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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Wish, you'll find extremes for any activity. Extreme eating? Check. Extreme dieting? Check. Extreme running or exercising? Check. Extreme alcoholism? Check. Extreme religiosity? Abstemiousness? Exhibitionism? Prudishness? Them too.
If you try to link games with our ultra-high murder rate, you'll have to explain away Canada and western Europe, where people play the same games but don't murder nearly as much. Because the murder rate is the only CONSISTENT difference I can think of between us and them.
But maybe it's not games per se. Maybe, just maybe, our society is so brutal to its members, with its ethic of 'work or die' because if you're not working you don't deserve anything, and so unrewarding and grinding, that we, its members, need to seek escape more than others. And we, its members, have incorporated the lessons our economy teaches us, that life is the Roman arena, the war of all against all, where no humanity is shown, or given.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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I'v started playing Asteroidz Deluxe and Simpsonz Hit&Run agen. I dont drive much theze dayz and am getting rusty. Theze 2 gamez utilize sum uv the same mental functionz az driving.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Wish, you'll find extremes for any activity. Extreme eating? Check. Extreme dieting? Check. Extreme running or exercising? Check. Extreme alcoholism? Check. Extreme religiosity? Abstemiousness? Exhibitionism? Prudishness? Them too.
.... that life is the Roman arena, the war of all against all, where no humanity is shown, or given.
Oh, you are soo right. Guess I shouldn't notice or care that CHILDREN ARE BEING STARVED AND STOMPED TO DEATH. OVER A GAME. Don't say a word because people will die and kill doing lotsa dumb things???? And they do it because "life sucks"?
FUCK THAT.
FUCK THEM.
I HOPE THEY DIE SCREAMING FROM LACK OF FOOD UNTIL THEIR HEARTS STOP. To TRULY understand their actions. You wanna be a lazy, alcoholic, perv on your own time, FINE. But you go making a baby and let it starve to DEATH, you deserve the same fate!
If the only thing we can do as a society is hold these morons accountable, we should do that to the fullest extent.
Those that say "life is hard" and give people like that a pass, are every bit as culpable as those perpetrating the acts.
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"Guess I shouldn't notice or care that CHILDREN ARE BEING STARVED AND STOMPED TO DEATH. OVER A GAME."
First of all, the story says nothing about stomping.
And ... one example out of millions of people? It makes a very weak case against video games, especially when so many children die from personally directed violent abuse, due to alcohol or other drugs, mental illness or general assholery. Violence against children is a far greater problem than video games. And yet ... you say nothing about that.
I think you just enjoy being angry. Funny, I was talking to a stranger this morning at the restaurant, a man who was a Vietnam vet who admitted to having anger issues when he got back, who claimed to have turned his life around after finding his way back to the church (one of the many Protestant denominations). And yet when he was recounting a story, he looked like he relished his anger all over again. If he's really turned his back on his anger problem he should have looked abashed. And, I think, the things we're most ashamed of we don't admit to anyone at all. I think he still likes his anger.
Anger can be rewarding. It can make you feel more powerful. And who can't understand anger in a righteous cause, eh? In defense of those innocent victims of video games.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Guess I shouldn't notice or care that CHILDREN ARE BEING STARVED AND STOMPED TO DEATH. OVER A GAME."
First of all, the story says nothing about stomping.
And ... one example out of millions of people? It makes a very weak case against video games
WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE? I post one story and half of you think that is all there is out there? That it hasn't happened a million other times, that if I tried I couldn't find hundreds of other cases?? That EVERY instance has been reported to the news???
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's like talking to a damn ten year old!
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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.
Men are hard-wired to make accomplishments.
It's not an OCD thing. It's Nature.
That being said, achievements and trophies on modern games, and trying to get 100% is addictive for men.
I'm completely obsessed with a "new" game, which is only a new game for me and is already 4 years old on an outdated system, but I've been spending 99% of my sober free time that I wasn't sleepling playing it.
