{"id":412,"date":"2006-09-24T22:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=412"},"modified":"2006-09-24T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T02:36:47","slug":"fascinated-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/fascinated-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinated, I am."},"content":{"rendered":"

At the “Lunch on the Lawn” after church today, my son and I were talking about one of his favorite pastimes: playing Star Wars: Battlefront<\/em> online with his friends from all over the world. “You should play it, Dad,” he said. I replied that I was certain to embarrass him and his clan by being such a noob (newbie). “That’s okay,” he said. “You’d get better quickly. Plus it’s a very friendly group. Most of us play just to hang out. We also have a birthday alert that lets us know when someone’s celebrating their birthday.”<\/p>\n

I paused for a moment to mull over this new bit of information. A birthday alert<\/em> for a bunch of guys flying X-Wings around and running scrimmages with other guys? Interesting. Suddenly Star Wars: Battlefront<\/em> started to sound like YASN (yet another social network). Which of course it is … but here was explicit evidence.<\/p>\n

To break the silence, my son went on. “Really, Dad, you ought to try it once. There are lots of Yodas in the clan.”<\/p>\n

Yodas?<\/p>\n

“Sure: guys over 40.”<\/p>\n

You know, it could be worse. Ol’ greenie’s not too bad with a light saber, after all.<\/p>\n

Next installment, I’ve promised my son I’ll blog about the game of “bowling” he invented for his clan buddies. It seems there’s quite a lot of play-within-play going on in-world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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