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Gamers Divorced From Reality?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-as-much-as-you-are-bill dept.

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..."

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  1. Expert Opinion by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, O'Reilly is certainly an expert on creating your own reality...

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  2. Hey I know what day it is! by Jad+LaFields · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Hey I know what day it is! by lymond01 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Friend of mine calls Home Owner Associations the "last bastion of fascism in America".

    2. Re:Hey I know what day it is! by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your friend is quite the optimist.

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  3. In other news... by commisaro · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. I tried a divorce from reality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but damn is the alimony a bitch!

  5. I am not disconnected from reality! by fatty+ding+dong · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:I am not disconnected from reality! by zolaar · · Score: 5, Funny
      I did end up 10 mins late to work though.


      See? Real life has consequences.
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  6. Re:How Is This About Politics??!! by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the unnofficial rules, the politics section is for bashing republicans, or Americans on alternate weeks. Keep up, man.

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  7. Meh. He's just pissed over the Mortal Shot nerf by Lensar · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know he secretly plays a female Night Elf hunter...

  8. Re:Pot? Kettle? - Logical Fallacies 101 by 'nother+poster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. Attacking Bill O'Reilly is a worthy discussion.