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In Need of Ideas
Keaglez | 1:57 PM on 04.15.2008 28 comments


Hi everyone, I'm going to be writing my junior research paper and I'm having some trouble coming up with a topic. I'd need something that would help me in the video game area. Some HELP would be amazing. [size=12][/size][color=#444444][/color]



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Gibb's Destructoid Blog
Ummm... Gay Marriage, if you get a bad grade, you can just say the teacher is a homophobe. IT IS WIN WIN!
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
The interwebs is a series of webs connected by Spider-Man.

DISCUSS!
loki d20's Destructoid Blog
How to not use an oversized image for your header graphic? Dunno, I'm bad at these topic things.
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
I'm glad the title says comment on my header
loki d20's Destructoid Blog
It was just an idea, and one I'm glad you followed. Having to page down a full screen just to read a blog? Annoying.

As far as a paper, don't you usually have to fill us in on the class for which this topic will be written or at least some boundaries? Otherwise, U.S. politics and the presidential race is a prime topic to go with and has many subtle avenues of discussion available (race, economics, environment, male vs. female, bipartisanship, etc.).
blehman's Destructoid Blog
How about how forums differ from blogs?
BlackSheep's Destructoid Blog
here's a golden topic:

when to use a forum.
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
oh I am so sorry..
here. how bout some video game topics on my paper..
Kryptinite's Destructoid Blog
How about a topic on how to suck hardcore. I'm sure there's a lot of source on that. Hell, it can even be an autobiography.
loki d20's Destructoid Blog
when to use a forum.

When you want to spam your product? Oh, when you want to wait a minute between postings? When you want to wait almost a day for a response?

:D
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
I'm really glad people have to say their two sense.

but if you're not going to help on the topic don't respond.

I thank Gibb
Mr. Sadistic for being funny
And everyone else for being usless.

I'll even change the description for everyone. i jsut thought everyone would get it..gaming website..gaming topic. Sorry for not being specific.
blehman's Destructoid Blog
You know where you WOULDN'T get responses like this?


The forum.
loki d20's Destructoid Blog
Ah, I see what the problem is...


Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
aww..very cute.
Im sorry if i hurt your feelings.
but i'm okay..for the time being
blehman's Destructoid Blog
No. Seriously, I'm trying to help. If you REALLY want a game related topic, post this in the forums and see what they have to say. Most people in the forums are alot more interesting (and helpful) than the people in the cblogs.
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
i was referring to loki.
And thank you blehman. i appreciate the help
loki d20's Destructoid Blog
My serious response (in addition to the second comment I made here when I was actually trying to be helpful), when you're asking a question, be specific rather than expecting everyone to know the reference. Also, cblogs aren't really for gathering ideas like this, forums are. Use cblogs when you want to share your point of view on a topic and have people discuss it further in comments or to share new and awesome news.

Also, don't take responses so seriously, which is why I posted the image above. You're new here, I once was new here and made a stupid cblog, it happens, blehman is senior diplomat, I'm senior bored at work like most others.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
wtf are forums?

Oh yeah, where stuff like this goes
AngelsDontBurn's Destructoid Blog
Lolololol
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
Well thanks for "helping" me in a really long way..
bad day = seriousness level high
Char Aznable's Destructoid Blog
"Video game violence and its effects on children" is a tried-and-true standby for people looking to weasel out of a research paper.
Keaglez's Destructoid Blog
@ Char Aznable
Thank you.
but I'm trying to gather as many ideas as possible.
i need as much information that i can find.
animateria's Destructoid Blog
How games made you commit crime!

Also... Coc. In all seriousness...ks

Try to find a certain aspect of gaming that you think can be made into a issue.

Perhaps you want to go for the social aspects. Why video games are the issue of violence and sexual content when its weaker than movies with harsher material.

Maybe you want to research about the development of games. Like the technological side, or narrative side of gaming.

BTW CBLOGS aren't your place to post QUESIONS. Do that in the FORUMS like blehman said.
animateria's Destructoid Blog
QUESTIONS*
Primo's Destructoid Blog
Write about the differences of gamers in social communities ie America vs. Japan/Philippines or something. That sounds easy.
Char Aznable's Destructoid Blog
Write about this godawful, overblown controversy about Resident Evil 5 and racial issues.
WDot's Destructoid Blog
What kind of class is this for anyway?

But how about something that hasn't been done a jillion times before, like sex in games. Right now, many game characters have... idealized characteristics. Every Guild Wars female model is practically a supermodel. Lara Croft, Cortana, Nariko, and on and on. But few, if any games have a mature treatment of sex. The big media controversies have been over a silly minigame (GTA) and a few-minute barely-PG-13 cutscene used to sell copies (Mass Effect). The Witcher makes it a Pokemon-style "gotta fuck 'em all" minigame--please. Where's the mature treatment of sex?
Char Aznable's Destructoid Blog
Dear Nintendo,

Please take WDot's idea into consideration for your next Pokemon game. Wait, on second thought...

-Char


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