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Originally posted by NAVYSEILS:
I do care, that's why I'm bothering to have a conversation about this in the first place.

People going out with guns and blowing people away is not relevant to this conversation, that's a different matter entirely. Unless you're suggesting that as well as game designers being involved in a conspiracy with the government and wanting to break up marriages, they're also the reason for mass shootings?

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It's easier to blame and then write people off so you DON'T HAVE TO FEEL ANYTHING, isn't it??

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Could I not argue that this is sort of what you are doing? Easier to blame the videogames than than feel that the you and the people you care about are responsible? Lay off the hyperbole, disagreeing with your view doesn't make me an emotionless husk. I can have empathy and see that you don't like videogames because you associate them with the situations you've seen around you. I can still think you are blaming a symptom of a problem rather than the source though.

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Originally posted by JO753:
She shoud. She'z mostly rite.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm still waiting for my car insurance to decrease because women's car insurance increases. What an arcane pile of bullshit that is. There are at least as many women on the road today as men. Now I can only speak for the offence of "tail-gating" because it is my NUMBER ONE pet peeve on the road.... But seriously, 9 out of 10 times I'm being tailgated it's by a woman.

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That's not how insurance works. They do the number crunching on who is involved in accidents. So here if you are under 25 your premiums go up, and if you are male and under 25 you have an extra premium.

Of all the recent shitful driving I have come across, it's been young males pumped full of testosterone, and very possibly ice. Fuckers, I wish I had a camera attached to my car.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:


I agree completely. In fact, I can't blame the object. Else we'd all be addicts.

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Except we CAN and we SHOULD in some cases.
Cigarettes. Cigarette companies put things they KNEW were addictive and toxic in their products. They KNEW as early as the twenties that they caused cancer just to be NEAR THEM and the eighties and nineties saw them become accountable for the ways they marketed to children and pushed it again and again on susceptible minds. Then let's talk about all the other products that have been knowingly misused and how the companies have had to admit responsibility and change or stop making it all together. I can think of a dozen just off the top of my head.

Gaming companies KNOW what they make are addictive. They engineer missions and levels that they KNOW will take hours to complete. They KNOW some people will play until they die. They KNOW that some children have no responsible oversight and they make such an addictive product that children can become so hooked they become obese and inactive.

You know those stupid tags on hair dryers that say "DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER"?? Those are there because some people REALLY REALLY DO NOT KNOW THAT and hence need to be protected. It's not up to US to judge a persons intelligence, but I believe the onus of the burden of fighting addictability should ALSO fall on the product makers, as well as the people using them.

I'm NOT SAYING ban video games. I am saying that there should be more effort by the video game companies to limit addictiveness and increase awareness of the effects of video game addiction.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:



I know how insurance works. I know how taxes work. I've done plenty of research into both subjects with many favorable results to me on the back end.

This is exactly how car insurance works.

If you don't live in an area where women have very obviously become just as obnoxious and commandeering as men overall, it sounds like living in paradise to me.



Paying nearly zero for car insurance is one of the very few "perks" that women have been grandfathered into since they were mistreated as a "race".......

There isn't ONE SINGLE GUY that works for the government or the insurance companies that will risk their career to make this Equal.



Have fun with your subsidized car insurance, Ladies.

Please do try to be responsible with it, huh? ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by JO753:


Sum people get caught up in a vage notion uv self sufficiensy that leadz them to blame individualz for all their problemz - az if the machinery uv our sosiety iz perfect and each uv us must function within it without complaint.

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An iconic scene, Magon. I gotta see that movie agen!


http://www.nooalf.com

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Wish, you'll find extremes for any activity. Extreme eating? Check. Extreme dieting? Check. Extreme running or exercising? Check. Extreme alcoholism? Check. Extreme religiosity? Abstemiousness? Exhibitionism? Prudishness? Them too.


.... that life is the Roman arena, the war of all against all, where no humanity is shown, or given.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Guess I shouldn't notice or care that CHILDREN ARE BEING STARVED AND STOMPED TO DEATH. OVER A GAME."

First of all, the story says nothing about stomping.

And ... one example out of millions of people? It makes a very weak case against video games

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
But at the end of the day, it IS video games that are causing it. They ARE addictive to many people- esp. with OCD and ADD and ADHD, and those disorders are suffered by men far more than women. It's like when Coke actually had cocaine in it, or tons of caffeine in a Red Bull, or nicotine in cigs. Pandering to people with little resistance is a dirty move, but no one seems willing to admit it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Men are hard-wired to make accomplishments.

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Originally posted by JO753:
. They never run out.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:


So, I guess I should just write off the entire human race, declare the situation as hopeless, and rail against anyone who says different.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
I don't see how it really has anything to do with video games. Sounds like a lazy guy, and a woman who enables it. If it weren't video games, itd be football or something else.

Saying it's all because of video games is kinda silly, I feel.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"I just spent ten minutes marveling at all the horrible hateful trolls that comment on that poor little girl that got shot by the uber driver. If people ..."

What percentage of the population do you think those trolls represent? 100%? 10%? 1%? 0.1%?

Let's see ... assuming that 1000 people trolled - and that's being generous to make sure I'm not being too optimistic ... and there are 251,200,000 adults in the US (2014 figures), the trolls represent 0.000398089% of the adult population in the US. But let's say there were 100,000 trolls, just to give your assessment of US 'people' a sporting chance. It's still just 0.0398089% of the US adult population.


I hope I've made my point - that your opinion of 'people' in the US is based on an infinitesimally small percentage, which for some coughdelusionalcough reason you think is a realistic representation of the whole.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

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Originally posted by 1kiki:


What percentage of the population do you think those trolls represent? 100%? 10%? 1%? 0.1%?

I hope I've made my point - that your opinion of 'people' in the US is based on an infinitesimally small percentage, which for some coughdelusionalcough reason you think is a realistic representation of the whole.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
There isn't anything I could ever say that would convince you they aren't the dream boxes you seem to think they are, so why bother arguing your point?

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
You aren't married, you don't have kids- have at it.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
It's the generation of kids that are being affected that bothers me. They don't have any choices. They don't have any parents, either.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
People are addicted. It's an addiction. Which explains the blowback when anyone bothers to point out it's an addiction, because addicts tend to not like it when you point out an addiction. Try talking about video gaming addiction seriously to a room of gamers and see how many death threats you get.

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