Mainstream Press Still Needs Help With Games

Just when things seemed to be looking up, we have two prime examples of poor reporting on the gaming hobby. Chris Kohler, via a Game|Life blog post, points out an ABC report entitled Health Alert: Pulling the plug on Videogames. They list the dangers to your health that gaming can cause (excessive blinking, of course) and include a handly list of things to do besides game. Like 'Learn to change the oil or a tire on a car'. Meanwhile, the Jacksonville Daily News reports on those massively multiplayer thingies. From that article: "Anderson is one of an unknown number of individuals who split their time between the reality most inhabit and the virtual realities conjured by Internet role-playing game designers whose dreamscapes have become increasingly engrossing and even addictive."

Just goes to show....

[Brian McCoy]

there are a ton of things your children can be doing instead of playing video games. Fun and exciting things like changing the oil in your car or changing your vehicle's tires. Of course my 9 year old daughter has been struggling with the hydraulic jack, but in the long run it'll be good for her health.

Lasers and GPS, in D&D?

[amrust]

Why is the guy in TFA, who apparently games as 'Plasma', a fearless vigilante in a cape who fires lasers from his fists, posing next to a Dungeons and Dragons game?

Or did I miss a D&D makeover, somewhere?

/rolls a 6

Re:They need help because --

[Austerity Empowers]

The older generation just needs to be reminded that sitting on the couch drinking beer and watching people play with balls and/or pucks is no different than video games of any type. It's all idle waste and God will surely punish us all to an eternity in hell.

other things to do

[freshman_a]

...include a handly list of things to do besides game. Like 'Learn to change the oil or a tire on a car'.

See, I tried that. I stood in my driveway for like, geez, 30 minutes yelling "LFG change oil or tire" and the people in my neighborhood just kept shouting "shutup n00b" at me. I eventually gave up and went back to playing video games.

Re:other things to do

[C0rinthian]

Duh, you need to click the meeting stone next to the garage. Mebbe you were too low level for an oil run...