mal wrote:
] ] Would today's tykes tolerate the classic games you grew
] ] up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut
] ] version of an EGM article - now with a bonus game not
] ] included in the original story!

as funny/painful/accurate as this is, what strikes me most is the sophistication some of these kids present in their speech. I don't think i'd have used the phrase "corporate espionage" when i was 11, and i was pretty well read. it's a little scary... how long til our 8 year olds have schedules as packed as their parents, digitally negotiating dinner time via wireless network access?

inignoct wrote:
] mal wrote:
] ] ] Would today's tykes tolerate the classic games you grew
] ] ] up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut
] ] ] version of an EGM article - now with a bonus game not
] ] ] included in the original story!
]
] as funny/painful/accurate as this is, what strikes me most is
] the sophistication some of these kids present in their speech.
] I don't think i'd have used the phrase "corporate espionage"
] when i was 11, and i was pretty well read. it's a little
] scary... how long til our 8 year olds have schedules as
] packed as their parents, digitally negotiating dinner time via
] wireless network access?

You're right and I thought that some of their criticisms show a lot of sophistication as well. They're automatically subsuming a level of critical thinking I would not have expected - realizing and pointing out that the umbrellas are arbitrarily chosen - that they don't actually do anything umbrellalike for instance. And the other thing is just that their baseline expectations are much higher. The ET criticism was the funniest! I remember hating that effing pit!!!!