Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Nerdification Of America

 Attendees play video games in the Square Enix booth at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, in Los Angeles, California June 10, 2014.  REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian  (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTR3T4WU

Was Santa good to your little athlete this year?

By athlete, of course, I mean video game player.

Were there lots of video games under the tree that could be the first step toward your son or daughter getting an athletic scholarship?

There was a time, long, long ago when boys and girls (mostly boys) would be thrilled to get a new football or football helmet, shoulder pads or a new basketball for Christmas and parents could dream of the day when they watch their kids playing in high school or college.

Or just be happy watching the kids hurrying outside to join their friends in the backyard to play with their new stuff.

 Call it the nerdification or the wussification of America, but that’s becoming more rare every year.

Video game playing has been slowly replacing the actual playing of the games for a long time and the proof may be coming to a college near you.

Robert Morris University Illinois gave athletic – that’s right, ATHLETIC – scholarships to 35 students this year as part of its new e-sports program.

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10 comments:

  1. Waaaah; oh no's... Athwetic 'scholarships' not going to buffoons of low IQ who have one talent and one talent only -playing with their balls? Athletic "scholars" who won't need an entire course load of make-believe and grievance based 'classes'? UNC Chapel Hill may want to get in on this -once they dispose of useless and fraud ridden programs designed to inflate their athlete thugs' -sorry- "scholars" GPAs.
    Oh, the humanity...

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    1. UNC Chapel Hill may want to get in on this -once they dispose of useless and fraud ridden programs designed to inflate their athlete thugs' -sorry- "scholars" GPAs.

      :) Really.

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  2. I just said to my daughter that the internet is killing our souls.

    everything in moderation

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    1. Yes, Sir, but I'll disappear later on and watch another Christmas Carol with Dixie. :)

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  3. Of course they do. Now they should offer advanced degrees in "Gaming" to add to the fraud so that in four-years these athletes can be confronted by the awful reality of wasted days and wasted nights..

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  4. Youth forgives much. I am not nearly as concerned with their physical conditioning as I am their intelligence and refusal to learn. In many cases, and should things go South, they will deserve to die.

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  5. True the above, but these 'games' desensitize the game player into the ease of killing another individual, even if its just 'make believe'. I remember my nephew many many years ago playing a computer game which he was to bring back a captured General back to a helicopter for evacuation. At the end of the game, having brought back the General to the landing zone, my nephew 'shot' the General in the head.

    'Why did you do that ?'

    'Just for fun' was his response.

    I take it that our pilots using drones to kill the enemy find it much easier to do when they are simply killling images on a screen. I don't know if that is the case, but many pilots who dropped bombs report the same feeling - no faces or bloodshed seen.

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    1. many pilots who dropped bombs report the same feeling - no faces or bloodshed seen.

      Yes, my childhood friend mentioned the same of his service in Vietnam and my 1st cousin with 120 missions over North Vietnam simply enjoyed killing commies I believe. :)

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