AOC wants Army to stop recruiting Twitch video gamers

Or watching TV, or reading books, or surfing the internet?

Most people live sedentary lives that are unhealthy. People are obese in this country, don't get enough exercise, etc.

But isn't it a major trust of conservatives that we shouldn't be a mommie state and tell people what to do or how to live their lives? It's unhealthy to drink 8 cokes a day, but yet we are against a 5 cent tax on sodas to help pay for the increased health care costs of obesity?

What about smoking and drinking?

I don't disagree with you that excessive video game playing or watching is unhealthy, I just feel that criticizing twitch as unhealthy with the implication that people should instead go into the military is a dubious point and one that runs contrary to arguments I seem to recall you making in the past about other sins.

 

Army advertising, to me, even before video games, is no different than what Big Tobacco was doing. Preying on the young. It should be banned on Twitch, from high schools, from sports and anywhere else.

 

Army needs to recruit barely legal 18 yr olds to meet their numbers.

Wait wut...

What did watching Mia Malkova's twitch do to me??

 

I disagree, the military offers kids hope who otherwise don't have many options. The military can provide opportunity to disadvantaged kids.

The military shouldn't be banned from advertising to kids - it's not Big Tobacco, but it should be regulated the way pharma advertising is.

 

Uhh she was a bartender. Have you ever had 25 people staring at you? Thinking you should know the exact order everyone walked up and take the orders based on that?


lol. In all seriousness it’s not fun haha

 

Feel free to make fun of me for being old. @bobrek

What does Twitch do for gamers?

 

All I know is that somehow my son's youtube followers will also watch him play games and he'll somehow get money out of it. It's beyond me, but good for him.

 

Thanks. Even though I'm old when I was married ten years ago I had a step son who tried to teach me how to play a first shooter game.

Too many buttons, top much going on. I do understand the skits. I would one day like to get into gaming

 

new book out:

http://peasoup.us/2020/07/book-forum-c-thi-nguyen-games-agency-as-art

excerpt:

So: game designers sculpt a form of agency and embed it in a game. And players submerge themselves in that sculpted agency. Games, then, turn out to be our technology for recording and communicating forms of agency. They comprise our library of agencies. And, just as libraries of conventional texts let us explore others’ ideas, narratives, and emotional perspectives, games let us explore different modes of agency. Chess focuses us on analytic, rigorous, calculational thinking; Diplomacy focuses us on a Machiavellian style of deceit; Tetris focuses us on geometrical rotational manipulations. By playing a variety of games, we learn new modes of practicality. Games can help us become more free by teaching us new ways to inhabit our own agency.
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