I was SOOOOO much more productive when I had a real job and wasn't concerned about drug tests and could just smoke a few hits off my bat every night.
The addictions I replaced my pot smoking with are brutal on the liver and the eyes, and are probably turning my brain into JELLO.
Before I quit smoking weed I was engaged. I was interested in life and other people. I wanted to learn...
I had to quit smoking weed thought o find a "real" job...
Now I'm not only lazy and apathetic, but I am 20lbs heavier, I can "feel" my heartbeat in my ear on normal occassion, and I find zero pleasure in life and don't care if I wake up tomorrow morning.
Who cares if I wake up tomorrow. All I'm going to do is play that damned game anyhow.
It truly has become an obsession of mine. A sad, sad truth....
It shouldn't matter that I don't have a wife or kids to determine if this is sad.
Not as in "pathetic" sad, but truly sad. Look at your children, people!
Girls aren't even immune anymore. Some of the video games out today tell a better story than most of the Hollywould shit that comes out, and they get to "be a part of the adventure" as if it were a Choose Your Own Adventure book...
The silly thing was that back in 1985, there was no "Damsel in Distress" to save from the Wicked Bowser when we died a million times getting to the end of Super Mario Brothers.
Now there actually is, in "real life", and most of us simply dont' give a shit anymore.
Hrmmm....
Let's see....
I'm a single guy with zero bills.
I make more than I need, if just barely.
I like Video Games.
I like Sex.
The Brain is the Largest Sexual Organ.
River wasn't lying when She said She could kill you with Her brain...
I regularly have discussions with people who inevitably see that everything I say is the absolute truth.
I wouldn't expect anyone here to buy into that rubbish, but I'm just stating the facts of my particular situation. I regularly speak with both men and women who are compelled to kneel and debase themselves before me on a regular basis without me even prompting them to. It's just part of their "being" now...
Of course they know what I'm saying isn't the truth, but part of their kink is that they want to believe. They want their minds to be changed. They get off on knowing that something they hated yesterday they're completely in support of today.
River Tam didn't mean that She could physically kill somebody with Her brain...
Not even Psychically...
She was just giving a warning...
She could make somebody feel so amazing that they would beg River to sacrifice themselves for Her if She wanted....
"Here, There Be Dragons....."
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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6ix, thank you for making my entire argument on the dangers of gaming and those that are too weak to stop... for me.
I rest my case.....
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Men are hard-wired to make accomplishments.
True dat!
And in order to accomplish anything, you are usually competing with a bunch uv other guyz, so in order to win, you haf to be obsessed.
Video gamez are a good outlet for the 99.99% who cant find sumthing real to obsess over.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE? I post one story and half of you think that is all there is out there? That it hasn't happened a million other times, that if I tried I couldn't find hundreds of other cases?? That EVERY instance has been reported to the news???
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's like talking to a damn ten year old!
I still think you like your anger. You can only find the rare anecdotal story, you lie about what it says, you don't bring any data to the table so that anybody else can get a gage on how big a problem it is ... and you act like an asshole when someone disagrees with the case you, all on your own, are failing to make.
Maybe there's something going on in your personal life. Maybe hubby is working and bringing home a paycheck but checks out from every other aspect of his life at home, in front of video games. Maybe you're feeling like all the problems are on you, and feeling like you not only have no support, but you're isolated for adult company in your own home.
But it doesn't help your position on the topic or your situation irl to be an exaggerating rage-a-holic.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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My problem is you... and the rest of this planet.
You have been watching the news for sixty years or so and you still have no idea what is going on.
Do you even realize that you only see a quarter of the news that actually happens? That it's sterilized before they put it out?
You have to want to know. To go looking.
But who does that? I mean, that would disrupt the "people are basically good" crap you tell yourself to get through the day. It allows us to get through one more day as a people in total brainwashing pretense. That everything will be "fine".
It won't be.
We are already a planet full of zombies...
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