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I grew up during the birth of home video games. Nintendo, Game Boy, and Sega unlocked a world of home video games and became the perfect 8-bit escape from the cold Alaskan winters. I graduated to PC games in the 90's and continued for awhile into the 2000's. But as I grew older, we drifted apart. Games became an impenetrable subculture that required more skill and time than I could commit. For decades, I haven't taken video games seriously. And this isn't uncommon. Despite being one of the most dominant forces in culture today, video games are polarizing in a way that most pop culture mediums aren't. There's a distinct divide between the gamers who get them and the non-gamers who don't. Video games exist outside the shared cultural conversation. We just don't talk about video games with friends and colleagues the way we talk about a great film we watched, a new show, or a book we've read. And when you do, you run quickly into awkward pauses. Part of the blame for this lands on video ga

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