[Mr. Mechanical]

I think the first step we should take, as people who care enough to take that step, is to find ways to talk about games without comparing them to films or theater or anything else like that. It's just going to lead us down darkened alleys and obscure illumination on the subject.

Videogames are, by and large, a highly malleable, adaptive medium. We have games that come close to resembling these other mediums we are more familiar with, like film or theater, but we also have games that are anything but. If you truly want to "legitimize" gaming then you need to find ways to talk about it without drawing such comparisons.
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