TO GAME OR NOT TO GAME?

This past week I received a new assignment for my graduate Writing for the Web class. In the class (which spawned this very blog) we are tackling projects focused on this very crazy thing we call the World Wide Web.

WELCOME VISITORS!

For this assignment we are to create a game. We have to bear in mind our audience, have a plot-line, have characters, determine the goal, the list of requirements goes on and on.

I’m thrilled about this project in that I already have my idea. An interactive online game, focused at helping children learn Spanish. It would feature a character I pulled from a children’s book I wrote, “Ramon el Raton;” a skateboarding rat who speaks Espanol.

Nothing is impossible for Ramon!

As we continued to talk about the assignment, we got into the heated debate about “gaming.” And whether or not violent games = violent children.

The class was quickly divided, with some of my colleagues thinking that violent games for hours on end does enlist violent behavior. And other thinking it does not.

Many articles, are supporting this answer. After scanning the brain, according to Kristin Kalning of MSBC, game violence does trigger violent behavior.

"Man Hunt 2," a game which is said to promote hostile behavior

“Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say that brain scans of kids who played a violent video game showed an increase in emotional arousal – and a corresponding decrease of activity in brain areas involved in self-control, inhibition and attention.”

Jared Lee Loughner, who at the begining seemed "normal"

With the horrific shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, where many are putting blame on the violent games the shooter (Jared Lee Loughner) loved, we cannot help but wonder.

So what is your opinion? I know this is a hot topic and yet find myself divided. Therefore I would love the input!

~Eli

YOU GOT GAME?

 

We ain’t talking about basketball here folks!

Recently, while out downtown with two of my gorgeous “single-and-ready-to-mingle” girlfriends, I thought to myself, what does it take to “have game?”

What are the bodily reactions and verbal ploys that prove to be successful?

 

As one male approached me, I nervously looked away. Since I wasn’t really feeling it, I thought I would observe. See what my friends and the other females at the bar did to attract attention of the opposite or same sex.

After ordering another vodka tonic, I watched in amazement. There really are things that women and men do to help “have game.”

The Females:

#1- Batting of the eyes. (The metallic, smokey eyes that is…)

#2- “Flooffing of the hair.” (My friend Diana does this via Dirty Secret, an awesome hair product that helps add volume to your lusterous hair.)

#3- Re-applying the make up. (Lip gloss, eyeliner, face paint, etc.)

#4- Eye contact, eye contact, eye contact!

#5- Sexy drinking…playing with the straw…you’ve seen this!

The Males:

#1- Straight approach, walking up to you and saying hello. (BOLD MOVE HERE!)

#2- Direct verbal approach…”What’s your sign baby?”

#3- “Poofing of the chest” (Walking around with their chests stuck out, arms back…flaunting their feathers!)

#4- Eye contact, eye contact, eye contact!

#5- Casually bumping into you at the bar. “Whoops…you come here often baby?”

So who really does have game? And will we ever know if it’s working? Whatever you do, please do not do this…

 

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