I give teenagers heroine and make them pregnant…

Or, I might as well, according to this douche.

"I hate video games, on or offline. I hate the way they suck real people into fake worlds and hold on to them for decades at a time. I hate being made to feel hateful for saying so, and I hate being told to immerse myself in them before passing judgment, because it feels like being told to immerse myself in smack and teenage pregnancy before passing judgment on them.

This is not because of anything wrong or bad about video games or heroin or teenage parents. It's not even because of game-induced homicide or web-grooming of little girls by perverts - serious problems, but statistically low-risk. It's because, compared with everything else on offer in a kid's life, video games and heroin and teenage pregnancy are a colossal waste of time."

Of course, I do wish my parents were more like him. If my father had never brought home that Apple IIe, or my mom had never bought that Atari 2600 from a garage sale, I might never have developed a passion for games. I would have never gotten stuck in this dead end job dreading every day going to work with no opportunities to advance in a short time frame. I would never have had to travel to all those crap holes like Paris, Montreal, Montpelier, London, San Francisco or New York. Maybe if my wife hadn’t been introduced to games, she would have a proper job instead of being a “Senior Franchise Manager,” whatever that means.

If my parents were more like him, maybe I wouldn’t produce the equivalent of heroine and pregnancy for kids.

It is interesting that a writer hates an alternate form of media. I wonder if he lets his kids read books, or if he makes them put down that drivel and GET OUTSIDE! I’m trying to think of things I hate as much as this guy says he hates games. I guess Nazis…maybe the 2 party system. Definitely Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher. But a form of entertainment? Maybe slam poetry?