Video Games Make You Less Manly?

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do you always have to have fun?

Here I am working and all you want to do is have fun?

What next you going to start smoking pot and play video games for what FUN?

Go back to work.[/quote]

imagine, winning the lottery.

you have more money than your great-great grandkids would ever be able to spend.

would you spend your time smoking pot and playing video games?
[/quote]

Hookers and blow, dude. Hookers and blow.

[quote]Quick Ben wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do you always have to have fun?

Here I am working and all you want to do is have fun?

What next you going to start smoking pot and play video games for what FUN?

Go back to work.[/quote]

imagine, winning the lottery.

you have more money than your great-great grandkids would ever be able to spend.

would you spend your time smoking pot and playing video games?
[/quote]

Hookers and blow, dude. Hookers and blow.[/quote]

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Why cant we have both boobs and video games?

I have both at home?

But when Jlo says its time for sexy time. PS3 is turned off and I run.[/quote]
The problem is when you are an unmarried kid and sitting on your ass in front of a tv instead of on your bike cruising the neighborhood you will never see neighbor suzie in her bikini at the neighborhood pool and will never happen to peddle by when her parents are gone.

It’s one thing to be married, adult et cetera and use games in place of TV, it’s another to replace childhood with digital bullshit.

Once upon a time people actually played real football games around the neighborhood instead of pushing buttons and talking to jimmy down the street through a headset who probably couldn’t run the length of an empty lot if he wanted too.

[/quote]

HG think about that for a minute.

Fat kids who smoke, stay dumb and stay inside.

HG fit, rich, rolling with story’s of off shore fishing and mountain biking.

Who are hot chicks going to let mount them from the behind?[/quote]
Yeah but who am I going to pick on? Smear the queer isn’t fun when everybody playing is athletic and ballsy.

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Why cant we have both boobs and video games?

I have both at home?

But when Jlo says its time for sexy time. PS3 is turned off and I run.[/quote]
The problem is when you are an unmarried kid and sitting on your ass in front of a tv instead of on your bike cruising the neighborhood you will never see neighbor suzie in her bikini at the neighborhood pool and will never happen to peddle by when her parents are gone.

It’s one thing to be married, adult et cetera and use games in place of TV, it’s another to replace childhood with digital bullshit.

Once upon a time people actually played real football games around the neighborhood instead of pushing buttons and talking to jimmy down the street through a headset who probably couldn’t run the length of an empty lot if he wanted too.

[/quote]

HG think about that for a minute.

Fat kids who smoke, stay dumb and stay inside.

HG fit, rich, rolling with story’s of off shore fishing and mountain biking.

Who are hot chicks going to let mount them from the behind?[/quote]
Yeah but who am I going to pick on? Smear the queer isn’t fun when everybody playing is athletic and ballsy. [/quote]

Well you could always try being a racist?

[quote]Quick Ben wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do you always have to have fun?

Here I am working and all you want to do is have fun?

What next you going to start smoking pot and play video games for what FUN?

Go back to work.[/quote]

imagine, winning the lottery.

you have more money than your great-great grandkids would ever be able to spend.

would you spend your time smoking pot and playing video games?
[/quote]

Hookers and blow, dude. Hookers and blow.[/quote]

THIS!

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do you always have to have fun?

Here I am working and all you want to do is have fun?

What next you going to start smoking pot and play video games for what FUN?

Go back to work.[/quote]

imagine, winning the lottery.

you have more money than your great-great grandkids would ever be able to spend.

would you spend your time smoking pot and playing video games?
[/quote]

I don’t play the lottery, but I know what I would do.

I would buy me a big 'ole sail boat and hire a crew of… um… experienced… um… sailors.

And we would sail around the world while stopping at all the best diving spots.

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do you always have to have fun?

Here I am working and all you want to do is have fun?

What next you going to start smoking pot and play video games for what FUN?

Go back to work.[/quote]

imagine, winning the lottery.

you have more money than your great-great grandkids would ever be able to spend.

would you spend your time smoking pot and playing video games?
[/quote]

I don’t play the lottery, but I know what I would do.

I would buy me a big 'ole sail boat and hire a crew of… um… experienced… um… sailors.

And we would sail around the world while stopping at all the best diving spots.[/quote]I am a boating afficionado…

I agree. They’re probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to us, because they let us lead lives without ever living them, and “experience” things that we never experience.

I came across this when I was watching some clip of one of the “Fight Night” games. It was supposed to be some sparring match between Floyd and Manny to “prove” that Manny would win… and it occurred to me - 99 percent of the kids who are obsessed with or love that game have no idea what a boxing gym even smells like.

What really struck me was the background of the game. It looked like Floyd’s Vegas gym - open overhead garage doors, black floors, white cinder block walls, nice ring, etc. It looked SO FUCKING REALISTIC that I couldn’t get over it… those kids that really like that game, 20 years ago they’d be in a REAL FUCKING BOXING GYM. Now, they’re sitting on their couch, playing the game.

