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Playing Video Games help the terrorists win!

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Oh noez, I played in the Arcade for a second. Someone trace my IP to my home and shoot me xD

Somebody's been living under a rock for the past 10 years >_> Crime rates have dropped substantially since PS2 came out, probably since everyone's playing video games instead of robbing banks.
 
At first I thought this was gonna be a new Jack Thompson article....
 
I listen and watch O'Reilly and this is hardly extreme. To some degree he has a point regarding those who shut out from the real world, though that is only a small margin. Besides, Bill is not nearly as extreme as say Michael Savage, although the statement from O'Reilly is somewhat flawed. Ah well, it was just his rant of the day I suppose.
 
Michael Savage probably believes that we should just shoot people who sneak across our border. He is extreme, even to the right of Rush. Now, on what O'Riler said, he makes a very good point. How many young folks out there actually know who their head politicians are? I knew that stuff when I was 2 and yet these kids are 16,17, even in their 20's and they dont know who their leaders are. Most kids dont care about their country, they just care about themselves. I've seen what machines can do to people, and they totally make you a zombie sometimes. Look, people are addicted to their cell phone, they are almost always on it. What the heck are they talking about? Sure, there is nothing wrong with playing a good video game, or listening to your Ipod, but all things should be in moderation. When people become too attached to their electronics, thats when things can go wrong. And trust me, more people than you realize shut out the real world.
 
Even though that thing may be somewhat nonsense (the jihadists part just made me roll), he does make a few valid points. He pointed out that people queued up for hours just to buy the PS3. Whenever I hear of such queues, I really wonder: do those people have anything better to do other than that? I have heard (and seen) these kind of queues forming up over things such as concert tickets, Harry Potter books, autographing sessions, Hello Kitty toys (those in parts of Asia in the year 2000 will still have that fresh in their heads) even (in Singapore in the past, that is) tickets to National Day Parades! They spend nights living and sleeping uncomfortably, and waste so much time over - what? This is one way materialism at it's worst shows itself.

And he's right about the addiction too - it can become a bad addiction. Just how bad? While I don't want succumb to mass media scaremongering, however, I do have read about cases where people went mad from gaming addiction. One case I read about had this man gaming practically 24/7 sitting on his dirty sofa, without anything on his body except one particular t-shirt and a cushion covering his naked lower body. He could go out only to get more games, and talk to no one. When a social worker got a psychiatric doctor to get him out, he became so violent he had to be sedated.

And that part about people losing touch with reality? I can quite agree with him too - I have heard enough about people losing touch with reality so much they have forgotten about or don't even know about many basic facts and the things happening around them. While the temperature part sounds rather extreme to me, however, it is true - and I have experienced and seen that myself, me living in extremely dense and modernised Singapore - that people don't know what is happening to their neighbours, or who they are even. People here are turning into cold, dead robots that are even more situation-unaware than robots of today, except for the materialistic things that matter to them! Is technology to blame? Partially, I say yes. As I said above, people have become addicted to technology and it's delusional wonders they lose touch with reality, the real world, and what's really good for them, what they really need.

Of course, some of the situations and the examples I cited are rather extreme, but my bottom line is that it is important not to go too deep into these kind of things. I hope - I really hope - most of you here are not too deeply into these things. To be honest, I went there before, and I'm just getting out of there. :banghead:
 
Bill O'Reilly said:
In the past to flee the real world people usually chose drugs or alcohol… now you don’t have to do that, Now all you have to do is have enough money to buy a machine…
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Am I the only on that finds it offensive that he's comparing video gaming to DRUGS AND ALCOHOL? Admittedly, he's right about it being a way to escape reality, but it's hardly comparable to drugs and alcohol.

As for the rest, this is all coming from the man that compared a single US citizen killed by an illegal immigrant to 9/11. I've learned, since then, that...he's fucking crazy. Any lucidity he shows is merely brief and passing.

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How many young folks out there actually know who their head politicians are? I knew that stuff when I was 2 and yet these kids are 16,17, even in their 20's and they dont know who their leaders are.
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That's not, necessarily, because of video games. Some people are just stupid. Some people just don't care. It's nothing new that kids don't know their leaders. It's been that way since before video games were invented. Ironically, as information is more easily attained, people seem to know less. It's sad, really.
 
Listen, ever listen to Sean Hannity's Man on the street Thursday? Its when he asks average people on the streets of New York simple questions, such as who the Speaker of the House is. Most people dont know. I think it is because of the increase in technology. Its not just video games, its Ipods, cellphones, and all these other machines that kids these days use like they are going out of style. Im not saying that we should never play any video games, never have an entertainment. But waiting in line for days to buy a system that will be available EVERYWHERE within a few months, is just crazy.
 
