The whole "sports fandom > media fandom" thing baffles me, too. My love of the San Francisco Giants is rational and socially acceptable, but my love of a video game series is not? Where's the logic in that? If anything, team loyalty is even *less* rational, since it's almost always based on where you happen to live.
I do think that movies, TV, books, etc. can make you think, but it depends on the particular movie/show/book much more than it does for games. Very rarely is it the case that you can figure out the rules of a game and then go on autopilot. If a game doesn't present continually varied and increasingly difficult challenges, then it's a *bad game*. I don't know why games are painted as passive; I think anyone who tries to say that has probably never played out.
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I do think that movies, TV, books, etc. can make you think, but it depends on the particular movie/show/book much more than it does for games. Very rarely is it the case that you can figure out the rules of a game and then go on autopilot. If a game doesn't present continually varied and increasingly difficult challenges, then it's a *bad game*. I don't know why games are painted as passive; I think anyone who tries to say that has probably never played out.
Thanks! :)