The best part of that article is the end:
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"It may continue to grow in China," Mr. Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."
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I don't know what the fuck place that dude's living in, but in the america I live in, I need all the help I can get to feel accomplished. You can't even get a college degree and feel like you've done something useful here.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
4 million people can't be wrong
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So you're bitching about not feeling accomplished by doing easy things in real life, and playing a video game will help you achieve something in a fictional universe, thus validating your existence in the real one?
I game, therefore I am?
p.s. - 4 million people can be wrong. more than 10 times that voted for George Bush in this country. 60 million people can't be wrong?
If getting a degree is so easy, where's yours? Oh that's right, you don't have one.
Point is, there are 300m people in the U.S. if only 120m of them voted and of that only half voted for george bush, the odds of these 4m people being in the group that didn't vote at all are pretty high.
This becomes even more valid when you consider that only 1m of the people playing the game are in the US at all. I'd trust 3m foreigners long before I'd trust 1m US citizens.
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