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Henry's Videogame Addiction (and his grades)


Was this going somewhere, and then was dropped?

I know videogame addiction didn't exist until the 2000s, (up til then, people just _really_ liked videogames) but it seemed this is what the show was going for. Maybe they were going that way, and then decided to back off for some reason.

And then, when he and his videogame friends started getting better-than-expected grades... I was waiting for the WarGames reference when his game fandom turned to low level hacking and changing his grades from a dial up connection. But that didn't happen either.

Just me?

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In my day I suffered from television addiction. I didn't get good grades in high school but it didn't kill me.

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