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Smurfy ([info]purple_smurf) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-11-11 16:36:00
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Current mood:Mildly Amused

Foxtrot Wank!
The Foxtrot Feed over on LJ seems to be the new breeding ground for wank... some of you may remember a political wank that, alas, is no longer with us, and now they've managed it again!



Today's strip not only (gasp!) recycles old jokes (like that's never been done before in a daily comic strip ::cough::Garfield::cough::), but the real wank comes when [info]godisprolife (you can feel the wank just by the user name, can't you) says, "This is why my kids and I aren't having video games in the house".

Apparently, video games/TV in general are teh source of all evol, and everything that is wrong with the world. Go figure.


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[info]twocorpses
2004-11-11 08:08 am UTC (link)
Haha, thanks. I chose it to be a poopface when I was 16, and it forced me into the Pro-Life movement:)
That comment by [info]godisprolife just cracks my shit right up. Riiiiight. An LJ username FORCED you to join the pro-life movement. \/\/hatEVAH!

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[info]wankprophet
2004-11-11 08:22 am UTC (link)
I'm thinking the smilie at the end kinda means he's joking. Just a theory, but I like it.

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(no subject) - [info]twocorpses, 2004-11-11 08:41 am UTC

[info]xero_sky
2004-11-11 08:17 am UTC (link)
hell, I watched Looney Tunes a lot as a kid, and I never hit anyone upside the face with a mallet.

You didn't? Oh man, you missed some good times.

Personally I always preferred dropping anvils on people. Great workout, plus, you know, horrible carnage. *nostalgic sigh*

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[info]squib
2004-11-11 10:18 am UTC (link)
*blinks, rereads sentence, second try yields something other than...*

"...I never hit anyone upside the face with a mullet."

Maybe not, but it would be pretty funny if you did. ;)

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[info]wankprophet
2004-11-11 08:21 am UTC (link)
Meh? Dude, "godisprolife" (his name notwithstanding) actually comes across as one of the least wanky people on the thread. He gives his reasons for not caring for video games, acknowledges the counterarguments, gives his own counters, which are usually better-thought-out than the ones arguing with him, and finally lets it go after acknowledging that, omg, there's no universal rule here!

The wankier stuff comes when a few of them -- very obviously teenagers -- start arguing about whether kids will learn their violence on the streets and in the bathroom stalls if not allowed to play first-person shooters, and whether video games promote all sorts of mad l337 skillz to help the young'uns learn how to get ahead in this world. It's kinda amusing how hard they're trying to convince us of the social utility of video games. Methinks they've watched "The Last Starfighter" once too often. Come out of the light, kiddies, and clear your head for a moment.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2004-11-11 08:29 am UTC (link)
very obviously teenagers

Yeah, you can tell they're pretty young when they start talking about how young they were when they started playing video games...

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(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2004-11-11 08:34 am UTC

[info]blackjackrocket
2004-11-11 08:35 am UTC (link)
Actually, they have proven that video games improve hand-eye coordination like woah, and they're looking into other reflex-related results.

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(no subject) - [info]wankprophet, 2004-11-11 09:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 10:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]starherd, 2004-11-11 11:35 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 11:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-11 10:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2004-11-11 11:23 pm UTC

[info]wankismyfandom
2004-11-11 10:49 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I have to admit that godisprolife is definitely not the wankiest one in the wank, but that whole "I learned to read when I was SIX OMG I R SMRT AND BETTAR THAN VDEO GAMEZ" bit was a bit much.

Especially since I learned to read when I was two and therefore fail to be impressed. :P

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(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2004-11-11 11:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]julia, 2004-11-12 01:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarracenia, 2004-11-12 02:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2004-11-12 12:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]meryatem, 2004-11-12 04:49 am UTC

[info]iczer6
2004-11-11 08:24 am UTC (link)
Godisprolife needs to have their icons revoked and then be soundly beaten with a large trout.

As for videogames, well they won't save the world but they won't destroy it either. Hell I was reading during kindergarden and probably would've been playing video games as well, but sadly the only system available to me at that time was Atari, and I just didn't have the love for Space Invaders my Dad and brother did.

Now Rampage, there was a game!

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(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2004-11-11 08:34 am UTC
*facepalms* - [info]telesilla, 2004-11-11 09:34 am UTC
Re: *facepalms* - [info]squib, 2004-11-11 10:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squeakytoy, 2004-11-11 02:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bubosquared, 2004-11-11 04:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hinata, 2004-11-12 05:41 am UTC

[info]blackjackrocket
2004-11-11 08:43 am UTC (link)
Wow...autism wank really is everywhere, isn't it?

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(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 10:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2004-11-11 02:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 04:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-11-11 02:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 04:34 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-11-12 12:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]glomobius, 2004-11-11 11:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 11:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dawnydiesel, 2004-11-12 03:33 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]cadesama, 2004-11-12 05:09 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]cadesama, 2004-11-13 02:20 am UTC

[info]pikacharma
2004-11-11 08:47 am UTC (link)
Bwah. Foxtrot wank. My life is now complete.

And given that I learned how to read from playing Zork on a Commodore 64, that whole "video games make kids stupid" argument amuses the everliving hell out of me. Easy Reader books are what make kids stupid. Such dull pointless shite has turned many a child off of reading for good, because let's face it, "See Spot run" is hardly sufficient motivation to get a child to willingly practice the activity. "Kill troll with sword", on the other hand...

