"Frumpy Mom" Responds To Attacks

[Arkhangelsk]

And here is my response to her response. I hope you enjoy reading it as I enjoyed writing it. My apologies for this wall of text:

Lady, with all due respect, you are anything but a profession writer.

Now excuse me as I ponder about how someone like me, being a pretty dedicated gamer and all since I was six, could breeze through 12-13 years of school while constantly remaining at the top 3 of the class in terms of academical and social skills and knowledge...

Well that didn't take too long. I'll go ahead and look forward to how college will be when I start in about six months from now. Bachelor degree of social and political science...I like the sound of that, it's catchy. Perhaps I will find further use of my extensive vault of knowledge concerning many things between heaven and earth besides what little they taught me in school, when I continue to learn about social studies by going for a masters or magistrate degree after I've achieved the first one...

Thank god I had games, books, Discovery Channel and a good mother to teach about the wrongness of doing like all the other, non-gamer kids, who frequently drink themselves to the point where the alcohol in their blood threatens to spontaneously catch fire and incinerate their oh so lucky non-gamer brains. If only they could get content with that, but no, they are non-gamers, they simply must use their extensive, uncorrupted and tanned heads to spread more of their wonderful genius in this world.

Goodbye now, lady-not-so-professional writer. Be careful, I can hear someone else expressing themselves through a harmless medium directed at the appropriate age-group. You better bring out the big guns. I hear Picasso was a nut, you should start insulting every person in the world who enjoys art. Hell, why stop there! Any culture except your overzealous, mind-blowing, gun-loving freakshow is an abomination and against God. The same dude who gave us free will and a consciousness to decide for ourselves what is right or wrong, and who taught us not to judge others lest we ourselves want to be judged.

Also, I'm surprised at how much you know about Harry Potter. If you only knew half as much about other things, you could have saved yourself from the searing flames of eternal ignorance. Too bad. Maybe you should meet my grandmother, she always says Harry Potter was made by the devil, and considering the writer of that is J.K Rowling, I'm starting to think that even my 80-year old illiterate grandmother has more sense, tolerance, and well-founded facts to support her thesis than you do.

That was an awesome comment, even though I like the Harry Potter books. I made similar points to my posts, and now I shall have a cookie for doing such a good job. You want one? [http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/06/chocolate_chip_cookie.jpg] Did you post it on her blog so she is sure to get it?

 

[Spiner909]

Can't say I am surprised at this, but she is pretty stupid.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Video game obsession is a serious illness in this country that many people recognize.

I don't care if 'many people' recognise it. I do care if the medical profession recognises it though. To my knowledge, neither the American Medical Association nor the American Psychiatric Association recognise Video Game Addiction as an official medical disorder/illness.

Unless she's willing to produce some medical degrees which can back up her diagnosis, I think she should go be quiet in the corner, because the real doctors who actually know about such things have deliberated it and found there to be inconclusive evidence.

If I have it right, I believe that a lot of findings specifically point to 'video game addicion' being an EFFECT of other problems already going on; not a self-sustaining problem. I probably have that worded wrong, but I think that's how it was.

I recognise that computer-game addiction can be a big problem, but usually there are other things going on and the person is using games as either escape or relief from them. Failure to recognise that smacks of ignorance on her part.

Of course, it is possible that someone could be addicted to computer games in and of itself, human behaviours being as complex and varied as they are, but I doubt it would happen even remotely often.

Although, someone should also tell her that sarcasm is very hard to tell over a non-verbal medium. Actually, I think a lot of people could do with getting a memo about that, not just her.

Although that said, all the people going to her and throwing flames/profanity/death-threats/death-wishes/notes with "Candle Jack" written on it in hopes she says it out loud her way without really thinking about what they're saying much definitely isn't helping out Gaming's case much.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

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That was an awesome comment, even though I like the Harry Potter books. I made similar points to my posts, and now I shall have a cookie for doing such a good job. You want one? [http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/06/chocolate_chip_cookie.jpg] Did you post it on her blog so she is sure to get it?

I also enjoyed the Harry Potter books, though I have to add that the writing itself was kinda sub-standard compared to other great authors who've had the same kind of success as Rowling. Her stories are good and I enjoyed reading them, but her skillz are not so 1337, if you know what I mean. This = teh 0nly w4y 4 me 2 sp33k, cuz I am a g@m?rZ! (That actually took 1.5 mins to write down - pretending to be stupid is hard...)

Thanks for the cookie man! I love cookies...

And yes, I did post it on her blog, and it's apparently awaiting moderation or whatever. If anyone need moderation, it's her fat ass...

Mine are awaiting moderation too. And yeah, her writing doesn't paint a picture as well as other writers (like Robert Jordan and such).

What annoys me the most about this frumpy person is that she's generalizing everything a gamer does wrong to all gamers. It's just like everyone that disagrees with Obama's policies is called a racist.

