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Army not so bad, say gamers April 20, 2004 - by Ian Bogost Wagner James Au wrote a story last week for Salon called John Kerry: The Video Game, about how video games have influenced young people's opinion about the armed services. Here's a good tidbit:
A third of the country's young people have an elevated view of the Army, not foremost for anything it's actually done lately, but because of the computer game they played, which just simulates it.
The article continues to describe Au's experience playing Battlefield: Vietnam as "LtJohnKerry" to see if it would influence his political opinion Comment from Online Poker on February 16, 2005
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