This is a perfect example of why video games are MOSTLY a bad thing.
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 14:28
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And before anyone can start, yes for some people they are good thing. People that can't leave the house much, have physical or social issues...But for the most part, THIS is what I have seen time and again.
*copied from a Dear Abby response
Sounds like typical East TN dating... Woman works while the "man" and "his family" sit around all day... Can't count how many times since I have moved into the area that my daughter AFTER THE 1st DATE has heard let's move in together and we can quit our jobs...
Of course the "boy friend" wants to move into my home. I have come home from shopping more than once to find truckloads of junk on my lawn from these 1st date fools. The Sheriff tells me that it happens all the time, the woman works the man sits. I have had to get the Sheriff and court orders taken out on these ? @#%$ as they feel it is their right to break into my home since they have dated my daughter once. Can't wait until her home is completed then at least my home should be safe once again.
I have seen it DOZENS of times, both in real life and even in the chat room here. One girl supported one of these leaches for FOUR years. It would be different if they were at least cleaning or taking care of kids, but mostly they just play n' pot. They should totally come with a warning label like cigarettes.
"Warning: if you play these video games too much you could look in the mirror at 40 and be broke and useless with varying degrees of rust on certain body parts"
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I don't see how it really has anything to do with video games. Sounds like a lazy guy, and a woman who enables it. If it weren't video games, itd be football or something else.
Saying it's all because of video games is kinda silly, I feel.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Saying it's all because of video games is kinda silly, I feel.
But at the end of the day, it IS video games that are causing it. They ARE addictive to many people- esp. with OCD and ADD and ADHD, and those disorders are suffered by men far more than women. It's like when Coke actually had cocaine in it, or tons of caffeine in a Red Bull, or nicotine in cigs. Pandering to people with little resistance is a dirty move, but no one seems willing to admit it.
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^ What Story said. ... Dumb thread title.
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I knew plenty of these guys before the Internet, before the home computer.
Read some O'Henry or Dickens. You'll find 'em there, too.
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Not about video games, but about dead beats and slackers.
I've known some real winners [/sarcasm] who met via computer games, and literally moved 1/2 across the country to 'shack up' with each other, only to call it quits in a few short weeks or months.
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Silly seems right.
I see that exact thing lots in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Yoopers). Mostly has to do with their hosed up laws on marriage, bastard kids, welfare abuse, etc.
Their culture has learned to encourage it - the new lady just hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.
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100% that person's daughters boyfriends also dated her daughter. Maybe the daughter was the problem? I bet they all drank water too... Could it be that?
Blaming videogames for this is just being out of touch. They are not above criticism, but like others said before me, it's silly to claim they're mostly a bad thing because of the reasons given.
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OK, so we put out all these PSA about women who can be rocket scientists if they really want to and "if you weren't in this position nine months ago you wouldn't be in it now", but you all are against warning young boys that video games are highly addictive and can be a detriment to themselves and the people around them?
Pretty sexist.
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Just FYI, I know a couple boys here that have over 200 video games in their houses and not ONE book.
You tell me that isn't a problem?
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Your thinking that they need warnings for young boys specifically, and that it is making lazy men is sexist.
As many women play videogames as men. Most people who play videogames are fine. Some lazy people also do it. Lazy people also watch movies and TV.
Your posts just seem like those of a person who isn't keeping up. Like the people who claimed rock music would corrupt the youth back when it was getting started. It didn't.
While half the people who play videogames are women, they're terribly underrepresented in the medium and industry behind it. That is sexist, but it is slowly getting better. Videogames still have problems and I won't deny that, I just don't believe you gave any perfect examples to support your claim.
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