How video games keep revolution from occuring

[Anti Federalist]

Too long to copypasta, but a piece from Reason mag about young men who replace work with video games, also indicates to me why revolution will never happen, because the young men that drive revolutions when out of work are placid and docile in their parent's basement, glued to video games.



Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/13/young-men-are-playing-video-ga

Video games, you might say, offer a sort of universal basic income for the soul.

[fisharmor]

When you raise kids that can't go outside unattended until they're in high school, you end up with adults that stay inside.

[nikcers]

I blame rap music, poisons the mind, I call it crap music.

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[juleswin]

Don't forget the free porn. Video game habit can be pricey, its not exactly something you can indulge in if you don't have money. The free to play games aren't actually that free if you actually play to win. It is free to play but you have to pay to win and at the end, you end up spending more than the cost of a real game.

Avid video game player here but the revolution for me would only start when someone tries to give me a real gun and force me to kill someone who did nothing to me. That person would most likely get the first bullet. Not going to be submissive like the WWI and WWII folks who when they were instructed went willingly to he killing field without complaining to kill their brothers and sisters overseas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHYxaN3SUc

This is where I can be seen practicing the revolution that is never going to happen. If anyone still plays the 5 yr old game wants to play together, send me a PM, I have over 400 hrs of game time and very good at what I do :).

Stay away from porn free or not, that is the real revolution boner killer.

[DamianTV]

Welcome to Brave New 1984, a strange hybrid where people take constant doses of SOMA while tolerating the boot heel stepping on the face of mankind, forever.

SOMA - The highly addictive drug that keeps people blissfully unaware and uninterested in anything but passive obedience to the system. Video Games, Movies, TV, Facebook, your cell phone, everything is used as a distraction to keep people uninvolved in the actions of their govt.

[Ender]

When you raise kids that can't go outside unattended until they're in high school, you end up with adults that stay inside.

Basically this^^^^

And it's not all bad- read Ender's Game.

Video drones are destroying the ME but a few bright souls may turn them into protection for locals.

[Mikezelot]

Couldn't you say this about any hobby? Sports, gardening, stamp collecting ect. ect.

[juleswin]

Couldn't you say this about any hobbie? Sports, gardening, stamp collecting ect. ect.

Video games unlike gardening, sports, stamp collecting takes you out of the real world and into a fantasy setting, is a huge time sink and at the end of the day, you really gain nothing tangible out of it. I can be getting my hands dirty gardening and still be worrying about some state ordinance about gardening laws etc.

I think all hobbies contribute a little but video games and pornography especially take the cake

[nikcers]

Video games unlike gardening, sports, stamp collecting takes you out of the real world and into a fantasy setting, is a huge time sink and at the end of the day, you really gain nothing tangible out of it. I can be getting my hands dirty gardening and still be worrying about some state ordinance about gardening laws etc.

I think all hobbies contribute a little but video games and pornography especially take the cake

I think I gained all of my technical skills needed in order to get my first few jobs because of my computer gaming hobbies. It definitely helped more then reading technical books.

[timosman]

I think I gained all of my technical skills needed in order to get my first few jobs because of my computer gaming hobbies. It definitely helped more then reading technical books.

Congrats on your job at Walmart.;)

[nikcers]

Congrats on your job at Walmart.;)

I've never had to work for minimum wage with the technical skills I gained building gaming computers.

[juleswin]

I think I gained all of my technical skills needed in order to get my first few jobs because of my computer gaming hobbies. It definitely helped more then reading technical books.

I used to know how to operate DOS system way back in the day but now with consoles and pre packaged ready to consume games, you ain't learning any technical skills playing games. Those days are behind us

[nikcers]

I used to know how to operate DOS system way back in the day but now with consoles and pre packaged ready to consume games, you ain't learning any technical skills playing games. Those days are behind us

Yeah back when pressing the Turbo button on your PC made your game go faster- PC gaming isn't even what it was 10 years ago back when I used to do it a lot, it was never on ESPN.

[Brian4Liberty]

Bread and circuses have come a long way. Easy bread from parents and/or EBT. With a old fashioned circus, there was too much actual human contact. Dangerous for the establishment. Too easy to redirect mobs into destruction. Better to keep individuals separated, isolated and monitored.

[P3ter_Griffin]

Makes me think Ron and Dan should do their news show over a match of team fortress 2 or whatever the hottest new multiplayer game is. IMO unless these people are libertarians I'd rather have them playing video games over carrying a pitchfork for the latest populist candidate that presents a 'solution' for their woes.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

This is shit. People are holed up playing video games because there's no fucking jobs for them to do.

