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I will only read and respect his opinion if he says it's ok for Muggles to exist. Books and movies are ok to get sucked into fantasy worlds with, but but interactive games? Hell no.
Oh man, the title gave me a good laugh. I also love that this old fuck hates that he is made to feel hateful for hating things.
I hate things too, but that doesn't make me hateful. No sir. I just loathe certain concepts and everything they stand for, categorically, with no research into the subject, because I don't need that to pass judgement. That's not hateful, that's just sanity.
I hate things too, but that doesn't make me hateful. No sir. I just loathe certain concepts and everything they stand for, categorically, with no research into the subject, because I don't need that to pass judgement. That's not hateful, that's just sanity.
You know what should be banned? ROCK MUSIC. This Elvis Presley with his loud music and his hip shaking and his rude words like 'kissing', thank goodness that Florida judge had the sense to ban him! It's not like in OUR DAY when music was simple nice things, something you could enjoy, not the DEVILS MUSIC of today!
Ya damn kids.
Ya damn kids.
No, lets keep music for all the sh--grins. I say, lets just kill off Television or Bad Cable (There's no good cable where I live).. I mean, c'mon.. I bet this old guy couldn't live without his soap operas and who da baby daddy part 5,000
The telegraph has been shifting more and more of this kind of stuff recently. Its a pity because I still remember a quite level headed piece from them about how the banning of manhunt was an afrount to our civil liberties. For them to now have a piece about how games like that need to be banned because they might hurt the children... I suppose a right wing paper is always going to have as many fucked up old prudes as it is rational libertarians.
@ B-Radicate
You said all there is to say.
Also, it seems that my country is trying to get on the old wagon too, more and more shit being baked up every month. Hasn't reached critical mass yet.
You said all there is to say.
Also, it seems that my country is trying to get on the old wagon too, more and more shit being baked up every month. Hasn't reached critical mass yet.
That sort of nonsence I'd expect of The sun or something, but not The Times.
Then again, maybe this is just the temperment of a sinking ship that's losing to das internetin'.
Just a thought.
Then again, maybe this is just the temperment of a sinking ship that's losing to das internetin'.
Just a thought.
"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Adams
My favorite reply to the article was the first one:
"One could easily argue by the same measure that sex for recreation is a colossal waste of time too.
I can only assume that Giles Whittel stopped getting any a long time ago."
"One could easily argue by the same measure that sex for recreation is a colossal waste of time too.
I can only assume that Giles Whittel stopped getting any a long time ago."
Games ARE a waste of time, but that's the whole point -- they're a form of relatively mindless entertainment. Like other time-wasters (eg. TV, sci-fi/fantasy novels, goofing off with friends, etc.), they should be enjoyed in moderation, leaving lots of time for more worthwhile activities (eg. camping, exercise, art, less shallow works of literature, etc.).
And yes, my definition of worthwhile is extremely subjective. I consider camping important because it encourages people to appreciate and learn more about the outdoors. I wouldn't expect people to spend all their time doing it, though. Sometimes we all need a break from activities that are supposed to make us better people, and that's where the aforementioned mindless entertainment comes in.
And yes, my definition of worthwhile is extremely subjective. I consider camping important because it encourages people to appreciate and learn more about the outdoors. I wouldn't expect people to spend all their time doing it, though. Sometimes we all need a break from activities that are supposed to make us better people, and that's where the aforementioned mindless entertainment comes in.
"I hate books. I hate the way they suck real people into fake worlds and hold on to them for decades at a time."
He sounds like a second-previous generation *possibly third* unwilling to even attempt to understand the current generation. Things have sucked people into false worlds for a great deal of years. Video Games. Books. Music. Hell, short story's can be considered a separate entity from books.
I do agree with him on the point of feeling it unfair of being practically required to study an item in-depth to possibly speak of it. But on the contrary, for most people it's a simple fact of being misinformed. This man only proved this by simply mentioning only negative claimed "facts" of the side effects of Video Games. There are benefits. But people like him are too ignorant to see them. Too ignorant to care.
He is so passively hateful and so quick to toss the word around that he is making it seem more that it isn't that he is angry about Video Games and their levels of immersion. That is not the true complaint. To me, it seems that his complaint is the need to write about something relatively new, rather than coasting by on writing the same things over and over.
