What does it mean to be a professional?  Does it mean that you have some sort of more valuable opinion on a subject than I?  Does it mean you are better at it than I am?  Why do people love to say they are a professional at something as if it gives them some sort [...]

I recently had a conversation with one of my friends about the realm of professional gaming. Now, I don’t think that at this point anyone can argue against the fact that gaming professionally is actually becoming a viable way to make money, however, I often wonder where some people priorities are.

A friend of mine recently wrote a blog post about conformity which has prompted me to do the same.  While his post is about conformity in web design, I would like to generalize it a bit more.
Conformity is much more than most people think it is.  It’s not just emo kids who all wear dark [...]

Would you agree, or disagree?  When I say this, I am not implying that people who do not have blogs never read, or stumble across a blog.  This is obviously not the case, since half of the links on Digg, sites like Lifehacker and Gizmodo, among other things, are blogs.  What I am suggesting is [...]

As a long time MMORPG player, I have noticed many things in my days of playing. I find that you only really reflect on these finer points about games, after you have both played, and quit, many of them. What I have noticed most is the behavior of people within the games, their attitudes toward people who have quit the games, and also, their feelings about all other MMO’s, except the one they currently play. If humans are good at rationalization, then MMO players are masters of it.RR