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Maine GOP attack Dem for playing World of Warcraft!

hikari said:
You might not have provided any evidence that someone was communist, but you certaintly removed all doubt as to who the a**hole was. Like makeing wild accusations based on stereotypes you made up? Anonymity of the internet make you feel big and powerful yet, or do you need some more to satiate your insecurites?

There is plenty of evidence that a large portion of the US games and that these are normal productive people, you can dispute it, but you would be a moron if you do, based on the evidence already provided.
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The claim was everyone plays video games then later changed to everyone but me.

You can call me a moron all you like but I would personally love to see some real proof that the half of the world living in abject poverty with little real access to electricity is sitting around playing Nintendo. It would make for a fantastic ad to cut foreign aid spending.
 
Your Star said:
That was never my claim, that is your problem with reading comprehension.
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How can you continue to claim this?

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Everyone plays video games these days
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The video game industry is a mult-billion dollar industry, out preforming both music, and movies, so yeah everybody games.
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Post #60:
I've posted numerous facts that you are wrong, and just because you don't play games, doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't play games.
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(In response to my stating I don't play video games)
I meant everyone else
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That's FOUR separate quotes from you where you specifically say so.

Stupid it one thing but I'm just not going to continue responding to a dishonest poster.
 
Donahue said:
How can you continue to claim this?

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(In response to my stating I don't play video games)


That's FOUR separate quotes from you where you specifically say so.

Stupid it one thing but I'm just not going to continue responding to a dishonest poster.
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You obviously lack in reading comprehension. I never meant everybody, as in everybody in the world, that is a ridiculous claim. If you read back, the claim I made was that most everybody in the US plays games, and that is 100% true, so you can either pick at an argument I never made, or you can accept that facts, and realize that I am right. A majority of people in the US plays games.
 
Donahue said:
The claim was everyone plays video games then later changed to everyone but me.

You can call me a moron all you like but I would personally love to see some real proof that the half of the world living in abject poverty with little real access to electricity is sitting around playing Nintendo. It would make for a fantastic ad to cut foreign aid spending.
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The op article clearly said 211.5 million Americans play video games hence a 2/3 majority. At no point did any make the claim that Uganda has a majority of thier people playing games, and you know exactly what es meant becuase this all refers backs to the OP.

Either you have no comprehension, or you are being willfully ignorant just to argue, or as "us youngsters" would say a troll.
 
I still don't understand where playing WoW is a problem.
 
Please don't tell me this election year is going to turn to video games.
 
soccerboy22 said:
I still don't understand where playing WoW is a problem.
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It's a good means of separating out the weird or the childish from the normal. The opponents can capitalize on a huge generation gap (one that existed up to the early point of the last decade) and demonstrate that they "aren't ready" for grown-up activities like politics.
 
apdst said:
Not everyone. I don't. My wife doesn't. Most of my friends don't. The people I work with don't.

Of all the people I know, work with, am friends with, am acquaintances with and the conversations we have, video games is never a topic.

Again, I exist in the real world.
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Would that be the real Amish world?
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Please don't tell me this election year is going to turn to video games.
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I'd love it if it did.

we really need a badass politics game.
I'd play the crap out of it.. and it would free me from my Skyrim marathons

oh yeah, I'm a gamer too.. i've been gaming since there was gaming (Pong)..and i'll probably keep playing until I die.( which after being around the earth for 6 decades, isn't too far off)
 
Your Star said:
The video game industry is a mult-billion dollar industry, out preforming both music, and movies, so yeah everybody games.
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And no-one is screaming for a windfall profits tax??!
 
Fiddytree said:
It's a good means of separating out the weird or the childish from the normal. The opponents can capitalize on a huge generation gap (one that existed up to the early point of the last decade) and demonstrate that they "aren't ready" for grown-up activities like politics.
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video games are wasted on the young...and old codgers who don't game are probably the demographic who most needs the stress relief and fun that gaming provides.
 
Fiddytree said:
It's a good means of separating out the weird or the childish from the normal. The opponents can capitalize on a huge generation gap (one that existed up to the early point of the last decade) and demonstrate that they "aren't ready" for grown-up activities like politics.
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So video games are a weird or childish activity but teaching incredibly expensive horses to dance isn't? Personally, I can't think of many activities more ridiculous than trying to hit a small ball several hundred yards into a hole a few inches in diameter with a crooked stick...unless you count watching others do it as an activity.
 
Juiposa said:
The part that is shameful is actually two. First, that I am supposedly an Obama supporter, which I am not!!! Secondly is your rational that I play video games because I need to retreat into a fantasy world because I cannot handle the real world!!!! I play video games because the are fun FFS. Not because I am some dim witted uneducated sack of fat that cannot handle himself in the real world.

This was totally unwarranted, just because I enjoy "fantasy" worlds, I am somehow inferior to the likes of you that have to "retreat into make-believe and fantasy..." rhetoric that people are judged based on what form of entertainment they prefer.
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No **** eh?

I hope Grant has never read a book or seen a movie.

Only an idiot would have anything to do with fantasy worlds.

But this is the thing with Grant and he also does this when he says vile things about muslims, he says detestable things and then when he's called out on his crap he runs away from his comments and tries to pretend they don't mean what they obviously do.
 
Your Star said:
I'm 22, and you still haven't addressed my facts, that the majority of people in the US play games. (Hint: that was my claim that you failed to understand.)
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Acording to the figures you posted you are indeed correct in you original assertion that the video game industry has surpassed both the music and video industry in gross receipts. Also, the figures report 2/3rds of the US population plays video games (though how they could know that is a bit shaky, sounds like someone is spittballing for advertising effect).

Personally I find it's like the stats that the porn industry trumps all other entertainment media - sad.
 
Loki97 said:
So video games are a weird or childish activity but teaching incredibly expensive horses to dance isn't? Personally, I can't think of many activities more ridiculous than trying to hit a small ball several hundred yards into a hole a few inches in diameter with a crooked stick...unless you count watching others do it as an activity.
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Well, what do you think? Society had long associated video games with: 1) laziness 2) Childishness 3) Excessive violence and nihilism. This advertisement targets all three suggestions. Are you really believing that the target voters are video game players, or even more specifically, not potentially weirded out by online gaming culture? It can be a side, small issue. But if you can get people thinking about it in the back of their heads, well, it works out for her opponents.
 
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apdst said:
Again, I exist in the real world.
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Well gee I hope you've never read a book, gone to the movies, watched a TV show or played a board game.

You know you actually don't own Pennsylvania Ave in real life when you play Monolopy right?
 
Loki97 said:
Would that be the real Amish world?
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No, it would be the world where people actually build stuff and do things with their life rather than wasting it playing couch potato.
 
Loki97 said:
So video games are a weird or childish activity but teaching incredibly expensive horses to dance isn't? Personally, I can't think of many activities more ridiculous than trying to hit a small ball several hundred yards into a hole a few inches in diameter with a crooked stick...unless you count watching others do it as an activity.
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I bet you'd burn more calories with the crooked stick then with a +4 sword of geekness.
 
apdst said:
Don't look down your nose so hard, your eyes will cross.
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I just find it hard to believe that no one you know plays any sort of video game unless you live in some cloistered community. Do you count video poker? Maybe some of them secretly play The Sims for hours each night but hide it to avoid persecution by the local community.
 
clownboy said:
No, it would be the world where people actually build stuff and do things with their life rather than wasting it playing couch potato.
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So you are claiming that conservative leisure activities are always constructive? Please see my above post referencing golf and horse dancing.
 
soccerboy22 said:
He was obviously a horde player too.
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For the mother****ing horde!

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