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This was before Nader made his asinine comment. I'm sure this guy would have latched onto that comment!

That was pretty much it. It was almost three years ago now, and I've gotten over it, but it was a pretty good blog and I figured I'd share it with people that might not have seen it the first time I posted it.

Time wasting slackers. Yep, that's us. We have amounted to no good what-so-ever.

I never thought much about 404 pages until you posted this. And then Yargz mentioned the Pixlbit 404 page and I had to go looking. Very, very, cool, sir. 

I was thinking hey, cool, and then I saw that pic with all the people, and went "holy shit! No way!" I don't do well in large crowds like that, unfortunately.

He's old school, and not in the cool way. I resented the implication he was making that if kids spend any time gaming, they'll turn out to be slackers all their lives.

That wasn't the point this guy was making. He was saying that time spent gaming was time wasted. That time spent gaming was being spent on something irrelevant to the real world. I'm sure given enough time, he would have moved on to the evils of reading fiction that wasn't considered the classics, too.

And they might be TV couch potatoes, too, or completely retreating into comic books. Like Patrick said, limiting the amount of time and the paying attention to what kids are playing is key.

But that wasn't what that superintendent was talking about. He was saying that time taken for gaming was a waste of time that could have been spent doing something else. And he reiterated that about every other sentence in a speech that lasted at least 20 minutes. I know, I kept looking at my watch...

My step-father does scenario work with groups about sustainability. It's pretty much gaming, but without a console. And I think maybe he's worked on some sort of tabletop-type game for his scenario work, too.

That was why I blogged about it. No way was I going to change his mind and it gave me something interesting to write about.