And later…

Actually, I’m kind of glad I didn’t manage to post much this morning due to the network snags. I’d written a diatribe about stupid some people and their disparaging/derisive/demeaning reactions to those of us who like to play games on our computers. I guess I had the blogger’s equivalent of sleeping on it, even if it was forced on me by BitTorrents outside my control. Now I have the benefit of calm, I don’t think a post attacking television-watching, gardening, sporting activities, needlework and Barbie doll collecting is something I would have wanted to look back fondly on, later. (I hate it when I say things I regret later. It would have been worse to have had this particular slip-up in writing for all to read and re-read. Edit 8:05am 13 January 2006: And in case your interests are included in this list, please note that I don’t think any of these activities are worthy of insult, I was trying to make the point that they, like playing games, are all leisure interests, and no one is worse or better than any other. Except maybe fountain pen collecting. Oh wait, I didn’t add that to the list. Oh wait, I collect fountain pens…)

The virulent reaction from me was triggered off by this article, Warning: computer games are a health hazard, which was in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald. Hopefully I don’t have a relapse – M wrote a comment in response to the article, and as a result a reporter from the SMH got in touch and interviewed him over the phone this morning. The reporter is legit (I’ve found a few articles with her by-line), but I wonder what she will make of the Perth guy who plays WoW with his wife.

Categories: annoyance, navel-gazing