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Why Video Games Should be Banned and We Should All Take Up Knitting

Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for HireTime RiftRegistered User regular
edited May 2012 in Social Entropy++
Allow me to stoke the fire... wow... just... wow, I thought I was a fairly well-adjusted, married man with a good job and good relationships with others, but oh my, according to this I must be seriously messed up...

From CNN: 'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn are ruining a generation
cnn.com/2012/05/23/health/living-well/demise-of-guys/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    how did I know

    it would be zimbardo

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/hells-bells-these-boys-need-to-act-their-age/story-e6frg73f-1225828907947
    To the first question: anyone over the age of 30 who spends any time deep in some sagging sofa, console in one hand, the other down the front of their pants, imagining themselves to be a combatant in some pretend city, is lame.

    Anyone who has an avatar -- a dinky little cartoon version of oneself, bearing a physique that is in every way discordant with the physique of an actual gamer -- is major-league lame.

    I know what you're thinking. Gamers, who cares? They don't participate in life in any meaningful way. As a rule, they don't even have jobs. With their wet hands and their weak chins, they'd never get through an interview. But some do have jobs. Some are, in fact, lawyers. Can you believe that? I can't believe it. Imagine going to the internet, doing a little research on your lawyer and finding he imagines himself to be a excitable character in a pretend world?

    What would you think? I know what I'd think. I'd think: `I'm going to jail'.

    Do you know what else gamers do, besides play games and visit gaming sites? They read gaming magazines. You don't believe me. What would a gaming magazine even be called? I can tell you. They are called "Single Guy". They are called "Sad Sack".

    Now you want to know where you'd even buy such a magazine. Don't ask me. No serious adult would know.

    Hey Satan!
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Video games and porn are rad

    Porn video games, however, are not

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Video games and porn are rad

    Porn video games, however, are not

    if someone would kickstart me $30 000 000 I could change this

    Hey Satan!
  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    Oh fuck this, I'll bring the van around.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Seriously what kind of pornography makes you play a game before you can jerk it

  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Seriously what kind of pornography makes you play a game before you can jerk it
    Fate/Stay Night?

    I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    Dr. Philip G Zombardo...

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/hells-bells-these-boys-need-to-act-their-age/story-e6frg73f-1225828907947
    To the first question: anyone over the age of 30 who spends any time deep in some sagging sofa, console in one hand, the other down the front of their pants, imagining themselves to be a combatant in some pretend city, is lame.

    Anyone who has an avatar -- a dinky little cartoon version of oneself, bearing a physique that is in every way discordant with the physique of an actual gamer -- is major-league lame.

    I know what you're thinking. Gamers, who cares? They don't participate in life in any meaningful way. As a rule, they don't even have jobs. With their wet hands and their weak chins, they'd never get through an interview. But some do have jobs. Some are, in fact, lawyers. Can you believe that? I can't believe it. Imagine going to the internet, doing a little research on your lawyer and finding he imagines himself to be a excitable character in a pretend world?

    What would you think? I know what I'd think. I'd think: `I'm going to jail'.

    Do you know what else gamers do, besides play games and visit gaming sites? They read gaming magazines. You don't believe me. What would a gaming magazine even be called? I can tell you. They are called "Single Guy". They are called "Sad Sack".

    Now you want to know where you'd even buy such a magazine. Don't ask me. No serious adult would know.

    Is that from that woman who dated the MtG guy and was horrendously offended that he played MtG even though in all outward appearances he just seemed like a regular dude?

  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Do you know what else gamers do, besides play games and visit gaming sites? They read gaming magazines. You don't believe me. What would a gaming magazine even be called? I can tell you. They are called "Single Guy". They are called "Sad Sack".

    hm I've never read these magazines I should look them up and

    oh

    h-hey :(

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  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    Men should knit!

    I think handknitted hats and scarves should replace flowers as a romantic gift that men give women.

  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    not my video games!!!!

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I actually want to learn to knit, it seems like a neat thing to know how to do.

