Drinky Crow said:
why would an adult want to feel like a kid? seriously, there's less embarrassing ways than nostalgia tripping to get a quick endorphin rush.
As much as I hate to part from the esteemed Drinky Crow, I think the original post was ambiguous enough to defend. We can separate willful infantilization from an appreciation of simple joyful expression. Being dazzled by Minecraft = "the enthusiasm of a child." Being dazzled by someone making Super Mario Brothers 1 1-1 in Minecraft = "hedonism of infancy." I don't think Log4Girlz crossed that line.
Now, I don't think there are talented enough developers out there to actually make adults feel small and incapable of grasping their brilliance (the way children feel), but I'm not going to say that's undebatable. As long as we're capable of separating Roald Dahl and The Muppets from Harry Potter and Avatar/Speed Racer, humanity will continue to thrive.
And, really, Drinky, you can't pan Christianity when 1 of its more famous passages reads, "10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways."
Now, in context, it's about how earthly agape love is but a pale expression of the eternal mutualism of God's heavenly love, but Paul could also be talking about how the 16-bit Sonic The Hedgehog games totally blow.