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<blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 16232" data-attributes="member: 426">eXodus: I am sorry that this topic brought up some unpleasant memories.First, I would like to suggest using the website of the Escapist as a source of information on the claims against gaming.&nbsp; It is at <a href="http://www.theescapist.com/index.htm." target="_blank">http://www.theescapist.com/index.htm.</a> Secondly,&nbsp; as an ex-reporter, I was pretty meticulous about getting the facts straight.&nbsp; However, not everyone I knew was as devoted to this ideal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes people just assume that an urban myth is correct or have a bias that they are unaware of.&nbsp; (I tend to be a bit skeptical of electronic journalism, because of the time constraints. I find it depressing, in a world of intolerance,&nbsp; hatred, hunger, and disease (it looks like AIDS may end up killing more people than the Black Death), that gaming is viewed by some people as a problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have seen no credible evidence of gaming related murders or suicides.&nbsp; At the risk of sounding cynical, I suspect that the people who are trying to cast a bad light on gaming are doing so as they have no real issues to pursue their own path to power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="William Ronald, post: 16232, member: 426"] eXodus: I am sorry that this topic brought up some unpleasant memories. First, I would like to suggest using the website of the Escapist as a source of information on the claims against gaming. It is at [url]http://www.theescapist.com/index.htm.[/url] Secondly, as an ex-reporter, I was pretty meticulous about getting the facts straight. However, not everyone I knew was as devoted to this ideal. Sometimes people just assume that an urban myth is correct or have a bias that they are unaware of. (I tend to be a bit skeptical of electronic journalism, because of the time constraints. I find it depressing, in a world of intolerance, hatred, hunger, and disease (it looks like AIDS may end up killing more people than the Black Death), that gaming is viewed by some people as a problem. I have seen no credible evidence of gaming related murders or suicides. At the risk of sounding cynical, I suspect that the people who are trying to cast a bad light on gaming are doing so as they have no real issues to pursue their own path to power. [/QUOTE]

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