Video Game Wackheads
Okay, if there's one thing I hate worse than *insert something I hate here*, it's people who blame video games for everything. They accuse video games of making kids stupid, violent, ignorant, smelly, bad at school, rude, ugly, hobos, unaware of the name of Bill Clinton's cousin's neighbor's barber, etcetera. Sad, isn't it? Young people do horrible things and it gets blamed on video games, but where are the parents at, huh? They don't want to take responsibility for parental ineptitude, which also raises the question, "Why don't they just take the games/computer away?" It wouldn't hurt that much, although it wouldn't fix anything either. These kids live under the parents' roof, and depend on them, it's as simple as not buying the games and the consoles. But I guess enabling their behavior and find a scapegoat works. Sad sad sad. You should go look up some of these loonies, you'll have a laugh before you realize they're serious. The attorney Jack Thompson's a shining example of anti-video game neuroticism. Several quotes of his:
"Kids don't have liberties. Do your research"
"Any letter from a video gamer like you would deepen his concern. Are you actually so confused that you think gamers have any influence on anyone. Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins. Get used to it."
"At least I'm not a a coward like all of you nerds here, who hide behind anonymous avatars. How sad."
"I love the smell of burning gamers in the morning."
"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer."
It's prejudice, plain and simple. Video games are portrayed as "murder simulators" for violent teens, obscenities, yadda yadda yadda. Video gamers get cast as pervs/killers/psychos/morons/pathetic. That's just not fair. Tons of adults and kids play video games, for one thing. There's also the claim that video games make kids stupid. Gee, that's kinda odd considering all the kids who do well in my school (myself included) play video games. This is probably one of my vaguest/oddest rants, but I made my point. It's insane. Very. Very. Very. It's just a matter of not having the right information in some cases, but in others it's bad...
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