Become an alcoholic criminal with video games

Oh dear. So many sarcastic comments to make. I'll just throw a few out there and you decide which one you prefer:

  • Wow! Now I realise why our cities are overrun by cape wearing heroes. It must be because of all those comic-books from bygone areas that glorified vigilantes!
  • This study is correct guys :cry: I have been playing video games since before puberty and look at me! I'm a smoking, alcoholic criminal. Although that is strictly on weekends and public holidays. During the week I'm a contributing member of society.
  • Good thing they conducted the study by telephone. What mayhem could have ensued had the researchers come face to face with these dangerous teenagers!


*** Spoilers to "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut ahead ***

Bonus points to the study for quoting one of my favourite authors out of context. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was not referring to pretend play in front of a screen in your lounge/bedroom/study when he wrote those lines. Mother Night is about an Allied agent in World War 2 that infiltrates the Nazi high command. He gets caught when the war is over and is put on trail for war crimes. He refuses to tell the truth (that he was a spy) because he committed so many atrocities in trying to keep up his cover and in the process became so wrapped up in the party that he realizes he was, for all intents and purposes, a Nazi himself. He was surround by Nazis, pretending to be one and without realizing it immediately (or wanting to), he became one himself. Maybe in this situation a more apt quote would be:

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche
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And I don't mean it's apt because it fits "Mother Night"... "whistling:
 
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