It was the same kind of irony that struck me when “San Andreas” came out - you could WEIGHTLIFT! In the fucking game! I could not get over the irony of a bunch of fat kids weightlifting in a game to get their character “jacked.” Even though they themselves couldn’t do a fucking pushup.

It allows us to kind of “do” all these things without ever doing them…and sitting there like zombies in front of the TV as we “pretend” to kill arabs in Call of Duty… while real guys are doing real shit in the real desert and dodging real bullets.

It seems ridiculous to me.

/rant.

[quote]Christine wrote:
I would buy me a big 'ole sail boat and hire a crew of… um… experienced… um… sailors.
And we would sail around the world while stopping at all the best diving spots.[/quote]

no comment on what I think your old roomie was doing with your fine set of hams?

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Why cant we have both boobs and video games?

I have both at home?

But when Jlo says its time for sexy time. PS3 is turned off and I run.[/quote]
The problem is when you are an unmarried kid and sitting on your ass in front of a tv instead of on your bike cruising the neighborhood you will never see neighbor suzie in her bikini at the neighborhood pool and will never happen to peddle by when her parents are gone.

It’s one thing to be married, adult et cetera and use games in place of TV, it’s another to replace childhood with digital bullshit.

Once upon a time people actually played real football games around the neighborhood instead of pushing buttons and talking to jimmy down the street through a headset who probably couldn’t run the length of an empty lot if he wanted too.

[/quote]

HG think about that for a minute.

Fat kids who smoke, stay dumb and stay inside.

HG fit, rich, rolling with story’s of off shore fishing and mountain biking.

Who are hot chicks going to let mount them from the behind?[/quote]
Yeah but who am I going to pick on? Smear the queer isn’t fun when everybody playing is athletic and ballsy. [/quote]

Well you could always try being a racist? [/quote]
Well that doesn’t fit my jive… I don’t like narrowing my odds at ass. Or does it not count when sex is on the line?

I would have been pissed if fat kids dissapeared to game rooms when I was a child. I needed something to let me know I was superior. Who would I be today had I thought I was average all those years ago?

Probably a fat kid.

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

That’s true. I thought it was pretty funny how he threw all these numbers around about how women are catching up to men in education and in the workforce. I;m thinkin the whole time, “okay so we are actually reaching equality in the work place. That’s fine with me.”

[/quote]

LOL. Well, that’s one way to look at it…the other is, it means tons of young men are no longer even trying to get a career meaning there will be a rather large social shift if men become the “Housemothers” while women earn more.

[/quote]

You’ve got to remember though that a guy could get a job at a factory or a manual labor type job at 18 and be self sufficient. That really isn’t true today at least not to the degree it once was. If you want to support a family you really do need to get an undergrad degree and especially today an advanced degree. I’m not saying boys today aren’t being lazy or that they lack any career ambitions, but I think getting pissed at 20-25 year old’s because they don’t have a career or a family is being a bit hasty.

I also think Williams should turn his hand right around and point at himself, his generation, and his kids generation for creating this trend.

[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
I agree. They’re probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to us, because they let us lead lives without ever living them, and “experience” things that we never experience.

I came across this when I was watching some clip of one of the “Fight Night” games. It was supposed to be some sparring match between Floyd and Manny to “prove” that Manny would win… and it occurred to me - 99 percent of the kids who are obsessed with or love that game have no idea what a boxing gym even smells like.

What really struck me was the background of the game. It looked like Floyd’s Vegas gym - open overhead garage doors, black floors, white cinder block walls, nice ring, etc. It looked SO FUCKING REALISTIC that I couldn’t get over it… those kids that really like that game, 20 years ago they’d be in a REAL FUCKING BOXING GYM. Now, they’re sitting on their couch, playing the game.

It was the same kind of irony that struck me when “San Andreas” came out - you could WEIGHTLIFT! In the fucking game! I could not get over the irony of a bunch of fat kids weightlifting in a game to get their character “jacked.” Even though they themselves couldn’t do a fucking pushup.

It allows us to kind of “do” all these things without ever doing them…and sitting there like zombies in front of the TV as we “pretend” to kill arabs in Call of Duty… while real guys are doing real shit in the real desert and dodging real bullets.

It seems ridiculous to me.

/rant. [/quote]

Darwin is a motherfucker

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
5% playing video games, 50% flying around the states to visit people I like and lifting with them, 75% of the time chasing Jlo naked around the house (cardio), 8% of the time sleeping.
[/quote]

I’d be doing the same thing.

(quickly runs out of the thread before Derek figgers it out)

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Why cant we have both boobs and video games?

I have both at home?

