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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 23:51:33 JST myrmepropagandist

   Our "faculty newsletter" has a running column called "tech tips" and I'd like to write a short article about video games.

   Some of my fellow teachers know next to *nothing* about video games. It's like they are from the 50s I think this makes some of the rules they make for our students less effective.

   If you could tell a bunch of very dedicated teachers one thing about games what would it be?

   (I'm thinking about talking about loot boxes, and why games can hook people.)

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 23:51:32 JST myrmepropagandist

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     Honestly imagine a person saying "Oh I don't really read books"

     or "I've never enjoyed movies"

     That is how "I don't do video games" sounds to me. Really? NONE of them? Not a one. Not even candy crush?

     Oddly people who say this often turn out to be mildly addicted to some of the very worst loot box games and unhappy about it.

     I think if you think of playing games like reading a novel or watching a sports event one can have a more healthy relationship to the medium.

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     Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 (dan613@ottawa.place)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 02:30:43 JST Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

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     @futurebird There's a lot of narrative content in video games, and some inspire a significant amount of fan fiction. My two stepkids spend a day each weekend writing Zelda fan fiction together. They spend hours discussing how each game has problematic elements and one writes modifications (mods) to fix them.

     Many show the problems of authoritarianism, capitalism, and racism (see Cyberpunk 2027 and BioShock Infinite), and that war is hell.