 

[mrblindcat1]

*raises hand*

 

[historybuff]

Aww, somebody call the Waaaaaaaaambulance~

 

[Deleted]

Albert was alive waaay before even Pong came out, and for video games to exist it would require knowledge like the theory of relativity and gravity (your Newton bullshit).

 

[shaun832]

Badmouthing Left 4 Dead? Okay, that's it, you crossed the line!

 

[brunothepig]

Aaaah. I can't even get angry about this stupid ***** any more. Just disappointed and frustrated with the state of humanity. You know what? Many people recognise the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the creator of this world. I have never ever even heard of an addiction clinic for gamers. And I'm actually one of the smartest people in my classes. In fact, those of us getting the high scores are; My girlfriend, one of my best friends, and the five guys whom I get together with occasionally to lan and play Dungeons and Dragons. We're all gamers. Explain that.

 

[Chunko]

Guys this is so obviously fake, come on.

 

[MattAn24]

And here is my response to her response. I hope you enjoy reading it as I enjoyed writing it. My apologies for this wall of text:

Lady, with all due respect, you are anything but a profession writer.

Now excuse me as I ponder about how someone like me, being a pretty dedicated gamer and all since I was six, could breeze through 12-13 years of school while constantly remaining at the top 3 of the class in terms of academical and social skills and knowledge...

Well that didn't take too long. I'll go ahead and look forward to how college will be when I start in about six months from now. Bachelor degree of social and political science...I like the sound of that, it's catchy. Perhaps I will find further use of my extensive vault of knowledge concerning many things between heaven and earth besides what little they taught me in school, when I continue to learn about social studies by going for a masters or magistrate degree after I've achieved the first one...

Thank god I had games, books, Discovery Channel and a good mother to teach about the wrongness of doing like all the other, non-gamer kids, who frequently drink themselves to the point where the alcohol in their blood threatens to spontaneously catch fire and incinerate their oh so lucky non-gamer brains. If only they could get content with that, but no, they are non-gamers, they simply must use their extensive, uncorrupted and tanned heads to spread more of their wonderful genius in this world.

Goodbye now, lady-not-so-professional writer. Be careful, I can hear someone else expressing themselves through a harmless medium directed at the appropriate age-group. You better bring out the big guns. I hear Picasso was a nut, you should start insulting every person in the world who enjoys art. Hell, why stop there! Any culture except your overzealous, mind-blowing, gun-loving freakshow is an abomination and against God. The same dude who gave us free will and a consciousness to decide for ourselves what is right or wrong, and who taught us not to judge others lest we ourselves want to be judged.

Also, I'm surprised at how much you know about Harry Potter. If you only knew half as much about other things, you could have saved yourself from the searing flames of eternal ignorance. Too bad. Maybe you should meet my grandmother, she always says Harry Potter was made by the devil, and considering the writer of that is J.K Rowling, I'm starting to think that even my 80-year old illiterate grandmother has more sense, tolerance, and well-founded facts to support her thesis than you do.

...I think I just came. xD That was simply the best post I've read all week. Logic and video games is winrar over frumpy and misunderstood! \o/

 

[Chewster]

Is this woman legit? Because this strikes me as being a bit suspect. I smell a hoax, and let it never be said that shenanigans were not called.

Also, why do you people hate this woman? Because she is exercising her right to prove to the world how out of touch she is? That might be foolish on her part, but there are far more evil people out there to save your hatred for. This woman is just another windbag with a computer.

This is the Internet, after all. There is no shortage of these types.

 

[Nannernade]

You know what else is a big problem in society miss who gives a fuck with what you have to say? Obesity, maybe "satan" is making us fat go blog about that so we can make fun of you for that too.

 

[Maibus]

You know, this is ignorance at its best, I wouldn't be surprised if the next they she started going for is the return of slavery. Video games get people thinking outside the box, true there are the great many gamers out there that are so young its insulting. However, look at it like this, those same young kids could be out on the streets, running with gangs, breaking the law, doing drugs and what have you, but as long as they're in front of that TV playing something like Mass Effect then you at least know what they're up to. My next point is to quell the argument of "Well what about what kids learn from games?" I feel that falls squarely upon the parents to actually LOOK at the box and see the "M" or the "T" ratings, not only that but most gaming consoles have special parental locks to prevent the playing of "M" rated games, infact those same locks extend to ALL the rating including under "E", and yes there is a rating below "E". I feel this woman might be a bit miffed because of what games can do, such as completely take the attention away from her and to a screen, I do however take great offense, as I'm sure every other gamer here does, at being called a moron and accused of a low self esteem. And yes I do know who Einstein was, does the name Gabe Newell mean anything to you? He's the dude with billions who makes and plays video games.

 

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