started out playing those games and STILL play them over 3 decades
(ya, 30+ years for those slow readers) and I will for decades to come until
the arthritis and carpal tunnel finally stops me. Course by then the fly
by wire controllers will be out and I'll be good to go!
I will say this...
I can't make a living outta being a grown-up heroin dealer from starting
that as a kid. And I can't make a living out of teen pregnancy, mostly
because I'm not female and can't play the welfare system. So if I were
female I could, but not a very good living nor example for those kids I
had.
I have, however, made a living in PC's and now gaming consoles and
know many who have as well. So all that 'wasted' time and rolls of
quarters that by now could've bought an entire company like Atari, etc.
over the years have turned into something responsible and contributing
to society in a good way.
So the Brit (and I'm 50% of one, don't get all flaky on me) can kiss
my bum, know what I mean? LOL
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Nelson Pacheco <nelson@nelzp.com> wrote:
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> Filed under: Culture, HacksGiles Whittell hates video games. But more than
> that, the parent and writer for The Times of London says in an editorial
> today he hates being told that he should first try to understand video games
> and immerse himself in their world before judging them. Why? Because "it
> feels like being told to immerse myself in smack and teenage pregnancy
> before passing judgment on them."
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> Smack and teenage pregnancy.
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> Look, we're all for balance, and we understand Mr. Whittell's larger
> argument that time-sucking games can cause children to miss out on the
> wonders of the real world (though we tend to think Outside is overrated).
> But creating an equivalence by saying that "video games and heroin and
> teenage pregnancy are a colossal waste of time," is putting a little too
> fine a point on things.
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> Kids on heroin tend to grow up to be junkies. Teenagers who get pregnant
> tend to become unfit parents, unprepared for the rigors of raising a child
> of their own. The millions of children who play video games, for the most
> part, end up becoming well-adjusted adults (Whittell even admits that the
> risk that violent video game will create a murderer is "statistically
> low-risk"). Just because they could all technically be called "wastes of
> time" doesn't mean they're equally bad, and even implying that they are
> strikes us as extremely irresponsible.
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