The real reason people are docile and just take it up the bureaucratic ass is because over 50% of the population are on "depression" and "anxiety" medication that make them not care about anything, even human lives, which is why many go crazy and kill others/themselves.

[Ender]

This is $#@!. People are holed up playing video games because there's no $#@!ing jobs for them to do.

The real reason people are docile and just take it up the bureaucratic ass is because over 50% of the population are on "depression" and "anxiety" medication that make them not care about anything, even human lives, which is why many go crazy and kill others/themselves.

This is also true.

Had a good friend commit suicide a couple of weeks ago- he was a fun, terrific, lovable guy. NO ONE saw it coming; was a shock & extremely sad.

[afwjam]

Yeah but they announced a new Metroid for the Nintendo Switch today... what if the real reason we are in this situation has nothing to do with the generations who play video games and everything to do with the generations that came before?

[Ender]

Yeah but they announced a new Metroid for the Nintendo Switch today... what if the real reason we are in this situation has nothing to do with the generations who play video games and everything to do with the generations that came before?

Shocked, I tell ya. ;)

[timosman]

Yeah but they announced a new Metroid for the Nintendo Switch today... what if the real reason we are in this situation has nothing to do with the generations who play video games and everything to do with the generations that came before?

I blame the big bang for almost everything.

[morfeeis]

When you raise kids that can't go outside unattended until they're in high school, you end up with adults that stay inside.

In defense of the children of Arizona it will be 106 tomorrow, 109 the next day and 111 the day after that. going outside could be deadly, so they are better off inside drinking a beer i mean water...

[angelatc]

This is shit. People are holed up playing video games because there's no fucking jobs for them to do.
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Even last year I would have agreed with you but now I see plenty of help wanted signs.

[Swordsmyth]

Everything has it's place, Anything can be manipulated or abused.

[VIDEODROME]

I do think playing video games were helpful for me when I later went to Truck Driving school and got my Class A CDL. It takes timing to double clutch and it's good plan for what's going around you or further down the highway.

As for revolt, who is the enemy? Government? Or the Lobbiests that bought and bribed the government? Should people storm their corporate offices or grab the CEOs? Or use a crowd funding effort to raise enough money to out spend them?

After a Revolt, what is the plan for Reform?

[Lamp]

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/174/256/5d5.jpg

[bunklocoempire]

Video games are just new adornments for the temples of the god of self.
Why don't the kids know about the god of self? Bad parenting/no parenting.

[dannno]

I used to know how to operate DOS system way back in the day but now with consoles and pre packaged ready to consume games, you ain't learning any technical skills playing games. Those days are behind us

You obviously never played Quake mods.

[juleswin]

You obviously never played Quake mods.

Nope, but what about quake that teaches you technical skills?

[nikcers]

Nope, but what about quake that teaches you technical skills?

I dunno about just playing quake, but I was always building computers to play Quake 2, Doom and Duke 3d and Starcraft and stuff.. Between making my own Ethernet cables and computers and connecting small networks to play pc games we called it "lanning" with my friends I was pretty much A+ certified and network + certified as well, not only that I could type over 100 words per minute. I didn't play any less video games then the average burnout, its just like there might be more to it then video games.

[dannno]

Nope, but what about quake that teaches you technical skills?

A lot more than you will learn playing DOS games.

Essentially they made the game open source so people could make their own games using the quake engine. This where Team Fortress was invented.

Installing and running Mods in quake was more difficult than playing a DOS game.

http://kotaku.com/the-mods-that-are-keeping-quake-alive-in-2017-1792040503

(http://kotaku.com/the-mods-that-are-keeping-quake-alive-in-2017-1792040503)

[shakey1]

Bread and circuses have come a long way. Easy bread from parents and/or EBT. With a old fashioned circus, there was too much actual human contact. Dangerous for the establishment. Too easy to redirect mobs into destruction. Better to keep individuals separated, isolated and monitored.

Divide & conquer.

[nikcers]

Divide & conquer.

I prefer command & conquer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0HCnwm4zho

[VIDEODROME]

I used to know how to operate DOS system way back in the day but now with consoles and pre packaged ready to consume games, you ain't learning any technical skills playing games. Those days are behind us

Mutliplayer games will lead to different skills, like Networking or Router troubleshooting.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Even last year I would have agreed with you but now I see plenty of help wanted signs.help wanted for what, 12 hour a week clerk/maintenance jobs?