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Obama: Gamers are Underachievers?

solarplexus7solarplexus7
edited February 2008 in Politics
http://kotaku.com/358584/obama-sees-gamers-as-underachievers

I'm an Obama supporter, and a gamer, as I'm sure many of you are. So I'm curious as to your thoughts on this. I just think that like most politicians, they fail to see the maturing of games and still see them as mindless games for kids. To help him understand, she should play Portal on his campaign tour. haha

Comments

  • CremlianCremlian
    edited February 2008
    Sorlarplexus,

    You are a tool.

    If you actually listened to the speech, he was talking about parenting. He was saying that there is more to parenting them placing your kid in front of a TV or a video game system. He was not saying video games were bad. He was saying that not actively raising your kids is bad. Just because he used video games and TV as a example of "keeping your kids busy so you don't have to deal with them" does not mean he hates video games.

    *sigh*
    Post edited by Cremlian on
  • solarplexus7solarplexus7
    Ah excuse my naivety. But you didn't have to call me a tool in my first post.
  • CremlianCremlian
    edited February 2008
    Sorry I've been annoyed by the recent cropping up of this all over the internets.

    and thought you were one of the regulars ^_^ I'm usually nice and polite.
    Post edited by Cremlian on
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    It is a valid mistake, as many of us are changing our user names regularly so, Solarplexus, please to not take Cremlain's 1st post seriously and welcome to the forums.
  • solarplexus7solarplexus7
    Thanks guys! And one more thing...OH MANS!
  • SchnevetsSchnevets
    Getting off the subject of hazing the newbie, I'm getting pretty sick of how uppity the gamer community gets about this kind of stuff. I mean, you don't see TV viewers overreacting whenever someone bashes the telly for showing violence/promoting laziness, nor do movie fans, or even smaller, more persecuted communities (the pornography industry comes to mind).
    It's amateurish as a community to act so sensitive, it makes everyone look bad, and people are profiting from our paranoia- like in the original Mass Sex-Effect controversy (not the Fox News thing, the one insane guy on a blog).
  • AndrewAndrew
    Getting off the subject of hazing the newbie, I'm getting pretty sick of how uppity the gamer community gets about this kind of stuff. I mean, you don't see TV viewers overreacting whenever someone bashes the telly for showing violence/promoting laziness, nor do movie fans, or even smaller, more persecuted communities (the pornography industry comes to mind).
    It's amateurish as a community to act so sensitive, it makes everyone look bad, and people are profiting from our paranoia- like in the original Mass Sex-Effect controversy (not the Fox News thing, the one insane guy on a blog).
    You also don't see TV viewers always blamed for mass shootings.
  • StarfoxStarfox
    Getting off the subject of hazing the newbie, I'm getting pretty sick of how uppity the gamer community gets about this kind of stuff. I mean, you don't see TV viewers overreacting whenever someone bashes the telly for showing violence/promoting laziness, nor do movie fans, or even smaller, more persecuted communities (the pornography industry comes to mind).
    It's amateurish as a community to act so sensitive, it makes everyone look bad, and people are profiting from our paranoia- like in the original Mass Sex-Effect controversy (not the Fox News thing, the one insane guy on a blog).
    Music.
  • SchnevetsSchnevets
    You also don't see TV viewers always blamed for mass shootings.
    Okay, that is a valid occasion to get pissed off, although only after a tragedy. Otherwise, people arguing that gamers go on killing rampages tend to be ignored.
    Music.
    Do you mean music as an example of a community which ignores pointless political attacks?
  • StarfoxStarfox
    Do you mean music as an example of a community which ignores pointless political attacks?
    No, the opposite. Remember the Tipper Sticker?
  • jccjcc
    edited February 2008
    I think that gamers bristle because there is a certain sub-section of gamers for whom such descriptions apply perfectly, and they make the rest of us look bad. ^^; I'm sure everyone knows at least one of those type of gamer, never really went anywhere after high school or college, have trouble keeping down a job, kind of a mooch, etc.
    Post edited by jcc on
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