{"id":5435,"date":"2022-04-20T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/pushing-buttons-why-there-is-still-a-bizarre-social-stigma-to-playing-games\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:37:14","slug":"pushing-buttons-why-there-is-still-a-bizarre-social-stigma-to-playing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/pushing-buttons-why-there-is-still-a-bizarre-social-stigma-to-playing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Why there is still a bizarre social stigma to playing games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the difference between people who understand video games and those who are dismissive isn\u2019t personality \u2013 it\u2019s exposure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s newsletter is inspired by an email from Iain Noble (hello again, Iain!), who wrote in with a question that tapped into something that\u2019s been on my mind lately. Iain wrote: \u201cOne of the criticisms I often hear from non-gamers is that video games are very repetitious. Admittedly there is an element of truth in that many games require some grinding to level up characters, make money and get equipment. Do you think there is a specific personality type that is OK with that, rather like rats repeatedly pressing the same button to get a reward?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/apr\/20\/pushing-buttons-video-games-social-stigma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d94ee27a86e43071257be20995e753dccd6f5a75\/302_165_3541_2126\/master\/3541.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=de7a68302cb76cadb7bd357067fb6e22\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Why there is still a bizarre social stigma to playing games\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the difference between people who understand video games and those who are dismissive isn\u2019t personality \u2013 it\u2019s exposure<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nToday\u2019s newsletter is inspired by an email from Iain Noble (hello again, Iain!), who wrote in with a question that tapped into something that\u2019s been on my mind lately. Iain wrote: \u201cOne of the criticisms I often hear from non-gamers is that video games are very repetitious. Admittedly there is an element of truth in that many games require some grinding to level up characters, make money and get equipment. Do you think there is a specific personality type that is OK with that, rather like rats repeatedly pressing the same button to get a reward?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the difference between people who understand video games and those who are dismissive isn\u2019t personality \u2013 it\u2019s exposure Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/pushing-buttons-why-there-is-still-a-bizarre-social-stigma-to-playing-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Why there is still a bizarre social stigma to playing games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}