Photojournalism
Game Boys
Ordinary teenage boys playing Halo.
Eyes cast upward in ecstatic contemplation—500 or 600 years ago these expressions might have been found in a work by Raphael or Guido Reni. But Shauna Frischkorn, an associate professor of art at Pennsylvania's Millersville University, has captured the agony and the ecstasy of our own age in a wide-ranging series of portraits: no monks or saints, just ordinary teenage boys playing Halo. She says that "while they seem passive, they're actually performing fast-paced maneuvers and executing split-second decisions, making these portraits of intense concentration."
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Game Boys...portraits of American waste
"they're actually performing fast-paced maneuvers and executing split-second decisions, making these portraits of intense concentration."
Wrong. They're engaging in electronic masturbatory snuff fantasies which our society likes to pretend is "only playing." People around the world are dying of starvation and neglect and what can we say of American youth? Gluttonous hunks of lard continually pressing the buttons wired to the pleasure centers of their brains, themselves victims of the underlying rot and mold that used to be called "The American Dream", but now is just "The American Greed".
American waste? What is a
American waste? What is a game? Is basketball a waste in the same way?
Most games are designed to challenger the gamer. The main reason why they are so attractive is because people now have convenient methods of challenging themselves and rising to the occasion and overcoming those challenges. You call it masturbating but it is just recreation. Do you consider all recreation masturbation? What do you do in your spare time?
And what the hell was with the snuff thing? You have it really twisted. It is not difficult to understand that in Grand Theft Auto, nobody is getting hurt. There is no fantasy of killing real people.
Gluttonous hunks of lard? You are mean. I grant you the gluttonous, but that does not make gamers any different than non-gamers.
You would rather that everyone help those less fortunate or just gamers?
In my opinion, a system for helping those less fortunate should be handled by the government. I will pay the taxes.
"They're engaging in
"They're engaging in electronic masturbatory snuff fantasies"
I'm a gamer, I showed this to my gamer friends. We pissed ourselves laughing, this is PERFECT.
Cheers for providing one of the most incredible descriptions of our past time I've ever heard, kinda backfired, no?
You kind of proved the
You kind of proved the initial poster's point - it's pastime, not past time.
Hmm, this obviously sounds
Hmm, this obviously sounds like a comment written by a girlfriend, or wife, or some other woman who can't stand the fact that a guy is trying to play a game and not engage her for three hours in drawn-out conversation. And yes, I am a feminist - I'm just tired of girls ripping on video games.