In a current column over at the The Times on the web, a guest contributor named Giles Whittell wrote one of the most ridiculous articles I have ever read on the subject of video games. And while he may be entitled to his thought, his belief that video games are the root of all evil and on par with “heroin and teenage parents” isn’t only sickening, but ludicrous.
In his piece entitled, “Video games: I’ll never buy one”, Whittell outlines his hatred for video games and his utter lack of knowledge about what the form of entertainment really means to kids and society.
“I hate video games, on or offline,” he spewed. “I hate the way they suck real people into fake worlds and hold on to them for decades at a time. I hate being made to feel hateful for saying so, and I hate being told to immerse myself in them before passing judgment, because it feels like being told to immerse myself in smack and teenage pregnancy before passing judgment on them.”
Whoa. Calm down, Giles. Smack and teenage pregnancy? That’s a new one. Not too sure about you, but where I come from, smack usually involves a nose or a syringe. Oh and pregnancy, yeah, that usually involves something a bit more intimate than pressing buttons on a piece of plastic.
But I digress. What is wrong with this character? Obviously this is a man that’s both misguided and misinformed about what’s really going on in the world of video games.
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source The Digital Home
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