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December 03, 2003
Electronic Gaming Monthly runs transcripts of encounters between classic video games (think Pong) and modern 10-12 year olds. Very funny and just a little disturbing. (Thanks to Rick Klau for the link.) Posted
by D. Weinberger at December 3, 2003 08:17 AM
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Comments
I didn't know that 12 year olds had the phrase "unfashionably gay" in their vocabs. heh.
Posted by: glenn | December 3, 2003 02:52 PM
Compare this with Sherry Turkle's transcripts in "The Second Self" (20 years ago) of kids trying to decide whether the game Merlin was alive...actually a thoughtful discussion on what it means to be alive.
It's real kid metaphysics as opposed to the current jaded, semi-snotty kid critiques. Makes it hard to see what's happened with kids and machines in the last generation as progress.
Posted by: Stu Rubinow | December 6, 2003 11:46 AM
"Unfashionable Gay" that struck a bell in my head as well. Perhaps things are a bit different where they did the article but I know my 12 year old brother would not be caught dead saying something like that.
Oh well . . . that is demographics for ya!
Posted by: Kinzie Kenner | December 9, 2003 06:39 PM