Reply #9: Any ire for the corporations selling them Bill? [View All]

[nam78_two]

I thought the Free-Market Gods know all the answers?

FWIW I think he can have a point on this one though. Not all gaming and gamers per se, but there are certainly a lot of people I know (specially the ones playing WoW) who couldn't care less about the real world (i.e. Iraq, Global warming etc.) and spend ALL their spare time playing video games...Which at 30, I think is kinda immature.

But thats not so much about the medium-its more about this obsessive behaviour that makes people spend hours and hours of spare time preferentially on what is ultimately one particular type of recreational activity to the abandonment of all else.

I am biased though-as one of the few females in my Grad school engg. classes and someone who couldn't care less about gaming, I always found the hard-core gamers annoying ;). I am much more of an outdoorsy person and I have dated gamers and its been disastrous :).