This is a discussion on Get a life, gamers - article by Brigitte Pellerin within the Games forums, part of the Men's talk category; Get a life, gamers Brigitte Pellerin Sorry to sound uncool. But itÂ’s pathetic to see so many people lining up ...
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How much time people spend on video games is up to themselves. Who says their lives are bad? Quote:
What does it matter how old gamers are? There are games for nearly every age group. Quote:
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Games offer people a option to do things which are (almost) impossible or illegal in the real world. It's the ultimate type of entertainment imo. ~ A man needs a woman like a lion needs a stove. ~ ~ Women deserve only equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. ~ ~ Men are not collectively "guilty" of anything. ~ ~ Never needing to be pregnant is a blessing. ~ ~ Feminist ideology “men have to respect women, but women have no reason to respect men” ~ ~ Everybody makes choices, and nobody should be entitled to special treatment because of those choices. Equal results based on unequal treatment amounts to no kind of equality at all. ~ | ||||||||
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Well, I have to admit to still playing Duke Nukem and Half Life -- and I'm in my mid-50s. Then there's the Dilbert prediction: that the population will crash the instand man perfects the holodeck. Personally, I think the author is just compensating for feelings of technical inferiority. | ||||
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Perhaps our time would be better spent watching reality TV, soap operas, Fox News, and The View. I'll admit, I've been playing fewer video games since I got my DVR. Now I spend all my time watching shit I recorded from History International. That channel is so great... Really, there's only so much crap you can occupy the evenings at home with: TV, reading, and video games pretty much all compete for the same time slots as far as I'm concerned. People who bitch about video games are just all pissed off because they (a) don't pick up good games or (b) suck at them.
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Like Tyrael said, video games allow you to do a wide variety of tasks that in reality would be impossible. You want to be Spiderman or James Bond? How about form an empire and conquer the world medieval style as a king? The possibilities are endless. I've often been told by my parents that video games are mindless, but it all depends on what you play. I prefer strategy games, and if you've had any experience with some of the good ones then you'd know that they force you to think out a sound strategy in order to succeed (far from being mindless). Sure, first-person shooters are good for relieving stress and are meant to be mindless fun, but I enjoy games with puzzles and obstacles that stimulate your mind (some games are ridiculously hard and require lots of intelligent thinking). What's so bad about that? As long as someone isn't ignoring reality too much it shouldn't matter. Besides, there are many video games that could have been useful to many modern women who are deep in debt (I own plenty of games that require stable financial control). ![]() PS: People who tell others "to get a life" are the pathetic ones - mostly because they never actually define what a "life" entails. I'd much rather go conquer Scotland or challenge a buddy to a match in Super Smash Bros than have yet another mind-numbing "small talk" conversation with an American woman. "It is better to live as a lion for one day than a sheep for a hundred." - Italian Proverb "There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." - Robinson Davis "A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover that they are not it." - Bernard Bailey | |||
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Oh yea... spending 600$ on something for yourself that actually has a use is sooooo much more rediculous than purchasing say something for someone else based upon a 'promise' like oh... a diamond ring? BAH! TMOTS
DA RULES! Learn 'em! ____________________ WTF am I even here...... ____________________ http://themanonthestreet.blogspot.com/ | ||||
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The real reason she doesn't like it, is that it implicates rejection. Women prefer to monopolize that, but it's becoming more and more a male privilege. Notice how they try to make themselves believe that THEY lead the marriage strike. Yeah right.
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Hehehe why does this not surpise me, she's just bitch because what is it 85-90% of gamers are men who reither have some fun playing game to relax and enjoy themselves by themselves or with like minded friends. Gaming is the ultmit from of rejection to a women, which is all part of the merriage strike, intetionally or not, just think how bad things will get when holo tech gets combined with sex toys for men, who the hell in their right mind would want to waste time and money on some low down man hating whore when a man can get his rocks off by living out his fanites with a good * Gaming* system.
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Hmm, Queing up for the latest in Video games, this is a bad thing according to this woman?. I don't hear her say anything about women queing up for a sale at a clothes or accessories store and literally trying to break the doors in. No, that's totally different, isn't it. "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection." -- Queen Victoria, 1870. | ||||
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I saw this dynamic when I was a younger musician, girlfriends uptight because the boys wanted to have fun without them. Now that they're married guess how many still have time to rehearse? Feminism = Fear + Flattery | ||||
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Where does the idea come from that 'having a life' and playing video games are mutually exclusive? In the morning when lady is doing her tai chi, I'm heading for the computer with a big mug of tea. She asks about the difference in our rituals. To me it seems simple. She's getting her body ready for the coming day. Me, I need to kick-start my lethargic brain before I can face the world. A challenging game flicks all those mental switches to 'on'. And if you make a mistake it has no serious consequences for you or your family. Time well spent.
The traditional male weapons in the sex war are non-cooperation and flight.The traditional female weapon is celebration of paternity and male responsibility. If women now choose to define this as patriarchal oppression, they are throwing away their best trick. Feminism, in dismantling patriarchy, is simply reviving the underlying greater natural freedom of men. - Geoff Dench 1998 (edited) |