Obama: "Turn off the video games and pick up a book."
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StereoMike said:
I see what you are saying about being fair to the different forms of media.... but
Books also enhance the vocab. It's reading. I have yet to have a video game work on me the same way. And if anything can be done to help the youth sound less moronic in conversation (written and spoken), then I am all for it.
ps - then they would say you should put down that Picasso and sing an epic poem, preferably in the heroic hexameter.
I think the word you were looking for is 'insipid'. Or perhaps, you did that on purpose? Oh, capital!immovablemover said:
That's totally right, Barrack Obama is a good man, and he seems like a great president, even during this difficult economic time.Saucycardog said:
For the record I read when I'm either on or waiting for the train/ bus, and also at night when I'm having trouble sleeping.
I think people need to take this a little less seriously, he's not talking of banning our beloved games, just cut down a bit, he just mentions books because they can be very therapeutic for such a stimulated mind, like children's minds.
Too bad he is totally right.
Playing video games all day as a kid=increased weight, that is a fact [and this is coming from someone who has played video games his whole life].
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Playing video games all day as a kid=increased weight, that is a fact [and this is coming from someone who has played video games his whole life].
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Read the whole article, he actually has before.SomethingAmazing said:
Or you could play Baldur's Gate 1/2, I'm pretty sure they count as both a video game and a book.
I'd prefer to hear: 'Turn off the shooters/sports/action etc games and put on an RPG'.
If there is a type of game which is most alike to books it's Role Playing Games.
If there is a type of game which is most alike to books it's Role Playing Games.
Urg, I hate it when anyone gives me some pretenious speech about books being so freakin' great. Just because you prefer a specific medium for storytelling doesn't make it better. In fact the bright colours normally associated with kid games can actually help develop creativity - not to mention many multiplayer games promoting teamwork. I actually have the ability to do math's pretty quickly compared to others in my class at school - and I was the one who played the most games growing up.
There are countless logic puzzles in Zelda, a math's segment in Mischief Makers, brain training etc all made to reward smart and quick thinking. The horde of recent multiplayer games also pushes people to communicate better since team work is required for some multiplayer games to work at all. Theres also D'n'D games like Neverwinter Nights were it's possible and incredibly easy to work out the math's behind the game and use that knowledge to your advantage (such as working out your % chance to hit a foe).
Or I could pick up a book and spend 10 minutes just having the scene described to me. Maybe theres a reason why kids prefer one format over the other. What's more is that most books (far worse than games) tend to be repetative, cliche and just plain stupid in some cases. Despite what many people think being an author doesn't automatically make you smart - it just means you got published.
When I read "classics" such as Catcher in the Rye or Dracula I actually find the books dull, contradictory and just being silly. If people actually read the Dracula book they would see quite easily that by modern day standards it's just the plot to a crappy horror movie. Or Catcher in the Rye - where you can read about an Asshole being an Asshole and then complaining when no one likes him while he talks about random crap not actually relevent to the story. While some may disagree with me you the Lord of the Ring's movies where actually better than book (I can't count the number of times Frodo and Sam didn't look like they could make it over that next bit of terrian...then they did....yay?)
Why does buying a book come with a free superiority complex and a need to put down other mediums? Well-read must be latin for "Idiot".
There are countless logic puzzles in Zelda, a math's segment in Mischief Makers, brain training etc all made to reward smart and quick thinking. The horde of recent multiplayer games also pushes people to communicate better since team work is required for some multiplayer games to work at all. Theres also D'n'D games like Neverwinter Nights were it's possible and incredibly easy to work out the math's behind the game and use that knowledge to your advantage (such as working out your % chance to hit a foe).
Or I could pick up a book and spend 10 minutes just having the scene described to me. Maybe theres a reason why kids prefer one format over the other. What's more is that most books (far worse than games) tend to be repetative, cliche and just plain stupid in some cases. Despite what many people think being an author doesn't automatically make you smart - it just means you got published.
When I read "classics" such as Catcher in the Rye or Dracula I actually find the books dull, contradictory and just being silly. If people actually read the Dracula book they would see quite easily that by modern day standards it's just the plot to a crappy horror movie. Or Catcher in the Rye - where you can read about an Asshole being an Asshole and then complaining when no one likes him while he talks about random crap not actually relevent to the story. While some may disagree with me you the Lord of the Ring's movies where actually better than book (I can't count the number of times Frodo and Sam didn't look like they could make it over that next bit of terrian...then they did....yay?)
Why does buying a book come with a free superiority complex and a need to put down other mediums? Well-read must be latin for "Idiot".
