Anti-gamer article

[DaveMage]

As with all forms of entertainment, some will enjoy it, some will not.

She has as much right to be insulting as I have to not read her articles ever again.

 

[IcyCool]

I'm not sure she has an agenda.

Are you sure?

Here's some gems for you in case you missed them:

Get a life, gamers

But it's pathetic to see so many people lining up for days in a desperate attempt to spend more money and a heck of a lot more time than they should on video games. What's so bad about their lives that they need to get away from them so much?

And for another, if you're still having difficulty setting your own pace in life or getting others to consider your points of view 10 years after your first legal drink, you ought at least to have matured enough to realize that the solution isn't to play Genji: Days of the Blade until you grow a third thumb

Uncool isn't the word. Pathetic is.

Either she's just out to slander gamers, or she wants to see this situation change. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was something other than a hate-spewing mouthpiece.

Edit - Changed some wording as it did not wind up sounding like I had intended.

 

[IcyCool]

She has as much right to be insulting as I have to not read her articles ever again.

Agreed. How's the old saying go? Opinions are like ...

 

[Aeson]

Either she's just out to slander gamers, or she wants to see this situation change. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was something other than a hate-spewing mouthpiece.

Edit - Changed some wording as it did not wind up sounding like I had intended.

I think she is voicing an opinion on the situation. She isn't calling for policy changes, which I equate to having an agenda. In stead of using her freedom of speech for something productive she is using it to insult people.

Let's see what she has to say when a local sports team win/loses and the fans go crazy. I'm sure it would be just as insulting but not calling for a true change. I doubt she believes her rant will change the gamers, she's just venting.

 

[Jdvn1]

That girl But yeah....I suspect she started writing, based on the incidents of people getting beaten or killed over Playstation 3's, which *is* ridiculous...

Yes, it sure is, but it also doesn't just happen over PS3s. It happens much more with sports, religion, politics... (yes, sports--fans are known to start riots over sports games).

 

[Aeson]

Yes, it sure is, but it also doesn't just happen over PS3s. It happens much more with sports, religion, politics... (yes, sports--fans are known to start riots over sports games).

Shut your mouth! Sports fans starting riots? I never heard such a thing.

I think the Wii release was much more peaceful than PS3. I guess it's the smaller numbers rather than a more civilized group.

 

[werk]

Agreed. How's the old saying go? Opinions are like ...

Everybody's got one, and most of them stink?

 

[Mycanid]

Agreed. How's the old saying go? Opinions are like ...

Actually, I believe it was Plato who said that opinion was the lowest form of knowledge....

 

[Ranger REG]

Having an agenda is quite different than having a point.

You can't argue with an agenda, as the wielder of it is 100% convinced of their righteous correctness.

All journalists have an agenda. There's nothing impartial about them.

 

[Big Finger Games]

The basic thrust of her opinion is that people are spending too much time escaping their "real" lives. Why does it take something like a video game console, video games, or even rpgs, to polarize people's opinions in this direction?

You wanna talk about a ubiquitous form of escapism, what about television? How many millions of people spend their free time planted in front of the tv, all night, every night. We're surrounded by escapism. That's what people do. Is going to a movie, going to a bar, whatever, some how healthier than sitting down and playing a video game. There was a time when you could argue such activities were more social, but with the advent of online play, mmo's, etc. I'd argue that point.

Why not rail against all the half-wits who waited in line to see the latest Hollywood blockbuster? It's just the age-old sneer against something that hasn't quite become mainstream. As gamers we should probably be used to it.