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San Jose airport will be the gateway from my XBox buddies and Phoenix is the Wii oasis at my brother Dan's house for Thanksgiving family play. Video Games are a popular activity for all ages, as the post feast family tag football fades for lack of young blood and a surfeit of older bones. I am a self-confessed game herbivore, preferring pattern matching games to single-person shooter. A topic brought up a a dinner with some computer scientist friends concerning brain aging: does the perception of risk (a la Halo or Lara Croft in the Anniversary edition of Tomb Raider (where the height scenes in the ruins of Peru are vertigo activatingly "real") where a somatic risk response is induced (heart rate, GSR) a sufficient "risk" to encourage the neural activity that has been linked with healthy aging?
If so, I can cross Half Dome off my list and save on outdoor gear. Just pass the thumbpad, fire up the monitor screen, and save me some pie for later.