I've got no problem with this, especially since today's games seem to be getting blander and blander. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3? Halo 4?....yeah....I might be ready to just quit cold turkey.
Obama: "Turn off the video games and pick up a book."
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After over a year on this, mostly american, forum, i totally agree with your president.Reading, it seems, isnt regarded as something favourable by a lot of people on here.
If i only got 2 bucks everytime i see some idiotic posts starting with tl;dr (answering to a post often not more than 6-10 lines long) i would be a rich man by now.
Denying oneself to read is, just as denying oneself to learn a foreign language or two, a good way to limit ones mind extremely. But well if you want to stay simple but happy, its your own life, i wont stop you from throwing it away.
If i only got 2 bucks everytime i see some idiotic posts starting with tl;dr (answering to a post often not more than 6-10 lines long) i would be a rich man by now.
Denying oneself to read is, just as denying oneself to learn a foreign language or two, a good way to limit ones mind extremely. But well if you want to stay simple but happy, its your own life, i wont stop you from throwing it away.
No I fucking wont turn off my games, nobody will fucking tell me what I fucking can or fucking can not do with my fucking time.
I think this is making a bit too big of a deal out of a small comment. He's not coming after gamers, he's just saying that you shouldn't play games constantly.
Tin Man, (thank god you aren't a fan of a different Wizard Of Oz character....) in your two posts you have said ALmost everything I have wanted to say myself on this topic. I would only add two things after spending most of my lunch reading everyone's thoughts on it. Although if people are going to bash literacy all the while holding up video games as being equal to the educational value of a book, (Which is ridiculous.) then I guess that does explain the horrible spelling, grammar, and sentance structure seen so often on these forums as well as some of the incivility. After all if you can't create your own better sentances, or debate with actual objective points why not just swear a lot? Just count the Fbombs that get dropped all over here without a care, as if people really discuss issues with that little respect in other forums. Then again a person you're talking to on the street doesn't have the anonymity that you have on the internet so they are likely to be more civil as it's easy to be brave, insulting, and disrespectful when you have no face.Tin Man said:
1. Has anyone even considered (since in his own book he basically spends a chapter talking about the importance of a Scientific education and the rise of Technology) that he is talking about non-fiction books? Oh wait. Most of you probably didn't read his book....
Personally, as an Author, I think he's just trying to drum up sales here.
Okay so that joke was bad buuuut
2. I know hardly anyone reads through even the threads that really interest them but will the 1,453 of you that keep making that LAME Witcher 2 joke please get together and realize how not funny it is? Or at least that it's DONE now?
Yeah and who the hell do you think voted for you? 20-30yr olds. Who do you think plays the most games? 20-30yr olds. Idiot, gamers have enough public enemies without the president elected by gamers pissing on his own demographic.
He's not pissing on them, he's telling parents(In a blog, as a parent not as a president) that they should encourage their children to read. And let's face it, children who read instead of playing video games will generally do better in school, and thus better in life. No mention of adults playing video games(Most of which are rated as mature anyway).darkcommanderq said:
But seeing as this is the escapist and pretty much everybody here is a fucking idiot, I'm sure somebody will argue with that.
*First of all Id like to point out im speaking as an Englishman here so if the situation is different across the atlantic im sorry.*
What lots of adults don't seem to realise is that while it is true that plenty of people do spend to much time playing games it is a small minority and that most people realise there are more important things in life. I know people who do themselves serious injuries pushing themselves beyond their limits in sport, spend all their time reading and and have various other obssesions and addictions. Its unfair to penalise one hobby when almost all carry the same risk. Video games are a relitively new thing and im sure similar things were said when films started being made; it would be very nice to see people learn to just step aside for new technologies to come through.
What lots of adults don't seem to realise is that while it is true that plenty of people do spend to much time playing games it is a small minority and that most people realise there are more important things in life. I know people who do themselves serious injuries pushing themselves beyond their limits in sport, spend all their time reading and and have various other obssesions and addictions. Its unfair to penalise one hobby when almost all carry the same risk. Video games are a relitively new thing and im sure similar things were said when films started being made; it would be very nice to see people learn to just step aside for new technologies to come through.
NoBama, we have freedom of expression in this country, meaning we can do anything we want if its legal. IF i want to play videogames instead of reading ill do just that and nothing anyone says will make me change my mind. I like reading Douglass Adams or Michael Crichton but i love playing games. So there ya have it
I'd just like to point out that the majority of the people commenting on this thread clearly have not read what Obama said, it was half a sentence regarding gaming: "...to encourage[children] them to turn off the video games and pick up a book".
If you take offence to that, then you are stupid.
If you take offence to that, then you are stupid.
As do I, and I'd assume most people here.BNSNightshade said:
However I think his comment was more directed at the kinda dads who play COD, (and games like it), while barely registering the existence of their own offspring. It does happen.
The point is sound and I'm scared to even read the 10 pages this produced.Saucycardog said:
Yes, video games all the time is not a good thing.
No, this isn't a new viewpoint. The same argument was made for television, radio, and...yeah...even books.
This'll get blown (or has been blown) way out of proportion by entitled wackos.
Although it is moderately sad to see people shut off their brain after schoolXzi said:
. At least if psychology is something you are interested in.The whole brain age paradox is just a result of folks tuning out, getting older doesn't cause nearly as much brain fatigue as folks think. A good portion of that is just mental slacking, similar to getting old doesn't make you fat, but getting lazier and older will.
Well, indeedie about the Falklands. Buying into the Argentine BS about "colonialism" on a group of people who -want- to be governed by us.Catchy Slogan said:
As for his comments re: this, I think he's trying to do a good thing, and in the context of a nationwide thing, its probably good to try and encourage abit.
I learned a LOT from both games and books as a kid, and i still do today. Although i do feel that a lot of younger gamers have their brains scrambled by hours of mindless COD and the like, i still feel that videogames are just as (if not more) educational than books. If i've said it once i've said it a hundred times, anyone who thinks videogames are bad just hasn't played one!