Ladies, Gentlemen, calm down. All of you.
Uncle, you did not really get my meaning. I generally agree with the gamers that Jack is overreacting and fighting something that isn't worth fighting. Just because I play Unreal Tournament on a more or less regular basis, I don't feel the sudden urge to grab me a Shock Rifle and blow people up using a cleverly executed Shock Combo. But I do feel a little shaky for about five minutes afterwards and prefer to do little to nothing in the half hour following my playing. But that's because I'm tired and not ready to kill. I'm ready to kill when I'm shopping on Saturday afternoons and when my bus is filled with old people that make us late for more than 15 minutes on a way that usually takes five.
But what I'm saying is that the gamers who argue that gaming doesn't make you run amok as soon as someone calls you stupid or there's someone saying the words "Headshot" in a crowded area shouldn't get all heated and call people names, especially not the ones who are in desperate need of ground to stand on (the anti-gaming-faction for example). They can take every single word of what you say and prove, without a doubt, that you're ticking timebombs. So, the calmer you stay, the less of a case the AG-Faction has. Child's Play and stuff are nice things, but they're, as you noticed, overlooked. So what you need to do is just stay calm, brush off everything they throw at you and be smarter than them. Because one day, you could go "If we're the ticking timebombs, why's Jack always the one yelling?" and then you could follow up with proof. Lots of it. But right now they could practically prove you're all spree killers waiting for a gun by just browsing through this section.
And I doubt videos like the one with the kid levelling up in WOW are of any help. Because that is just one idiot.
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Originally Posted by Peanut
But I'm not raving like a lunatic. That's the part you don't seem to understand.
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But you sound like one. And because we can't see you and Jack can't see you calmly sitting in front of the screen, drinking a glass of apple juice, we have to assume that you're foaming and smearing the word "kill" in your own feces on the wall of your room that has been made into a weapons chamber.