How did that go?

They can pray in prison - fuck them

How hard it is to get second hand prayer out of the furnishings?

SHE went to the garage to pray (or dump the drugs).

That is the true opiate of the idiocracy.

I find adults who play such games very curious.

We all have our broad brushes to bear.

mainstream and that age is actually increasing as the people who played video games as kids grow up.

Its no more unusual than playing board or card games, or watching TV, or any numerous other hobbies that exist out there.

Does that make me "curious"?

It's like watching sitcoms or eating junk food for the mind.

Those games teach violence and GTA is racist as hell.

Or like puritan bullshit. So cite?

I also work 40-50 hours a week, run errands and pay bills, take care of my physically disabled dad whenever I can, and volunteer my time at a local homeless shelter three times a month. I'm far from an idiot as are many adult gamers.

it's those who are REALLY.INTO.IT that are freaking pitiful

And the violence. It's so gross.

To me that shit is for teenagers.

I've been hacking since the 1980s. I've known lots of gamers.

I own my own rather profitable company and hold several degrees.

So being REALLY into video games, (Fallout 4 right now) makes me pitiful....Ok I see I see the logic there.

there are plenty of people who are meth addicts who are also business owners. whats your point?

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"it's not the playing of video games adults I find disturbing

it's those who are REALLY.INTO.IT that are freaking pitiful"

Plus, cite some numbers about these vast numbers of Meth using CEO's please.

As for your question. Since I do commercials and now finishing my first feature length movie. I would have to say yes.

Video games have helped me.

I always am aware of good story flow in a game and am fascinated by how it's properly or improperly pulled off.

I'm no idiot that's for sure and I bet my hand/eye coordination will be better than most when I get older.

I really, really enjoy killing "things" in video games to relieve stress. Does that make me curious or smart for spending so little on therapy?

surely you realize that both stupidity and shitty parenting predate the xbox.

I do PC gaming only (no consoles). I work as an engineer and pull in a 6 figure income, hardly the story of an idiot.

I rest my case!

they are mindless and cruel and of course, deluded. I think that part makes you uncomfortable as a faith based judge of others.

faith based what now? I have no opinion on their "faith" except lol whut? I hope their deity is a forgiving one. I doubt He exists.

No, I'm talking about how mentally vacant they appear to be, as evidence that parents who play video games while sitting on their children until they die are bad people.

plays them. He also has a Harvard PhD in Biochemistry, his dissertation was the top one of his year, he had an article of the cover of Science, he is currently leading a team of researchers on new antibiotics, he is married to the music director of a large church, his daughter has a great shot at getting into a Julliard graduate program for flute performance, and his son is an All State musician looking at going into Pharmacy.

I don't play them, but many do it for a hobby. I am not sure you could find a more well adjusted person than my brother in law.

I have a phd in a related field from an equally august institution, and I've never played computer games.

Ask your bro in law about canons of evidence and inference, correlation and causation, and statistical significance. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Obviously "video games" covers too broad a territory. I apologize for offending.

But when I see grownup people spending hours at an Xbox or watching reality TV I worry about our future. These are solipsistic, alienating activities that appeal to a hunger for fantasy and escape. I find them politically concerning.

The older brother of my daughter's best friend is also a video gamer and is working on his doctorate at UW Madison.

I do agree with your sentiments in general about people who spend a significant chunk of their free time on any activity (whether it is watching sports, chatting/posting on the internet, binging Netflix, or playing video games). I don't think video games per se are a problem. I have never been interested in them after I hit my 20s, but I can see the attraction for some people who have high stress jobs. I personally binge watch shows while rowing which is my stress reliever. I could visualize in the future as technology advances actual hand weapon type games with simulated swords and what not with EM resistance that would allow for a good work out while playing the game. Safer than beating on someone else with weapons.

I agree with you about reality television. You lose brain cells by merely being in the room when they are on. When my wife turns them or soaps on, my first reaction is to run from the living room.

The strident defense of this avocation is an indicator of how deeply ingrained it has become.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 13:11

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It is not taken seriously. He murdered his kid. It wasn't manslaughter at all it was premeditated murder. You could argue he wasn't actually trying to kill the kid, but he went to the garage and smoked a cigarette when the child was motionless, wtf did they think that was a good sign he wasn't dead? Nope, they pretty much have to have known there was a serious problem and didn't f'n care.

who let a 12 year old bleed out without doing jack after shooting him.

May he rot.

I vote for the latter myself.