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valentinite) wrote2008-01-07 10:28 am
valentinite) wrote2008-01-07 10:28 am
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With all the random slamming of acafen I've been seeing lately around (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom, why do I read all your links?), I'd been feeling kinda down on fandom.
Then Kotaku linked this, a mostly-fluff but still fun piece on how RPG/MMORPG quests parallel classical oral epics. *hugs* the internet. I miss being able to be a recreational classicist. (It was my minor in college; those classes kicked my ass up one side and down the other and I loved them to pieces.)
And for the PW folks reading this, I really ought to write up how closely the games follow several patterns in classical tragedy. Video games *are* a literary form, and thankfully some bits of academia have started to see that.
metafandom, why do I read all your links?), I'd been feeling kinda down on fandom. Then Kotaku linked this, a mostly-fluff but still fun piece on how RPG/MMORPG quests parallel classical oral epics. *hugs* the internet. I miss being able to be a recreational classicist. (It was my minor in college; those classes kicked my ass up one side and down the other and I loved them to pieces.)
And for the PW folks reading this, I really ought to write up how closely the games follow several patterns in classical tragedy. Video games *are* a literary form, and thankfully some bits of academia have started to see that.