I am amazed he managed to write this between fondling altar boys in the confessional.

OH EXPLOITABLE

"I am amazed he managed to write this between fondling altar boys in the confessional"

LOL total ownage. You win sir

@Obie
Are you actually replying to RKN2K or did you just need to get you comment near the top of the page?

How dare the games industry produce something that people actually like doing.

They should produce something that people avoid doing, like going to church.

Remember kids: If it's fun the Catholic Church is against it.

Catholicism: If you don't feel guilty, you're doing it wrong.

I'd say he got it about right...
I'm going through some kind of withdrawal waiting for my crack coburnoutparadise to download.

Games make people fat. Crack cocaine makes people skinny and crazy like this guy. He does mention crack a lot. Must be on his mind.

If anything, video-game "addiction" should result in underweight kids, not overweight kids. If you have one hand free to eat or drink, you're not an addict.

Also, you never catch the dragon.

It could be argued that the lack of exercise comes from a devotion to sitting in front of the television to play, but the same could be said for DVDs and TV broadcasts. It's just easy for the ignorant to rag on games because they watch TV and movies and they need to pick something they don't do. Its the same reason liberal shit hippies can be all for banning cigarette smoking in public because smoking is so bad for you, but also try to make a case for legalizing weed. Regardless of which you want to call worse, breathing in smoke is bad for you; people just get uppity about the one that doesn't require them to change their lifestyle. In this case, its videogames. If you sit on your ass and eat doritos in front of ESPN or sit on your ass and eat doritos in front of Halo, you're still on your ass eating doritos.

A pat on the back for you Trev, well played.

He indicated that TV is bad for you too. I think video games and TV alike suffer from being "passive entertainment" as described in the article -- but video games much LESS so than other forms of entertainment. In fact, I liken video games more to a form of intense meditation.

@Trev


Well to the hippies defense, they never said they wanted to smoke it in public.

they can just collect the dust after blending their copies of halo 3

Well played, I've never looked at Tetris that way. It's block genocide, pure and simple.

Or it could backfire like Vote or Die resulting in all of them going to the polls to ly,.. err keep her out...

It's too bad that she is just as bad (or worse) of a game Nazi.

I don't think "shoe in" is as certain as you think it is.

When you say she is a shoe in, do you mean that Hilary Clinton isn't a shoe in (possible), or the Democratic Party's candidate isn't a shoe in (highly improbable)?

I actually find books way more addictive and more mind altering. People who say game effect people in a way completely different from anything else should consider that in books you literally think each word as you read it. Maybe I'm alone but if I read a particular author enough my thoughts start to match the writing style of the author. I love books but I have to be just as careful about when I pick up a book as I do about when I pick up a video game. You have to be prepared to drop a lot of hours either way.

Oh he would've shit himself with glee (or rage) about this

Well, it's a fact that 3 out of the 7 Tetris pieces are quite phallic in appearance.
(5 out of 7 if you count mutants)

If video games are so wrong, I don't wanna be right.

I was gonna write that first. heh. :)