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> Spending months mastering Super Mario Bros - all alone - is a bad way to grow up normal.

Disagree. Even if you play mario brothers alone, when you're in school, you can talk to other kids about playing mario brothers. It was _normal_ to do this when I was a kid; when i met someone new, the first thing that I always asked what "Do you have a computer? Do you play games on it?" I made many friends this way.



Or you could have played something like sports with other kids, and both spent time with them and had something to talk about.


By "alone", the author may have meant without reaching out to people with a similar interest in video games at all.

If he did, his point would make sense. If he didn't, he missed an obvious point.




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