The Nintendo Kid

[A Black Falcon]

Now you see I don't get that. I don't get how "there's nothing quite like having that information on paper".

You've said that before, and it's just something I cannot understand... I mean, I love computers, etc, but... as great as it is, on the pure 'reading' front, screens just don't compare. This also applies for news (websites vs. newspapers and news magazines -- I read both, but newspapers are more pleasant to read...), game info (which works great on the web, but I really like magazines too...), etc. I guess you just don't like to read that much. Sad... :(

The other aspect, of course, is record. Online is awesome, but for record-keeping... not so good. Paper can last centuries (if you don't tear it up, and if it's acid-free). If you want to go back and look at old info, which is a lot of fun to do sometimes, you'll be a lot more successful at actually finding what you want with printed material, almost certainly. And that definitely also counts for something, even if it isn't the primary motivation.

As for television news, that doesn't apply for gaming. There are no gaming shows on the networks. TV news is just for normal news, and for that you don't keep any of it... old newspapers go into the recycling, along with newsmagazines (like Time and Newsweek, we used to get Time and get Newsweek now)... but you know that they're kept on record at libraries everywhere, so you not keeping your copy isn't important if you really want to access that information. On that Internet, that isn't necessarially true. Far too many sites to mention are gone forever.

Getting back to gaming, anyway, where this does apply to gaming of course is the magazines... I don't read the old issues that often, but unlike current events news like you get in the papers (or editorials, other articles, etc), gaming info doesn't all get out of date. Those games are still around, after all... so keeping gaming magazines makes a lot of sense. But this gets away from the key point... it's a point, but not the central one. As I said at the beginning, the central point is that you just don't get it (remembering from our last discussion about this). Saying "I'd just as rather read a book on a screen than on a paper book"... there are just so many things about real books that can't be matched on computers... the feel/smell/etc of the pages, how it's easier on your eyes (reading screens gets tiring after a while, but read a book and I can relax more, perhaps take off my glasses, etc...), easily being able to page though the book or hold it open, bookmarks... so many factors, tangible and not, that make books ... books ... just aren't the same on computers.

Now, I probably spend more time reading things on computers (mostly online) than I do in books or newspapers (though I read the paper every day, which probably takes a good hour), and I have read and enjoyed book-style reading on the computer. And I like being able to read NY Times articles online at midnight, the day before I see them in the paper (we get the NY Times and the local paper) the next day. But when it gets down to it, it's just not the same...

You misunderstand. I'm not really talking about Nester (which I did actually like at the time, but like a lot of those lame Nintendo cartoons they had, this too was just... um... lame...). I'm actually specifically talking about specially made one panel comics where there's a kid wearing a cap that says "Sega" and an artist wearing a cap that says "Nintendo" and the kid "used blue for the water already" and the artist is like "ahahah, you idiot, I have a different shade of blue! I'm the SNES!" which is odd, because I thought he was Nintendo, but the point is it was done in the same style as a political cartoon and looking back I realize not just how stupid it was but how manipulative it was.

That's not a political ad, it's a statement of fact... :)

You know, how the SNES has a far larger color pallete than the Genesis. Isn't it like 256 colors vs. 64 or something?

So yes, it's a "Sega is stupid" ad, but their facts aren't made up.

Anyway, you collect some odd things, but that's true of all of us here when you think about it so I can't judge.

What do you mean? Sure, I like to keep things, but that's not so weird...