Sorry, Kids, All the Presidential Candidates Hate Video Games - Polidicks

[url]https://heatst.com/tech/sorry-kids-all-the-presidential-candidates-hate-video-games/[/url] [QUOTE]Politicians love to rag on video games. Over the years, games have wound up as the scapegoat for countless problems and tragedies. From sexism to school shootings to lazy kids to literal loss of limbs, politicians of all persuasions love to blame the games. So which presidential candidate could be the standard bearer of an industry so many Americans love and want protected? Who will stand up to the censors and let games be games?[/QUOTE]

this seems like a very rational well-written article

Holy shit what a terrible source. Yeah, it sucks that Hillary, Bernie, and Donnie have said bad things about video games. But this is what your source has. A video of a statement from Bernie after Sandy Hook in 2012. A tweet from Donald trump, also after the Sandy Hook shootings. A video from Clinton in 2005. In the context of the 2016 general election, not only is this unhelpful because of age, but it doesn't go into their views with any depth. It's clickbait.

Not really sure what I just wasted my time reading. [editline]1st June 2016[/editline] Not really sure what I just wasted my time reading. What does their past statements out of context of current events ranging from 2-20+ years relevant to today.

i didn't know many people over 50 don't like/play video games who would have thought

[QUOTE=cdr248;50440883]i didn't know many people over 50 don't like/play video games who would have thought[/QUOTE] It's always weird when you find that 80 year old in your raid group. I just imagine them as this grandpa that posts memes and shitposts in threads and it makes me laugh.

hating video games is just part of the "angry old person syndrome" which all three have

gotta love how videogames are a hundred billion dollar industry now and yet politicians seem to still treat them as they were arcade cabinets. at what point does the videogame industry become mature enough to no constantly have to weather the lashings of political moods? its also one of the largest employers for a few generations of graphic artists, coders, and all sorts of STEM related fields, but its constantly derrided by the government as being a bunch of dude-bros in a basement. EA certainly wouldn't get away with the shit they do if they were a hollywood studio, but because they're just another one of those groups of guys in the basement like all other game studios its fine that they treat their workers as slaves and consumers as garbage, and oh ya, consistantly break the fucking law with their DRM and anti-compedative practices

[QUOTE=Sableye;50441007]gotta love how videogames are a hundred billion dollar industry now and yet politicians seem to still treat them as they were arcade cabinets. at what point does the videogame industry become mature enough to no constantly have to weather the lashings of political moods?[/QUOTE] Not until there is a new scapegoat for the media to scaremonger to parents over. The next one will probably be virtual reality, the media will likely pretend VR is exclusively for creepy sex perverts to simulate assaulting children or some stupid shit. Also, once a generation thats grown up with video games is actually in power, it will *probably* stop, though im hesistant to say that for sure because the diversity of video game experiences is so wide that it may be that people still freak out over whatever genres they didnt experience once theyre older.

Well yeah. Of course they're going to be against violent video games after a school shooting. They're going to be against violent forms of all media, because they'd rather pin the possible cause of aggression the young shooter had on what kinds of games they play or shows they watch rather than any psychological issues they might have had. In most experiences, violent video games don't encourage non violent people to commit violence, the most they could probably do is reinforce violent tendencies in those who already have violent tendencies.

i stopped reading after [QUOTE]Maybe he’s not the cool socialist grandpa in all those internet memes, after all. Maybe he’s just another pro-censorship sensationalist like the rest of his generation.[/QUOTE] Lmao, what a shit article

Tell Hillary that most people love video games and the next day she would undoubtedly make a statement about how she too loves video games.

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;50443431]Tell Hillary that most people love video games and the next day she would undoubtedly make a statement about how she too loves video games.[/QUOTE] "Video games? Yeah! I love video games! Have you seen my Farmville? And Candy Crush is so much fun!!!!"