Disable GC entirely

[Zach the Mystic]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 21:22:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:35:56 -0400
> Jeff Nowakowski <jeff at dilacero.org> wrote:
>> > Keep in mind, I'm using "interactive movie" largely for lack 
>> > of a
>> > better term. "Videogame" definitely isn't the right word for 
>> > them.
>> 
>> They're games,
>
> For many (admittedly, not all) of them, I really don't believe 
> "games"
> is an accurate term (Don't misinterpret that into a statement 
> of "Only
> true 'games' are legitimate" because I never said such a thing.)
> They have interactive sections, and they are entertainment, but 
> being
> interactive entertainment does not inherently imply "game".
>
> Keep in mind, even sandbox titles, which are definitely not 
> remotely
> "interactive movie" or cinematic at all (at least any of the 
> ones I've
> seen), have long been debated as to whether or not they are 
> "games".
> And note that nobody ever said that was a bad thing. It might 
> be a bad
> thing if the industry focused too heavily on them, but that 
> would be a
> completely different complaint.

I was frustrated with the all-inclusive term "videogame" until I 
realized that spoken languages (no to mention programming ones) 
change over time. The technical definition of "game" is one 
thing, but if a language starts using a term for something else, 
eventually that just becomes the definition. I think the original 
reason it caught on was because video games have a childlike 
wonder about them which reminds people of "playing". But now that 
the term's caught on, it's not going away. Therefore video games 
need not be games, in the traditional sense that they must have 
rules. All life is a game... and the people are merely players! 
That's the new sense of the word I think.