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Warren DeMontague

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6. FWIW, there are a lot of women who enjoy video games, too.

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 08:52 PM

Mar 2015

And I'm old enough to remember when the very first pong machines came out. Not sure if that was during the Ford, or Nixon administration.

Also a lot of interesting narrative stuff has been happening in videogames. It's not just all shoot-shoot-shoot, although certainly that is a part of a lot of games.

I think there is a depth to a game like, say, Mass Effect or Bioshock Infinite - philosophical, political, etc - that you're not going to find on a machine you keep putting quarters into.

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Popularity of Violent Movies and Video Games [View all] marle35 Mar 2015 OP

I don't even know jomin41 Mar 2015 #1

~~~ +1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2015 #4

Have you ever actually played any of these video games of which you speak? Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #2

Mostly some arcade games marle35 Mar 2015 #3

Congratulations! discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2015 #5

I don't feel a sobering feeling after shooting aliens on the xbox, and I'm not worried. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #7

Perhaps sobering was a bad choice of adjective discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2015 #11

FWIW, there are a lot of women who enjoy video games, too. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #6

I am sure there is some evo-psych about it. TM99 Mar 2015 #8

"something felt a little off about it." - At a guess, I'd say its not the type of game for you. Veilex Mar 2015 #10

Because they're fun, I suppose. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #9