A lot of what we do as people who play games has harmed our image. A lot of the ideas and stereotypes about us are from the behaviour of our online players. The idea of gamers as nowt but childish, sexist, racist children is harming us. And people have noticed, we aren’t a group of …
Tag Archive: guns
Apr 06 2013
In Defence of Jim Carrey
I know I give the rubbery faced anti-vax kook a lot of grief for his beliefs, but this that’s because he deserves it for that. But Ted “Yosemite Sam” Nugent is an idiot. Dear America. Before we start. The correct argument for using guns is “Guns are Cool”. Not that guns somehow reduce your murder …
Feb 19 2013
Hags of Lag – Learn to Report Honestly
The Hollywood Reporter’s taken an “interesting” stance on Adam Lanza (the American School Shooter at Sandy Hook) Note how they blame Videogames (I will point out? There is a reason why we want our gamer population to behave a bit more “sensibly”. Because calling people fags and various racist things makes us an easy fucking …
Jan 31 2013
Hags of Lag – Guns don’t Kill People, Videogames Do
The USA loves scapegoating. The lack of technological acumen within the US government makes them prone to scapegoat things that aren’t really the issue. You shouldn’t blame sexting on mobile phones, you should blame it on a culture that encourages the sexualisation of children and teenagers. And US Senator Lamar Alexander should know better than …
Jan 20 2013
What a Rush – Don’t agree with Idiots, it makes you look like one too
I ran into the link at Patheos on Bill Blankschaen’s blog (Bill in the Blanks). And he agreed with the incredibly moronic comment on Rush Limbaugh’s show. It’s so stupid that I have to warn you to sit down lest the stupidity strike you down with a vicious blow. This is weapon’s grade stupidity, pure …
Jan 18 2013
Yosemite Sam
For many people across the world one of the stereotypes of Americans is “Gun Totting Cowboy”. And now there is even more reason to buy into the Yosemite Sam stereotype… Oh Rick! We are are laughing at you, not with you. Prayer doesn’t stop bullets, if it did we would be building our tanks with …
Jan 04 2013
In Defence of Piers Morgan
You know what? Someone has to do it… So I accept. I have an ulterior motive for this defence of Mr. Morgan… We worked so hard to get rid of him, we don’t want him back… Right… without further adieu, let’s plunge into this latest and greatest moronic pile of tripe courtesy of Larry Elder… …
Dec 22 2012
Hags of Lag – Murder Machine
The NRA had their press conference few days ago. We all kind of knew this was coming, and the NRA generally wait for a bit before unleashing blame on pretty much everything apart from the guns they so love after tragedies like this. I am dealing mainly with the backlash against video games, music and …
Dec 22 2012
The Problem of Morality
Jack Kerwick’s article on Atheism and the Problem of Morality got me thinking. Why do people think atheists have a problem with morality. Well apart from the fact it is a typically carpenter god orientated article it’s filled with some of the standard and sadly all to common notions about our morality. Morality is one …
Dec 19 2012
Things I Learned This Week
I am not a happy bunny, I learnt two things today, two things that probably say more about the United States of America’s toxic culture than anything else. The first was the apparent “attacks on teachers by politicians”. The notion that the school teachers are horrid, greedy and callous individuals personally responsible for the state …
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