Peter Moore Issues Fitness Challenge to Obama

[Andy Chalk]

He just used games as an example that could have easily been substituted with TV, reading or movies and said kids need to get outside. And to lay off the junk food. Where is the problem here?

The "problem," such as it is, is that Obama has touched on videogames, and only videogames, three times in the past ten days. He's not lumping it in with other time-wasters, like television; he's hammering on videogaming specifically.

I don't happen to see it as a big deal, I think it's just a reflection of the way gaming has emerged as a dominant form of entertainment in contemporary society, but I do love the way Moore managed to turn the matter to his advantage.

 

[Jumplion]

He just used games as an example that could have easily been substituted with TV, reading or movies and said kids need to get outside. And to lay off the junk food. Where is the problem here?

The "problem," such as it is, is that Obama has touched on videogames, and only videogames, three times in the past ten days. He's not lumping it in with other time-wasters, like television; he's hammering on videogaming specifically.

I don't happen to see it as a big deal, I think it's just a reflection of the way gaming has emerged as a dominant form of entertainment in contemporary society, but I do love the way Moore managed to turn the matter to his advantage.

But really, how many times have a loved one of yours or an old geezer tell you "get off the damn couch and do something!"?

Obama is using "video games" in a very broad term, it could probably be subsituted for "electric play-things" or "time-wasters" or just plain "games". They're general terms, they're not centered specifically around "Video Games", just "video games". Really, this whole thing is blown way out of proportion, people use the term "video games" much more than we think.

Hell, just this second my dad told me to "get off your computer games, we're leaving in 5 minutes!"

 

[insanejigsaw]

You know this is REALLY funny Obama vs Peter Moore. I play games everyday eat while playing and still aint fat I don't know what makes others fat.

 

[Lyri]

If anything Obama will change his statement from "All" to "most" that's all. Not every game comes with the sole purpose of fitness, so I don't really understand why he even made this proposition.

 

[Nargleblarg]

I don't really understand why he even made this proposition.

To try and make american parents feel like it isn't there fault that their little timmy is stuck to the couch having a stroke while holding a bucket of ice cream in his lap and also a controller. So there you go it's the games fault.

here's a good picture of what I'm saying

EWWW Take it away!!

 

[Lyri]

*snip*

Even still, it's going to be hard to cover up the fact that the Wii is the only console that has these fitness prephirals and it's only a game or two that can use it.
As I said, the statement will change to "most" instead of "all", perception won't be changed on the issue.