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Gaming As Image Statement

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-good-there-dork dept.

In an editorial entitled Will Anybody Care That You Liked Gaming Before It Was Cool?, GameGirlAdvance editor ClockworkGrue discusses aspects of PSP Glamour, and what it means when gaming devices become sex symbols. From the article: "It's great that gaming can be trendy, and that the 300 pound guy on the train the other day and Paris Hilton are both PSP owners. Maybe now there'll be some demand for game-related clothing that breaks the basement-casual standard?" Update: 04/15 11:13 GMT by Z : To fix broken link.

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  1. trendy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it trendy to be bored with the world around you and be compelled to escape to the land of blips and blops?

  2. Re:Recursive links ahoy. by sp3tt · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is /., no one cares if TFA is not available, because they don't read it anyway ;)

  3. Thanks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...for demonstrating why women's fluffy little brains have no business being around complicated machines like computers.

    "It's not all bad news though for women and computers" said one leading industry expert, "they make an excellent source of pornography on the internet"