riot over "playstation 3" (Page 1 of 2)

Manipulated, manipulative idiotic consumer motherfuckers.

I wish Bill Hicks was around to tear them a new one.

That guy certainly wasn't an 'average American Hick' but an average American Sheep.

Yeah, I have been to america quite a few times, I also work with a whole bunch of them.  In my experience americans are great people, and I always love talking to you guys (I think your accents are fantastic - no matter the state you are from   )

My point was more aimed at the fact that - with that sort of news reporting, do you really wonder why the rest of the world holds that sort of image in their head for the "average american".  Like with everything else, too much effort to find out for themselves, especially when the TV is so accurate 

edit: Just wanted to elaborate, that upon re-reading my first post the sarcasm I intended wasn't that obvious   I usually have an "I am really serious here" tone with my sarcasm anyway - and not many pick up on it - but if I came back to that post in a year, I think even I would miss my own sarcasm... 

Oh man, Bill Hicks is probably glad to not be around with these types of people If he acted the way he did back then TODAY, he would probably be tazed and arrested as well...

The virtual reality wishing to experience itself through it's own virtual reality?

Ha, good point.  Seriously! 

I used to have a friend back in California named Mike that I've mentioned here and there on NR, and he was always the kind of guy that was retreated from the world, a self-proclaimed hermit who lived online practically, but by the end of my time in Cali, he became completely weird.   OBSESSIVE computer game player, who loved to play those online games where hundreds of people are logged in, playing "their character."    It was just so bad that I used to joke to myself that if he could be permanently attached to some pod devise with an intravenous drip feed and waste removal tube and never have to actually take part in the "real world," then he would.  He was just THAT BAD.  He plowed through his work day, something that was so unappealing and miserable to him that he often times actually blacked out entire days, not remembering driving to or from work at all, and did most of his shopping online, further insuring the need to not have to leave his apartment, all so that he could get back to "his game."  Life revolved around whatever game of the moment he was involved in and making sure to spend as much time as humanly possible at home, parked in front of that computer.   He didn't seek people out or make an effort to call his family or friends, rarely returned emails.  He made people go to him, and by the end, it was clearly a case of interrupting his game time.  He just got weeeeird.

Those few times I've connected back up with him since leaving Cali the conversation usually excitedly mentions whatever game he's involved in, or gaming system he just bought or received as a gift.  The last email I got from him several months ago, there was the brief opening sentence.......an entire paragraph centered around the game/game system of the moment that he received as a gift from his brother-in-law, a fellow gamer...and then the short closing sentence.

Ya.   He did somehow manage to get married though two years ago, became social long enough to find a wife, and they do seem perfectly matched for each other.  He forwarded me their MySpace links, so I was perusing their profiles and saw that two of her three blog entries center around gaming system discussion, with lingo that makes no sense to me, it's a language in itself.

She does make a "joke" though that she started playing computer games "because I was tired of competing with the computer for Mike's attention lol." 

Another blog entry that's no longer there, must have been deleted, mentioning waiting in line for hours "for the fucker."  Fucker being the game, not Mike! 

Point of all this being................................I don't think there's anything anybody CAN say to these people.  They have deliberately chosen this.   They don't want to be involved in whatever we may be involved with.   They don't want to do anything else.   In Mike's case, he's seen the world, and it wasn't appealing to him.  Walks in nature, quiet time being "unplugged," traveling around and road trips, creative non-computer related hobbies......he had no lust for most any of it, it did nothing for him.   So he retreated away into his life of games and just turned himself off.   I think either people get involved with this stuff to this level because they're empty inside, or because something has broken and they no longer want to be a part of this world.   Escapism.  The alternate to suicide.