No Maniacs At QuakeCon
Thanks Blue. The New York Times has put up a nice article here about QuakeCon and how people were generally nice and normal. Very refreshing, since I was afraid the mainstream press would find some way to put a bad spin on it. Here's a great quote from the article:
Only rarely did the Colorado killings come up in conversation, and the general sentiment was summed up by one older player who said, "Playing Quake no more turns kids into killers than wearing Goth clothes turns them into vampires."
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I read the article and was also pleasantly surprised that they didn\'t call us (Quake players) a bunch of evil serial killers or something. I\'d really like to see them put that article in a print magazine...we gamers don\'t really have many people writing positive articles on our community, and the fact that most articles that come from outside the gaming community are fairly one sided (and ill informed) makes it that much more important to have articles like this one out there to be read by the general public.