I am a gamer. There, I have admitted to the world that I play games. However, I have been playing games since a little boy, some...um...well, let's just say it's been more than four decades now, and counting. So I know a little about the whole gaming argument, perhaps not an expert on the subject, but certainly well rounded in it, and an expert at the topic of what constitutes a game. Video games are the subject of today's lazy authors, and I say this because it's easy to write about so...

Why does anyone write anything anymore? Wouldn't it be easier to just stand on the proverbial soap box and shout your message to the masses passing you by? Surely more people would get the message than would by putting that same message in three hundred pages and trying to sell it for $24.95 a pop! Or...maybe not. It's hard to say since we have no idea what the message is and whether or not it's relevant to our daily lives. In college I heard, "Be concise" once too often and left for a more u...