'video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent'
<div class="IPBDescription">With a gun in one hand wearing a moomoo</div> More anti-gaming reports:
<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/hl_nm/leisure_games_dc' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eisure_games_dc</a>
I'd go kick their arses if I could manage to get out of my computer chair... <jk> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This in the heels of an earlier report saying that gamers are sociable and fit. Horray for the media...
<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/hl_nm/leisure_games_dc' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eisure_games_dc</a>
I'd go kick their arses if I could manage to get out of my computer chair... <jk> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This in the heels of an earlier report saying that gamers are sociable and fit. Horray for the media...
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No we don't... (oops <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
The same is done with many other products. (cigarettes, alcohol, among others.)
I'm sure the government can think up a nice nifty "Games Tax" if they put their minds to it.
SHHH!! Quiet, they will hear you!
PS once video games start to have comercials I am moving....
....to the moon.
On a horrible side note I have actually heard attempts to implement comercials into MMORPGs such as EverQuest
*Entering Loading Zone*
Enjoy Pepsi
/me pukes.
Here's a horrible social experiment, ok everyone
A.) Name 10 US presidents
B.) Name 10 junk food products.
"Yes...time to choose....."
"Coke or Pepsi Mr. Freeman."
Freeman choices the Pepsi which comes bundled with a machine gun
The coke came with a clownsuit.
Weah that was close.
Video games have become a bad parent's scapegoat (the new tv, now that most of us have caught on to that doozey), and the media and political organizations exploit this to make them look like they're out to help people or something.
I'm gonna go win a Nobel prize and proudly exclaim during the award ceremony, "I play video games! Eat that media!"
edit: extra but somewhat important letter
this will work perfect
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Here's a horrible social experiment, ok everyone
A.) Name 10 US presidents
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I could do that, just not going to do it now because people would think I was cheating!
I still blame the swedes, nobody could be that nuetral and have a report like that....
First off, I've been raised in a home that is pro-death penalty, and believes heartily in the "Eye for a Eye" rule.
I personally am considered "Overweight", but thats mostly due to a HUGE amount of muscle on my arms, legs, and chest(I will admit, I've got a gut[not a beer gut], but Video Games aren't making kids fat). I can probably bench 3 of whoever wrote that damned thing.
And when it comes to violence, I believe in the death penalty, but I fight against pointless violence, and idiocy. This is a example of idiocy, just not my kind.
Friggin idiots.
<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/hl_nm/leisure_games_dc' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eisure_games_dc</a>
I'd go kick their arses if I could manage to get out of my computer chair... <jk> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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heh speak for yourself.
Its a good thing my computer chair has wheels b/c Im so fat I think my body has grafted itself into the chair.
Im like a chair cyborg... *heavy breathing *gasp
phew all this typing (physical exertion) is making me dizzy. I better go wheel myself over to the nearest window, eat a snickers bar and shoot someone.
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William Taft
John Quincy Adams
Harry Truman
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Rutherford B. Hayes
James K. Polk
Andrew Jackson
It's a shame no politician will speak up in defense of games. But, you don't get elected by telling 30 million soccer moms that they're mediocre parents.
Guns don't kill people, being a complete and utter fool kills people (that, and small pieces of metal moving very, very fast).
You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am, darn.... my bad
*shoots self*
I <3 Doug Lombardi(the guy who runs it and owns it)
A.) Name 10 US presidents
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I'll name all 43 (I promise I'm not using any help at all)
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Q. Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Harrison
John Tyler
James K Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S Grant
Rutherford B Hayes
James Garfield
Chester A Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
William Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert C Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush Sr.
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush Jr.
Ta da !
Now for the Junk foods.
Cheetos.
Doritos.
Pringles
Ruffles
Lays
Hostess thingys
Uh...
Snickers
Milky Way
Butterfinger
Twix
M&Ms
Baby Ruth
Twizzlers
That's all that I can think of right now.
Hohohohohoho.
Doug Lombardi works at valve too. I think that's a wee bit sus.
--Scythe--
Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent, Swedish, Experts Say
You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am, darn.... my bad
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lol thats what you get for posting in the earlier hours of teh mornin!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Video Games Make Kids, Fat Violent Swedish Experts Say
Right.... then almost every kid in the world will become a serial killer. Suuure.
Funny thing is, I just did a presentation on video games during my portuguese class. Took me two whole periods to present it and answer questions. But it was good.... I actually managed to convince my teacher and a girl from the class that video games are actually good for you!! Bombarded them with good info on games, but to be fair, I had to include some bad stuff. However, I had another 2 people there who are like me, and they helped also by including constructive commentaries.
One example (which is true, since I know these people):
I knew some kids who were video game addicts. They used to play it everyday. They then began to play Tony Hawk. Finding that game fun, they began to wonder how it would be to actually skateboard like the people in the game, and they went out and liked the sport. In simple words, video game made them go out and <i>practice </i>sports! Now, how would that make them fat?!
Something else which people complain about is that games actually make kids stupid. Ha! That's ridiculous. I love games, and I'm the best male student in my class, being that the top 3 best male students are all video game fans, like me!
A.) Name 10 US presidents
B.) Name 10 junk food products. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A:) George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
FDR
Tenny Roosevelt
James Madison
James Monroe
John Adams
JQ Adams
Woodrow Wilson
James K. (Legolas) Polk
Kennedy
Ford
Hoover
Coolidge
....Yeah....
Maybe I should have read all the posts first, Sirus kind of humiliated me there <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Ehh, I'll get them later when I study for the college boards.
Don't pay heed to the anti-gamer hype. Just work to change the steriotype.
One thing I'd like to say, because it fits here:
"Dude, I made 16,000 on Final Fantasy XI last night, I couldn't believe it."
"Is that all you guys do every night? Just play video games."
"Yeah, why?"
"You need to get a life."
"Well, what do you do every night?"
"Well...I usually watch TV"
"..."
"What?"
This just shows how STUPID people are now. I mean, at least ours improves reflexes and requires thinking.
Television can be intelligent as well, not all of it is the latest reality show. Programs can make you think.
Some video games also require thinking, but fragging in a deathmatch isn't much higher over watching the Bachelor.
Also, I doubt playing video games improves anyone's reflexes enough to be called an advantage.
Stereotypes are bad.