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Media Studies
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For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true convergence lies not in an external reality , but in an internal truth: What kids seek from video games is what we all seek from our own distractions--be they movies, radio, comic books, literature, or art: an escape from the mundane to the sublime, where our imaginations make of us heroes, lovers, warriors, and gods.
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― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
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The result is a narrowing of cultural imagination, where audiences are trained to expect entertainment that entertains but does not provoke, distracts but does not enlighten.
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― Bansang Pinipilas
― Bansang Pinipilas
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