{"id":6395,"date":"2022-07-20T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/when-life-gives-you-lemons-video-games-can-be-the-escape-we-need\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:36:44","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemons-video-games-can-be-the-escape-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/when-life-gives-you-lemons-video-games-can-be-the-escape-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"When life gives you lemons, video games can be the escape we need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominik Diamond hasn\u2019t had the best month \u2013 but scampering around in a virtual world full of robot dinosaurs has at least given him a break<\/p>\n

The worst thing about video games is also the best thing: their addictiveness. When you find the right one? The rest of the world can go to hell. That helped me as a child: I could use them to escape the more painful parts of growing up. Parents didn\u2019t fight in Manic Miner. You didn\u2019t have to worry about Stephen Gibson battering you on the way home from school in Chuckie Egg.<\/p>\n

As a parent of young kids, I was a dreadful hypocrite, always saying they should be doing something more worthwhile than playing Mario Kart \u2013 even though, when they would ask me \u201clike WHAT, Dad?\u201d, the only answer I could think of was \u201cthe stuff the other parents brag about their kids doing on Facebook\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nDominik Diamond hasn\u2019t had the best month \u2013 but scampering around in a virtual world full of robot dinosaurs has at least given him a break
\nThe worst thing about video games is also the best thing: their addictiveness. When you find the right one? The rest of the world can go to hell. That helped me as a child: I could use them to escape the more painful parts of growing up. Parents didn\u2019t fight in Manic Miner. You didn\u2019t have to worry about Stephen Gibson battering you on the way home from school in Chuckie Egg.
\nAs a parent of young kids, I was a dreadful hypocrite, always saying they should be doing something more worthwhile than playing Mario Kart \u2013 even though, when they would ask me \u201clike WHAT, Dad?\u201d, the only answer I could think of was \u201cthe stuff the other parents brag about their kids doing on Facebook\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dominik Diamond hasn\u2019t had the best month \u2013 but scampering around in a virtual world full of robot dinosaurs has at least given him a break The worst thing about video games is also the best thing: their addictiveness. When you find the right one? The rest of the world can go to hell. That …<\/p>\n

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