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2020-01-21 Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden calls game developers ‘little creeps’ who make titles that ‘teach you how to kill’
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Posted by 3dc 2020-01-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top
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#1 Those hairplugs really went too deep, didn't they?

Posted by charger 2020-01-21 00:28||   2020-01-21 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of those little creeps are probably dem campaign donors. Biting the hand that feeds, he is.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-21 00:54||   2020-01-21 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, he's right. It's absurd that these immature little boy-men have attained such a stranglehold on our politics.

Henry Ford made American workers the best paid in the world, and lifted millions of uneducated, native-born rural southern and midwestern Americans out of hardscrabble poverty. American living standards soared. Life expectancy increased. Detroit became the arsenal of democracy.

Under the recent 30+ year reign of our boy-men billionaires, the American working class collapsed. Life expectancy in many parts of the nation is FALLING-- same as it did during Russia's spectacular collapse in the 1990s. These f---ers presided over the rise of Communist China from third-world shithole to wealthy global rival of the US.

Nice job. Well done, you seditious self-regarding little pricks.

Biden is 100% correct on this issue.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-21 01:05||   2020-01-21 01:05|| Front Page Top

#4 If Biden hits this issue, hard, and makes a big push in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, he will have a decent shot at defeating Trump.

Trump needs to get out front of this major populist issue and denounce our shitty little tech oligarchs wherever and however he can.

Mark my word: this is likely to become THE issue in November. The oligarchs are NOT creating jobs. They're not making our country, our communities, our families or our culture or our young men stronger.

In many ways they've seriously weakened all of the above.

No serious candidate this fall will support the economic concentration and outright corruption that we've seen during the Google-Facebook-Amazon era.

That era's coming to a close.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-21 01:15||   2020-01-21 01:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Henry Ford made American workers the best paid in the world

Noteworthy because Ford used the American working class and replicating each unit of work (a car!) required an equivalent amount of American material and American labor.

No comparison when using H1b or offshore pools of developers and each product replicant is just a bit stream.

Nice bit of 'agitation prose' though.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-21 05:19||   2020-01-21 05:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Not the games the tech used for mind fucking people who use them! Almost overnight private site fully paid for video games years ago started forcing people to be ONLINE just to make the game work and complete download and or installation! There was no need to play online way before that became popular! Nothing wrong with reflexes !
Posted by Ebbaque Angatle3368 2020-01-21 06:50||   2020-01-21 06:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I just thought it was interesting Shotgun Joe is criticizing / lecturing others about gun violence.
Posted by Raj 2020-01-21 07:50||   2020-01-21 07:50|| Front Page Top

#8 ... who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people.

Instead you could become a politician and vote to kill thousands of people in your wars!

Get fucked Joe.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-21 08:51||   2020-01-21 08:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Ho, ho, ho...you piss off gamers at your peril. Turns out, young men with lots of spare time to play games and an obsessive nature are a bad idea to anger. Journalists found this out during Gamergate, to their sorrow.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-21 09:34||   2020-01-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ "Little creeps" may be a good description but they are likely here to stay. And as was said they are most likely Dem supporters.

Amazon coming to an end? I don't think so. Both Amazon and Wal-Mart clobbered mom and pop businesses in small towns years ago. There are many elderly citizens living in these small towns who bought their homes years ago, paid them off, and raised a family. They worked there until local industry left. They stayed behind and retired while the local industry exodus occurred. A spouse might have passed away. They may have to drive quite a few miles to an urban center to shop or to go to the doctor or about anything else since local businesses have dried up. The local housing market in these small towns has also dried up. If they do manage to sell their house, it is difficult to find a house or apartment in the urban area they can afford. They are stuck in a small community living on a pension and might be in their 80s or 90s. This elderly population often depends upon Amazon and UPS for many of their needs. Likewise, they get flummoxed by the computer and the tech revolution. If they have computer problems, they generally have to call someone in to fix the problem. Many of these small town aging residents are likely Pub supporters.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-21 10:24||   2020-01-21 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 All of the millennial who play those games will revolt at this attack. Without Millennial votes a Dem candidate is finished.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-21 10:34||   2020-01-21 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Wonder how many Preditor piĺots are also gamers, slow Joe?
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-21 10:42||   2020-01-21 10:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Might have to give Slo-Joe a pass on his adjectives. If there's one thing he knows...it's creepy!
Posted by Warthog 2020-01-21 14:15||   2020-01-21 14:15|| Front Page Top

#14 And fortunately I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating,” Biden continued. “As I added up the seven outfits, everyone’s there but Microsoft. I said, you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don’t lecture me about how you’ve created all this employment.. The point is, there’s an arrogance about it, an overwhelming arrogance that we are, we are the ones. We can do what we want to do. I disagree.”

Talking about an industry which is going to put hollywood under ground and soon as decent VR controls and games get mainstream. I look at the systems now, and they remind me of Centipede, Pac-Man, Star Wars, just starting to get an idea of what can be done and how to program it.

For the same price as a movie, you can get 100s of hours of entertainment from a game.

EA Sports nothing short of dominates video game sportsball.

Universities are piloting video game player scholarships.

Been through the 'Dungeons and Dragons is the Devil' and 'Doom will raise a generation of mass murderers' trials. Absolutely ridiculous.

Violent media, wtf is that except every movie ever. Should be safe with Farm Simulator, right? Wrong, taking those pigs to market is violence says PETA.

In fact, he proposed a tax on the entire entertainment industry - movies, games, tabletops, news, music, anything some chucklehead gets offended by, which is everything nowadays. Godddangeng polka hour will find a griever.

Piss off tax man.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-21 16:33||   2020-01-21 16:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Violent media, wtf is that except every movie ever.

Not to mention books.

Just look at what Jim Hawkins did to poor Israel Hands in "Treasure Island".

Gots to ban it.

Posted by charger 2020-01-21 18:50||   2020-01-21 18:50|| Front Page Top

#16 "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
My first game, running (barely) on an Ohio Scientific computer.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-01-21 21:41||   2020-01-21 21:41|| Front Page Top

#17 #5 Nice bit of agitation prose

Ford the man was a nasty character who loathed The Juice, but his heirs supported a better culture, a finer society, in ways that are unthinkable to today's gazillionaire boy-men.

Here's an example of what Ford made possible -- it's almost unthinkable today that someone who's made a billion would spend some tiny portion of that to support something asgreat and noble as the most brilliant American classical musician and conductor of the last 70 years using his extraordinary wisdom and knowledge to educate millions of Americans, via mass media, in the finer points of conducting a Beethoven symphony.

Instead we gave Instagram and TikTok, butts and Woke stupidity and ugliness.

I have nothing against video games. I'm not defending Kie "Plugz" Biden's screed against them. I am indeed defending his anger at the paltry, narrow, greedy and foolishly immature nature of our current tech oligarchs generally.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-21 23:37||   2020-01-21 23:37|| Front Page Top

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