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how is this news? In the 80s was it like "Chinese takeaway installs street fighter II cabinet! Taxi firm wows punters with space invaders machine in foyer!"
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What are you moaning about? I'd have thought you'd have loved this. The whole 'I took a girl on a date and then played computer games while she was bored' is brim full of amusing misogyny for the type of man who showers and goes to discos.
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it's just a publicity stunt though, and I don't like this idea that we're somehow just discovering computer games, when people have been playing them in public for over twenty years. They're not a new thing, but the press is treating them as if they've only just been invented. Scolding developers and gamers on the one hand when games are produced with adult content, celebrating on the other side when your gran holds a wii remote. The reporting and understanding of games in the press still seems totally homo. And this kind of un-event is a cheap trick in that it's just ticking all the boxes to fit into the 'good' side of gaming as per the press.
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