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Offline Pongo

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Online gaming good for you?
« on: February 14, 2003, 10:51:51 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2003, 12:00:07 PM »
Interesting article. Gonna post it at AGW too. thks.

I found this interesting:

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It was often obvious when teenage boys were
               playing, he said, because there was much
               more trashtalk and sexist or homophobic insults
               flying around.

               But, said Prof Wright, it was a mistake to think
               that this meant that gamers were
               misanthropists.

               "The most common emotion when people are
               playing is laughter," said Prof Wright.

               The only reason that people can get away
               with insulting friends and foes was because
               they knew them so well, he said.
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