Lol, read about todays kids and old video games - FUNNY!

Gamepro65 · Registered User Joined: 02 Dec 2001 Posts: 710

i dont know if this has been said or not yet, but VP when u said u were shocked or somehin like that about how much lil kids know u would be suppriesed i mean with the internet u can learn alot espically with multiplayer where people dont realize what they are saying when little kids are playing so they say things and kids wanna figure it out so they go and find out and its a new word to vocabulary, but most of my bad words came from elementry school

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YourPowersAreWeakOldMan · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

Asians aren't necissarily smarter, they come from a strict culture of hard work constantly. They study harder and more than any other cultural group.

As for the George Carlin and Dennis Miller those were the only 2 I could think of at the moment and I used them also becuse most everybody knows who they are. It's better to give 2 good examples that everybody can relate to instead of a dozen obscure ones.

Another example, Stephen Hawking. Yes, him. The guy has quite a sense of humor and boy does he loves him some hookers and "pole dancers"

If you're using my comment about how they picked the kids, then yes in that definition I guess you could call that rigged. But how often do publications and media just 'Pick the Average Person' other than Jay Leno's 'Jaywalking' bit. The kids were probably not picked at random.
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Chen Kenichi · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject:

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DukeNukem · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:50 am Post subject:

VP:

“The Acropolis” is a hill of rock (and the highest point) in the ancient city of Athens, Greece. It was the religious and political heart of the city and represented the height of Greek achievement. The hill contained many buildings, the four most important being the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena, the Erechtheion and the Propylaea (the gateway of the Acropolis).

An acropolis was the fortified height of a Greek city (akro means “top” and is the root of English word acme, and polis means “city” – hence “the top of the city”).

I have to agree that there are some disturbing things about the kids that were "interviewed".

Just keep them away from my daughter ya hear!

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Turbo! · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:06 am Post subject:

That made me feel kinda old and im only 16!

Clay Pigeon · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject:

The acropolis was in Athens. Its ruins are still there.

Violent Pacifist · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject:

Once again Powers, you've proved my point

Amongst all those tiny little fragments of points, my main argument was that this event was rigged in some way or form, even though EGM made it out to be your typical 10-13 year old today.

Vicoden · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:57 pm Post subject:

Asians are a minority??? Aren't there like billions of them in China and the far east? Not to mention the millions in New York, California, and most the ski hills around the U.S. I don't think there is any major culture that you could consider a minority, Unless maybe the hard-working middle class white man.

Anyway back on topic, I think both of VP and YPAWOM have good points and I honestly can't make a 100% choice between the two of them, all your points make sense. I guess in my opinion I am sure there was alot more than 13 kids doing this test, and that they selectively wrote only the most outrageous comments in the article. Lets face it, the article wouldn't have been very interesting without those comments. If those kids would have said " yeah, space invaders is great!! I could play it for hours", I would have thought "Who gives a shit! so did I" But when a 10 year old brings out the word hooker while describing a video game, LOL thats when I read on!! The point of any good article is to 1st get the readers attention and 2nd to keep it. That article gave me some entertainment for about 5 mins, and I actually laughed out loud. VP you need to stop looking so deep into the negative side of things looking for the conspiracy theory, and just enjoy some of these things at face value. Life is way too short to spend soooo much time analyzing a test done purely for entertainment.

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