I'm just worried that our country's getting so damn fat. AND, I see a lot of kids who are slaves to their games, be it on the console, at the computer, or with their gameboy on the plane. (I remember when I was a kid flying in a plane meant you go to talk to interesting people from all over the world!)
A mix of real-world sports and games is great - people playing games helps my paycheck! And it helps pay for technology and tools that advance more important things. But playing sports too keeps us from becoming a bunch of pasty-face wankers, so we gotta do that to!
Hmmm, me thinks you haven't played a real MMORPG.
Right now as I am typing this on what I call my right hand Computer, My Left hand computer is logged into a game called Anarchy Online.
This game is a persistent world where the only time it is not operating is when it goes down for patches and maintenance.
The game was developed in Europe but the game servers are in the US.
Right now in that game I am in a conversation with people from seven different countries on three different continents. See in this day and age I don't have to get on a plane and go somewhere to meet interesting people. I just turn on my computer and log into my game and turn on the voice chat system. What is really fun is ribbing each other in game and learning how to cuss in different languages while we fight the bad guys!