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US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers (www.fox21online.com)

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

How is "gamer" defined? Someone who has played video games? Did they also hire 2000 "readers?"

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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago*

like 3/4s of the USA population plays video games these days.

but we assume here it's 'young men who play CoD/madden religiously'. I doubt many of these hires were 40+, or women.

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