07-09-2006, 06:38 AM
In this I can totally relate to you, senjuro. My mother brings up the videogame topic whenever she wants to rebut me in anything. Some of her favorite thoughtless phrases are:
'Videogames have ruined your life'
'You don't gain anything, you don't become more cultured'
'I don't know how you can spend hours and hours playing those'
'What awful monsters! No wonder you always have nightmares!'(said a person that keeps watching thrillers and terror movies at the TV)
'If I could I'd dump your console'
'You don't drink or smoke, but you do have an addiction'
'You have lost the connection to reality. You think those games are the reality'
My theory is that people that don't understand something demonize it.
'Videogames have ruined your life'
'You don't gain anything, you don't become more cultured'
'I don't know how you can spend hours and hours playing those'
'What awful monsters! No wonder you always have nightmares!'(said a person that keeps watching thrillers and terror movies at the TV)
'If I could I'd dump your console'
'You don't drink or smoke, but you do have an addiction'
'You have lost the connection to reality. You think those games are the reality'
My theory is that people that don't understand something demonize it.