Yet another person that thinks gamers are lifeless freaks. (http://kotaku.com/346851/times-tirade-claims-xbox-is-crack-for-kids)
I never hear people like this complain about violent movies, do you?
Here's a quote from the article:
"Once, such kids would be the playground outcasts, but no longer. Mine are. Because, unlike the TV-hating parents, I refuse to buy them portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s. These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains. And they play them - beepety-beep - on journeys, over family meals, any minute in which they find themselves unamused.
And their parents never seem to say, hey, this is the bit where you pick up a book. Or game over, kids: get an inner life."
Who says videogames don't require an imagination? Most games require strategy and basic thinking, and they can lead you to worlds where you feel as if you were a part of the story, absorbing more of the "life skills" this woman thinks video games lack.
So yeah, that's my 2 cents. Discuss.
HE MUST DIE!
I-I mean....He's stupid.
But with all seriousness, I understand where he's coming from. The problem is that he's trying to protect his children from an extreme dose of Video Gaming. Fortunately, even if he did buy his children a Video Game system, he'd find no addictiveness. What he's trying to prevent is an example of children getting whatever they want. Fortunately, most parents are making sure to prevent this, while others are causing it. It all revolves around the parents.
Heck, no this dude is the one on crack!
Just leave the morons alone.
They'll die out eventually...
OH GOD IT'S GOING TO BE IDIOCRACY
I bet the guy has never even played a video game, or else he only played Atari 2600 games ::)
Quote from: Zovistograt on January 19, 2008, 10:54:43 AM
I bet the guy has never even played a video game, or else he only played Atari 2600 games ::)
There WERE those erotic games for the 2600 >_>
Quote"Once, such kids would be the playground outcasts, but no longer. Mine are. Because, unlike the TV-hating parents, I refuse to buy them portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s.
If she doesn't buy them. she can't play them. How can he judge something he's never used?
QuoteThese are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain.
1. Satan's Sudoku? Yeah, she's an idiot.
2. I thought cocaine was cocaine?
QuoteEven the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life.
Barney has drama? Most kids shows, there IS no character development, plot, or drama. Maybe soem humor.
QuotePlaying videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains. And they play them - beepety-beep - on journeys, over family meals, any minute in which they find themselves unamused.
Wouldn't this apply to books too? Children get improsioned in the world of the book, and read them on travels and when they are bored. Then again, I guess Pokemon Diamond is much worse than Stephen King's It.
QuoteAnd their parents never seem to say, hey, this is the bit where you pick up a book. Or game over, kids: get an inner life."
Books put you in the mindset of someone else. Sometimes not even that. Games allow you to actually become the character. Sure, books can teach us, books can have wonderful immersing environments, but how does that push your imaginative creativity the way games do? How can you put the wonder and beauty of Super Mario Galaxy, or the just totally random weirdness of the Sims in a book? You can't. Books have a place, the games do what books can, and much more.
Just leave the closeminded freaks be. They'll all go to jack thompson and they'll eventually leave us alone because they can't get any real support outside of the group they just assembled. They don't seem to realize that if any media is too be allowed it should be videogames because that actually requires some amount of thinking unlike t.v. or music where you just sit there X_X;;
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on January 19, 2008, 10:33:52 AM
Yet another person that thinks gamers are lifeless freaks. (http://kotaku.com/346851/times-tirade-claims-xbox-is-crack-for-kids)
I never hear people like this complain about violent movies, do you?
Here's a quote from the article:
"Once, such kids would be the playground outcasts, but no longer. Mine are. Because, unlike the TV-hating parents, I refuse to buy them portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s. These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains. And they play them - beepety-beep - on journeys, over family meals, any minute in which they find themselves unamused.
And their parents never seem to say, hey, this is the bit where you pick up a book. Or game over, kids: get an inner life."
Who says videogames don't require an imagination? Most games require strategy and basic thinking, and they can lead you to worlds where you feel as if you were a part of the story, absorbing more of the "life skills" this woman thinks video games lack.
So yeah, that's my 2 cents. Discuss.
Xboxes, PS2's, Gamecubes? Man, this person needs to catch up.
Yet one of my old school's teachers always used to tell me, "Let the imagination flow."
Video games DESCRIBE imagination.
Just think.
TV Shows can help you learn.
Law & Order, you find out how a attorney works. It might be fake in some ways, but some of it is true. Always.
Now games are a step ahead of TV shows.
Ever heard of Phoenix Wright? It's about being an attorney. But like I said, some of it is fake in some ways, but there are ALWAYS parts where they are true.
So video games are crack?
No. They are books with videos in them.
What is WRONG with that women? I could just cuss her out.
Hey everyone! The middle aged woman demographic is full of dumb ninnyes. You don't need to whine every time they try to take away video games, it won't happen.
Quote from: Co-Z on January 19, 2008, 06:34:47 PM
The middle aged woman demographic is full of dumb ninnyes.
I never noticed.
Sucks to be that kid.
Video games can be more stimulating than books are.
You know how some people say that video games are a waste of time and to go read a book? Well video games aren't any more of a waste of time than books are.
"The problem you have by the sounds of it, is that you are laying blame at the door of the easiest scapegoat and not your own deficiencies as a paren't."
Thank god someone finally says something.
Also, aren't the majority of gamers over the age of 10?