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this [the idea of console gaming rather than playing catch with your kid] raises an interesting point. as an athletic sort, i enjoy playing catch or hanging out by the pool [with a football, drink, book, or all three]. that said, the people i was formerly athletic with are at all points of the compass, and the local friends are, well, not similarly inclined. they are, however, gamers, so we game. [plus, my buddies hither, thither, and yon also game - it's a means for us to hang out that's more fun than a conference call].
the fact that i can run a post pattern and make someone look bad in the back lot -and- the living room doesn't seem to register for a lot of folks. *shrug*
plus, it's about to become stupidly fscking hot outside for the next several months, so indoor activities, like gaming, are just more pleasant. reading is just as sedentary, no?
our generation lives on the quotations of shared media, which makes us relatively unique - the generation before had a much shallower pool of this on which to draw, the generation after has so much that it's easy to completely miss a reference. i spent my saturday afternoon mentoring some teenagers from TX via xbox through the intermediary of a game - talking to them about books, and movies, and what it was like when i was their age. one of them was beyond impressed that i caught a "chapelle show" reference, while another 30-ish guy and i shared an appreciation of a recent cyberpunk title. and talking to one of those kids' fathers, who is in his early 40's, really crystallized the idea that this sort of faceless interaction, where' you're a pair of thumbs and a headset, is an important socialization mode, and is only becoming moreso as online gaming becomes more prevalent.
anassadeina's]this [the idea of console gaming rather than playing catch with your kid] raises an interesting point. as an athletic sort, i enjoy playing catch or hanging out by the pool [with a football, drink, book, or all three]. that said, the people i was formerly athletic with are at all points of the compass, and the local friends are, well, not similarly inclined. they are, however, gamers, so we game. [plus, my buddies hither, thither, and yon also game - it's a means for us to hang out that's more fun than a conference call].
the fact that i can run a post pattern and make someone look bad in the back lot -and- the living room doesn't seem to register for a lot of folks. *shrug*
plus, it's about to become stupidly fscking hot outside for the next several months, so indoor activities, like gaming, are just more pleasant. reading is just as sedentary, no?
our generation lives on the quotations of shared media, which makes us relatively unique - the generation before had a much shallower pool of this on which to draw, the generation after has so much that it's easy to completely miss a reference. i spent my saturday afternoon mentoring some teenagers from TX via xbox through the intermediary of a game - talking to them about books, and movies, and what it was like when i was their age. one of them was beyond impressed that i caught a "chapelle show" reference, while another 30-ish guy and i shared an appreciation of a recent cyberpunk title. and talking to one of those kids' fathers, who is in his early 40's, really crystallized the idea that this sort of faceless interaction, where' you're a pair of thumbs and a headset, is an important socialization mode, and is only becoming moreso as online gaming becomes more prevalent.
