The media have been going back and forth on the issue of video games for years now. Do they make people violent, or do they provide therapeutic relief for people with bounds of pent-up aggression? Are video games a fledgling art form, or just a mindless diversion? Do games rot the brain, or improve its capacity to learn?
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Some people lock themselves in their room for a weekend to foster creativity, but I can never sit in one place when I’m on the verge of a good idea--I just have to get moving. Whenever thinking needs to be done, my body’s response it always “Up and at ‘em!”
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