Words and phrases you should never use if you have any respect for games

Opinion by Matt S.

Indulge me a little in some semantics, because I think it's important. How you talk about games reflects how you think about them, and I'd argue that the way we talk about games, as an overall community, suggests that we don't really respect them. Certainly not as art. Games are things we consume, much like we consume a can of Campbell's soup. And what we do with the game out the other end isn't generally much more elegant than what happens to the soup post-consumption.

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