WTF is everyone posting about video games?

[Jersey Devil]

The whole world is going to shit and all we can talk about is make believe games?

Pardon me - brain fart.

[AX10]

1. I agree.

Video Games are not a priority right now.

[NorCalDem]

2. Yes,

but we have to take care of the virtual world too :D

[WilliamPitt]

3. Ditto

I was just kinda thinking the same thing.

Actually, this is an old beef with me. I'm watching kids getting fatter and fatter because they sit inside all day and play vids. We're raising a race of gigantic pod people with thumbs of superhuman strength.

I hate video games. Christ, when I was a kid I was outside all day running around.

[Jersey Devil]

6. Hell, playing "doctor" was a lot more fun

but we only got to do that whenever we hit the last "Spaldine" into Mrs Murphy's yard where we dared not venture to retrieve the ball.

[Greeby]

4. Bingo

What you've just described is Senator Clinton's attitude. Hence why we mention video games

[Jersey Devil]

5. I couldn't give a ratz azz what Hillary or any pol thinks of video games

Yeah, I know the reason they are being discussed, but still I would like to try to ignore the stupidity of her comments.

[Jersey Devil]

9. OK, now you got me going on Hillary

What she should be doing, instead of talking about video games, is screaming her lungs out about how homeland security money is being doled out like your normal pork barrel garbage with money going to Oshkosh, Billings, Montana, Sheepdung MO, Sasafras IA and all kinds of places that there is less chance of a terror attack than there is it raining frogs rather than to NYC, LA, etc.

There! I feel better.

[jim3775]

7. Thank you

someone needed to say this. Im a huge computer game fan and I don't give a shit about Hot Coffee.

[stanwyck]

8. well, games are a huge business

Really. And entertainment continues to be a major revenue generator for America. And we need all that we can get.
You're right. There are bigger issues.
But games are big money.
That's why the companies use all kinds of tricks they know the gamers will fall for...it's competitive and lucrative. Follow the money. These people (the game companies) are not amateurs. They know their market.
And they play it expertly.
We're seeing that here with all the hysteria from those who like to play these games. Which is fine. We all need our way to relax. My contention is that much of this drama is manufactured. This is not censorship. This is a call for the companies to be honest about what they're selling.
Censorship, such a red flag, is being used to inflame our liberal sense of fairness.
But that's not the issue here. It's about asking manufacturers to quit being knowingly deceptive.
They do it to get an edge. We need to acknowledge what's really going on here.
It's marketing.

[earth mom]

10. If more people read books instead of playing games

this country probably wouldn't be in this mess it is in because * & Co would never have gotten away with their bullshit in the first place.

Yeah, okay...so some people who play video games have phds etc., but I'd bet that majority of those who play video games don't have degrees and rarely if ever crack open a book-of any kind.

It really is pathetic what is happening to this country!

[jsamuel]

11. civil liberties

it's all the same thing

I learned to read partially from video games because the stories in them got me more excited than any story i could read in a book. Those kinds of games are called "RPG"'s or Role Playing Games. Don't take away one way for children to get excited about reading. If you put down games for not helping children read, I would bet you never really played video games.

[Kraklen]

12. It's a first amendment issue.

Whether or not you want to notice.

[Jersey Devil]

13. Yeah, I noticed - but it is number 437 on my list of important things

It sure as hell doesn't deserve about 10 strings here with so much going on.

[jsamuel]

14. tell that to Hillary Clinton

[Jersey Devil]

15. Yes, I agree

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4160203#4160347

[jsamuel]

18. good :D

[mdmc]

16. Lets talk Roberts

things could be worse...

[OrlandoGator]

17. Tell that to all the Democrats who have made it their top priority.

n/t

[fujiyama]

19. I really doubt

I'd have brought it up if Hillary hadn't.

My friends play the game in question, but I don't but I don't like the government telling me, as an adult, what I can or cannot watch.

[glitch]

20. The government isn't telling you what you can or cannot watch - it is

requiring labels on products so people will know what they are buying. Most people find that a good thing, that's why we see ingredients on foods and specifications on hardware and software etc etc etc.

You guys had the same hysteria over Tipper wanting labels so parents could determine which cds to buy for their kids. You still freak out over her name. Some of you even voted against Gore because of it.

[applegrove]

21. Hillary wants to protect kids from sex mixed with "hunting" & "killing"

because vulnerable 12 year olds will imprint on it - cause that is what life is like for little guys.

So the industry has gotten online to spread their myths. The one I like the best is that the Video Industry are INCAPABLE of regulating.

:rofl: From the NRA playbook. The same arguments, the same obfuscation tools, same old - same old arguments.