Always on the look out for alternative points of view I came across this http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/2008/09/29/the-kongregate-experiment/
Believe it or not, my initial response was a feeling of joy, you mean the kongretards are becoming less retarded. Oh look Some pixely art work, Hurrah!
Sadly this didn't last long as a small amount of investigation showed that it was the same old same old.
Obviously its important to suck up to a dumb audience, it pats them on the back and keeps them dumb and docile. It's exactly the tactics that rich leaders, who wish more than anything to stay rich and leaders use and it works perfectly. Vote for me, I'm not a terrorist, look at the color of my skin.
So what we actually have here is a dress up toy designed as bait to aim firmly at pseudo intellectual emo fag gamers that wish for their great intelligence to be recognized.
Well that sucks, then.
A dumb dumb dumb audience is a huge problem, not one thats unique to games but lets try and fix that, lets try and make them just that little bit smarter. Games are the perfect medium to achieve that, they make wonderful teaching aids.
Above all, people who tell the morons how great they are for being morons, primarily for personal gain, are evil.
Go play top hat villa instead, it's much less retarded and has a story and everything.
