VIDEO GAMES ARE ADDICTIVE, DESTROY FAMILIES, AND DESTROY LIVES.
-Stupid as hell news article, 2007.
You know what I say to that article?
ROFL.
Take a few minutes to read this article. Seriously. It's a good laugh.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flasands0621nbjun21,0,771832.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
See? Hilarious. This is my exact reply in that forum:
"I seriously laughed out loud when I read this article in the newspaper. I think it's hilarious how ignorant the general public can be to technologies they don't use. Ask an uncle who doesn't know about archery to buy you a bow and he thinks you're a violent maniac. I compare this to ADD. There's almost no proof it exists, yet it's backed by the AMA and there are plenty of drugs available to "cure" it.
You got a kid who acts up too much? BAM! Slap on the ADD label and milk it for all it's worth.
Got a kid who prefers his favorite strategy game over you, his bad parents? BAM! You can slap on him your new mental disorder. And now you don't have to do anything about it! Or you could give him drugs for a condition that's purely arbitrary... Out of spite maybe? Who knows.I play plenty of video games every day and my IQ is 136. I wonder how many crack addicts are that intelligent."
It really is 136. I'm reasonably sure. At least, that's what I got on one of my IQ tests...
Oh, and according to the ESA, 69% of American heads of households play video games regularly. I challenge any drug company to force it down America's throat that nearly 3/4ths of all American homeowning adults are miserable, friendless, antisocial addicts.
