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Video Games & False Significance
Why do we long to be significant? The desire fills us all, manifested in a million different ways. Some people feel significant through athletics, others music, and others money. How we choose to satisfy this desire makes us all unique.
The majority of the significantizers exist in the real world. Video games offer a digital substitute [...]
Chicken v. Egg?
Which came first the chicken or the egg? I think this question is easily answered since a chicken could have survived without an egg, while an egg would require incubation (aka: a chicken) to survive. Whatever. No; I am not going to talk about the inherent lameness of video games involving chickens in this posting. [...]
MMO: A Minor’s Massive Obsession
Originally written as a composition assignment, 8 April 2008.
Cyberspace must be running in its own time zone. What starts as “just a few more minutes to finish this level” soon becomes an hour. When Olivia and Kurt Bruner kept hearing this from their son while he was playing games, they set out to discover the problem. [...]
The Hidden Dangers of Computer and Video Gaming
Originally Published in the THSC Review
by Thomas Umstattd, Jr.
“Come on, Mom. … Just a few more minutes; I’m almost done with this level.” Parents have all heard it: a child’s pleading to get just a little more time to play. I know. I was that child.
When I lived in a college dorm, my room was [...]
