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...barring a resurgent neo-Luddite movement) within 30 years we will all be playing video games. There is no evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations and exhilarations of a sports game, or the alternating states of calm cerebral alertness and frantic applied engagement that characterizes more complicated games like Civilization, Age of Empires, or Starcraft/Warcraft...
Just 10 years after Doom, the original first-person shooter, was released, there is very little left of its allure. This unmasks the fact that there was very little to its allure in the first place. Today Doom 3 is on the cutting edge of technical achievement, but it too will fade from our memories and leave nothing behind. If the value of video games continues to reside solely in their increasing graphical realism and not in their increasing conceptual sophistication, then we all may be wandering around in binary dungeons for the rest of our lives...
Still, he didn't entirely fit the stereotype of the school shooter. While he may not have been popular, he had a small but close group of friends. They hung out a few times a week at one another's houses, talking and watching TV. "The people saying he didn't have any friends are just talking to each other," says Jen Stately, 16, who wears Vans skateboarding sneakers and a metal stud in her lip. "They never talked to him. He was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet." Among the girls in the group, Weise...
...scores was the result of a two-on-one for which Welch took the blame, admitting that he allowed a cross-ice pass instead of shutting down the Big Red’s second skater and letting Harvard’s goaltender, Dov Grumet-Morris, take the shooter...
...thought our backchecker was there, and I thought I actually turned it into a one-on-one,” Welch said. “I gave [Pegoraro] the pass across, which is not my job. I should let Dov take the shooter, so I take responsibility for that goal...