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This time our friend takes a stab at video games. DeCoster, a woman who has probably never played a game in her life, claims that video games are the product of the state, and places praise on the blessed homeschoolers for not allowing their children to be taken in by this dreadful brain controlling state-induced escapism!
Little does she know, that the state is consistently at odds with video game players, and indeed there is probably no group less friendly to government incursions. Yes, DeCoster, insult the rising generation. You wrongly associate video games with idley sitting by the TV and have the nerve to say that interactive eletronic games have no cognitive benefits? The best strategy games today make chess, which I am sure is A-okay to you, look like Space Invaders. Sure, video games are escapism, but is not almost every other form of joy? Playing Diablo 2 will give any statistics course a run for its money. Want to know how I learned to read? Good old RPG's. In fact, if it were not for video games, I would not have even cared much for literature later on in life. The idea that gamers are unproductive social-anxiety filled losers seems to be unfounded. Sure there are extremes, but there is actually quite a bit of friendship building and community to be found in a world you do not understand. Why does every single item you post on Lew Rockwell make me feel like I am reading the literature on Pat Buchanan's coffee table? Please just think before you post and actually get to know the people you mock. Ad hominem? Sure, but its not any worse than what you, with near consistency, place daily for us to read.
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Talk about genetic fallacy. Where does Costner ever deride older video game players?
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Being a health nut, she makes comments like these for the sole purpose of stroking her ego. You treating her opinion as significant can only add fuel to the fire, as it were.
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krazy kaju: Talk about genetic fallacy. Where does Costner ever deride older video game players?
"Yeah, American kids - not homeschoolers! - are lost to the tube, no doubt. I always love the pro-video game, pro-TV (pro-amusement zombie) arguments: it's educational! it builds skills! it makes kiddies think!" - Karen DeCoster
Her post is titled "Plug-In Drug". I don't know how much more clear that she can be. And what is the difference between an older gamer and a younger?
Nintendo, between its video games and the accompanying magazines, taught me to read (and speak) English almost singlehandedly. How's that for a positive externality?
Anyway, some people just want a scapegoat for the things they dislike. Communists, al-Qaeda, the State, whatever fits. Expanding criticism of something to make it responsible for all the ills of society distills that criticism into irrelevance and makes it unlikely for others to give it the attention it deserves.
This is also a woman who has tried to set fashion advice on LRC.
...........Whatever.............
De Coster writes some good stuff, but she also has an inclination towards cranky conservatism that I can do without. I remember in a post she wrote a while back in which she claimed that any guy who wasn't keen on paying for the entire date, no matter who had asked whom out, was a "cheapo". So if a guy suggests going halfsies with a girl, he is a cheapo, but she is just fine if she declines to contribute a dime towards the date.
There is a festering conservatism there that interferes with her better insights.
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I agree, I like some of her stuff but her bizarre social conservatism is something I simply ignore.
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Telpeurion: krazy kaju: Talk about genetic fallacy. Where does Costner ever deride older video game players? "Yeah, American kids - not homeschoolers! - are lost to the tube, no doubt. I always love the pro-video game, pro-TV (pro-amusement zombie) arguments: it's educational! it builds skills! it makes kiddies think!" - Karen DeCoster Her post is titled "Plug-In Drug". I don't know how much more clear that she can be. And what is the difference between an older gamer and a younger?
If you read the entire blog post and followed the link, you would have noticed she is talking about a government-sponsored channel which is meant for toddlers and kids. Then she quotes the Detroit News article as saying that one third of kids aged six have a TV in their bedroom. She's obviously ripping on state-sponsored television and the three-hour-a-night government television show which is supposed to help children sleep.
I don't see how the blog is a full-fledged assault against video games and television for adults.
gocrew:I remember in a post she wrote a while back in which she claimed that any guy who wasn't keen on paying for the entire date, no matter who had asked whom out, was a "cheapo".
Crazy stuff right there.
Just wait until these kooks begin to write against things like stay at home husbands or poor manners. GodEarth forbid that.
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krazy kaju: Telpeurion: krazy kaju: Talk about genetic fallacy. Where does Costner ever deride older video game players? "Yeah, American kids - not homeschoolers! - are lost to the tube, no doubt. I always love the pro-video game, pro-TV (pro-amusement zombie) arguments: it's educational! it builds skills! it makes kiddies think!" - Karen DeCoster Her post is titled "Plug-In Drug". I don't know how much more clear that she can be. And what is the difference between an older gamer and a younger? If you read the entire blog post and followed the link, you would have noticed she is talking about a government-sponsored channel which is meant for toddlers and kids. Then she quotes the Detroit News article as saying that one third of kids aged six have a TV in their bedroom. She's obviously ripping on state-sponsored television and the three-hour-a-night government television show which is supposed to help children sleep. I don't see how the blog is a full-fledged assault against video games and television for adults.
Okay, why did she bring up video games in the first place? What's the difference between an adult gamer and a child gamer? There is none.
And I repeat:
"I always love the pro-video game, pro-TV (pro-amusement zombie) arguments: it's educational! it builds skills! it makes kiddies think!"
I remember rading a study a while back showing how gamers are becoming highly skilled surgeons thanks to their superior hand/eye coordination ... maybe obama health won't be so bad afterall ... lol
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Telpeurion:Okay, why did she bring up video games in the first place? What's the difference between an adult gamer and a child gamer? There is none. And I repeat: "I always love the pro-video game, pro-TV (pro-amusement zombie) arguments: it's educational! it builds skills! it makes kiddies think!"
Considering she clearly states "kiddies" indicates she's talking about little kids glued to the TV and playing "educational" computer games instead of playing outside
Giles, this is the second time a reply by you to me leaves me with very little idea what the heck you are getting at, although I am sure your cryptic reply amuses you greatly. At any rate, my offer still stands: make a coherent reply to me sometime and we can debate/discuss/exchange views.