Comments on: Grow up, Child-Men: Editorial Blasts Adult Gamers

By: needtocontrol

needtocontrol — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:42:04 +0000

Hmm, a few points I think. For a start, good article, you managed to keep my head from exploding in a way that the BBC (if they reported on this) most definitely wouldn’t, probably cos they have the same middle (wannabe upper) class feminist bitches working for them.

Tried to read the start of it and some annoying popup ad appears, appealing to me to watch some show or other with a dancing Asian woman that “May contain nudity”! Hypocrisy rears it’s ugly head early on.

So, we want to be like the 60′s (I think she means 50′s) man do we? She missed out the part about the alcohol problem and regular beating of said wife! But of course those things didn’t happen cos women didn’t have the freedom to mouth off in those days did they? (sic).

As for myself, it’s all too late, I’m 37 and spend most of my spare time playing games, when I’m not at my steady job that is, or reading (books AND comics, she wouldn’t like that would she?). Never got married so of course I’m an outcast of society for not generating more consumers. I know a lot of people who got married in their 20′s and guess what? Most are now divorced! I just cut out the middle man (the lawyer?) and ended up where a lot of others are.

So basically, I’m happy with my life. Got a good job (not in a factory), my own house, spare money to waste on games and basically live how I like. But that’s just me. Of course young men are in a bit of limbo. You expect them to just change overnight with some inexplicable feminine style mood swing? People don’t want to grow up cos they see people like Hymen-whatever as an example of adulthood!

As Jello Biafra said “I’d rather stay a child, and keep my self respect, if being an adult, means being like YOU!”

By: Mykul

Mykul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:32:41 +0000

I’ve never heard so much nonsense in all my life. I’ve been playing video games since the ZX Spectrum; I’m now 38 years old and still love video game play.
I have a wife, children, mortgage and hold down a very good job, I would call myself responsible and during my free time I still love to sit down and PLAY GAMES!! still just a kid at heart but maybe I should grow up and start watch Eastender instead……… NOOOOOOOO!!!!

By: Wade Larson

Wade Larson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:35:46 +0000

Good article Andrew. I couldn’t have said it any better myself. Seems like there will always be people who look down on gamers as being ‘immature.’ Pssh. whatever.

Anyway, I’m gonna go look at some boobies for a while then maybe kill a few hundred people over the internet.

By: John Kershaw

John Kershaw — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:03:18 +0000

I just read the entire article, I want the last 10 mins of my life back now. That woman just seems to lump every single guy on the planet into one!

By: Dan Landis

Dan Landis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:03:21 +0000

Aww, don’t be so hard on yourself, Dylan. You’ve gotta be at least at toddler level.

By: Dylan Duarte

Dylan Duarte — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, I’m like a man-infant.

By: Dan Landis

Dan Landis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:35:13 +0000

Hey! I thought we agreed we wouldn’t talk about my uh-oh place.

By: Dylan Duarte

Dylan Duarte — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:31:30 +0000

Dan, you’re a man-child for different reasons entirely.

By: Dan Landis

Dan Landis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:07:17 +0000

I’m a 27-year-old man with a wife and kids, but I spend most of my free time playing videogames. Have I earned the right to do that since I “grew up” already and got married, or am I still a man-child just for the simple fact that I play videogames?

Is her problem with the videogames themselves or that men of my age still play them? And what about women? Are they allowed to play videogames?

My thoughts are that this bitch probably got in a fight with her boyfriend over World of Warcraft, and he chose the game over her.