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    can we make this the thread about the complete failure of the australian media to ever produce anything of substance

    play my twine game about dracula IF YOU DARE
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Taya just wants a big pile of hats and scarves

    End on
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  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Video games and porn are rad

    Porn video games, however, are not

    if someone would kickstart me $30 000 000 I could change this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7lOi4oqbE

  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    Knitting is for suckers

    Crochet 4 lyfe

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    If i find out my lawyer spends his free time sitting on a couch watching muscular men play a schoolyard game on TV?

    that guy's a faggot

  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    Crimson King wrote: »
    can we make this the thread about the complete failure of the australian media to ever produce anything of substance

    I dunno I am pretty happy this exists http://fuckyeahnewsdotcomdotau.tumblr.com/

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    Fuck y'all hatin on knitting

    Gonna go play ME3 and knit a sweater at the same time

  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    That is talent right there @Usagi

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    Voice Command-er Shepard

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    Knit a gimp suit for Kaidan

  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    This article is bad, and they should feel bad.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Someone make a game that combines m love of open-world RPGs with my love of pornography

    based on the FATAL system, of course

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Guys don't worry, its only games that are more than 10 years old that are bad, as the picture in the article clearly shows

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Dual monitor setup. Porn on one, video games on the other. 24/7

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Dual monitor setup. Porn on one, video games on the other. 24/7

    Back and forth

    Forever

  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    people who play video games are lame

    meanwhile, people who set up sadistic prison experiments are, according to one esteemed but anonymous individual, "incredibly virile and handsome"

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Someone make a game that combines m love of open-world RPGs with my love of pornography

    based on the FATAL system, of course

    now speculating on how this would work

    i guess the draw with open-world rpgs is that they offer massive freedom of choice, and the draw with internet pornography is that you can always find something which caters to your exact specific fetish

    there's synergy there

    play my twine game about dracula IF YOU DARE
  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2012
    yes yes


    this started with some ted talk (in fact this article is about the guy who gave the lecture)


    that video games and internet porn are ruining an entire generation of males


    teaching them to become asocial nimrods who will die lonely, with a PSN account loaded with trophies



    i disagree with this assessment quite a bit, as he lays the blame squarely at the feet of the entertainment outlets, and doesn't attempt to think beyond that

    and as far as I know he has zero explanation for the vast number of exceptions to his theory

    Jasconius on
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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I have over 100,000 gamerscore, a wife, and 2 kids. Does this make me some sort of superhero?

  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    I constantly run a real-life gardening simulator. But its exhausting, outside, and I never get a high score.

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    it makes you a superlameo, raijin

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Crimson King wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Someone make a game that combines m love of open-world RPGs with my love of pornography

    based on the FATAL system, of course

    now speculating on how this would work

    i guess the draw with open-world rpgs is that they offer massive freedom of choice, and the draw with internet pornography is that you can always find something which caters to your exact specific fetish

    there's synergy there

    Venture into the Cave of Tits

    Which ones will you touch?

    It's your decision!

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Tossrock wrote: »
    not my video games!!!!

    "MY NAME IS WIL WHEATON AND JACK THOMPSON CAN SUCK MY BALLS." -- Wil Wheaton

    Hey Satan!
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Wimble wrote: »
    it makes you a superlameo, raijin

    Damn.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Tossrock wrote: »
    not my video games!!!!

    "MY NAME IS WIL WHEATON AND JACK THOMPSON CAN SUCK MY BALLS." -- Wil Wheaton

    Gamer pride, man

    Why isn't there a Gamer History Month, huh

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Crimson King wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Someone make a game that combines m love of open-world RPGs with my love of pornography

    based on the FATAL system, of course

    now speculating on how this would work

    i guess the draw with open-world rpgs is that they offer massive freedom of choice, and the draw with internet pornography is that you can always find something which caters to your exact specific fetish

    there's synergy there

    Venture into the Cave of Tits

    Which ones will you touch?

    It's your decision!

    Moriveth, I think I have a game you may enjoy.

    It is called

    Duke Nuke 'EmmmmmmmforeverrrrrrrrrrrHOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    I like to play videos games while watching muscular men play schoolyard games on TV.

    I have no country.

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