Slashdot Mirror
Gamers Are Good People, Too
The Ticktockman writes "For years, gamers have been looked down upon by the media. We are said to be crazy lunatics who, given the chance, might decide to shoot up our school because of the games we play. Well, the game-themed webcomic Penny Arcade has had enough. They have now started a little something with the Seattle Children's Hospital called 'Child's Play', where gamers can buy videogame and non-game-related gifts for patients there. So if you feel like showing the world that gamers are compassionate people too, then head on over to the Penny Arcade 'Child's Play' page for more details."
For years, gamers have been looked down upon by the media. We are said to be crazy lunatics.... So if you feel like showing the world that gamers are compassionate people too, then head on over to the main Penny Arcade page, and scroll down for details.
As a gay black man born Jewish who converted to the Muslim faith, many people irrationally believe that I recruit young men into a homosexual lifestyle while raping white women and making matzos with the blood of murdered Christian children on my way to planning to blow up airplanes for Allah.
While these prejudices are incorrect, and in truth have been practiced by few or none of the people of my sexual orientation/race/gender/ethnicity/religion, I feel that rather than denouce those ignorant persons who accuse me of those crimes, it is better buy them off.
I hope that by bribing the world, I will gain the grudging acceptance of people who will still whisper behind my back and point accusing fingers at me when they think I'm not looking.
So if you're straight or white or female or Christian or any kind of non-Muslim, please leave me the name of your favorite charity, so that I may begin to pay you to hate me a little less. I hope that when I've contributed enough, you might even call me a compasionate fag coon penis-owning hebe raghead.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
...or at least that's what the gaming industry says. This is so much bullshit. Let's be honest, if violent games didn't made me violent, I wouldn't play them. So, how exactly does helping the sick children of Seattle (awww... so heart warming...) change that fact? Sorry, but "we think of the children" schemes don't soften me up. The gaming industry obviously has an interest in this, and Penny Arcade is blatently biased too (who pays their advertising? Who's their user base?). And since when does anyone believe that gamers are inexplicably evil? Why do we even try to argument with those who believe so?
Anyways, my advice for the parents? Buy offline multiplayer games. The most fun I've ever had in my 11 years as a gamer (and counting) was playing Mortal Kombat II or Micro Machines V3 for a couple of hours with some friends when I was 12 (sure, MKII was for 18+, but that only added to the thrill). On the other hand, online games, like Counterstrike and Everquest, are time sinks, they retard your child's social growth, stunt their social skills, turn them into mindless, unimaginative, illiterate, loud-mouthed assholes with no fucking life (join a Counterstrike server and you'll understand immediately that my generalization isn't that far-fetched).
There are good and bad games for the children, but, like everything in life, they're all harmful if played in excess. Don't try to ban videogames in your house, teach your children good gaming habits instead. Don't allow more than 3 hours of gaming per day. Force them to take breaks. Make 'em exercise. Beat the shit out of them, if needed, even if that makes them bitter and spiteful against you; they may think of you as an asshole and never thank you, but at least you'll know that you've done the right thing.
Heh, but seriously, violent videogames shouldn't be played by children (but they are played and marketed for children anyways). Restrict them to adults and enforce those restrictions. The parents have better things to do than overseeing every move their children make. End of story. It's that simple, really.
"You should never doubt what nobody is sure about." -- Willy Wonka
Your one of those sick fucks that actually voted for Bush, ain't you... you rant like a lunatic.
You may think he's wasting his life, but its a good living, and what people take away from his games is up to them. The parents of these kids really don't seem to be doing there job, and American culture (if you can us thoses 2 words together without vometing)is such its not the poor parents to blame but everyone else and wheres my settlement.
It this sort of thing that makes the rest of the world look down on USA, and in some cases openly hate them.
P.S. I ain't no commie, and I ain't from US, but I can see it going to heck in a handbasket.
P.P.S. Bush sucks, and is an evil, stupid warmonger....
I think they could have gotten just as much publicity by staging a "nude piss in" at the Seattle Times HQ or a nunnery rather than collecting toys and money for sick kids.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
/* Alternatively, you could do it for the kids... */
Michael Jackson does it to the kids, too, and look where it got him...
Oh, you said do it FOR the kids...
nevermind..
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
I think everyone has already heard the "if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music" quote,
Where do you think the idea for raves came from?