{"id":67,"date":"2012-10-05T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/?p=67"},"modified":"2012-10-05T12:08:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:08:43","slug":"reality-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/2012\/10\/05\/reality-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane McGonigal<\/a> is a game designer, and is very active in and passionate about the benefits of “gaming”. That being said, I have hard time reading what she says in the excerpt Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World<\/a> about gaming being so beneficial for individuals as an escape from reality and a true form of expression.<\/p>\n

I have little to no interest in the gaming culture at all, and therefore it is hard for me to believe that individuals are choosing virtual reality over their real life. I have brothers that love playing video games. but they do so as a break from reality, not an exodus. \u00a0I believe there is a small sub culture of “hardcore” gamers who devote almost their entire lives to said video games. I think that for all others games can be a fun time-killer, but social interaction with others, face-to-face, is necessary and more important.<\/p>\n

I find it interesting that McGonigal believes that entire lives being led on the internet is a good thing. If culture continues to evolve in this way, how sad would it be when our offspring don’t know how to interact socially with each other when physically together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane McGonigal is a game designer, and is very active in and passionate about the benefits of “gaming”. That being said, I have hard time reading what she says in the excerpt Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":3,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"ejbarrie","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/author\/ejbarrie\/"},"qubely_comment":3,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Jane McGonigal is a game designer, and is very active in and passionate about the benefits of “gaming”. That being said, I have hard time reading what she says in the excerpt Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ejbarrie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}