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fov 02-07-2005 03:46 PM
My latest project at work is a booklet for "tweens" and I am doing some research on the subject. (Yes, at 26, I am completely out of touch. :rolleyes: ) I came across this quote which is strangely topical:

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Thankfully, Eliza [age 9] is not addicted to video games, like the sons of various friends -- though she will play if there's nothing else to do, or if she's with a video-game-addicted boy, though this doesn't always go smoothly. For Eliza, video games are just another way to interact and connect with and relate to a friend. For boys, I've noticed, video games are a way to play video games.
Hmm... really? I'll agree that games could be a way for me to connect with a friend, if there was a friend over to play the game with, but I was just as happy playing alone. The question it brings up for me is, are boys less likely to play video games with friends than girls are? (Some of the recollections of people in this thread suggest not. Then again, the author could be making a completely uninformed and random observation with no basis in reality...)

-emily

ps Full story here, but the rest of it has nothing to do with video games.

Ninth 02-07-2005 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by fov
The question it brings up for me is, are boys less likely to play video games with friends than girls are? (Some of the recollections of people in this thread suggest not. Then again, the author could be making a completely uninformed and random observation with no basis in reality...)
Best memories I have of AG playing are from sessions with friends. And I'm a boy. Not that it proves anything, really.

Fairygdmther 02-07-2005 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by fov
My latest project at work is a booklet for "tweens" and I am doing some research on the subject. (Yes, at 26, I am completely out of touch. :rolleyes: ) I came across this quote which is strangely topical:

Hmm... really? I'll agree that games could be a way for me to connect with a friend, if there was a friend over to play the game with, but I was just as happy playing alone. The question it brings up for me is, are boys less likely to play video games with friends than girls are? (Some of the recollections of people in this thread suggest not. Then again, the author could be making a completely uninformed and random observation with no basis in reality...)

-emily
I read what she said and came up with a different conclusion: to me it sounded like boys just want to play video games, with or without friends, not that they are less likely to play them with friends - as in you've got to drag them, kicking and screaming, to get them away from their consoles/PC's.

FGM

remixor 02-08-2005 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by deadworm222
Hmm. Yeah, well, there was mainly just remixor who no longer plays adventure games exclusively.
Did I play adventure games exclusively back then? :eek: (That's a real question; reading my own ridiculously long posts is too much work for even me. You were right, I really needed shorter paragraphs...)

LauraMac 02-08-2005 02:16 AM
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Did I play adventure games exclusively back then?
yes...you did...and when we block the memory of painful ....even traumatic events -- well it causes odd moments of mental stress.

It is time... once you recall that reckless oath* you took 2 years ago to never play anything but adventures ...well you can move on and end this fruitless yet oddly compelling search for a crazy man..or not

:7

* {seefootote25-post29-Jan2,2003}

remixor 02-08-2005 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by LauraMac
yes...you did...and when we block the memory of painful ....even traumatic events -- well it causes odd moments of mental stress.

It is time... once you recall that reckless oath* you took 2 years ago to never play anything but adventures ...well you can move on and end this fruitless yet oddly compelling search for a crazy man..or not

:7

* {seefootote25-post29-Jan2,2003}
Where'd you find a post from January of 2003?? These current forums didn't even exist until September of that year. :eek:

LauraMac 02-08-2005 02:33 AM
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Where'd you find a post from January of 2003?? These current forums didn't even exist until September of that year.
You just think they didn't...people just don't want to say anything :eek:

Wormsie 02-08-2005 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by remixor
Did I play adventure games exclusively back then? :eek: (That's a real question; reading my own ridiculously long posts is too much work for even me. You were right, I really needed shorter paragraphs...)
Yep, that's what you said in one posts, but you also said that you were beginning to realise that you only liked them because of the interface.

remixor 02-08-2005 11:07 AM
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Yep, that's what you said in one posts, but you also said that you were beginning to realise that you only liked them because of the interface.
Haha, wow, that's out of control. I suppose that period didn't last long. I'd guess it was in sort of the 2002/03 range for some reason.


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