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Comic for: September 6th, 2012
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Gaming News: "The Controller"
Posted: Thursday September 6th, 2012 by

I've been told on many occasions that I "speak carefully" or "choose my words carefully". What they're usually saying is "you talk slow and take too many bloated pauses". All three are true. I often get caught up in my own vocabulary. And that's because I know there is a better word than the one I am about to use. That's fine in a comic writeup or an email. It's NOT fine in casual conversation, DMing, or chat. The above what makes these kinds of comics amuse me. The author of a gaming article gives us a headline and, without knowing the context of the rest of the piece, we're left entirely to our imaginations. Until we actually READ the article that is.

In this particular instance the author was talking about reduction in the market size of various gamer segments. So while the number of mobile and digital download gamers is increasing, the audience for console and PC games is decreasing. [more info] By definition, this use of the term shrink is completely accurate. So it really is just a matter of which definition a person applies first.

Just in case you were curious, I wouldn't have used that particular title at all. It's not accurate to the report it's referring to. The gamer population isn't dwindling over all; a healthy subset of that population is just moving to mobile devices.

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