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Listed below are comments made by Dieseltaylor between Tuesday, 30th December 2008 and Tuesday, 30th December 2008.

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Gaming is good for you 10:04am on 30 Dec 2008 Yet another article conflating video games as a whole without questioning the genre.

Mr. Laux does make the distinction but the article does not talk of the violent games that are suspect for their effect on people in desensitising them to violence.

As the New Scientist pointed out this year some of the media give equal balance and air time to video game stories despite the scientific research stories being more factual than someone's opinion.

So in this case no negatives whatsoever appear in the story. Strange that childhood obesity - or rather the lack of physical activity by children - is rarely mentioned by proponents of video games.

Anyway despite being a player of thinking mans PC games [ playing Battlefront's Combat Mission series for 8 years] I certainly would discriminate against WoW players. But then perhaps I more familiar with the type than most : )

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