Believe it or not ShowCreator, Savage has not said to shoot the illegal immigrants though he does support those that patrol the border on their own time. I can't remember the term at the moment. Also I have listened to "Man on the Street" Thursday and it is absolutely astounding what some do not know, although to be fair, they could be nervous.
 
Nervous? I dont think so. Some dont know who the president is. And he acutally had people believing that Stu Ped, was the democratic VP candidate. I mean, comeon, we got these morons voting? Thats whats scary.
 
Bill O'Reilly's gonna be a snack for my Salamence.

I sure hope Salamence likes tough meat. After he tried to eat Ann Coulter he nearly choked on her bones ~_^
 
And he's right about the addiction too - it can become a bad addiction. Just how bad? While I don't want succumb to mass media scaremongering, however, I do have read about cases where people went mad from gaming addiction. One case I read about had this man gaming practically 24/7 sitting on his dirty sofa, without anything on his body except one particular t-shirt and a cushion covering his naked lower body. He could go out only to get more games, and talk to no one. When a social worker got a psychiatric doctor to get him out, he became so violent he had to be sedated.
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You can become addicted to literally anything if you happen to have a susceptible personality. The substance itself shouldn't become a worry until it turns into a wide epidemic, like drugs or alcoholism. I might as well cite a few people who have been burned by coffee as an example of how dangerous that substance is.

Of course, some of the situations and the examples I cited are rather extreme, but my bottom line is that it is important not to go too deep into these kind of things. I hope - I really hope - most of you here are not too deeply into these things. To be honest, I went there before, and I'm just getting out of there.
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Again, that's true of anything, obviously. You can't just point out a few extreme examples and offer it as "proof", that it is bad. Potentially speaking, one could become addicted to Precious Moments figurines or Beanie Babies or churning butter. That doesn't mean we need to "beware" of such things.

How many young folks out there actually know who their head politicians are? I knew that stuff when I was 2 and yet these kids are 16,17, even in their 20's and they dont know who their leaders are.
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To be fair, until the right and left recently diverged heavily, there really wasn't that much difference between who was leading America. They were different in so few ways, it didn't really matter. Now of course, things have changed quite a bit . . .

Anyways, there have been always been people who don't care about politicians. As Terry Pratchett put it - a guy holding the string of a cow's leash in the middle of a field doesn't care who's living in a palace 10 cities over. He's going to have to hold that cow's leash no matter what happens.

Listen, ever listen to Sean Hannity's Man on the street Thursday? Its when he asks average people on the streets of New York simple questions, such as who the Speaker of the House is. Most people dont know. I think it is because of the increase in technology. Its not just video games, its Ipods, cellphones, and all these other machines that kids these days use like they are going out of style. Im not saying that we should never play any video games, never have an entertainment. But waiting in line for days to buy a system that will be available EVERYWHERE within a few months, is just crazy.
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You do realize that you're using clips from electronic entertainment to prove that listening to electronic entertainment will make you stupid, correct? You seen the irony, right? Perhaps you also don't realize that as partially fabricated entertainment, they will invariably edit out all of the non-funny encounters. It is not entertaining when you talk to someone who knows who the leader of some political group is, what matters is the ones who don't.

Also, as I stated above, some people just don't care about politics. It is not technology's fault. If anything, the blog explosion has helped a lot of people care about politics and distribute information more freely. However, to some people - there's just no damn use to them knowing who is in charge of politics because they view all politicians as the same - lying, cheating scumbags you can never get rid of. That's not technology's fault, unless you want to blame it for making it easier to broadcast scandals and political incompetence, but I think it really is better to blame the politicians instead.

I sure hope Salamence likes tough meat. After he tried to eat Ann Coulter he nearly choked on her bones ~_^
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If Ann was anymore to the right, she'd be missing an arm and a leg. And possibly be advocating the slaughter of "inferior" races. Which she almost does anyway, but I digress . . .
 
Evil Figment said:
Says O'reilly

http://gamepolitics.com/2006/11/18/...3-launch-gamers-ipods-tech-not-in-that-order/

So what do all you traitors to America have to say for yourself, uh? UH?
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O'Reilly is a TheoKon MoRon and the article is a POS.
Then again, it seems as if we're ALL terrorists!
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It's pretty much similar to the shit Rash "OxyContin" Limpbagh, Stawn Shammity, (and NotSoRosie "Fundamental Christians are terrorists" O'Duhnnel) spew out daily.
 
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