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Trend Watch: Gaming Deemed Cool Again

September 14, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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People who spend most of their lives playing video games are not all nerds, the Daily Pennsylvanian has declared. The North Texas Daily agrees: "The NT Gamers Club defies the stereotype of the nerdy quiet kids with taped-up glasses who rush home from class to play video games," the paper reports. Indeed, they even managed to find a photo in which only one kid is wearing glasses, and the others look convincingly not blind!

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