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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a professional game designer.  ESports is a great hobby that can open professional doors.  No, really.

In addition to recreational games -- board games, video games -- game design has [b]many [/b]professional applications as well.  Educational games are a thing.  So are professional wargames.  If you're on this forum, chances are you're in the DC area, and chances are some of the parents of your classmates have participated in some form of professional wargaming.  Wargaming techniques aren't just used by the military; they're used for policy analysis, pandemic planning, USG training, even in the private sector.  Serious games are everywhere these days, and crazy as it might sound to non-gamers, some of the skills kids pick up through ESports are directly translatable to career skills later.

And for those kids who just like gaming -- let them like gaming, what the hell.  It's a hobby like any other.  I don't buy this talk about addiction and dopamine.  We get dopamine hits from everything that makes us happy -- it's not just games and electronics.  It's the parents who don't know how to play the games that think the games themselves are somehow dangerous.[/quote]

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