"Frumpy Mom" Says Videogames Made by the Devil

[PhunkyPhazon]

"On one horrible afternoon that scarred me for life, I even saw a kid walking out of the public library playing a Nintendo DS."

And I thought I was the one who doesn't get outside enough.

 

[Straz]

Hmm...some people take things to seriously. Jeez. We have an xbox at our church. I'm quite a gamer, and I lead worship.

People need to chill.

An Xbox in your church?
Cool.

 

[Straz]

what a *****, she's using 2 examples of people who have taken video games to the extreme and saying that anyone who plays them is like that, such ignorance makes me realize why the world hates americans.

Americans?
How about we broaden that to PEOPLE.
People are shit.
People hate people.
Btw, I think that it is fairly logical to say that pretty much all of humanity's greatest sins and tragedies can finally have a definitive cause: Video Games.
That explains the holocaust.

 

[diemwing]

Is "someone says something stupid on the internet" really worth noting?

 

[FinalGamer]

Well she at least calls herself frumpy. That's putting it lightly. I don't suppose she watches television ever at all and saw what kids were like with that back when TV was worth watching for them?

 

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

Hmm...some people take things to seriously. Jeez. We have an xbox at our church. I'm quite a gamer, and I lead worship.

People need to chill.

An Xbox in your church?
Cool.

Yes it is.

 

[DeviousCrypto]

Having an article like this where someone rants about videogames is like putting a dead cow carcass in a room full of wild buzzards and telling them that they aren't allowed to eat it.

Anyways, I play games and pride myself on being literate, social, and not a 'drooling, glassy-eyed stooge.' The kid came home cranky is because you made him leave before he could goad his friend into letting him have his own personal save. Duh.

On the point that if Sir Isaac Newton was playing a DS under the apple tree, I'm pretty sure the apple would hit him in the head, cause him to lose the game he was playing and have to start over again. Ipso facto, he'd write up that gravity is Satan which causes your days hard work turn into nothing and makes you get a silver on the Cooking Mama dish he was preparing.

On a side note: I'm pretty sure I learned to read from reading the game manuals that comes with the game on the trip home, so what now?

 

[The Heik]

"Frumpy Mom" Says Videogames Made by the Devil

According to a staff writer at The Orange County Register, videogames were created by Satan to turn children into "drooling, glassy-eyed stooges." And it gets worse from there.

Marla Jo Fisher refers to herself as a "Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom" on The Mom Blog. Her post from December 27th was called Jean Teasdale [http://themomblog.freedomblogging.com/2009/12/27/video-games-were-invented-by-the-devil/42149/], her anti-gaming message is all too real.

"After my son plays [games] at his friends' houses, he comes home irritable and testy for the rest of the day," she said. "Even though his skin is normally mocha-colored, after a day spent in a darkened room with a controller in his hand, he comes home with a sickly pallor."

Fisher goes on complaining that she sees kids playing games everywhere, "On one horrible afternoon that scarred me for life, I even saw a kid walking out of the public library playing a Nintendo DS."

From there, she extrapolates that kids are dumb and starts rewriting history:

When do kids ever think these days? When do they ever have brains free from electronics long enough to ponder the universe? To think of things that might someday lead them to a cure for cancer?

If Sir Isaac Newton had been playing a DS, I'm sure he never would have noticed the apple falling from the tree, so he never would have formulated the theory of gravity.

I'm going to refrain from commenting further on this article. I leave that to you, faithful denizens.

Source: Orange County Register [http://themomblog.freedomblogging.com/2009/12/27/video-games-were-invented-by-the-devil/42149/]

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Well the fact that we, specifically those supposed "drooling, glassy-eyed stooges.", are discussing this topic proves that this lady is both wrong and stupid.

 

[brtshstel]

She's just a sex-starved, middle-aged, fat, desperate housewife with a husband that's probably staying late at the office with his hot 25-year-old secretary. She had a few minutes to kill before she had to pick up the kids in the SUV her husband bought, since The View was over. What does she do? Gobble down some Doritos and Diet Coke (because Diet Coke cancels out any junk food she eats), and plop her fat ass in front of a blog site and complain about how her kids are stupid spoiled brats and blame video games instead of her lousy parenting.

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[Backup Bruv]

There is only one term that can be used to sum up my feelings towards this stupuid rambling:
BOOM!HEADSHOT----{x.x}--->

 

[rabidmidget]

Is that her son in the picture, because he's playing Mario Kart.

If Sir Isaac Newton had been playing a DS, I'm sure he never would have noticed the apple falling from the tree, so he never would have formulated the theory of gravity.

Maybe if he was playing this.

That sir, was pure win

 

[azurawolf]

Overly-religious extremely conservative people are idiots. End of story.

If video games are made by the devil, then call me satanist and give me something to sacrifice.

That made my day.

I'm going to refrain from commenting further on this article. I leave that to you, faithful denizens.

Why thank you

*ahem*

What a fucking moron

Thank you and goodnight!

There really is nothing left to be said after that.

 

[atombeast707]

Overly-religious extremely conservative people are idiots. End of story.

If video games are made by the devil, then call me satanist and give me something to sacrifice.

/thread

 

[RootbeerJello]

Holy motherfucking christ. I'm pretty sure I posted on this earlier, but I just read the comments section and the author's responses, and I realize we're dealing with an unreasonably obnoxious person. After a poster said she was probably faking she responded "You probably think the CIA killed JFK".

 

[Murdering Monk]

so...i worship satan by playing games?

 

[Flack]

Maybe if she was less of an annoying irraditional *****, her son wouldn't feel the need to escape to go and play video games.

This.

The woman was obviously abused by a video game as a child in a dark alley somewhere.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'm surprised such a fanatical religious woman would actually want kids to be pondering the Universe. Pondering the Universe makes kids start thinking and asking questions, you know questions about your God and what not.