Friday, 18 July 2014

Morons of The Internet: Glenn Beck (18/07/14)

This is the segment where I scour my favorite forums around the internet and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs told in the words from some of my favorite human beings.

In this edition we have a video of one of my least favorite people in the world, resident right wing twat Glenn Beck who decides to have another dig at video games, of course with very little factual evidence.

This is yet another attack on the video game industry by Glenn Beck. This time it's in response to four teenagers in the UK who have committed suicide and apparently this was caused by the video game franchise 'Call of Duty'. Now obviously basic logic tells you that a significant proportion of teenage boys play 'Call of Duty', including myself, and so there is obviously going to be correlation between the two sets of data. Of course we don't hear about the other few million players that have a sound mental state, nope we only hear about four, which to put in perspective is ten times less people than are killed by biscuits on average each year.

Of course Mr Beck makes the classic mistake of getting correlation and causation mixed up. We have proven in the paragraph above that there is obviously going to be a correlation but not once hear does Mr Beck ever prove that 'Call of Duty' caused these deaths. To be honest I would be very surprised if he did, as to this day there are no results that show video games cause violence, which makes Beck's point rather irrelevant. I mean we simply just don't know. This isn't helped by Mr Beck's sweeping statements that are just flawed on a basic level and these suicides could be contributed by a number of different factors. He even says himself that they where students at a top grammar school. I know for a fact that A levels are stressful and that can lead to suicide, I know as I've been through them myself, but no, it was obviously the video games that killed them.

He then goes on to cite Anders Breivik as another example, this from a man who called the victims of the massacre "the Hitler Youth", yet all of a sudden feels sympathy for them to prove his point. But to be fair to Beck he does include a fact, Breivik did use video games to help him train, although how he did that simply astounds me, he could maybe learn how to cross map tomahawk and quickscope his victims, but never would you get a realistic vision of how to use a firearm. Although again here we have video games being the main blame, Breivik had planned the attack since 2002 and so the effects of video games on the actual murders are minimal, it still would've happened anyway. Again Mr Beck cannot prove that video games cause violence because there is no link.

Then we arrive at probably the most cringeworthy moment, when Beck decides to try and explain 'Watchdogs', but clearly has no idea what he's talking about, you know maybe you should at least play the game before jumping to these ridiculous conclusions, for all you know it could be an autobiographical tale of Mother Teresa. Beck then complains at how games shouldn't have antiheroes, instead there should be "Superman", which of course history will tell you is not a good idea as you end up with a pile of shit. Of course Beck has no idea about this as he's obviously never played 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' which is essentially superheroes beating the living hell out of each other. Also antiheroes are one of the beauties of gaming, for once the media accepts that the world isn't perfect and so they reflect real life, creating a much more immersive experience. With video games you can carry a much stronger message than artificial Hollywood crap, not that Mr Beck would know this as he's probably never played a video game in his life.

You can read my review on 'Watchdogs' and see for yourself how good it really is. It comes with a very strong message that seems appropriate for a time when authorities such as the NSA are being surfaced. What it certainly doesn't do is teach you to hack like Mr Beck thinks, I won't deny that it encourages you to hack, but I'm pretty sure that hacking is a lot more complicated than pressing the x button on your controller. All these allegations of course come from a man who supports the National Rifle Association, which do give you the skills to murder, but again that shouldn't be blamed for violence, it should be the individual. I can't help but feel Beck is a massive hypocrite, not that he ever had a point to begin with.

Obviously you should now have realized that Glenn Beck is a moron, he is another person that is using video games as a scapegoat for problems that were probably caused by people such as himself. He definitely can't start blaming the video game industry when he himself has no evidence to go by,  instead just making sweeping statements to try and convince moronic idiots to support him. If you don't like it, then don't fucking buy the game, or does he want a censored media like China, especially when it's over a small minority of people and no statistical evidence.

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