"Frumpy Mom" Says Videogames Made by the Devil

[Eliam_Dar]

how easy is to justify your own incompetence by quoting either god or the devil.

 

[dasUnbekannte]

As someone that's grown up in a fundamentalist church, this is a bad case of a woman with too much time on her hands and not enough real things to get offended by.

For reference, one of my relatives is offended by Spongebob, World of Warcraft, PG13 movies, R movies, movie theatres, women wearing pants, androgyny, Pokemon... I could go on. But it's kind of exhausting.

 

[Blatherscythe]

"Frumpy Mom" Says Videogames Made by the Devil



When do kids ever think these days? When do they ever have brains free from electronics long enough to ponder the universe? To think of things that might someday lead them to a cure for cancer?

If Sir Isaac Newton had been playing a DS, I'm sure he never would have noticed the apple falling from the tree, so he never would have formulated the theory of gravity.


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Okay I play alot of games in my spare time and when I'm not (or a game is making me think hard about something due to it's ending or something) I do take a bit of time to ponder science, politics, universe etc. "Frumpy Mom" sounds like an overzealus ***** on a warpath against videogames.

 

[The_Splatterer]

Umm yeah... what they said... WHAT?!
Just so.. like... what kind of idiot?!
Satan!.. i mean... GOD!

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

That ***** reminds me of the mom from The Waterboy.

Video games is the DEVIL! Mamma's the best entertainment out there, and we won't be having the devil in this house!

(yeah, I can see it too.)

OP:

HUH...

Well...

HUH...

Video Games are invented by the devil.

The Japanese make video games...

Therefore, the Japanese are the devil?

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Are we talking christian devil here? Because there are a great many "demons" that would start doing this sort of thing for a laugh. Or maybe Satan just has a lot of free time on his hands these days. If you want to teach a child that church is boring - a DS might be the way. Can your pastor play on two screens at once totally absorbing the extent of your attention capacity?

...

I wonder if apple could make an app for that.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Remember kids, if you disagree with it and don't understand it, the only possible answer is SATAN!

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Well, that was depressing. Such blind rage only revels a deep seated insecurity or fear though. Come, let us punish her with the ultimate shame: making her play a game. *Maniacal laughter*

Alternatively, we could see a flash going around ABOUT her.

It could play like a "classroom" series where instead of trying to cheat off tests, you are trying to hide your DS playing. Or you could do it the other way around - an escape the room game, but you need to find all the hidden gaming systems in your house to rid it of satan.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

While she is indeed way off course in her ramblings and makes little sense, there is a point to be gleaned from the mess.
Kids should probably not play games all day, every day. And nor should adults for that matter, though that's outside the scope.

She is clearly fanatical in her views, but from what I've seen in my own family, it's not good to let kids play all the time. There are things to do that has nothing to do with games, and climbing a tree and whatever is also a useful pass time. She makes the seemingly crazy claim that her kid get all sickly and what not after playing, and I'll disregard it. As for the crankyness when he gets home that may stem from not being allowed to play at home.

I'm not saying that games are the devils work, and I think that games are great and a source of some learning. I'm just saying that however crazy her statements may be, kids should not be gaming all the time. But that's a matter of parenting.

 

[jimduckie]

stress is created when one's mind overrides one's desire to choke the shit out of someone who desperately deserves it ... and lady you made my list ... but blaming satan for it is descrimination and i learned that descrimination is wrong and ya can't do that

 

[Galad]

I don't think a ds would have stopped Sir Isaac Newton from making calculus.

You know, if Isaac Newton could somehow acquire a contemporary DS, he would have probably been fascinated by its construction and functions and studied it deeply, thus creating a theory on electronics back then, only to have to wait until the 20th century when that theory reappears, since it wouldn't have the technological backup to go public until then.

Then again, he has written books on religion and related topics so it's entirely possible he would misunderstand it as the work of Satan, just like that blinded old fool the article spoke of.

Newton was also highly religious, though an unorthodox Christian, writing more on Biblical hermeneutics and occult studies than the natural science for which he is remembered today.

 

[ssgt splatter]

"I'm going to refrain from commenting further on this article. I leave that to you, faithful denizens."

