Reply #47: I really like a good computer game

[sweetheart]

My current fave is command and conquor generals.

It is like what chess would be, if they had computers when it was
invented. The pieces are dynamic and the gameboards are infinite in
complexity. It is engaging and totally fun to play, much more than
a chess computer or an old-style board game (unless i'm playing the
game for the good crack of the company).

I would recommend good comptuter games to anyone, as they teach you
about software engineering, user interface design and ways that an
interface can interact with a human mind for decision support processes.

Video games are the cutting edge of user interface technology far
exceeding anything that windows or java provides today... and in exploring
this cutting edge, the next generation of mainstream technology will
borrow to evolve.

I would recommend getting a few games of different genre's... after
mastering a few of them, i've become bored with first person shootemups..
and prefer large scale strategy simulations... but each genre has some
thing to teach about perspective and rendering a complex object
oriented data environment to simulate an interactive reality.

As much as people are down on games for some content, i see them
as a graduate school course on interactive systems design.