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Post by eJm on Dec 30, 2010 22:24:50 GMT -5
Did anyone actually read the article? Like those shouting did they learn nothing from Virtual Boy must not have read the paragraphs about the parental lock out ability of the 3D feature, and other such points. We live in a headline culture. Who needs to read the story when the headline apparently says everything we need to know? It's what I noticed more and more when I was studying Journalism. Especially on internet articles where that's all people really read thinking they got the whole thing. I'm guilty of it as much as any of it, but that's people's mentality.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Dec 30, 2010 22:30:21 GMT -5
Did anyone actually read the article? Like those shouting did they learn nothing from Virtual Boy must not have read the paragraphs about the parental lock out ability of the 3D feature, and other such points. We live in a headline culture. Who needs to read the story when the headline apparently says everything we need to know? It's what I noticed more and more when I was studying Journalism. Especially on internet articles where that's all people really read thinking they got the whole thing. I'm guilty of it as much as any of it, but that's people's mentality. Hey,if I were to read articles before posting someone might beat me to my pithy one liner!They are all I have left in the world. Did I use pithy right?
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 30, 2010 22:30:46 GMT -5
Did anyone actually read the article? Like those shouting did they learn nothing from Virtual Boy must not have read the paragraphs about the parental lock out ability of the 3D feature, and other such points. We live in a headline culture. Who needs to read the story when the headline apparently says everything we need to know? It's what I noticed more and more when I was studying Journalism. Especially on internet articles where that's all people really read thinking they got the whole thing. I'm guilty of it as much as any of it, but that's people's mentality. Sad, but true. In my journalism class at OU, I was taught to make articles like a pyramid, putting the most important stuff at the top in condensed form and then all the, in all honesty boring, details at the huge bottom, and at the very tip of the pyramid, there has to be a catchy headline that, for the most part, sums up everything in the story, even if some of the headline isn't true.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Dec 30, 2010 23:31:12 GMT -5
I dunno about that. I owned a gameboy at around that age. Isn't this who Nintendo is marketing toward anyway. Kids 5 and up? I remember playing the nes in preschool....but then again the nes is nothing compare to a 3D handheld. Yea seriously. I learned to read and count partially by playing Atari, and had a damn respectable NES library by the time I started Kindergarten. And I was raised by my 60+ year old Aunt who was super strict until the age of 6. Yea, I had a gameboy too. I know it's not a fair comparison, but it's stupid to say "who would buy this for a 6 year old". The answer is LOTS of people. Hell, I know people who have kids at that age with ipods which seems really really pointless.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 23:59:47 GMT -5
I remember playing the nes in preschool....but then again the nes is nothing compare to a 3D handheld. Yea seriously. I learned to read and count partially by playing Atari, and had a damn respectable NES library by the time I started Kindergarten. And I was raised by my 60+ year old Aunt who was super strict until the age of 6. Yea, I had a gameboy too. I know it's not a fair comparison, but it's stupid to say "who would buy this for a 6 year old". The answer is LOTS of people. Hell, I know people who have kids at that age with ipods which seems really really pointless. Hell there parents who buy GTA for their kids...When I was preschool, I was playing Mario, Zelda, Contra, Ninja Gaiden and TMNT. There a lot of people who would buy it for their kids because it a video game system.
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Post by Predator McBroski on Dec 31, 2010 0:24:56 GMT -5
Video games cause eye strain? SHOCKED! mind=blown
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