President Obama hates videogames ? we have a reason to doubt the messiah. Took a while to find one that wasn?t borne out of racism or hatred of being fair to people, but we've found one.
Sure, it may be grasping at straws to find fault with what he's saying, and sure it may just be the kneejerk defensive reaction of a gamer wronged that we're seeing ? with the potential for some old-fashion INTERNET JUSTICE to be doled out.
But hey ? we welcome reasons to dislike popular people.
Over the last few weeks President Obama has been mentioning games a bit in some of his speeches. While to the untrained eye/ear they may seem like a few innocuous and quite plausible statements of fact, to us with finely-honed aural receivers and optical… headsets… we can see it is yet another brutal attack from the mainstream.
They want to destroy gaming and make us all bored, or read celebrity news sites or something.
But thank Wolf for the Entertainment Consumer Association and their endless defence of the common gamer from the evils of this man who wants to give free healthcare to everyone (what a sod).
For they have stepped up to the plate and cried “NO!” to Obama’s statements where he pointed out that letting kids sit around all day watching TV and playing videogames isn’t going to help them in school.
Backing up this guttural roar, the ESA have launched a spam-campaign… sorry – “letter-writing campaign” to tell the prez how games are actually a force for all good in the world and that he shouldn’t ban them, as he’s clearly – CLEARLY – trying to do.
Hopefully it will stop him from saying such evil things as:
Parents, take your kids ? they're going to have fun, they're going to be in sports camps, they're going to be watching TV and playing video games. Once a week, take them down ? whether it's to a soup kitchen or to volunteer on a community project ? teach them what it means to be a real citizen. You?ll find that actually the kids love it, and it's going to make a lasting impression on them.
Or the ferocious outburst where he said:
To parents, we can't tell our kids to do well in school and fail to support them when they get home. For our kids to excel, we must accept our own responsibilities. That means putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. It means attending those parent-teacher conferences, reading to our kids, and helping them with their homework.
Since Jack Thompson buggered off people really have been grasping at straws as to who to slate, haven’t they? All Obama has said is that we should pay attention to what Kids These Days do, and not let them sit around all the time being big fat fatties.
Lest we forget though: the internet never loses a fight. Not even against the most powerful man in the world.
THIS WEEK: We decided we’ve had enough of this column and hecklerspray in general, and that we’re going to do a runner to Aruba with a seventeen-year-old cabin boy named Sven. As of next Monday, at least. Oh, we lost at FIFA 09 online a lot too, and scared people with our angry shouting.
Gordon says
He won’t take my precious Xbox away from me! God damn you, Obama! God damn you to hell! thx 4 the helthcare tho lol
Harry says
Digital addictions can be severe, and many can attest that when the overheated CPU suddenly dies with a loud snap through the speakers, sending the monitor permanently black, there can be a jolting existential crisis wherein reality has to be faced. Slowly one can remember how to read books again or converse intelligently, but before this normalization process can complete itself, the digiphile usually runs to the store and buys a shiny new computer, twice as fast and with pixels, texels and shaders enough to anti-alias its way through any game on the shelf, and Obama can just mind his own business. Anyway the real reason to fear and loathe him is the suggestion of a devouring increase in the powers of the Federal Reserve system, not just over the money supply but over corporate affairs and the economy in general. Fear it and shun it because the only thing certain about it is that it will cost everyone large amounts of money, and then how to buy a new computer?
OP: clearly unintelligent says
This article may be four years old, but the fact that you considered him
“the most powerful man in the world” quite effectively ruins all credibilty you may have had. Even in 2008 he was far from “the most powerful.” Having read some of your other foolish posts, i can and did easily come to the conclusion that you are a bumbling idiot. That is all, have a nice day.