Seriously what the hell is wrong with people? All of these problems seem to stem from the fact that they have not woken up to fact that not everyone that plays games is a fucking child. Some of us played games as children in the 80s and still enjoy it today. I'm 33 and that's my story. It's the same thing with cartoons. In Japan, cartoons (aka Anime) are used to tell dramatic stories to adult audiences. But here when I watch anime I get a bunch of my peers going "you fuckin watch cartoons?!" Fuck you all, stupid masses.
Also, it's just always some new scapegoat for our world's problems. Every fucking time I see videogames get blamed for youth violence I have to say "yeah and war, murder, rape, suicide and sex didn't exist until the creation of videogames right?" When I was a kid it was Dungeons and Dragons being blamed. Then it was heavy metal. Then it was cartoons. My fucking GI Joe and Transformers were too violent but somehow Tom & Jerry isn't.
People are just close minded fucking morons. Along with all this other shit, think about the mentality of the parents that wanted Big Bird's imaginary friend Snuffalaphugus to not be imaginary because they thought it was harmful to their children to watch puppets have imaginary friends... yeah... you got it... they thought it was ok for their children to watch talking puppets but not talking puppets with imaginary friends. ?!
I am a parent. I've been playing videogames for about 25 years. My son is 8. He has some behavior issues of his own and so I do my job and don't let him play videogames all day because I see that for HIM it can be a problem. I also don't allow him to play games with subjects beyond his maturity level. Parents need to do their job. Media needs to stop blaming Doom and friends for all of the world's problems.
And they make us gamers appear to be the uneducated ones... games rot your brain... yeah, sure. And the abundance of awesome reality shows are really good for you apparently. Fuck them all.
well as a 33 father and gamer with quite a passionate rant maybe its a sign that you should start some sort of responsible parent weekly gaming site to help parents become informed. just a thought.
I played my first M-rated game when I was 10, it was Doom, I played my second one when I was 15, it was RE2.
I've never killed anyone, I don't have rage issues or anything of the sort, I have other problems, none of them caused by games, what caused it?
Asshole kids from broken homes who bullied me to no end, shitty teachers who did nothing and never helped me with my work, this combo turned me into an introverted angry kid who didn't give a shit about anyone or anything.
There are so many factors to what causes someone to lash out in such a manner, nobody cares anymore to find out what it is, its so much easier to just point at something and say, THIS IS TO BLAME, stupid ignorant people look at games with disdain because not everyone does it, therefore its weird, stupid ignorant people still live in the past and think games are for kids, they don't notice how much the medium has evolved past stomping on turtles and collecting coins.
Lord knows what it will take so idiots can stand and listen.
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Games did 9/11
well as a 33 father and gamer with quite a passionate rant maybe its a sign that you should start some sort of responsible parent weekly gaming site to help parents become informed. just a thought.
There is one, Chief.
good rant, entirely true
Games were behind the Holocaust.
games caused the the big bang
Games made me who I am today, a successful web designer.
Interesting read, though I did hear that the moon landing was a star trek machinima
Games cause cancer.
I blame video games for this cblog.
AIDS is being possessed by games, it used to be such a nice virus until pac-man
I blame games for Mxyzptlk returning from the dead to grace us once again with his presence.
Games caused the Vietnam War.
And they killed Jesus.
fucking mcdonalds
Games killed Heath.
no really, they did.
I played my first M-rated game when I was 10, it was Doom, I played my second one when I was 15, it was RE2.
I've never killed anyone, I don't have rage issues or anything of the sort, I have other problems, none of them caused by games, what caused it?
Asshole kids from broken homes who bullied me to no end, shitty teachers who did nothing and never helped me with my work, this combo turned me into an introverted angry kid who didn't give a shit about anyone or anything.
There are so many factors to what causes someone to lash out in such a manner, nobody cares anymore to find out what it is, its so much easier to just point at something and say, THIS IS TO BLAME, stupid ignorant people look at games with disdain because not everyone does it, therefore its weird, stupid ignorant people still live in the past and think games are for kids, they don't notice how much the medium has evolved past stomping on turtles and collecting coins.
Lord knows what it will take so idiots can stand and listen.
it was games that crucified jesus