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Gamers Divorced From Reality?
nd01 writes "According to Gamepolitics.com, Bill OReilly has a few choice words for gamers and computer geeks in general. The well-known conservative pundit has harsh words for iPod owners, gamers, the PS3, and all of us 'disconnected from reality' by modern technological contrivances."
From the article: "Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don't deal with reality — ever. So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality..."
Well, O'Reilly is certainly an expert on creating your own reality...
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Its Tuesday ... says so in the lower right hand corner of my screen!
Forecastfox has the weather for me, and as for what my neighbor looks like, thats what MySpace and Meetup.com are for!
What's reality, anyway?
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
O'Reilly went on to describe the new PS3 and Wii as "a series of tubes". Spokepeople from Nintendo responded angrily that this only applies to a small portion of their games.
I'm sick of gamers like me being accused of living in a fantasy world. This is the last straw! I'm sending out my long distance Firaga and Doom spells at the next person to make the accusation! I have powers, damn, you. POWERS!
but damn is the alimony a bitch!
Why just this morning I had to buy gas before work, so I jumped on a turtle and threw its shell at a brick. Unfortunately, no money came out of the brick this time. So I stole a police car and ran over a hooker to get some cash. I got shot by the pimp, but I picked up a backpack with a red cross on it, so it was all good. I did end up 10 mins late to work though.
-Now I may be an idiot, but there is one thing I am not sir, and that, sir, is an idiot.
Reality and I tried to make things work, but I guess we just weren't meant to be. It's a good thing we didn't have kids.
Ah, nevermind... going back to my games again...
-gam
"In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, they are not."
I know what my neighbor looks like. That's what peepholes are for. Viewing real reality from a distance with a barrier between you and it. I ain't no dummy.
Swi
Odd that he is so against video games, watch him here in his earlier days on an indepth expose of the Super Mario Bros. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=2 0016
"They said we drink horse urine and sleep with our own kin. You say it's comedy, but how can someone laugh at that?"
According to the unnofficial rules, the politics section is for bashing republicans, or Americans on alternate weeks. Keep up, man.
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Wait a second. He wants those of us in IT to act like Paris Hilton?
I'm so confused!
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The thing I often find while I grow older is that terms and definitions are having less distinction as time goes one. What's the difference between a gamer and a hardcore gamer or even a casual gamer? You ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers.
One persons definition of a hardcore gamer might not be the same as someone else's. I could play WoW 2-3 hours a night and be called hardcore by a person who plays 5 hours a week and 'casual' by someone who plays 8 hours a day and 15 hours on weekends/holidays. Yet, one could define someone with the same term depending not on the criteria of time spent playing but activities done during play. A person who spends 2-3 hours in a raid to get loot could be called 'hardcore' while a person who continues to create new characters and plays them solo all the time, could be considered 'casual'.
I find this is happening on many levels outside of gaming. I was just having a discussion with my fiancee where we where arguing over the same agreement but wanted to call it two different things until we reached a decision to clarify our points by created specific terms to distinguish what we where talking about, since we could not argue points since we were not arguing over the same (but similar) things. Or I could point out former President Bill Clinton's argument that "he did not have sexual relations with that woman" because "sexual relations" was re-defined by him.
Anyone else notice this? This (seemingly) transcendence into generalization or the definition of terms to suit our own points?
Cheers,
Fozzy
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." ~1984 George Orwell
That would be your pet Chocobo. It's how you get around, duh.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.-TJ
...is actually a political act, because, as we all know, reality has a well-known liberal bias.
You know he secretly plays a female Night Elf hunter...
I agree. Attacking Bill O'Reilly is a worthy discussion.
The one thing that really sucks about Christianity 3.2, is how much latitude the dungeon masters have. I stopped playing when I realized that each DM kept intrepreting the rulebook differently.
Sometimes my +3 holy water worked on demons, sometimes it was outlawed. When I was playing in Utah and used my Healing Kit, I was kicked out of the game for using the kit instead of using a priest spell. What finally did it though, was when I was rolling to determine attack strength and lost 3 turns for gambling. What a bother...like a Half Elf Archer can use a priest spell in the first place...
Maybe the MMORPG version will be better.
So now we programmers have to fear being burned at the stake? Great...
I got nothin'
>Just thought I'd spin it in the right direction ;-)
Slashdot is a no spin zone, you are suppose to flip instead of spin here.
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Yes he can, and don't call him Shirley.
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