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Video games will be the RUINATION of Modern Society!!

WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,420
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Whether you're 5 or 50, such a useless waste of time.....

(runs for cover)
If I had known then what I know now...

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  • GoingToLukinsGoingToLukins Posts: 232
    It's a fine alternative to chronic masturbation


    ...or suplement



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  • LesbelgesLesbelges Posts: 434
    GoingToLukins wrote:
    It's a fine alternative to chronic masturbation


    ...or suplement


    Yeah I was gonna say that I can do both just fine (not at the same time...although that is an interesting thought!)
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,297
    imalive wrote:
    Whether you're 5 or 50, such a useless waste of time.....

    (runs for cover)

    Really?
    I always thought that was organized religion.

    (Really runs for cover)
  • PerceptualPerceptual Posts: 200
    Games give you hand-eye co-ordination and special intelligence together with map reading skills.
    "this one, anytime I say love if you wanna say love, uh, say it, and if you say it you might as well say it loud, and if you don't feel like sayin' it, don't say it, but if you feel it, certainly say it..."

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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    GoingToLukins wrote:
    It's a fine alternative to chronic masturbation


    ...or suplement

    i love chronic masturbation

    my favorite past time

    that and Duck Hunt
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,420
    mca47 wrote:
    Really?
    I always thought that was organized religion.

    (Really runs for cover)

    That, too. George Bush definitely would have been a "gamer" if he was born 30 years later.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    I agree with you :)





























    message boards are pretty bad, too ;)
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,420
    meme wrote:
    I agree with you :)


    message boards are pretty bad, too ;)
    Touche. But at least we're exchanging ideas, polishing our writing skills, interacting, etc. Message boards are real; video games are make believe crap!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    imalive wrote:
    Touche. But at least we're exchanging ideas, polishing our writing skills, interacting, etc. Message boards are real; video games are make believe crap!

    They're as real as your favourite movie, favourite TV drama, favourite book. They're just new. And that's scary to some people.:rolleyes:
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  • GoingToLukinsGoingToLukins Posts: 232
    Slip Kid wrote:
    i love chronic masturbation

    my favorite past time

    that and Duck Hunt

    Me too! I could never do both at the same time though, as I use two hands for both.



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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    It's all downhill after your first headshot...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    imalive wrote:
    Touche. But at least we're exchanging ideas, polishing our writing skills, interacting, etc. Message boards are real; video games are make believe crap!
    Some of them stimulate a healthy imagination. Which is healthy and good :)
    Its also been shown by doctors that its healthy to play video games around maybe an hour a day. It helps reflexes, and can strengthen eye sight. :D

    Message boards on the other hand can substitute actually interaction with people, and other real world things.

    So over all they're both good in moderation. :
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    message boards aren't real.

    and if i could somehow find a way to play duck hunt while masterbating my life would be complete.
  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Perceptual wrote:
    Games give you hand-eye co-ordination and special intelligence together with map reading skills.

    awesome
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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    MrSmith wrote:
    message boards aren't real.

    and if i could somehow find a way to play duck hunt while masterbating my life would be complete.

    It takes practice but it can be done
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,078
    Remind me to never share a keyboard or a video game controller with any of you. ;)
    We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,420
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    They're as real as your favourite movie, favourite TV drama, favourite book. They're just new. And that's scary to some people.:rolleyes:

    I can't agree with that. Books and movies (IMHO) expand your mind (and your vocabulary). Video games, not so much. Sadly, books are being replaced by video games..... although I did see a guy at work with a book.... a HALO book! Part of the "trilogy," he told me.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    imalive wrote:
    I can't agree with that. Books and movies (IMHO) expand your mind (and your vocabulary).

    Not all video games do, but some do. Not all video games are GTA IV.
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    MrSmith wrote:
    message boards aren't real.

    and if i could somehow find a way to play duck hunt while masterbating my life would be complete.
    I've done both at the same time...use your own gun, not the game system's. ;)
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    imalive wrote:
    I can't agree with that. Books and movies (IMHO) expand your mind (and your vocabulary). Video games, not so much. Sadly, books are being replaced by video games..... although I did see a guy at work with a book.... a HALO book! Part of the "trilogy," he told me.

