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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Mon Oct 7 12:05:14 2002
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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Football players addicted to video football
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:00:23 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85531549
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Date: Not supplied
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Pro football players are addicted to football games, as a means of
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wish-fulfillment -- by "managing" the team, they can be free of the rule of
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their coaches and bosses. Maybe this explains the amazing success of The Sims,
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which, on the face of it, should be dull as hell: While away your free time
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away from the office by simulating an existence as a shlub with a day-job and a
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drive to acquire consumer goods on credit. You'd think it'd be the last thing
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you want to do. But it's not. When you're a Sim, you can tweak your existence a
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smidge, discover what life would be like if you took Path A instead of Path B,
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try the alternate universe on for size. The idea of football players playing
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themselves in licensed video games is neat and recursive, like the episode of
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the Simpsons when Mr. Burns runs into Krusty buying Krusty-O's at the
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supermarket and asks where he can find the "Burns-O's."
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"It's always a trip," Carr says. "The first time I saw myself in a video
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game was in college (at Fresno State) when I walked into a Best Buy store
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and some kid was playing with me. That kind of trips you out a little bit."
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For every 12-year-old kid who spends countless hours in front of a
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television playing video games, there's a group of 300-pound offensive
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linemen challenging each other at everything from Madden NFL 2003 to the
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action-packed "Halo: Combat Evolved."
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Lawrence[3]!_)
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[1] http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/1604474
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/XWcdy9AcBAh
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[3] http://www.io.com/~lawrence
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