12 year olds saves sister thanks to WoW
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Soooo...Aby_Z said:
This:
and this:
Are faulty interpretations?
I will ask you nicely, again, to please clarify what you mean by that sentence, if not what I have guessed at already.
Please clarify. I'm begging you. Tell me how the 12-year-old kid with a spur-of-the-moment genius in the forest, defending his sister, somehow decided to be "savvy" and turn the tables on the people being skeptical of the values of videogames... Doing so by lying to a reporter in the ensuing interview.
PLEASE!
Well, a nice amount of time passes between the incident and a reporter asking him questions about it; he's got plenty of time to prepare, share this story with friends on WoW, and plenty of time for this idea to spawn within his head.s0denone said:
Another scenario, perhaps while talking to his friends on WoW, perhaps they suggest such an idea for him to use after the kid is made aware that he'll be interviewed by a reporter.
The thing is, you took a few too many other things from what I've said, like infering that this kid is somehow a genius. Just because a 12 year old can think ahead beyond next week doesn't mean he's a genius (At least, I hope not.)
On the kids mind is not how to boost the reputation of video games. He is 12 years old. He is telling everyone what has happened, and is incredibly pleased when people reply "Cool story, bro". He tells all the members of his family, all his friends and even people he doesn't know.Aby_Z said:
A 12-year-old is not necessarily a genius to spin the story to speak good of videogames, but he is definitely cold, calculated and very inhuman if he is able to sit quietly in his room after having had a near-death experience ultimately leading to him saving the life of his sister.
Also, you consider him logging onto WoW to tell his internet-buddies, but still will not consider the fact that he learned the concept of "aggro" from WoW? You know, back to the whole thing about you outright refusing him having learned it from WoW.
You missed a key point in that new scenario I created to help you out: His buddies could have given him the idea.s0denone said:
The simple act of telling your internet friends about an experience doesn't mean that everything you learned is from the internet; he used instincts and common sense, not knowledge gained from WoW.
Conspiracy Theorists. XD Gotta love 'em.
You seem to be missing that it is VERY plausible that he learned this from WoW. Aggro, taunt, and feign were the key ingredients. And probably more likely, ... since he is 12.
You seem to be missing that it is VERY plausible that he learned this from WoW. Aggro, taunt, and feign were the key ingredients. And probably more likely, ... since he is 12.
Your stubbornness on this is frankly quite staggering. What the hell are you thinking? I'm just going to leave it here, you clearly lack whatever "common sense" you are attributing to the kid.Aby_Z said:
What with the crusader-like fervour and such.
Have a good day/night/evening, sir!
Now that's not fair at all! Taking the 'bigger man' stand in such a situation...s0denone said:Your stubbornness on this is frankly quite staggering. What the hell are you thinking? I'm just going to leave it here, you clearly lack whatever "common sense" you are attributing to the kid.Aby_Z said:
What with the crusader-like fervour and such.
Have a good day/night/evening, sir!
I haven't a clue where you're getting a 'crusder-like fervour' sense from, but whatever. See ya around.
Haha that's pretty cool, and despite what other people think I think it's awesome that he picked this up in wow. Sure he could've picked it up on the internet but he probably didn't(too busy playing WoW). And a lot of kids wouldn't be able to keep their calm in a situation like this. He probably has a higher level hunter that he plays as and when his sister was in danger he thought of a way to save the "lower level". This was done by pulling aggro from the creature until his sister got away and then feigning death to drop his own aggro. There was a chance that this could have gone horribly wrong but it didn't. The kid may have used some textbook animal attack moves here but it looks like the kid didn't learn them from a textbook(and I have no reason to believe he didn't think of it as using WoW moves). So yay for WoW and yay for kids saving their sisters.
That is pretty impressive. I don't think WoW is the contributor here, though. It did seem like common sense. But still, he was a kid, and what could he have known what to do? Impressive, but WoW doesn't deserve too much credit, only the kid does.
Sure, a 12 year old realizes that the game industry is struggling in the wake of a worldwide recession and seeks to give a positive PR boost to the struggling industry. IT'S ONLY LOGICAL.Aby_Z said:
Also, why is everyone saying taunting a moose, running away, then lying down on the ground is common sense? Common sense is just running away, not diversionary tactics. Either that or you stand your ground. They call it the "fight or flight" mechanism, and THAT is what is common in humans. Using yourself as a diversion requires more complicated thinking, and in dangerous situations, humans don't always think about tactics if they haven't been trained to it.
There's no reason why gaming couldn't have been responsible for triggering his sequence of thoughts about how to proceed. If you play a game extensively, it tends to remain on your mind, and you start to liken real-life things to the game.
awesome, well done him and im glad to see some news that isn't all 'dem dar vidyagames are killing the kids this guy told us so, wont somebody think of the children!'. there's been another outbreak of 'gaming addiction' bullshit here lately thanks to some wannabe psychologist.
also 12yo and high level WoW chars? kids got mad skills.
also 12yo and high level WoW chars? kids got mad skills.