But when Jlo says its time for sexy time. PS3 is turned off and I run.[/quote]
The problem is when you are an unmarried kid and sitting on your ass in front of a tv instead of on your bike cruising the neighborhood you will never see neighbor suzie in her bikini at the neighborhood pool and will never happen to peddle by when her parents are gone.

It’s one thing to be married, adult et cetera and use games in place of TV, it’s another to replace childhood with digital bullshit.

Once upon a time people actually played real football games around the neighborhood instead of pushing buttons and talking to jimmy down the street through a headset who probably couldn’t run the length of an empty lot if he wanted too.

[/quote]

HG think about that for a minute.

Fat kids who smoke, stay dumb and stay inside.

HG fit, rich, rolling with story’s of off shore fishing and mountain biking.

Who are hot chicks going to let mount them from the behind?[/quote]
Yeah but who am I going to pick on? Smear the queer isn’t fun when everybody playing is athletic and ballsy. [/quote]

Well you could always try being a racist? [/quote]
Well that doesn’t fit my jive… I don’t like narrowing my odds at ass. Or does it not count when sex is on the line?

I would have been pissed if fat kids dissapeared to game rooms when I was a child. I needed something to let me know I was superior. Who would I be today had I thought I was average all those years ago?

Probably a fat kid. [/quote]

Sorry man, then carry on with the fat nerds.

Sorry to hear you need fat kids to make you feel superior. :slight_smile:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
5% playing video games, 50% flying around the states to visit people I like and lifting with them, 75% of the time chasing Jlo naked around the house (cardio), 8% of the time sleeping.
[/quote]

I’d be doing the same thing.

(quickly runs out of the thread before Derek figgers it out)[/quote]

Are we talking about a 24 hour day or an 18 hour day? where those 6 hours are really sleeping?

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high. But I could see the 50% of the time visiting a bunch of you guys.

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Why cant we have both boobs and video games?

I have both at home?

But when Jlo says its time for sexy time. PS3 is turned off and I run.[/quote]
The problem is when you are an unmarried kid and sitting on your ass in front of a tv instead of on your bike cruising the neighborhood you will never see neighbor suzie in her bikini at the neighborhood pool and will never happen to peddle by when her parents are gone.

It’s one thing to be married, adult et cetera and use games in place of TV, it’s another to replace childhood with digital bullshit.

Once upon a time people actually played real football games around the neighborhood instead of pushing buttons and talking to jimmy down the street through a headset who probably couldn’t run the length of an empty lot if he wanted too.

[/quote]

HG think about that for a minute.

Fat kids who smoke, stay dumb and stay inside.

HG fit, rich, rolling with story’s of off shore fishing and mountain biking.

Who are hot chicks going to let mount them from the behind?[/quote]
Yeah but who am I going to pick on? Smear the queer isn’t fun when everybody playing is athletic and ballsy. [/quote]

Well you could always try being a racist? [/quote]
Well that doesn’t fit my jive… I don’t like narrowing my odds at ass. Or does it not count when sex is on the line?

I would have been pissed if fat kids dissapeared to game rooms when I was a child. I needed something to let me know I was superior. Who would I be today had I thought I was average all those years ago?

Probably a fat kid. [/quote]

Sorry man, then carry on with the fat nerds.

Sorry to hear you need fat kids to make you feel superior. :slight_smile: [/quote]
Busted! But that was a long time ago…

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
5% playing video games, 50% flying around the states to visit people I like and lifting with them, 75% of the time chasing Jlo naked around the house (cardio), 8% of the time sleeping.
[/quote]

I’d be doing the same thing.

(quickly runs out of the thread before Derek figgers it out)[/quote]

Are we talking about a 24 hour day or an 18 hour day? where those 6 hours are really sleeping?

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high. But I could see the 50% of the time visiting a bunch of you guys. [/quote]

you miss the point, you meathead -

I’D be chasing Jlo around too, if I were to win the loto.

(shakes head)

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
5% playing video games, 50% flying around the states to visit people I like and lifting with them, 75% of the time chasing Jlo naked around the house (cardio), 8% of the time sleeping.
[/quote]

I’d be doing the same thing.

(quickly runs out of the thread before Derek figgers it out)[/quote]

Are we talking about a 24 hour day or an 18 hour day? where those 6 hours are really sleeping?

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high. But I could see the 50% of the time visiting a bunch of you guys. [/quote]

you miss the point, you meathead -

I’D be chasing Jlo around too, if I were to win the loto.

(rolls eyes, shakes head)[/quote]

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high so even your old ass could catch her

(shakes head at edgy missing the softball throw)

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high so even your old ass could catch her

(shakes head at edgy missing the softball throw)[/quote]

even better, I get winded easily in my advanced age.

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Jlo doesnt run very far so 75% is a bit to high so even your old ass could catch her

(shakes head at edgy missing the softball throw)[/quote]

even better, I get winded easily in my advanced age.[/quote]

She is only 4’11" so has little legs.