I say, if one is a journalist. I say if one is a big time news anchor. I say if you are anyone going to give an interview to a big time exec, or even a big PR person, do your homework. You have the job, it's your job to do it. So do it. No one forced these people to be journalists. No one forced these people to be news anchors. They did it out of choice, and if the best they can do their job is to remain completely oblivious to hot topics except for the papers handed to them that fucking morning then I say they aren't doing their jobs. Pick up the slack, quit being such a whiny crybaby and man up Nancy. It's time for you to understand that misinformation is not "The News".
It's time to understand that the old way of lies is what is constantly combated. And that is why so many gamers practically require him to immerse himself in the topic before speaking about it. Because when speaking about heroin addiction, that is something painfully obvious. When speaking about teenage pregnancy, that is painfully obvious. But when calling video games murder simulators, and turning children into mindless murdering jackals... That is misinformation. That is sensationalism just trying to make a quick buck by getting people to pick up that magazine or newspaper. To tune in at 9 to hear that news broadcast brought to you by Levitra.
I do agree with him on the point of feeling it unfair of being practically required to study an item in-depth to possibly speak of it. But on the contrary, for most people it's a simple fact of being misinformed. This man only proved this by simply mentioning only negative claimed "facts" of the side effects of Video Games. There are benefits. But people like him are too ignorant to see them. Too ignorant to care.
He is so passively hateful and so quick to toss the word around that he is making it seem more that it isn't that he is angry about Video Games and their levels of immersion. That is not the true complaint. To me, it seems that his complaint is the need to write about something relatively new, rather than coasting by on writing the same things over and over.
I say, if one is a journalist. I say if one is a big time news anchor. I say if you are anyone going to give an interview to a big time exec, or even a big PR person, do your homework. You have the job, it's your job to do it. So do it. No one forced these people to be journalists. No one forced these people to be news anchors. They did it out of choice, and if the best they can do their job is to remain completely oblivious to hot topics except for the papers handed to them that fucking morning then I say they aren't doing their jobs. Pick up the slack, quit being such a whiny crybaby and man up Nancy. It's time for you to understand that misinformation is not "The News".
It's time to understand that the old way of lies is what is constantly combated. And that is why so many gamers practically require him to immerse himself in the topic before speaking about it. Because when speaking about heroin addiction, that is something painfully obvious. When speaking about teenage pregnancy, that is painfully obvious. But when calling video games murder simulators, and turning children into mindless murdering jackals... That is misinformation. That is sensationalism just trying to make a quick buck by getting people to pick up that magazine or newspaper. To tune in at 9 to hear that news broadcast brought to you by Levitra.
Let's all send him some video games and sing songs around a campfire while killing people on COD4. It'll be legendary.
"I hate video games, on or offline. I hate the way they suck real people into fake worlds and hold on to them for decades at a time."
I guess this guy also hates books. and movies. and tv. and art. and anything creative. oh and lets toss religion in there too. that's gotta be the worst offender of "suck[ing] real people into fake worlds and hold[ing] on to them for decades at a time"
I guess this guy also hates books. and movies. and tv. and art. and anything creative. oh and lets toss religion in there too. that's gotta be the worst offender of "suck[ing] real people into fake worlds and hold[ing] on to them for decades at a time"
This is funny coming from someone of the same age group that is often found heckling soap actors in the street because of the actions of their on screen character.
TV soap operas have LITERALLY been sucking people into their worlds for decades. Maybe if we cancel those the miserable old bastard will go out camping or something where he won't be able to publish his worthless rhetoric online. And gets eaten by a bear. Hopefully.
TV soap operas have LITERALLY been sucking people into their worlds for decades. Maybe if we cancel those the miserable old bastard will go out camping or something where he won't be able to publish his worthless rhetoric online. And gets eaten by a bear. Hopefully.
shhh.... can u hear it?.... thats the distant sound of Fox news scrambling over each other to get control of the phone to call him and get him live via satelitte. I think you just found Jack Thompson's distant relative cousin brain twice removed.
After reading the real shit.
"I will never buy my children a Nintendo"
I can't express my current feeling with words. WHAT THE FUCK may come close.
"I will never buy my children a Nintendo"
I can't express my current feeling with words. WHAT THE FUCK may come close.
In spite of what has been said on this forum over the past couple of days, I do appreciate what you attempt to give to videogames and gamers: a way to see all of the rubbish that gets written about our hobby.
