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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6827017" data-attributes="member: 6701872">At my table for a typical session, electronic usage is as follows:Me - 75% of the time I've got a laptop, which is entirely dedicated to using as a gaming reference tool (PDF-only products, online references, and my notes for the game in digital format because using paper is impractical, like when I went through 15 of those spiral bound notebooks over a single year just the other year).Sometimes I also have my phone at hand for use as a calculator (easier than laptop point-and-click calculator), or for some useful app like a soundboard.My Wife - she can't pay attention to the game while also on her phone, so she stays off it (though I do have to occasionally remind her).Friend A - pays attention just fine despite playing some game on his cellphone right up to an hour before the end of our session, and he only plays the cellphone game at that particular time because he doesn't have any other time in his daily schedule usually and he is trying to get daily things done before the next server day begins.Friend B - doesn't have any kind of attention problem, uses his phones infrequently (yes, plural phones - his job necessitates a dedicated phone)Friends C-F - the rest of the group regulars only get out their phones if somebody says "look that up", or if there is a song that fits as background for the current bit of game, or if I (being the guy running the game basically 999 of any 1000 sessions) leave the table for some reason.For me, it's not about whether there is or isn't a device in use - it's about whether the person is or isn't attentive to and enjoying the game.</blockquote>

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