Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Mark Levinson wrote:
> 
> Bruce writes:
> > games and email can be time-wasters, but, unlike TV,
> > they're at least active.
> 
> Consolation.  But such small consolation.
> 

Yeah, well. You take what you can get.

You make a good point about gratification. Still, if I was inclined
to bet, I'd put my money on Quake players to do something useful
long before your average couch potatoes did. Game players may be
anti-social psychopaths, but at least they're *active* anti-social
psychopaths. And some of them go on to show reasonable powers of
concentration, writing new code or debugging with an attention to
detail that amazes me.

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