{"id":5521,"date":"2022-04-27T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/im-trying-to-educate-my-son-in-sports-video-games-but-he-is-not-having-any-of-it-dominik-diamond\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:38:11","slug":"im-trying-to-educate-my-son-in-sports-video-games-but-he-is-not-having-any-of-it-dominik-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/im-trying-to-educate-my-son-in-sports-video-games-but-he-is-not-having-any-of-it-dominik-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m trying to educate my son in sports video games, but he is not having any of it | Dominik Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"

For his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It\u2019s the only way he\u2019ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use<\/p>\n

My son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. If he can\u2019t make it back to the mainland, he will live the rest of his life among feral, abandoned Scottish sons, and he will only survive if he likes sport, because that\u2019s how any group of men get through enforced time together.<\/p>\n

He tried sport as a kid, but as he is on the autism spectrum, he was obsessed with rules to the point where if he felt another kid broke them, he would pick the ball up and stop the game. He was basically human VAR. It never ended well. So I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m going to use my favourite 90s video games as a Trojan horse. And there is only one place to start.<\/p>\n

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\nFor his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It\u2019s the only way he\u2019ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use
\nMy son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. If he can\u2019t make it back to the mainland, he will live the rest of his life among feral, abandoned Scottish sons, and he will only survive if he likes sport, because that\u2019s how any group of men get through enforced time together.
\nHe tried sport as a kid, but as he is on the autism spectrum, he was obsessed with rules to the point where if he felt another kid broke them, he would pick the ball up and stop the game. He was basically human VAR. It never ended well. So I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m going to use my favourite 90s video games as a Trojan horse. And there is only one place to start. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It\u2019s the only way he\u2019ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use My son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. …<\/p>\n

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