Quote of the Day:
“We made dying cheap’’
Replace the word dying with the word life and you have an accurate description.
"Magical transformation; At this role-playing camp, kids take their video-game skills and apply them to live-action play. Imagine that" by Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff | July 11, 2009
BURLINGTON - Thus, on a recent afternoon that brought the camp’s first week to its epic finale, two dozen costumed players, some as young as 7, girded themselves for combat....
turning video-game material into real-life play....
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mothers and fathers dressed up as zombies and other creatures as part of the final battle sequences....
Twenty percent have a high-functioning form of autism....
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NO AUTISM In Never-Vaccinated Children
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Meanwhile, the fantasy genre was exploding in popularity, propelled by the Harry Potter books (“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’’ the sixth film based on the series, opens this summer) and by World of Warcraft, a multiplayer online role-playing game wherein players go on quests and acquire new skills over extended periods of time. Gardner studied live-action versions of these games and wondered why there were none geared toward children. If closely supervised and scripted to be age-appropriate, she reasoned, they could be a hit. And they have been....
The paper promoting war? No kidding?
No concern about video games making kids violent here, huh?
Boys outnumber girls about 3 to 1, but that gap is narrowing....
Yeah, that's great! Think of it as "liberation," ladies.
“Even if we can’t turn them all into master fencers, we can make every kid a good fighter....’’
Because we are going to NEED THEM for the NEVER-ENDING WARS!
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Here that BUGLE, kiddo?
