Bringing guns to a game fight & vice versa
[ by Charles Cameron — the sheer variety of what occurs in the Venn overlap between games and guns never ceases to amaze ]
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BREAKING: Boston police foil potential massacre at Pokemon World Championship http://t.co/hnN1bsS3ua pic.twitter.com/XBpbfInQf8
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 23, 2015
and:
Dutch soldiers are shouting 'bang, bang' because they've run out of bullets – http://t.co/sGzs9en08S
— Nada Bakos (@nadabakos) August 22, 2015
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Is there something about Pokemon I don’t know, that would explain this level of crazed?
As for the Dutch soldiers story — it takes the Independent a little while to get from the concept of ammo-free warfare suggested by the headline to the admission in the article that the ammo shortage was confined to training exercises..
Even so, as they say in the real estate business, morale, morale, morale.
September 1st, 2015 at 5:19 pm
I think it was James Gleick who turned me on to this tweet:
Good reading, anyway: In a Pivot-Happy World, We Need to Let Twitter Be Twitter