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FLASHBACK 2006: Taking up residence inside a video game isn't all it's cracked up to be.
By no means am I suggesting there should be government regulation of virtual worlds like Second Life just because they aren't for me. But it's one thing to pay to play a game and another to create an economy based on pixels and fantasies of people who find virtual lives preferable to their real ones.
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Title: Get a Life Author: Charlie Deitch Date: Nov. 9, 2006 Reposted from the original I love video games, but so what. A lot of people love video games. Some people play all the time, while some try to squeeze it into their spare time.
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