There was a documentary shown last night on the dangers of video games and their addictive habits. And it was exactly the one-sided and ignorant debate I expected about gaming, combined with that insufferable holier-than-thou attitude you so often find in people who don't understand, and have no experience of, the thing that concerns them so much. These people so easily pass judgement on gaming, equating it as a waste of time, but never turn that judgemental eye to their own pastimes. They completely fail to comprehend that gaming can stimulate everything from memory to reactions to problem-solving to tactical thinking to business acumen to historical knowledge to imagination. I'd like to see anyone make the same claims of most television!
And of course a 6yr old kid is going to be pissed if you turn the console off mid-game. He probably spent an hour to reach his stage only to have some ignoramous switch it off, wrecking it for him under the impression it's for his own good. I just feel sorry for the kids who have to live under the parents who have been filled full of fear, ignorance, and misinformation by this shoddy bit of so-called journalism. Any kid whose console gets taken away tonight should repay the favour by taking their parent's television away - for the exact same reasons. Fair's fair, after all.
Best line was in relation to a murder case where a man was tragically murdered over a complicated love triangle where they all shared a vested interest in an Advance Wars MMO rip off:
"They spent a lot of time together, in cyberworld"
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"And like a character in a video game, he had to be eliminated"