Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170315060644

Not books, literati - basically the classical literature version of fan-boys. VideoGames have "Gamers", Film has "Film Geeks" and Books have "Literati".

I was saying that Literati, or "Bookworms" if that makes it easier, can be massively dismissive of other media for simply not being theirs.

(Imagine the most snooty tune you can think of):"Oh you don't read your stories? You watch or play them? Or sere, how deliciously absurd, so this is how the illiterate get their entertainment (insert snorting laugh here)"

Books, movies, plays, videogames and comics are all different media, they are all formatted in different ways. If you printed out the entirety of Bioshock's dialog even if you included descriptions of locations and characters as well, you would not equal one fifth of the average novel. And while it would be completely reasonable to not like the game, to put it down for that as being not like a book and therefore a lesser form of art, is being disingenuous and quite frankly culturally dim. To put down a videogame for not having as many complex words is to putdown novels for having inferior graphics.