answer:Once, Roger Ebert was quoted in a video game magazine for saying that he thinks video games are a waste of time and that they stop us from appreciating true art or getting acquainted with history and social events. I wrote a letter to my favourite video game magazine, Play, this was in 2007, about how much bullshit this is by first quoting Ebert, and that I didn’t think that movies were any better than games in that respect. (Although I was championing both mediums of entertainment as legitimate and intelligent and I also mentioned that movies suffered the same bullshit that games do today, and that before that it was rock stars.) I gave examples of how I personally think games can be art and how they can teach you things about many subjects actually, like history, philosophy, theology and science through presented subject matter. (If all you can bring up to counter my argument is Hot Coffee then fuck off.) I talked about various forms of gameplay too, which I thought were ’‘artsy’’. Anyways I got Letter of the Month haha. You may think that’s nothing, but Play is an extremely highbrow and posh/artsy game magazine, and they often approach very serious gaming issues and aren’t afraid to cover obscure and unheard of games rather than putting Final Fantasy or Guitar Hero on the front page. You don’t even get a prize for having letter of the month, yet people always send some constantly, because fans like that they get intelligent feedback, rather than to be insulted like EGM or OPM (Fuck your ass, John Scalzi.) always used to do to their writers and readers. I say that…but my letter was actually the ONLY one featured that month…I think it’s because it was lengthy, but then most in that mag ARE, and span one to three pages, so maybe I was the only one who sent something in that month and I win by default haha. Back then though my English was pretty shitty, and when I read the letter today I get so sick hahaha. Still, getting the letter of the month in Play is great for me, especially since that which I addressed must just about be the most overdone issue in the gaming world. All that with shit English AND in my favourite game magazine? Sweet!