I've lost my faith in humanity.

so, i live in a small town, and there's one game shop, //dotgames (yes, named after //.hack) which is an awesome shop with tons of used games and imports.

well they have "pay to play" where you pay $4 and can play any system in the store, where they have ps3s, 360s, and wiis hooked to big screen tvs.

well anyways, I was in there hanging out, talking about Shin Megami Tensei (name dropping!) and there was a family in there. the father was probably 25, and was dressed as close to fred durst as possible. the mother was... well... yeah. the kids were maybe 3 and 5, and the 5 year old was playing FEAR (//dotgames normally wouldnt let him, but the dad said it was ok...) and the 3 year old was playing resistance fall of man.

here's what got me. the kids were crying that they didnt want to play games anymore, and the dad was yelling at them to shut up and play the games. the mother was playing a wii, and i watched her for about 5 minutes. she was playing WiiPlay. you know how at the beginning it says "Press A and B to begin", well, she pressed a... then pressed b. one after the other. the father couldnt figure out what she was doing wrong, so she had to ask us for help. press em at the same time. she was indignant.

ok so she played the "duckhunt" game, whatever its called, where you have to shoot the targets but NOT hit the pictures of you. she thought she was supposed to avoid the targets, and kept shooting the Mii pictures. the big "-3" didnt tip her off. so she failed that game, and got mad. then she played the Pose Mii game. she couldnt seem to understand that you had to rotate the mii and ensure it was in the right pose.

the Wii is probably the simplest of all gaming systems, and every game on wiisports and wiiplay is so increedibly self explanatory that if you dont understand it, you need to shoot yourself in the face with a flare gun.

worst part is, theyve already bred, so its too late to prevent further degradation of our gene pool.

I lost faith a looong time ago man.musicXpirate

i suppose youre right, but i had always hoped it wouldnt get so bad.

worst part was, the father kept running around, grabbing games off the shelf and talking about em like he had played everything in there, was was utter BS because he thought Devil May Cry was a RPG... seriously.

I blame doctors and how they try to save the lives of people that hurt themselves really bad in stupid ways.Bloodaxe726

I'll have to agree with this, but it's not just doctors but parents strapping their kids in padding, plugging light sockets and locking all the medicine cabinets. Children need to receive minor injuries so they actually learn something......instead, we now have people who should have died in childhood running around reversing evolution.

That, and most people are just stupid in the first place.

I saw a preview for a movie called "Idiocracy" (never actually seen it) whose premise seems oddly pertinent here.

About the Dr.s saving people. I'm a med student and I promise you this, public health measures, food, housing, etc help morons survive much more than we do. We help them pull through a particular incident, these other things help them live happy, healthy lives which eventually leads to them breeding. I'm a med student in SC, so I'm sure we get the best of the best here ;)

The woman and dude I can understand not knowing what to do because they probably can't read, they say a giant A and a giant B so they guessed that you had to hit them on the remote. But the kids I just feel sorry for. Maybe it's like thoose parents who make their kids play a sport so they can maybe get rich and famous, and they probably have been watching ESPN and noticed that their kids can get a ton of money playing competitive gaming, so they can get enough money for school so they can read which in teh long run can let them play a Wii

I was almost ready to agree with you and then the phrase

so increedibly self explanatory that if you dont understand it, you need to shoot yourself in the face with a flare gun.

It's times like this when i wish Darwinism was more prevelent.vendettared468

Amen.

Morons have a right to gaming as well. It's all about perception and the capacity of learning. The family in question sounds like a nightmare scenario, but I'm afraid that's the global state of the non-gamer.

That made you lose faith in humanity? Not the senseless killing, world hunger, or 14 year old crack mothers across USA? Good choice.jks22112

Seriously, I know it's still early today but this will likely be the best post I read on any forum today. Thanks for bringing perspective to gaming board outrage.

kids that age dont have the attention span (generally speaking) for games like that, although i've known kids that started playing kingdom hearts when they were 2.

still, if i could shoot ray-beams out of my eyes, those kids woud be orphans. they lucked out.

People feel happy by deluding themselves into believing others are far more inferior than they are. They do this by only recognizing dumb actions of random individuals they know nothing about.

Did you know Einstein was perceived as an idiot by his peers and was kicked out of school?

[QUOTE="musicXpirate"]I lost faith a looong time ago man.sanctuary13

i suppose youre right, but i had always hoped it wouldnt get so bad.

worst part was, the father kept running around, grabbing games off the shelf and talking about em like he had played everything in there, was was utter BS because he thought Devil May Cry was a RPG... seriously.

No-Future-Generation was a well used phrase years ago...well I´m (with 25) one of that generation...I hope the Kids get a bit more clever then I expect or it has to be redifined...and I hate that phrase...

Some people shouldn´t get kids.I like Kids.

People feel happy by deluding themselves into believing others are far more inferior than they are. They do this by only recognizing dumb actions of random individuals they know nothing about.

Did you know Einstein was perceived as an idiot by his peers and was kicked out of school?

banjobear_basic

Einstein and these people are worlds apart. I like people, im a social guy, but the town where i live is a cesspool of inbred yokels, and i somehow doubt that Einstein wore a sideways "West Coast Choppers" ball cap, a wife beater shirt, and baggy pants that hung so low i could tell his religion.

Inferiority is a uniform worn well by many people, and even if they could speak endlessly on quantum physics and pythagorean theory, the rest of their actions speak clearly. I've met and known enough people to understand that every group of people is the same, no matter what race, religion, nationality, gender, or creed.

a few winners, a whole lot of losers.

only george carlin can judge me.

I lost faith a looong time ago man.musicXpirate

lol yea, me too :) xD

i.. kinda gave up on adults coming to grips with games the first time i saw my aunt play wii sports. tennis game. im trying to explain how start...

so when shes serving the ball... she used her other controller free hand to act out the throwing of the ball... it took like half an hour to explain the fact you had to both throw up the ball and swing with the same hand before she understood..."aunti... theres nothing in that hand.... the wii isnt a mind reading device... moving that hand will do nothing!"

that's just awesome.

but these people weren't exactly pushing 60, they were definitely younger than me by a few years,a dn im 28. OMG AN ADULT!

sorta.

Man... that whole situation in the shop sounded terrible... I too have lost faith in mankind, but mankind still doesn't cease to amaze me with it's stupidity. A self-induced apocalypse doesn't seem all that far-fetched and sci-fi now...

Man... that whole situation in the shop sounded terrible... I too have lost faith in mankind, but mankind still doesn't cease to amaze me with it's stupidity. A self-induced apocalypse doesn't seem all that far-fetched and sci-fi now...

Zorgol

Haha! Perfectly put. :lol:

Yeah well, most adults don't play video games. They do the real thing. Also, I find a lot of hardcore gamers still having difficulties connecting their Xbox 360 and PS3 to the internet.

The Wii maybe the simplest designed system of the three, but you're still pushing buttons so there's no difference when it comes to gameplay other than the fact he Wii control interfaceinvolves morethan pushing buttons like the other two consoles. Button mashing is so yesterday.

kids that age dont have the attention span (generally speaking) for games like that, although i've known kids that started playing kingdom hearts when they were 2.

still, if i could shoot ray-beams out of my eyes, those kids woud be orphans. they lucked out.

sanctuary13

haha best post today :D

ROFL, I read all of that and almost fell out of my chair. Oh society, how dumb will the next generation be? ROFL, i'm sry you had to witness such an disturbing site. I don't know though, I would have chose to be there than a gathering of kids where they played Runescape all day. If I had a gun............:lol: