Posted on 05/11/2005 3:07:30 AM PDT by qam1
OKAY....DDR....I tried to buy that once for the grandkids, but had a hard time figuring out what to "play" it on.....could my husband and I have it on a computer, or do you have to get some kind of "game" device? I'll go do some research....LOL
OKAY....DDR....I tried to buy that once for the grandkids, but had a hard time figuring out what to "play" it on.....could my husband and I have it on a computer, or do you have to get some kind of "game" device? I'll go do some research....LOL
See you completely missed the point of the game. YOU are supposed to be the one saving yourself. ;)
"your kid sounds like a loner without personal friends to spend time and bond with."
You either don't know today's video games or you don't know today's kids. Most kids are online in multiplayer games, and know more folks than we ever did as kids. I certainly know and keep in touch with a lot more folks now that I'm online.
Plus, the games that were mentioned above are actually physically active games. From what I understand, one of the new Star Wars tv hookup games is actually going to include a lightsaber game--where you play with a saber!
Video games are getting better at including physical activity. It's not just gamer's thumb anymore.
Learn about what you're deriding before you are so eager to judge.
Well if playing games online or talking to someone in chat rooms is your idea of interpersonal bonding and relationship building, then so be it. Each to his own. You sound like the type that would order a mail-order bride.
Learn about what you're deriding before you are so eager to judge.
Must be I struck a nerve for you to get so defensive. I do know what I speak of and I'm not the only one who understands that obsession with video games or withdrawal from personal interaction stuns a person's development of social skills necessary to interact in society. If that works for you, what do I care if you want to be a recluse. After all, it's a free country.
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Actually, I think there's probably some truth to the observation. However, everything in moderation.
You really think that nobody here has built a personal relationship on the basis of online chatting or posting? There are quite a few folks who have MARRIED as a result of meeting here and I'm sure at least hundreds who've done so as a result of meeting online. I would say that's substantial interpersonal bonding.
Your post demonstrates your lack of knowledge about the online community and kids' interaction in it. Its insulting nature demonstrates nothing other than your personal bias against that community. I don't understand why you even bother with FR--it doesn't seem to meet your high standards for productive human activity.
And your crack about mail-order brides is uncalled for. You can ESAD, twerp.
Oh, you're a community now? What next, a special designation by the government as a minority entitled to special rights and considerations? What are you going to do, charge me with a hate crime?
And your crack about mail-order brides is uncalled for. You can ESAD, twerp.
You proved my point. You're mighty brave with the name calling in the safety of anonymity and hiding behind your monitor. You would neither have the guts to do it in person or if you had grown up among people and learned courteous behavior, you wouldn't engage in juvenile behavior of name calling.
No need to apologize as I just consider the source, that of someone who is very challenged in social skills. Therapy or spending time interacting with adults, other than family, should help. You'll know that you've made progress when you can go to a white tablecloth restaurant and order a meal requiring use of silverware from a menu without pictures.
Oh, you're a community now? What next, a special designation by the government as a minority entitled to special rights and considerations? What are you going to do, charge me with a hate crime?
---You further establish your childlike inability to read. Could you be any more proud of your own ignorance of both the site on which you're posting and the posts to which you reply?
You proved my point. You're mighty brave with the name calling in the safety of anonymity and hiding behind your monitor.
---Pot, meet kettle. Let me know when you leave your basement. The light's mighty bright out there, though, so even though you're used to flamebaiting you might want to wear suntan lotion.
You would neither have the guts to do it in person or if you had grown up among people and learned courteous behavior, you wouldn't engage in juvenile behavior of name calling.
---Junior flings mud and doesn't like it back in his widdle eye. How sad. You must be awful proud of your big strong typing ability, too. Gawrsh, you sure showed me, tough guy, with all your humongous finger muscles. They're probably almost as built up as that lofty nose you stare down from.
No need to apologize as I just consider the source,
---Consider the source? BWA HA HA. Let me know when you consider any source besides your own bloated sense of self-worth.
that of someone who is very challenged in social skills. Therapy or spending time interacting with adults, other than family, should help.
---Personal knowledge on the subject of therapy obviously hasn't helped YOU.
You'll know that you've made progress when you can go to a white tablecloth restaurant and order a meal requiring use of silverware from a menu without pictures.
---Oh, THAT's what this is all about. You're a bitter waiter hoping to boost your chances of a tip by getting people out to restaurants that wouldn't normally bother with them. Sorry, I'm not your target audience. Some of us can afford internet service AND eat out, instead of snarfing from the customers' plates like you.
---No, though it's been an experience posting with you, I prefer to let the kitchen help like you fraternize with your own kind instead of annoying your betters. I cordially invite you to flamebait the rest of the world, and share that charmingly misanthropic little viewpoint of yours with it. I certainly have been overexposed to you, and thank you for it, since before I had seriously considered a short lunch, but now will partake of a full one and make sure that my high-school-age waiter does get a tip, so he doesn't bitterly waste the big folks' time online as you do. Goodbye!
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