[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, that pretty much explains why 0bama is in office today! When he gives Gamers the right to vote on-line, that's the end of a Republican ever winning anything, ever again.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

A person dressed as a character from the game World of Warcraft gets fitted at Comic Con in New York last Friday.

[End Times Sentinel]

Oh yeah, right!

A bunch of teenagers group their orcs around where my avatar appears and beats my brand new character to death with battle hammers as soon as I appear.

That's great citizenship alright.

Jerks.

[thecodont]

Let me understand. The people who want these youth to vote ONLINE are the same people who think ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES are rigged?

Sorry for shouting, this just upsets me. More erosion of our democracy.

[Badeye]

Never become emotionally attached to your Avatar....

[knews_hound]

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[LS]

Well, I disagree. My conservative/Libertarian son didn’t really develop an interest in reading until he had to read Mario Bros. to win the game. Since then, over the years, much of what he has read has been related in some way to video games, whether it’s technology, story line, or whatever. They’ve already shown that both surgeons and pilots benefit from video game technology, and when I was at Camp Lejeune three years ago, the Marines who gave me the tour had multiple video game/sim centers that they said had greatly improved their Command and Control of their officers.

[KarlInOhio]

Steinkuehler quoted Will Wright, who said in a Wired magazine story that gamers' mind-set means they "treat the world as a place for creation, not consumption."

Hmm. Chinese people working for little money produce something which I trade real US dollars to get to keep me from having to work at it. Yep, that's really different from the real world.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chinese+gold+farming&btnG=Search

[scottdeus12]

“For the uninitiated, she showed some of the “chaotic and complicated” World of Warcraft, which even has its own virtual economy dealing with the things necessary to succeed in the game.

She explained how game players she studied collaboratively use scientific problem-solving techniques to succeed in World of Warcraft.”

That's what I keep telling my wife...to no avail, however....

Ilthbran
80 Night Elf Assassination Rogue
Duskwood
1800 dps

[ConfusedAndLovingIt]

Sure, Proffessor, but what about spelling? Can the games create better spellers?

The bottom line is that WoW needs more spelling-based side quests.

[windcliff]

ping