I would agree that he is a genuinely good guy, and I think that the media has done a lot to get across the exagerated idea of him being stupid. Despite my lack of support for his party and his actions, I personally think it is disgusting how much we ridicule him.

If you dislike him, that's great. Voice your opinion, but do so with a little respect.

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I don't hate the guy, but I'm glad we're moving on as a country.

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DOes sony give you daily blowjobs or did you drill a hole into you PS3 so you can fuck it every night?

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Right?

Right?

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Really? They could have had his hand in a bowl of popcorn watching a movie. Or his hand halfway down his pants, ala Al Bundy, watching sports. The joke could be done with just about anything and, if you're genuinely offended by it, well ... I don't think there's anything I can do to help.

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It takes time.

With games, it may take longer, because people have a history of accepting static mediums before active ones...probably just because things were static--books, paintings--before they were active. Give it a few decades.

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At the same time, most people growing up have some knowledge of video games, and at least know someone who plays regularly (note: citation needed). The same can't be said for comic books. The result might be completely different roads to mainstream acceptance for them.

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Until gaming stops being viewed as a lifestyle, I think, the mainstream connotations of adolescence and shiftlessness aren't going to go away. Of course there are always going to be some die-hards you'll never be able to please (like a former professor of mine who tut-tutted at the The Sims logo on her screen and rashly declared all the game's players to be possessed of inadequate emotional and social faculties that would only degenerate with time), but until it's as textbook to sit down in front of the [insert console name here] at the end of a day as it is to sit down in front of the plain old television, people are going to make snooty remarks about games as wasters of time, destroyers of our children, anathema to creativity etc. (Do people now say these things about TV? Yes, but with the exception of a Janet Jackoson-like nipple ring incident and the resulting flurry of federal activity every couple of years or so, no one really cares.)

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Think about it...somebody with credentials who was deemed suitable to sit in on this conference took it upon himself to stand up and hurl his shoes at a world leader.

Though it's not on the same scale, imagine if Crecente got up and hurled shoes at his laptop at Kotick during an Activision presser.

Or if some angry gamer stood up during a debate and hurled something at Jack Thomson while he was speaking...

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And besides... That dirty maggot put his shoes on OUR colors!!!

Down that infidel! Burning coals aren't enough in my opinion!!!

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God I hat that song.

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And that man would've never been seen or heard from again.

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It's times like this that I am happy to be an Independent.

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:)

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