libraryoftheancients:

Imagine a Spherical Cow: Cross out what you’ve already red. Six is average.

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is average

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding 
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

(Source: fellowshipofthetwat)

My comments had less to do with her opinion and instead the response that she received. Just to reference the article I posted:

Hepler, unaware of the escalating undercurrent of rage mounting over a point she made six years ago, joined Twitter on February 2. In the 10 days since, Hepler has been called “cunt”, “slut”, and “whore”. She’s been criticized for her gender, her appearance, and her religion. Attacks on her have referenced Hitler, bestiality, rape, murder, cannibalism, and prostitution.

Yes we can say this is just people being stupid on the internet - and in a sense there has always been this sort of ugliness out there. However, In order for the industry to develop and for good ideas to be brought forward, developers and writers need to be able to voice their ideas, whether good or bad, without fearing this sort of reprisal.

kitanya:

favouredsoul:

So this has been a news item for a little while now:

http://au.gamespot.com/features/the-dangers-of-gamer-entitlement-6350732/

Not just reading this article, and some of the terrible things it has mentioned but also the comments down below. It took me five or six comments before I couldn’t…

I disagree with being embarrassed, as I am clearly not one of these morons. But I don’t understand what the problem was with the comments underneath. I saw mostly people defending Hepler, or stating (in a reasonable and calm way) why they thought Hepler’s opinion was a bad one. HOW is that a bad thing? Why would you be ashamed of that?

And to give my two cents, I DO think that her idea is not a great one. While I HIGHLY enjoy the story to games, I don’t buy a game to watch a movie. Nor do I think that anyone should. If they want that sort of thing, they should simply take the cinematics and package them as a DVD, sell it for less. That would be a great idea, and not ruin the concept of gaming.

Also, I am REALLY bad for hitting buttons I don’t mean to, and I would be pissed beyond belief if I accidentally hit the skip combat button or something like that.

Another idea is to make a mostly, or even completely, conversation-based game. That would make sense, although it would have to be quite substantial. Something like the way Mass Effect had the different options, but with more consequences if you choose the wrong thing to say. Still, a bit dull though.

Anyway… I may or may not get yelled at for this. Yay!