[Noisebridge-discuss] on games as an introduction to deeper tech

[travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:06:06PM +0000, Jason Dusek wrote:
>   I think this is almost right. People should be able to
>   contribute to the game world at a different level if they can
>   program; it lets them do more than mine or fish. However, if
>   it actually lets them "own" then you'll have a pretty narrow
>   community on your hands.

I hear some Korean Starcraft players have evolved 200-task-per-second
micro(-management); would the world truly be worse off if the players
of this hypothetical game evolved equivalent programming skill?
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