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TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023

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The Pros and Cons of Video Games

As an adult I realized I had to always been rather snobbish about video games you know I thought of them as a thing children do. When I met adults who played video games that's ridiculous like that's like telling me that you sit around and play make-believe with your teddy bears but I'm married to a man a retired army officer who loves to play video games and he made me realize that I really was being quite inexcusably snobbishAbout the book: "I spent my childhood with my nose buried in a book quite familiar with the instinct to hide from reality in an invented universe" It explores both the promise and downsides of these astonishingly complex immersive

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