No one can question parents because no body wants parents on their ass.
Seriously, don't expect the blame to shift where it should be for a while. No parent wants to watch T.V. and hear "You are incompetent."
WHAT?! I'M A GOOD PARENT, BRAWRHGGHH

haha poop emergency. ive never notice that tag before.

http://www.mcvideogame.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gladiators

Hmmm... hypocrites?

FAIL!

Was meant to say:

http://www.mcvideogame.com/
More like it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gladiators
Hmmm... hypocrites?

job should be yob, but I meant to say JOG.

Carry on, fat lads.

DDR, nomnomnom!

Its lifestyle, pure and simple. The Japanese play probably 50x more games than American children do and they are not facing an obesity epidemic.

Over here its the removal of green spaces to build more wal-marts and the removal of almost all of the playground equipment that used to be in my city, leaving kids with literately NOTHING to do outside in the summer. A lot of kids play in the streets here but that isn't really safe but its better than nothing since there really isn't anywhere else to play. One thing is for sure if we made exercise seem less like work and more like FUN, then maybe kids would be more willing to go outside and play if they enjoyed what they were doing. You remove playground equipment, charge parking fees to get into any sort of outdoor place where kids can run around, make kids run laps in gym class instead of doing fun activities, feed our kids fatty, nasty food in the schools and we wonder why we have a nation of fat kids.

Its all a perception really, if you spend time around kids you know that they want to run around and play outside, but if you as a parent do not provide that opportunity then they cannot do it, simple as that. I have watched kids in my family put down the video games to go outside, one of my relatives who visited in the summer chose to throw a football in the backyard with the other relatives instead of playing his PSP. They will put down the games if you as a parent take the time to introduce them to something other than video games.

(argh double post FTL)

Sorry, but fast food is a serious reason as to why most Americans are overweight.

Americans are fat because they're full of shit.

(Disclaimer: i'm an American who is smart enough to recognize that i'm surrounded by lazy stupid people)

I don't understand why anyone would eat at McDonald's anyways, besides the fact their golden arches can be seen anywhere in the US. Seriously it's like Sauron peering down on all of us, only more evil.

But damn are their their hashbrowns crunchy and awesome and perfect.

Funny, I play video games all the time, don't exercise, could stand to have a healthier diet yet I don't eat McDonalds and guess what!? I'm not fat at all... FAIL

@ PSI

Yeah, but when you're family looks like

the prospect of an authoritative figure stepping in seems null. I blame vegetables.

I agree with TheBrain.

I am sorry but I don't believe this "blame nothing on video games attitude" is entirely correct. Maybe it is not suitable for a McD's exec to talk about obesity, but, please, physical inactivity is a lot to blame for obesity. Just because he said it doesn't make it wrong:
"there’s fewer green spaces and kids are sat home playing computer games on the TV when in the past they’d have been burning off energy outside"

So what part of his statement is wrong? Are there more green spaces?

Covah:
I know my neighbour who smoked 2 packs a day, he is 75 years old and he didn't get cancer, so smoking is not bad for health, here's my message to foolish scientists who say smoking is bad: FAIL!

Responsibility comes from choice. Do children have a choice? Most of the time no, the parent does. When they are able to form a rational choice is when responsibility can be placed. Games cant make choices, so they cant ever be responsible for something. Blaming things like games and fast food is reducing the human to a thing by forgetting that we have to choose.

Yes

*Nom's on his case of Crackdown*

Anyone detect a little bit of marketing spin on this? "Oh shit, Burger King just did a wildly successful campaign with a set of three crappy games, how do we respond?"


Also, clowns.

I have not eaten Mcdonalds in about 4 years, that shit is jsut gross.

I can handle wendys and taco bell.

But really, all mcdonalds serves is shit burgers with a side of shit fries.

i hate you ronald...fucker.

GAY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eb62VAgro9U

I blame video games on fat kids. Corrupt, villainous game manufacturers have a captive audience made up of children who have gotten winded by the time they've hoisted the 20th chicken nugget.

I blame video game makers for making such good games, that you don't wanna go outside anymore. Damn you game makers and your creative juices and ability to engage us!

I play videogames pretty heavily, and recently I've been losing weight.

I think I have an intestinal worm or something.

Pedro: Um, yeah. I already mentioned myself in the original post, but if you wanna drive it home, go wild.

And it's not McDonalds' fault, it's purely down to me. You won't see me shirking responsibility onto anything else for my own fuck ups.

Japan doesn't have many public parks and they play as much, or more games than us. They're skinny. Wanna know why? They eat healthy.