I quickly jotted this down on a piece of paper when I first heard it on the raido. I think it applies to what your saying with regard to the video games vs. pnp rpgs discussion. DND stimulates our imagination. watching tv and movies reduces your imagination. listening to things we are stimulating our brain to create our own *personal* images. the brain likes to produce images, its always imagaining things. people's visual imaging is richest when they are not being bombarded by external visuals. the more we work on making our own images the more powerfully attached we become to them because they arise deep within us. processing external visual images it is much more passive-cognotive mode compared to imagine one's own images. our mental imaging systems have freewilling authority to generatre whatever visuals they want. listening therefore imparts much stronger emotions than viewing. listening pulls you into the world while looking separates you from the world.
Thank you for sharing! I appreciate your stories of gaming. I turned 50 this year and I have similar childhood memories of D&D and Marvel Superhero RPGs. I only played them with one other friend, but you and your channel reminds me of those days! I got back into the hobby around the pandemic but have only really played solo for the most part. T
This guy gets it. A lot of my adult gaming had been trying to recapture the feel of those first D&D sessions I played in the early 80s, and only OSR games deliver that.
I listened to this on my commute into work and it struck a chord. Especially the video game comparison. Definitely TTRPGs allow for the players imagination to render the scenarios, events, and landscapes. I was playing a video game later that day and another thing struck me. Dialogue. Dialogue between the players or especially NPCs. In video games, dialogue is mapped out but has a finite number of options and usually funnels you towards an end point. Playing at a table with a GM and players those options are wide open.
I am actually German and Native American. Though I was once mistaken for Benedict Wong at a gas station, back when he was portraiting Kubla Khan on the show Marco Polo. Lol! Maybe I have some of that Mongol blood in me...
I quickly jotted this down on a piece of paper when I first heard it on the raido. I think it applies to what your saying with regard to the video games vs. pnp rpgs discussion.
DND stimulates our imagination. watching tv and movies
reduces your imagination. listening to things we are
stimulating our brain to create our own *personal* images.
the brain likes to produce images, its always imagaining things.
people's visual imaging is richest when they are not being
bombarded by external visuals. the more we work on making our
own images the more powerfully attached we become to them because
they arise deep within us. processing external visual images it
is much more passive-cognotive mode compared to imagine one's own images.
our mental imaging systems have freewilling authority to generatre
whatever visuals they want. listening therefore imparts much stronger
emotions than viewing. listening pulls you into the world while looking
separates you from the world.
Thank you for sharing! I appreciate your stories of gaming. I turned 50 this year and I have similar childhood memories of D&D and Marvel Superhero RPGs. I only played them with one other friend, but you and your channel reminds me of those days! I got back into the hobby around the pandemic but have only really played solo for the most part. T
This guy gets it. A lot of my adult gaming had been trying to recapture the feel of those first D&D sessions I played in the early 80s, and only OSR games deliver that.
Great story!
Awesome video, man! Love these kinds of random discussions.
I listened to this on my commute into work and it struck a chord. Especially the video game comparison. Definitely TTRPGs allow for the players imagination to render the scenarios, events, and landscapes. I was playing a video game later that day and another thing struck me. Dialogue. Dialogue between the players or especially NPCs. In video games, dialogue is mapped out but has a finite number of options and usually funnels you towards an end point. Playing at a table with a GM and players those options are wide open.
Like the hat my friend.
Been meaning to ask. What gaming stores do you recommend in your area? My fam are up there pretty frequently but we haven’t stumbled on any.
We have a few stores in the area. The two most prominent are TC War Room (inside TC Paintball) and The Fun Factory.
@@questwise4077 awesome! Thanks for the suggestions! We’ll look them up.
Great video. Odd question but are you half-polynesian?
I am actually German and Native American. Though I was once mistaken for Benedict Wong at a gas station, back when he was portraiting Kubla Khan on the show Marco Polo. Lol! Maybe I have some of that Mongol blood in me...
@@questwise4077 Wow that's genuinely awesome!