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23 Feb 2022 Conversations with Tyler Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present
“I think the fact that, for a lot of people, their relationship to gaming starts so early that they perceive it as really no different than an athletic sport, except they were never comfortable playing athletic sports, and this is a way to do it.”
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- 23 Feb 2022
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…Why are so many people so interested in eSports? Have regular sports failed us? What’s going on there? I think the fact that, for a lot of people, their relationship to gaming starts so early that they perceive it as really no different than an athletic sport, except they were never comfortable playing athletic sports, and this is a way to do it. Seeing people do it at the highest level — to them it’s not any different than watching LeBron James. It is strange. My son is eight. He will watch YouTube clips of people playing video games. It seems bizarre to me. It doesn’t seem remotely strange to him. When you teach writing, how is it that you teach that’s different from how other people teach writing?…
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