Dec. 14th, 2006

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Title: Report
Fandom: FFX-2
Rating: G
Wordcount: 200
Characters: Clasko, Nooj
Pairings: see below
Spoilers: very minor, for Clasko in FFX-2
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] rabbitprint, who requested Nooj/Clasko with a prompt of catsuit. (In October. Yes, I know I fell way behind on these. But look, proof that I'm still working on them!) Whether this is what he had in mind, I don't know, but this is what happened. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] bottle_of_shine for a hint.

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Are Video Games Evil?

Nice overview of this issue from The Wilson Quarterly. Thoughtful and well-argued; comes down pretty firmly on the pro-gaming side. There's a lot here but this tidbit particularly jumped out:

In The Ultimate History of Video Games (2001), game journalist Steven Kent cites pinball as a mechanical ancestor of today’s digital games. Pinball created a panic in some quarters—no pun intended—as a new and dangerous influence on society. Foreshadowing the antics of today’s antigaming politicians was New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who smashed pinball machines with a sledgehammer and banned them from his city in the 1930s, a prohibition that was not lifted until the 1970s. (To be fair to La Guardia, governments have long perceived societal threats from new games. In the 1400s Scotland banned golf, now its proud national pastime, because too many young men were neglecting archery to practice their swings.)

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