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    Jane McGonigal‏Verified account @avantgame 19 Apr 2016

    I literally cannot share one single finding about anything called a "Game" without someone piping up BUT GTA SO YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG

    12:28 PM - 19 Apr 2016
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      2. Jorine Vermeulen‏ @AdindaLoL 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame I have made it my mission to randomly drop "gamers are gonna save the world" in conversations and then referring them to you ^^

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      3. Jane McGonigal‏Verified account @avantgame 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @AdindaLoL

        @AdindaLoL thank you!!

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      4. Jorine Vermeulen‏ @AdindaLoL 20 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame Also, SuperBetter is probably one of the reasons I still haven't given up finishing my dissertation ^^

        0 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
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      1. Leo Medina‏ @LeoYMedina 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame Someone should mention this preteen saved her family because of something she learned on GTA http://kotaku.com/5044866/grand-theft-auto-helps-preteen-rescue-family-from-crashed-car …

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      2. fonticulus‏ @fonticulus 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame GTA was one of the first games my son watched his dad play because you could drive a fire truck and a bus and fly a helicopter!

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      3. fonticulus‏ @fonticulus 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame We, uh, did not expose him to the more adult aspects of the game, because we are not terrible people. Don't call CPS.

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      1. kat‏ @katbamkapow 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame & I STILL meet artists/historians after "edgy/uncomfortable" games to "push the medium" w/o recognising we're STILL fighting GTA

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      1. Paul W Sas‏ @hormetic 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame strong evidence that you're adding a needed view to culture

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      1. Steffen Christensen‏ @Wikisteff 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame "If you're having a bad day, imagine that you're in a comedy, not a tragedy."

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      1. Adam Sheehan‏ @neumaverick 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame Sadly the masses reach for extremes. I work in anime, which has a wide range, but people still say it’s just ‘tentacles & robots’

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      1. kat‏ @katbamkapow 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame amen amen amen

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      1. Michael Greer‏ @MGisu82 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame jeez. That would get old, fast. GTA is any easy scapegoat. I think it’s brilliant but that’s another story…

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      1. Steffen Christensen‏ @Wikisteff 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame People suck. But people are SO amazing. #powerlawssuck

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      1. Joel Bezaire‏ @joelbezaire 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame I wonder if these people read magazines despite the existence of Hustler, etc.

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      1. Rebecca Frank‏ @frankrebecca 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame bring it back to books. People say reading books makes you smarter. BUT SOME PEOPLE READ MEIN KAMPF.

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      1. Stacy Costa‏ @Stacy_A_Costa 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame why use the term "game", why not enigma or puzzles?

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      2. plorp‏ @runcibleansible 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame Do you have a slide comparing the size of the Angry Birds userbase w/ the size of the GTA userbase? Maybe that will end it.

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      3. plorp‏ @runcibleansible 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame Probably not, but one can dream.

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      1. A Levs‏ @Ayyy_Levs 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame I literally cannot share one concern about video games without someone piping up BUT MEDIA BIAS YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG

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      1. Matthew Pietz‏ @vermifuge_x 19 Apr 2016
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        @avantgame You should post about Game of Thrones.

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