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Boy Scouts: a Badge for Video Gaming

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The Boys Scouts of America are letting its younger members earn a badge for video gaming.
The average American boy spends 7 hours a week playing video games.

This is Depressing Statistic #2 in a series aiming to jolt young people towards action and microadventure.

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  1. What excited me about scouting when I was young was hiking, camping, route-finding, and civic duty. Not sure that video gaming really fits into one of those categories, and I don’t think that diluting its core strengths is going to lead to a better organization, in the long run.

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  2. Raph Taylor Posted

    Perhaps sega/nintendo/microsoft will now create a videogame in which the ‘hero’ must cross continents armed with little more than a firesteel, a dutch oven, and a pop-up tent.
    Messrs Grylls and Mears to be amongst the character choices..?

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    • Or maybe you’ll have to do some primative fire making with bow and drill by pressing the A and B buttons as fast as possible 🙂

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