    Right. Cos Meet The Spartans and Norbit are so much more intellectually stimulating than Planescape: Torment or Deus Ex, and The Da Vinci Code was a far better Templar story than the Broken Sword series. Have you experience with video games beyond what you see CNN spouting uninformed opinions about?
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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    LongRd. wrote:
    I've done both at the same time...use your own gun, not the game system's. ;)


    too funny
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    imalive wrote:
    I can't agree with that. Books and movies (IMHO) expand your mind (and your vocabulary). Video games, not so much. Sadly, books are being replaced by video games..... although I did see a guy at work with a book.... a HALO book! Part of the "trilogy," he told me.


    Alright. So books are good but video games are not. Yet this guy is reading a book because of a video game. So even if that book is from a video game, it's not an actual book? By the way, role playing games are essentially interactive books. Role playing games are heavily story driven games that on most part, require a lot of reading, a lot of strategy, and a lot of time. Best example, Final Fantasy Seven. Ask anyone who's played and enjoyed this game how they felt when a certain event took place involving Aeris. That game had an amazing story that took characters and evolved them into not just people you were using, but people you cared about and wanted to learn about. Just like a book. And your actions affected the outcome of the book. You literally got to participate in what they went through.
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Alright. So books are good but video games are not. Yet this guy is reading a book because of a video game. So even if that book is from a video game, it's not an actual book? By the way, role playing games are essentially interactive books. Role playing games are heavily story driven games that on most part, require a lot of reading, a lot of strategy, and a lot of time. Best example, Final Fantasy Seven. Ask anyone who's played and enjoyed this game how they felt when a certain event took place involving Aeris. That game had an amazing story that took characters and evolved them into not just people you were using, but people you cared about and wanted to learn about. Just like a book. And your actions affected the outcome of the book. You literally got to participate in what they went through.

    Very good post. To this day, Final Fantasy Tactics had the best storyline and character development of any movie i've ever seen or book i've ever read.
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  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    and staring at a tv for countless hours a day watching amercain idol and dr phil isnt?

    some of the better stories ive come across lately have been in video games. i havent seen a horror match silent hill, metal gear is in a league all its own. gta and wow might be mindless fun. but alot of games are very story driven, unlike 90% of whats on tv. and those that arent arent all the pointless. why watch nascar when you can play gran trusimo? so while people sit and watch american idol, some people are playing guitar hero.

    and its been mentioned rpgs had a fair amount of reading involved, something tv shows dont require. and i remember reading an article when mgs for ps1 came out that it had more spoken dialogue than terminator 2. so todays video games can easily place more, which means they can develope stories and characters to a level that movies cant with out being 4+ hours.

    i think video games are a step up from tv and movies.
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I am 6'5", 185lbs, my looks have been compared to Brad Pitt, drive a hybrid '67 Camero, play professional hockey when I am not saving starving children in Africa or filling in on drums for Led Zeppelin and I don't smoke.

    How real is that?!


    Video games CAN be a waste of time, but you can say that just about anything.
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Video games aren't so bad (I don't play them, though).

    It's parents that are ruining society.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i know for a fact Civilization and Alpha Centauri games have expanded my mind. Sid Meyers games are so complex i feel like i need a degree just to play them.
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    imalive wrote:
    Touche. But at least we're exchanging ideas, polishing our writing skills, interacting, etc. Message boards are real; video games are make believe crap!

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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    DOSW wrote:
    Welcome to 1992!

    Which is, fittingly, the year I started playing computer games. 16 years later, I'm doing an English degree in college, and am quite happily sesquipedalian.:D
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,420
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    and staring at a tv for countless hours a day watching amercain idol and dr phil isnt?

    I don't "stare at a TV for countless hours:p. I've never watched American Idol or Dr. Phil.
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Right. Cos Meet The Spartans and Norbit are so much more intellectually stimulating

    I wouldn't have seen Norbit on a bet! I'm not talking about crap books or crap TV. Glad I got y'all fired up, though :D. Kinda thought I might.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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