[lbo-talk] How Americans would respond

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sat Apr 30 11:30:23 PDT 2005


On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dwayne Monroe wrote:


> Doug:
>
> I gotta confess, I just don't get the video game thing. It seems
> weird and alien to me. Not because of the technology, but because of
> the solitariness and alternative universe aspects of it.
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> A reasonable response because gamer *culture* often is all these things.

I love the irony of this: people create a culture through social interactions. There can be no gamer culture that encourages social isolation unless--people socially interact to create that cultural standard!

Miles



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