In the article, Crawford takes a defensive tone precisely because of criticisms like those of Mr. Inman. After all, after directly attacking the citation of "Why is Sex Fun?" he says that authors should choose citations written by actual PhDs in biology. Hypocrisy can only describe this digital faux pas, for Jared Diamond, the author of the aforementioned book has a PhD. in Physiology from Cambridge University. Geoffrey Miller has a PhD from Stanford. I will agree with one thing Mr. Inman said: an inclusion of Richard Dawkins as a citation would have improved the article.
-J. Azpurua
To the Editor: I find it a bit odd that reader "John" [from last week's Letters section] says we need to accept each other, and come together under one title ... while he already critiques a "seperate" group, or sub-division under said title, and then places his own ideas onto that sub-group.
John is right. But he needs to more carefully choose his words if he wishes to proclaim his position out loud. If you play videogames, you are in some way, a gamer. I saved my birthday money in Kindergarten and bought an NES. Back then MegaMan 2 cost you your immortal soul (I have a receipt for $72 at The Toy Works, owned by K*B Toys) and I love that game, I have a large NES collection and even larger SNES and Genesis collections. I'm as Old School as I really need to be. My friends and relatives owned the Atari 2600 units, I played Combat for hours, and I was my own version of Indiana Jones with Pitfall. I even enjoy text based adventures and have a black T-shirt which simply states [GRUE] [/Grue]. If that's not "classic" and "old school," then I don't really know what is.
And on the other hand I have an Xbox 360. I'm currently playing Condemned. I played Halo 2 almost every night for two to four hours for over a year. I really enjoy Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and still drop by a server on occasion. I'm really looking forward to playing Call of Duty 2.
I don't think I'm special, and that's the point I'm trying to make here. John is right. We're gamers. We're gamers that like puzzle games, we're gamers that like platformers, we're gamers that like to compete against other gamers in the online arena. We're gamers like my girlfriend, who claims up and down all day long that she is not a gamer, but for the past two weeks hasn't talked about anything except The Sims 2 and the Nightlife expansion pack that my mother and I got her for Christmas.
You're a gamer. I'm a gamer. You don't have to like it, but eventually, you're going to have to accept it.
-Will
