A Gamer Registry...

Overheal

Before you ask: these people are idiots. Known idiots. And often the subject of many a person's ridicule, most often Colbert and Jon Stewart. These hosts talk out of their sphincters just to hear the sound of their own flatulence.

But this is just silly and bears shaking your head at

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/17/fox-friends-host-elisabeth-hasselbeck-calls-for-video-game-registry/

‘Fox & Friends’ host Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls for registry of gamers

A massacre at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Washington, D.C., left 12 deadMonday. Today, as the nation once again looks for answers following a shooting rampage, some are renewing their calls for gun control.
But that’s not what they’re doing on Fox News. On that network’s morning show Fox & Friends, the hosts pointed to video games as a potential “strong link” leading to mass shootings, and one host called for government oversight of gamers, as first spotted by Rawstory.
Cohost Brian Kilmead argued we shouldn’t focus on gun control because the alleged shooter, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis, had a history of drinking, video games, and “a few shooting instances.”
“He’s got a friend that says [Alexis] had an obsession with video games,” Kilmead said. “His friend would come over and [Alexis] would be playing these video games for so long — these shooting video games — that we’d have to give him dinner. We’d feed him while he continues to stay on them.”
This prompted Elisabeth Hasselbeck to ask if some people, with fragile mental states, are more susceptible to a negative reaction from playing violent video games.
“Is there a link between a certain age group of men — 20-to-34 year-old men — that are playing these games and their violent actions. We’ve yet to find out.”
That didn’t stop the show from presenting a list of mass shooters who played video games. The list included Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dyland Klebold, The Dark Knight Rises movie-theater shooter James Holmes, and Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik. Of course, that doesn’t prove causation. I’m sure I could find a list of gamers that tragically end up interning for cable news. Is there a link? We’ve yet to find out.
That lack of evidence didn’t stop Hasselbeck from presenting her solution to the problem as she perceives it. The host suggested something that sounds very similar to a national gun registry but for gamers.
“What about frequency testing? How often has this game been played? And I’m not one to say get in there and monitor everything,” she said. “But if this is indeed a strong link to mass killings, then why aren’t we looking at frequency of purchases per person and how often they’re playing. Maybe they timeout after a certain hour.”
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She's an uninformed buffoon. Please share your similar distaste of her stupidity here.

Turtwig

Wait I thought they were against government interventions into every day life? Or is that only when it requires them making payments to the state? : confused:

Overheal

Thats the special thing about fox and friends, they don't actually think before they speak. They just blather. Even if its self contradicting. Well documented at that.

In fact the show's previous lady host, Gretchen Carlson, was a frequent target of abuse from people like Jon Stewart whom thoroughly and justly enjoyed picking her apart at the seams. I assume that is why she stepped down just a couple days ago and was replaced by new lady interest, Hasselbeck, who fortunately promises she will be just as stupid.

http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Jon-Stewart-Goes-After-Fox-Frie

Fnz

Same tired old bs. It's insulting to the victims, and their families, when games are implied as a significant contributing factor in these tragedies.

Telling that their audience's median age is over 65.

Fox News' Audience Is Literally Dying

...The network's median age has edged above 65 for six of the past eight years, The New York Times' Bill Carter reports. It's impossible to know exactly how old Fox News' audience is, because ratings company Nielsen doesn't provide an exact figure once viewers are older than 65.

Overheal

Fnz wrote: »

Telling that their audience's median age is over 65.

heheh, you reminded me,

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-29-2008/senior-citizens-watch-the-debate

i dont know if you can see these links, but im thoroughly enjoying them

nesf

Good thing that I play World of Tanks in a country that lacks heavy armour... :P

Retr0gamer

So if she plays Candy Crush on her iPhone then she herself has to be put on the list?

Of course these morons think that these shootings were started by males that play videogames completely ignoring this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_%28San_Diego%29

It's like they're trying to compare us to sex offenders.

BeerWolf

Fox news... 'nuff said.

Ignore them.

degrassinoel

Deleted User wrote: »

It's like they're trying to compare us to sex offenders.

Yeah, next thing ye know we'll have to wear a big yellow pacman on our arms to identify us as gamers.

Duggy747

“His friend would come over and [Alexis] would be playing these video games for so long — these shooting video games — that we’d have to give him dinner. We’d feed him while he continues to stay on them.”

Just got an image of them feeding him with a spoon while Alexis would be still like a stone, staring at the screen...................maybe they had to put droplets of water into his eyes to keep them moistened? :pac:

nesf

Duggy747 wrote: »

Just got an image of them feeding him with a spoon while Alexis would be still like a stone, staring at the screen...................maybe they had to put droplets of water into his eyes to keep them moistened? :pac:

Can you hire people to do that for you?

Duggy747

nesf wrote: »

Can you hire people to do that for you?

I presume when GTA VI is released this will come bundled.

Potential-Monke

degrassinoel wrote: »

Yeah, next thing ye know we'll have to wear a big yellow pacman on our arms to identify us as gamers.

I'd wear that anyway!

I would just love to be listening when something like this airs and they ask for someone to ring in. The first question i would ask them would be "Do you think those killers watched tv? Yes? Then i think we should look at tv as a significant link in these shootings. Then we could monitor someones tv usage and cut them off after a certain time. Then, maybe then, we wouldn't have to listen to uninformed idiots look for a scapegoat for psychopaths/sociopaths, and just call a spade a spade."

jumbobreakfast

so stupid, everyone knows that it's Samuel L Jackson's fault:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY1og7W4oXM

Fuck you, Samuel L. Jackson.

I love that the website for information and ratings with movies is called commonsense.org, which is exactly what most parents are lacking of with regards to movies and games.

nesf

Deleted User wrote: »

Fuck you, Samuel L. Jackson.

I love that the website for information and ratings with movies is called commonsense.org, which is exactly what most parents are lacking of with regards to movies and games.

I find it good though I usually take a few years off any recommendation it makes. The parent ratings suffer from "metacritic syndrome" e.g. the parent saying no child under 15 should see the first Lord of the Rings film, not because of the violence but because some of the main characters smoke pipes on screen.

C14N

It's just poor show that people like this get airtime on national TV. I don't know how they can go about with such a massive double standard of "video games need to be restricted, they're incredibly dangerous and might have caused dozens of people to die. You can't restrict guns though, they're essential objects of safety that couldn't possibly be used to do harm".

I have to assume it's just old-media trollbait but even then it's pretty shameful.

nesf

C14N wrote: »

It's just poor show that people like this get airtime on national TV. I don't know how they can go about with such a massive double standard of "video games need to be restricted, they're incredibly dangerous and might have caused dozens of people to die. You can't restrict guns though, they're essential objects of safety that couldn't possibly be used to do harm".

I have to assume it's just old-media trollbait but even then it's pretty shameful.

I find it helps if you think of FOX News as if you got the Sun and Telegraph in the UK and gave them their own TV channel between them.

C14N

nesf wrote: »

I find it helps if you think of FOX News as if you got the Sun and Telegraph in the UK and gave them their own TV channel between them.

I always kind of considered it more like the Mail than the Telegraph. I think it's pretty bad thought that they can say stuff like this without being held accountable. There will be at least thousands of people who have their opinions influenced by this utter stupidity. Given how many insightful and intelligent people there are out there, how is it that these people are the ones who manage to get air-time?

Potential-Monke

C14N wrote: »

Given how many insightful and intelligent people there are out there, how is it that these people are the ones who manage to get air-time?

They give good head?

C14N

Potential-Monke wrote: »

They give good head?

Pornstars give good head, why can't they at least be the ones on TV news shows?