Site visit

For my site visit/interview, I went to my steam community's ventrilo server. Ventrilo is like a mass voice chat room, its just like talking to someone on the phone, except its like talking to a bunch of people at a time. In ventrilo, you use an alias and not your real name. In addition, members of our community come from all over the western hemisphere, like Sharocko from New Orleans, Dire from New Jersey, Blackrain from California, Nihilistoic from Florida, Bud from Brazil, Bullseye from Canada, and the list goes on. Fortunately, I have administrator privalages in that server and I was able to create a private channel and drag other members into the channel to interview them. I asked why they thought we were a community. I received a variety of answers to that question so this is definately one question I am going to reword or make more specific. After reading some of my classmates' comments regarding this post as it was work in progress, i don't think it was hard to get information from my community because ventrilo is like skype except that it is a better program. Ventrilo is like an online speech program so its just like talking face to face with someone and you heard all the changes in their tones of voice. Returning to the interview, I also asked questions like, " What is your favorite genre of all games?" and "What are some major problems facing gamers today?". Once again I got mixed responses for all my questions except for, "What is your favorite genre of all games?" to which the majority of the members responded FPS( First Person Shooter). I didn't get very many answers that were representative of the whole community so I think I am going to refine my questions more before I interview them again this week.

How do you know?

On Friday, we discussed the reading selection, "How Do We Know?"and we concluded that fact is something that is established by irrefutable evidence. Although we had an accord on what is fact, we disagreed on the truth. I believe that truth depends on context because even a lie can be the truth given the correct circumstances. However, my group felt that there is no such thing as the truth thus it doesn't even depend on context. We also decided that when two experts disagree, it is most likely they are both right and we should decide for ourselves what to believe or perhaps take both sides into account when tackling the subject. Another subject that i disagreed with my group on was if there was always a "right answer" for something. I believe that only "natural truths" like math, physics, and other sciences proven with empirical evidence will always have a right answer for a problem. Conversely, I believe that everything else might not a definite "right answer". My group thought that there is no such thing as a "right answer" for anything. I don't feel worried that much of what we know is constantly changing rather than static because as I believe that as a human I will learn to adapt as things change. This belief goes perfectly with my mantra to go with the flow and roll with the punches.