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Originally Posted by HitterD
The problem i see with this situation is that many children spend much of there spare time playing video games already, and this gaming league could increase that playing time.
With Childhood Obesity already becoming a severe problem in our society (and future drain on our health care system, much like smoking), Video games are vastly contibuting to this problem. Too many kids are foregoing physical activity for sitting on a couch and plaing games or watching TV as it is. If we give them more incentive to do so, the problems caused by this unhealthy lifestyle will only escalate.
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That is already an issue, and has been since the NES (I would have said Atari/Intellivision, but there was a real lull for a few years before the NES). This isn't going change that at all. I'm pretty sure that unless the kid was already an elite player they aren't even going to get a sniff of any 'play for money' games.
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