{"id":217,"date":"2018-10-07T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/?p=217"},"modified":"2018-10-07T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T18:58:29","slug":"rib-ch-1314-wogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/2018\/10\/07\/rib-ch-1314-wogan\/","title":{"rendered":"RIB Ch. 13&amp;14 (Wogan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t believe I\u2019m alone when I say this, but the more I read <em>Reality is Broken <\/em>the more I disagree with McGonigal. She continues to attempt to add legitimacy to her points by citing well known and academic ideas but makes large leaps in logic that completely ruin them. For example, in chapter thirteen McGonigal uses Malcom Gladwell\u2019s theory of 10,000 hours being the threshold for greatness in a given field to justify her assertion that spending 10,000 hours on games on a particular subject is more effective and constructive to the success of students than studying various subjects in school. I think it can be agreed upon that success in a traditional classroom setting and how much time one spends playing video games have little correlation to one\u2019s personal greatness in the opposing field. Furthermore, in chapter thirteen she creates these bolded phrases for points that have little to no evidence to push that they are what she says they are or that they actually have any real substance to them. Examples of this include: \u201cshared concentration\u201d and \u201csynchronized engagement\u201d learned by concentrating on games and \u201cmutual regard\u201d taught by respect for one\u2019s opponent in games.<\/p>\n<p>My disagreement with McGonigal continues into chapter fourteen. Unfortunately, so does her habit of bolding phrases for emphasis to create false legitimacy. My favorite example of this from chapter fourteen is \u201ctaking a long view:\u201d McGonigal identifies this as a \u201cworking at scales far larger than we would ordinarily encounter in our day-to-day lives.\u201d She proceeds to relate this to \u201cgod games,\u201d games in which players have enough power of the world to warrant a god-like status, and their players. Personally, in my experience playing \u201cgod games,\u201d I have never felt as if I\u2019m \u201ctaking a long view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In these two chapters, I\u2019m just glad that McGonigal used games other than her own to attempt to argue her lackluster points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t believe I\u2019m alone when I say this, but the more I read Reality is Broken the more I disagree with McGonigal. She continues to attempt to add legitimacy to her points by citing well known and academic ideas but makes large leaps in logic that completely ruin them. For example, in chapter thirteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}