Yeah thanks alot, now we have to think. >

HA! but seriously, WTF!?
I see a child walk out of a public library playing on an Nintendo DS OH THE HORROR! THE OVERREATION TO THE SMALLEST OF THINGS WHILE THERE CONTINUES TO BE EXCESSIVE SEX AND VIOLENCE IN EVERY OTHER VIDEOGAME ON THE PLANET HORROR!

Lady, get a life!

 

[Sethzard]

Look, just because I worship the devil doesn't mean that everyone who plays video games is, and just because I play a lot of video games doesn't mean that they are made by the great master of all devil.

I will eat you brain have never met another satanist before!? lets go kill a rabbit and use its blood as lubricant offer itto the master!

Of course, but not before we rape some virgins rape some virgins.

 

[Coaxill]

Last time I spent more than 5 minutes pondering the universe, I became depressed for 2 years. Besides, what's wrong with using something made by the devil? Maybe Lucifer decided to go back to his roots and make people happy with the Nintendo DS.

 

[SwampCandle]

Hmmm, as I actually know someone who is an actual Satanist (Not a Christianity bashing priest murdering psycho, just someone who knows Lucifer's teachings are about philosophy and alchemy), and he actually says video games suck...so if Satan effectively doesn't want to take the blame for them, I must say this woman is an idiot.

Besides, in her own uneducated view, a Satanist is a preist muderer, at no point have I ever stopped playing a game and had the urge to go all genocide on the local parish or sacrifice a goat. Not even after playing GTA.

Thus, from my 100% bulletproof logical findings, I have found out that games are not Satanic.

Besides, anyone who knows The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy knows that pondering the universe leads to working out what it is for and why it is here. Which causes the universe to disappear and replace itself with something even more bizarely inexplicable. Of course, this has already happened.

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Oh..... my god. Reading about people like this makes me want to strangle a cat in anger and frustration. (I'm totally a sane person.)

Also, if videogames really are made by the devil, why am i not sacrificing goats? Being a gamer and all. Jesus, i'm just glad she isn't my mum.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I guess she's met the CEO of Activision eh?

"After my son plays [videogames] at his friends' houses, he comes home irritable and testy for the rest of the day,"

I'd assume that's because he realises what a horrible and empty life he has, and wishes to destroy his mother.

 

[CD-R]

Lol they even had the editor come on.

Andre Mouchard says:

Hi.
I?m an editor at the Register. I don?t edit Marla?s blog and had nothing to do with her original post.
However, I?ve been accepting/rejecting comments today and it?s past time to clear up a few points.
1. ?Satan,? in this case, is being used as a small joke. I don?t know Marla?s religious views, but I promise you she isn?t expressing them here.
2. Initially, when I started reading the comments, I was inclined to agree that, yes, gaming in moderation is a harmless diversion and, no, playing games doesn?t make you stupid and, well, Grand Theft Auto is probably an extreme example of the art. (One of my kids, age 10, plays video games at home. And he?s usually pretty un-Satanic.) I?m probably still of that opinion.
But after reading a river of intentionally hurtful, silly and often illogical commentary - a river that voted 170 to 0 that Marla is an idiot - I?m warming up to some of her points. Maybe video games do somehow turn your heads to lead. How else can it be that everybody posting today holds the exact same view? I know adolescence is a tough time to break the mold and whatnot, but, seriously, look at the posts above and point out the original thinking. Or thought. Or word. The uniformity here is unnerving and depressing. Somebody, please, just for kicks, go nuts and say something that might not make the crowd cheer your name.
3. Try to have fun.
Take care,
Andre Mouchard
Features Editor - Morning Read/True Life/Local columns
The Orange County Register
amouchard@ocregister.com.

And fail almost as hard.

 

[TheEnglishman]

I don't even think a face palm can meet my level of hatred.

 

[Dok Zombie]

The thing that bugs me the most is the complete ignorance involved.

"In case you?re not familiar with ?Grand Theft Auto,? this is a socially conscious educational game, in which players portray criminals and earn points by stealing cars, killing people and destroying property."

There hasn't been "points" in videogames since about 1994.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I found her blog hilarious. Poor children...
Hmm. Maybe if someone explained to her that most game developers are successful and were probably drawn to that occupation by playing games.

I guess we could always just make a blood sacrifice and forget this whole thing happened.