Comments | hawkye: Never Forget, We Are Legion.

hawkye

Never Forget, We Are Legion.

Jan 31, 2006 07:21

So! I found another person who's just as mad as I am about the unjust resentment we gamers recieve, and he's not gonna take it sitting down either ( Read more... )

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nanda February 2 2006, 09:31:20 UTC

I remember the days before all this. No one runs around stealing wedding bands because of Sonic the Hedgehog. No one climbs through sewers and jumps on mushrooms because of Super Mario Brothers.

Superman causes thousands of kids a year to jump off of a dangerously high place to see if they can fly.

If one doesn't have the common sense to see that pixels on your monitor are not at all related to the world in which we all live and breathe, then this makes me ponder one thing.

What happened to survival of the fittest? It's still going strong, in these "gamers." These are the people that, were we still living in the wilds, in a young society, would go walk up to a lion or a bear, because they were curious. Isn't that the same as suicide? Everyone knows not to go near a nine foot cat that has a territorial problem.

And everyone knows not to commit suicide over a bit of programmed code.

... twilightphe0nix February 3 2006, 20:16:03 UTC

In the beginning there were these little, not much better then card game, dual code based interactive software programs called Video Games. They were designed to be nothing more then a method of wasting time and improving skills that a person would otherwise ignore ( ... )