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(no subject) - [info]wankismyfandom, 2004-11-11 10:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-11 02:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bitca, 2004-11-11 03:58 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-11-11 06:36 pm UTC

[info]psychofangirl
2004-11-11 09:19 am UTC (link)
"This is why my kids and I aren't having video games in the house".

Eh, your loss.

Which reminds me, I STILL have to get stared on Star Ocean 3. Jesus...I'm WAY behind.

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[info]dawnswalker
2004-11-11 10:05 am UTC (link)
"This is why my kids and I aren't having video games in the house"

...Because your kids might duct-tape the leaves to the trees?

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(no subject) - [info]tyraarane_, 2004-11-11 05:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]glomobius, 2004-11-11 05:28 pm UTC

[info]rachel_04
2004-11-11 01:37 pm UTC (link)
"Apparently, video games/TV in general are teh source of all evol, and everything that is wrong with the world."


Gee...I thought Fandom_wank was responsible for all teh evolness of earth. ;)

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(no subject) - [info]ahiru, 2004-11-11 04:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-11-11 06:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]misswindy, 2004-11-11 06:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ahiru, 2004-11-11 10:36 pm UTC
What is your icon - (Anonymous), 2004-11-11 07:30 pm UTC
Re: What is your icon - [info]ahiru, 2004-11-11 10:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rachel_04, 2004-11-11 10:52 pm UTC

[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-11 06:26 pm UTC (link)
*clicks*

...

*lets the icon speak for her*

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[info]kerikeri
2004-11-11 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Shockingly, godisprolife isn't the wankiest wanker who ever wanked in this thread. That honor goes to kellibunny, with her brilliant "video games are bad because they make little boys afraid of frogs!" defense. Because really, wtf?

Also bugged by the implication in her posts that there's something horribly wrong with a boy who's not interested in sports. I'm actually quite glad that such boys exist (and grow up into men who aren't interested in sports), thank you-- otherwise who the hell would I date? :P

(On a side note, I find it amusing that people who rail against violence in video games usually have no problem at all with sports. "I don't want my little precious playing this video game that will reward him for hitting people and behaving aggressively-- instead I want him to try out for the football team!" Yeah, that makes sense.)

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(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-11-11 09:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2004-11-11 11:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-12 06:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]combledore, 2004-11-12 07:57 am UTC

[info]serai
2004-11-11 10:40 pm UTC (link)
I was pretty amused by the assertion that watching lots of TV somehow prevents one from reading. My family watched TV every night, together, and my siblings and I were quite fond of the afternoon movies (anyone remember The Great Race), yet I was a voracious reader from the age of 7, and still am. One never cancelled out the other.

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(no subject) - [info]sesana, 2004-11-12 07:05 am UTC
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[info]annabelle_lee
2004-11-11 11:41 pm UTC (link)
While this wank amuses me, especially with kellibunny's leaps of illogic, I can't help but be vaguely jealous and crotchety over the subject.

I didn't get to play video games till I was eight, damnit, and I'm a pseudo-intellectual, antisocial, heavyset, lacking in hand-eye coordination bitch! Where's my benefits, huh?

Fuckers.

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(no subject) - [info]circumstance, 2004-11-12 02:56 am UTC

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[info]lovelyzelda
2004-11-12 02:58 am UTC (link)
as well as more intelligent than the general peers of mine who did nothing but play video games all day since they were 3 and could hold the controller. I could start to read when I was six

Holy crap, when I was three, back in the unelightened year of 1984, I didn't even know what the hell video games were. And when I eventually figured it out, I think my intelligence was proven by knowing at a tender age that an NES was ten times cooler then Pong.

As for starting to read at six, uhm, that's standard, right? I think they called it kindgergarten. It involved circling things that don't belong and, in my case, mastering your indoor voice.

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(no subject) - [info]hinata, 2004-11-12 10:47 am UTC
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[info]dawnydiesel
2004-11-12 04:17 am UTC (link)
I played video games and I didn't start swinging from vines and jumping on crocodiles heads until I was at least 25.

I did however dress like a frog and play in traffic so maybe that's not the best analogy.

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[info]zarla
2004-11-12 07:16 am UTC (link)
If there's one pet peeve that drives me nuts, it's when people say that games take kids away from reading.
Jeez, PLAY AN RPG. Reading is ALL YOU EVER DO. Games are CHOCK FULL of reading. READING. RARRRR.
::learned how to read from the Sierra Quest series and how to do math from Donkey Kong JR math shut up::

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*boggle*
meshou
2004-11-12 08:24 am UTC (link)
Am I wrong that by social conservative and political liberal, [info]godisprolife is advocating large government with heavy control of economy and the private sector, without the liberal virtue of freedom to choose one's own morality, spouse, lifestyle, etc? Am I missing something?

Speaking as a Libertarian.... buh? Did just he actually pick the exact problems I have with both parties, and think they were good things? I'm not saying it's impossible or wrong, it's just I've never seen it before. He's like a gangly unicorn, who is similarly white and only ever touched by virgins.

But yeah, seriously stumped as to what he believes and why.

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Re: *boggle* - redwarrior, 2004-11-12 10:41 pm UTC

[info]oxydosic
2004-11-13 01:34 am UTC (link)
Video games ARE evil. Ever since i started playing Animal Crossing i've dug up my yard looking for bells and trying to run errands for woodland creatures. Not to mention that huge debt i owe to that raccoon.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-11-13 03:45 am UTC

  
   
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