vs. cute chicks on TV', it's a question of 'pretending to be a dead Goth and AT THE SAME TIME watching cute blokes on TV'. Or, most of the time, watching jackass archaeology on TV...

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

Ahh, now I get it. It's a bloke!
Blokes have serial brains. Or cerial, depends on the bloke.
Anyway, they can't do multitasking and therefore can't understand people who can.

[yakalskovich]

'Xactly. Even clever blokes that write clever and fascinating essays are still blokes.

So he makes that brilliant analogy with gin and TV, then goes on to say that the many billion hours of TV watched around the world today are an enormous potential for grassroots participation, and then fails to realise that this is not an either/or situation.-