Why you gotta hate on vidya

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As an avid gamer and a "video games are art" campaigner as well as a gaming blogger and a lets player seeing people spitting on video games (figuratively of course) makes me twitch uncontrollably. Now I'm going to ATTEMPT to go through all the problems I have with the most common criticisms people give about video games without removing my eyes with a spoon.

The first thing I hear people say, games make people violent/are responsible for certain acts,  yeah, ok, I'll agree with that, but you've gotta remember other forms of media can and have been responsible for violent acts, there are two examples I can think of off the top of my head relating to movies and, brace yourselves, BOOKS! That's right folks, books can be the root of violent acts. The movies example dates back a year or two ago, some bloke beheaded his spouse while on holiday and I read something some weeks after the incident happened that he was imitating something form Predator or something similar, its been about a year so the details are a bit hazy at this point. Now onto the true intellectual art form, books! This incident is very well known and dates back to 1980, the assassination of John Lennon, I assume you all know the story, the shooter was supposedly inspired by Catcher in the Rye, I don't really know much more about it though, really shoulda researched it before I started this and I cannot be bothered to do it now so I'm gonna leave it there. In a nutshell, video games can promote violence, but so can books, TV shows, movies, music, politics, religion, the list goes on and on ad infinitum.

The second thing people spew is video games are addictive, got a bit of news for you, EVERYTHING (literally everything) CAN BE FUCKING ADDICTIVE. People get addicted to all sorts of things, things like drugs, TV, sex, books, exercise, eating, dieting, pornography, violence, adrenaline, again, AD IN-FI-NIT-UM, its something you cannot control so why don't you push for bans on fucking treadmills while you're at it, the idea is moderation, if you really think banning video games is the only resolution then I do not want to share a planet with you, please kill yourself.

Third stupid BS, video games make you stupid, ok, lets examine myself (vain I know), I play video games constantly, I must clock at least 10 hours a day when I'm out of school or what have you and I've been a gamer since I was 6 years old, at the time of writing this I am 19 years old so yeah, avid gamer for 13 years, now let me run through my A-level grades which I got about 2 weeks ago, B, D, Distinction*, that may not seem too impressive but it is enough for me to continue onto a honors degree in game development, a career which demands advanced programming skills, consider your argument dismantled.

And now onto the fourth and final point, video games teach you nothing, ok firstly, some can, I know thats kinda bullshit without examples but fuck you go do the research yourself, and secondly I am currently reading a book by Gareth Roberts called Shada, it is a lost Doctor Who serial and the only novelized serial by the late Douglas Adams, it is entirely fictional, it's not like 11.22.63 which is based on true events and has genuinely taught me a thing or two about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald, but Shada? Not a single fucking thing with the exception of what that serial was to consist of, does that make that book bad?

 Right that's all I can think of, I might come back to this at a later date and amend it but until then I am going to play Mother 3 or sacrifice a goat to the mighty lord Satan or something evil like that, buhbyee.

I'll be back later this week or sometime next week for another psuedo-review and a little revisitation of New Super Mario Bros. seeing as I've gotten a bit further and have new likes and gripes about it.

Until next time!
TheWardy signing off.

P.S. I have now jumped onto the community bandwagon and created my own Facebook page, not the best thing in the world but I think you should check dat sheeet out.

P.P.S. Here's another page that me and my girlfriend co-admin.