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Ted Cruz Comes Clean: He’s a Secret Video Game Addict
The Daily Beast ^ | May 28, 2015 | Tim Mak

Posted on 05/28/2015 7:30:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Lumper20

Sorry to hear that.

I am so sure that President Cruz will regret the fact you didn’t vote for him for the sane reason, Horrors of Horrors!, that he is a video game addict.

Another stupid reason for not voting for someone.


41 posted on 05/28/2015 8:28:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: LambSlave; KC_Lion

42 posted on 05/28/2015 8:31:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: Lumper20

What a stupid post.

Something wrong with playing a video game?

Should we ban them so that people’s behavior conforms more to your desire to control it?


43 posted on 05/28/2015 8:37:20 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have never figured out the draw of playing characters made of "1" and "0"

I'd stick to reading...

44 posted on 05/28/2015 8:39:43 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: SoConPubbie

No, it is a damn good reason as I owned a bar in 78 and had space invaders installed. I had customers who got hooked and lost their jobs. They said they saw space invaders coming at them in their sleep and they killed them in their dreams. I had the damn game taken out. An addict is an addict. That is why he is in the Senate as you can work part time for the Gov.and be an addict.


45 posted on 05/28/2015 8:42:31 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘Candy Crush.’?

That’s a girl game. Is this a hit piece?


46 posted on 05/28/2015 8:42:38 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Lumper20
No, it is a damn good reason as I owned a bar in 78 and had space invaders installed. I had customers who got hooked and lost their jobs. They said they saw space invaders coming at them in their sleep and they killed them in their dreams. I had the damn game taken out. An addict is an addict. That is why he is in the Senate as you can work part time for the Gov.and be an addict.

Hold on. You owned a place that served ALCOHOL and you were worried about people being addicted to VIDEO GAMES?

That's like a Crack Dealer who worries you might be getting too into the Quality Value Cable Shopping Network.

47 posted on 05/28/2015 8:47:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Then Tetris was a real obsession for me...”

I LOVE Tetris. Have tried to get my oldest grandson interested in playing with me with zero success, even though his father and I played when his father was a teenager. Grandson is just totally into future plans for designing race cars in Europe after he finishes school and just refuses to play anything other than a game which includes “speed” and “race” - and we have all of them ever made.

We also have the original Nintendo Mario which the little boys in the neighborhood love to come over and play.


48 posted on 05/28/2015 8:48:49 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: BreezyDog

“Tell me about it. I play Call Of Duty”

There you go. Now that’s a good game.
Team Deathmatch. Do you shoot the other
players, when they suck, to get rid of them?


49 posted on 05/28/2015 8:49:32 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You're awesome Ted.
50 posted on 05/28/2015 8:50:31 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: kropcke

I’m playing it on my PS3. I downloaded it from PSN.


52 posted on 05/28/2015 9:06:13 AM PDT by struggle
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To: MrB

“If asked a question Wednesday that he was previously asked on Monday, he will repeat his original answer nearly word for word, as if it were memorized, raising the risk of questions about how genuine he really is.

Mr. B: Actually, since his answers are based on unchanging core principles, giving the same answer would be proof on his “genuine” nature.”

Exactly! And how many other candidates just repeat the same answer for every question? Or have a 3-4 word mantra they repeat endlessly? Cruz’ answers are intelligent, detailed, and exactly to the point. Of course the MSM has a problem with that!


53 posted on 05/28/2015 9:06:14 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: SoConPubbie

He just assured himself of losing.


54 posted on 05/28/2015 9:06:28 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Lumper20
I hope the gamers running for office are revealed as these folks damn sure are not up to running the USA.

Playing video games is the dumbest reason I've ever seen to not vote for someone, and I've seen plenty.

55 posted on 05/28/2015 9:08:24 AM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: Lumper20

OOoo. Hit a little too close to home, did I? :)


56 posted on 05/28/2015 9:11:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: gdani

Ask folks over 65. You might just find out many seniors have seen Gen X types hooked on games.


57 posted on 05/28/2015 9:19:28 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: knittnmom

Yes. It has been a few years since I played, but one way you played the game each level would reward you with a bigger rocket. The second to last one was a space shuttle. The very last one had the whole roof turn into a rocket and take off. After that it would start over to the tiny rocket.

The other way you could play rewarded you with different animals running across the bottom. I did not play that one as frequently so I forget exactly what they all were. I remember ostriches. There may have been things other than animals but I just can’t remember.

I got really good AND fast at it. I am sure my tetris skills are no where near what they used to be.


58 posted on 05/28/2015 9:23:11 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Lumper20
Ask folks over 65. You might just find out many seniors have seen Gen X types hooked on games.

I'm Hooked on Phonics.

Hooked on Monkey Phonics.

59 posted on 05/28/2015 9:25:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; MeshugeMikey

And his campaign was going so well. I guess there’s nothing left to do but get behind Bush-Mittens 2016...


60 posted on 05/28/2015 9:25:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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