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Posted by Fred on March 17, 2008 at 1:09:36 pm EDT
In reply to People prefer videogames to the outdoors posted by Bill S on February 5, 2008 at 7:48:13 pm EST

MTB wrote "it is clear that people of the older generation have a severe misunderstanding and bias toward video games."

That, my friend, is a very broad generalization. I'll have a half century under my (once expanding, now shrinking) belt next year, so I figure I'm included in the "older generation". Many of us from that generation have very clear understandings about video games, some of us even play them from time to time, but a salient point is that we play them, we do not allow ourselves to believe that we are actually in them (I'll again date myself by referencing the movie "Tron").

My bias as regards video games, if I have one, is one of moderation. It's easy to get wrapped up in a game (I recall spending hours playing Doom and Castle Wolfenstein some years ago), but it's important, no, it's vital, to encourage younger people to get outside into the real, rather than virtual world and do something physical, experience something real, feel pain, cold, excessive heat, understand true failure and true victory, and as Bill noted, appreciate that there is no "reset" button in life.

Rogers would have asked "and how does that make you feel?"

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