As I'm sure everyone in the world knows, there is currently an American election race going on at the moment. Reading my usual www.'s one being Gaming Politics i see Obama: "Put the video games away"
NOT ON MY WATCH
Barack Obama often refers to video games portraying them as being full of inappropriate and has compared the content to that of pornography and violance, and from the look of his recent speeches it doesn't look like he will quiet down about it.
Aparently Obama blaims video games as a, if not the, reasons for people's underachievments and short comings.
To summarize Obama's recent speech, he emphasizes how dramatically the video games industry (along with television) is keeping children from striving to succeed.
Quite strong words from Mr Obama indeed. I cannot stress how much i truly do disagree with such a mind set and statement.
This is purely from my own upbringing and lifestyle and unless i am a complete anomalous result in the thread of millions of gamers world wide well kudos to me however i hope i am not.
I am currently in my first year of 6th form in secondary school, taken chemistry, physics, maths, further maths and media studies and am predicted 4 A's and 1 B in them by the end of my A-levels. Yet how can this be when i spend around about 30 hours a week on a computer playing COD4, writing articles or just contributing to my usual web sites and forums ?
Oh and, every other weekend or so i go out with friends, get conned into an occasional lunch date and may even put a bit of food shopping in there on the side if the mood strikes me...
Oh man, if Obama, or Hillary for that matter as she has pointed her finger at the video games industry once or twice for the degenerate youth that seems to linger in America win the ellection, changes will soon follow in regards to the video games industry and it's relationship with children.
But at the end of the day
I live in the UK so it will most likely not effect me ^^
NOT ON MY WATCH
Barack Obama often refers to video games portraying them as being full of inappropriate and has compared the content to that of pornography and violance, and from the look of his recent speeches it doesn't look like he will quiet down about it.
Aparently Obama blaims video games as a, if not the, reasons for people's underachievments and short comings.
To summarize Obama's recent speech, he emphasizes how dramatically the video games industry (along with television) is keeping children from striving to succeed.
Quite strong words from Mr Obama indeed. I cannot stress how much i truly do disagree with such a mind set and statement.
This is purely from my own upbringing and lifestyle and unless i am a complete anomalous result in the thread of millions of gamers world wide well kudos to me however i hope i am not.
I am currently in my first year of 6th form in secondary school, taken chemistry, physics, maths, further maths and media studies and am predicted 4 A's and 1 B in them by the end of my A-levels. Yet how can this be when i spend around about 30 hours a week on a computer playing COD4, writing articles or just contributing to my usual web sites and forums ?
Oh and, every other weekend or so i go out with friends, get conned into an occasional lunch date and may even put a bit of food shopping in there on the side if the mood strikes me...
Oh man, if Obama, or Hillary for that matter as she has pointed her finger at the video games industry once or twice for the degenerate youth that seems to linger in America win the ellection, changes will soon follow in regards to the video games industry and it's relationship with children.
But at the end of the day
I live in the UK so it will most likely not effect me ^^
What a nub. :<
edit: after actually reading it, I support his opinion! Parents have to turn off the TV or put away the video games of their children more imo... as far as I understood it's not like he wants to ban video games from the planet ;)
Ich bin ein berliner
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In my opinion he's just saying that children should rather try to achieve something i.e. at school or in sports and video games probably aren't helpful for that ( I know that's a neverending discussion.. ;)), I don't think he actually means people should put the video games away. That's how I see it, I just noticed that my reply might have sounded pretty rough.. anyway if you have another opnion that's alright mate.
Amusing how people claim he's what America needs, when most people haven't a clue what he's all about - it's hidden behind the charming rhetoric!
if you think any politician is dumb enough to speak their mind before they are elected / try to make big changes your misstaken, all they do is kiss ass...for votes or campaign money...
id vote for Obama, not becouse im that into american politics, or his politics for that matter, just becouse the irony of a black man heading for the "whitehouse" is overwhelming...
people are tired of old white suits, thats why there will either be a woman... or a black man in the whitehouse next term
Do you expect him to technically detail his policies in his campaign stump? Have you ever heard Clinton doing that.
Of all the attacks on Obama, the taunt that it's all dreamy rhetoric is the lamest one.
And don't get your information from those "objective" Dutch or Belgian papers (Algemeen Dagblad? Volkskrant?) because their coverage of foreign elections is mostly horribly biased and only done by one reporter. Try reading the New York Times or Washington Post.
And you claim makes no sense. You only justify it by saying "Objective Dutch reporters wrote it". Read Obama's plan. Then read Hillary's plan. Both are meticulously detailed and lay out a very concurring vision, other than the use of mandates. It is not some sort of vision for utopia. They are concrete policy mixes and proposals that can be easily enacted into law, if support can be found.
Which is another big difference. Obama has the ability to reach across the aisle and has very low negatives with republicans and independents, unlike Hillary who will unite the Republican attack machine.
Otherwise it would be ultimate-aliance-of-negros-end-other-not-vanilla-face-ppl [im not nazi @ all, just a sad truth...]
I bet he is clanned.... hmm theres too many jokes to follow that ;)
It's common sense. He's not advocating the banning of TV nor videogames, but simply stating that watching tv and playing video games for over 8 hours a day, as many american children do, is unhealthy and should be discouraged.
Any anyway, even if you dislike the statement, you'd be a fool to not vote for him if you like his policies. If I despise one thing it's one-issue-voters.
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^^ that's all he said. OH NOES! THE DRAMA!!!
All he's saying is that as parents you have to motivatie your children more to not become a couch-potatoe but put energy in their ambitions.
Wow, yes he's really wanting to ban video-games.
In hindsight i possibly would have made it a column.