This article in The Times is particularly heinous, did anyone ever see the one that said 'videogames are evil su doku', written by a dummy mummy columnist?
Keep fighting the good fight Jim, I don't always agree with your methods, but I supposewhen all's said and done, the ends justifies the means . . .
This article in The Times is particularly heinous, did anyone ever see the one that said 'videogames are evil su doku', written by a dummy mummy columnist?
Keep fighting the good fight Jim, I don't always agree with your methods, but I supposewhen all's said and done, the ends justifies the means . . .
Giles Whittell was later found dead in his home after overdosing on Viagra. A Pac-Man arcade cabinet had been set up in the middle of the room where he was found, and Mr. Whittell's pants were undone.
this dude is an asshole no doubt, but should we really be railing against the paper that printed it? It's an editorial, not a piece of journalism. People can say what they want in editorials and they don't necessarily represent the opinion or tone of the paper itself.
LOL
Wow. Well, I suppose it is the job of these dinosaurs to anchor the ships of progress, slowing them, keeping them from moving so fast that...
Yeah, they serve no purpose. Honestly, the world would be better if they didn't exist.
Wow. Well, I suppose it is the job of these dinosaurs to anchor the ships of progress, slowing them, keeping them from moving so fast that...
Yeah, they serve no purpose. Honestly, the world would be better if they didn't exist.
The more I study journalism, the more I realize the surprisingly high number of unprofessional, petty, talentless hacks that have made it their profession.
Sometimes I wonder if I picked the right field to go into.
Sometimes I wonder if I picked the right field to go into.
Yes, games are wrong and evil because you and your kids aren't disciplined enough to know when to turn them off, you glorious fucking moron.
People laughing at old people are the ones truly scared to be old.Anyways,the Geezer who hates games probably has more reasons than that excerpt designed to MOB the fogey,he probably misses his grandchildren who rather waggle a wiimote than spend time with him...It's just a man ranting about time that he cannot waste.
well he has convinced me, games are a waste of time. wait.....its spreading. i now no longer like tom clancys books, discworld, alien, predator, internet, music. my life is over :(
haha fuck that shit
haha fuck that shit
"this dude is an asshole no doubt, but should we really be railing against the paper that printed it? It's an editorial, not a piece of journalism. People can say what they want in editorials and they don't necessarily represent the opinion or tone of the paper itself."
The paper itself told lies about the Byron report. That says enough.
The paper itself told lies about the Byron report. That says enough.
I'd hate to say it Jim but...
Video Games can be a huge waist of time just like phone calls to friends and internet surfing and commenting on blogs.
If you have kids its good to show them how to have fun without them so they can tell cool stories about doing stupid crap that almost killed them.
Video Games can be a huge waist of time just like phone calls to friends and internet surfing and commenting on blogs.
If you have kids its good to show them how to have fun without them so they can tell cool stories about doing stupid crap that almost killed them.
liquidninja: That's not the point. EVERYTHING is a huge waste of time in the end. We all fucking die and all we accomplish is naught. I don't see this wretched old fossil say how he "hates" any of the other great wastes of time out there. He's a hypocrite and a freak.
Does this man fit the descriptions of any missing elderly people filed over the weekend? We have a disoriented elderly gentleman who has somehow gained access to the Internet, and there are apparently children standing on his lawn, with gameboys and boomboxes.
Get off his lawn, you kids!
Get off his lawn, you kids!
Yup. Anything done for recreation could be considered a waste of time.
Camping, to me, is a big waste of time. But I've camped before, so I know. I was "made" to do it in the sense that someone said it'd be fun and I would really enjoy it. I tried it, and it didn't click.
Hence the point: I would think one of the goals of raising children is so that their interests are well-rounded and varied. Exposing them to different activities is paramount. But forbidding what is clearly a popular mainstream medium -- especially if they *do* have interest in it -- is limiting them, not helping them.
Camping, to me, is a big waste of time. But I've camped before, so I know. I was "made" to do it in the sense that someone said it'd be fun and I would really enjoy it. I tried it, and it didn't click.
Hence the point: I would think one of the goals of raising children is so that their interests are well-rounded and varied. Exposing them to different activities is paramount. But forbidding what is clearly a popular mainstream medium -- especially if they *do* have interest in it -- is limiting them, not helping them.
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