Ever get the feeling you did something and someone\'s avoiding you for it?

I asked a girl out to see a movie. Not a date or anything, I know she had a boyfriend, but I was just looking to enjoy a movie with someone I considered a friend.

Anyway, she gracefully declined, and I tried to explain I wasn\'t trying to come between them. It\'s not my thing. Anyway, I think she\'s been avoiding me. It kinda bugs me. I\'m not mad, or anything, I just feel like I offended her or something. Maybe asking her to see a movie was a bit too much as a friend.

Just out of curiousity, does anyone have a suggestion to break that awkward silence? I\'m a little at a loss for what to do (First time for everything, I guess...)

Actually, yes. I was the one speaking out against society\'s inability to break their attention from a glowing box.

You really want to know what\'s differant between sex and violence? I don\'t even know that. I really don\'t know how to justify gunning down cops, while staring gawkeyed and some brain-dead bimbo.

Bear in mind, when I say that, I don\'t mean women. I mean the women in this game. Go to X Play\'s site, and check out the footage. The people who programmed this game created the illusion that girls have nothing better to do with their time than to let people watch them and giggle stupidly when your hand touches their knee. That creates a pretty sorry image of girls. Not that it really matters, because anyone retarded enough to put that on their game rack, doesn\'t have a snowball\'s chance in Hell with a girl anyway.

Then what you said about GTA. For me, the real differance here is skill required. The dictionary I have defines a game as something played for entertainment, I think a game is defined by a test of skill that\'s entertaining as well. It doesn\'t take much skill to reposition a camera behind a girl\'s can so someone can \'touch\' it. In GTA, you have to work to get away from the cops. It takes everything you got to escape the Military. If you buy GTA just to drive around at night and pick up hookers, than your kind of missing the point of the game (well, I guess you could play like that...). The point of this game is stare at silicon endowed girls eat a banana in slow motion. Dragon\'s Lair had more play depth than that. Besides, It was funny watching Dirk fall into the fire.

I didn\'t hear about the virtual glasses and gloves sucking. That\'s too bad. I really think it would be a step in the right direction for games.

Oh, and Kiern, you don\'t have to slam others for what they like to play. I stated how sad it was that games have come to this. If you read, I never put -anyone- down for what they played. If you wanted to play Micheal Jackson\'s Hide and Seek. That\'s your game. If someone wants to play Sexy Beach or DOA Beach Volleyball. Fine. Cool. It\'s not my thing. I would rather play something else. To each his or her own.

I don\'t know how many people here watch XPlay on techtv. A little show about games in America. Well, it showed an import game called \'Sexy Beach 2\'. In it, you stalk girls around aparrently tropical enviroments, and shower them with gifts, like scantily clad bikinis, or things that don\'t even count as clothing, but as twine. Eventually, you got to \'touch\' them. Give them back rubs, thigh massages, tickle their belly, and any other sick little fetish limited only to how far one\'s mind can sink into the gutter. Farther along, you take them back to your place to test the springs on your matress.

Now, I\'m not a prude. I play GTA: Vice City, though I don\'t solicite hookers in the game, but how would I go around justifying playing that, and shooting down a game that\'s play control consists of \'looking\' at overly busted girls, then clicking on them. Does it even constitute as a game?

By technicality, yes it does. Personally, in my books, no it doesn\'t. I think gaming takes more than a foot fetish to play. But the question about GTA comes back up. Well, this might sound lame, but I think it can be justified since it actually takes some finess. Skill. efort. The other is digital porn. Perhaps that sounds hypocritical, maybe it is.

Either way, I find it sad that games have sunk to this level. Personally, I think it really started with DOA: Beach Voleyball.

Maybe I\'m looking at this from the wrong angle. I mean, anyone so incredibly pathetic as to buy a piece of trash like that obviously couldn\'t get a date, so maybe, ironically they need it.

To sum up, What the hell happened to games? I know with graphics improving, games can, and have become more mature since thye have the power to. But since when did mature  slowly eating popcicles and running slow motion through a sprinkler in a white shirt? Perhaps one of the most \'mature\' games I\'ve played is Harvest Moon. A personal favorite. Final Fantasy is a good example of maturity. For the most part. It focusses on telling stories and testing the might of the player. X-2 looks like a backslide.

Blood baths? Realism? I dunno. I enjoy blood when it\'s done to the point of \"un-realism\". One of my favorite movies of all time has to be Evil Dead 2. In it, blood flows like water. But it\'s done in a humourous way, being so overly done it\'s funny. Even the props. Dismembered hands and such. Enjoying a bloodfest comes from that little evil thing in all of us that enjoys seeing someone\'s fingernails being ripped out in slow motion. It\'s all good fun.

But what I consider more interesting than blood shooting everywhere, is \"What causes it?\" I read a comic called Johnny, The Homicidal Maniac . If you like violence, check it out. It\'s funny and makes for an interesting read.

Frankly, I don\'t CARE which bands are popular. I decide for myself what music I like, not that damn box. I hear something I like, and I listen to it. Unlike the sad few who sit at the edge of their seats waiting for the next big boy band, or the next punkest thing. I listen to older music, but I do listen to the White Stripes and some Gorillaz when the mood takes me. I find most modern bands to be pathetically lacking. Musically, and characteristaclly. All the vocals and stylings sound the same as every other band. I

Yes, I would agree that our opinions are differant. I don\'t think people should persue a hobby, per se. I think that people who have nothing better in their life to do then stare at a box that dribbles nonsense should go out and get a life. I know, since I don\'t have one. But I don\'t fill the void with that slime. I try to fill it with taking classes and trying to better myself intellectually. It doesn\'t pass for a life, but that\'s something I\'m trying to work on.

And again, you didn\'t read my post. I said for people to get a life, and the choices they make don\'t effect me. I posted that already.

A bad life is better than no life at all. They choose their lives, they live it. Not me, so I don\'t see why I have to swallow and accept bitter pills that I don\'t need

I don\'t care what people do with their life. I find it sad that they would do things like base what\'s real by what they see on Empty-V or Jerry Springer. As far as people becoming zombies to capitalism, they bombard people with so many commercials that they become unseeing of the stupidity of it. Do you remember those pots with the siv lid? Remember the commercial where the mom is fighting a siv, while the ungrateful family are voicing their protest loudly? The father tapping his watch, keeping the \"Woman\" on a schedule? What bothers me is when they try and get me to believe that that family is going to improve from a pot with holes in it. Was it a good product? Maybe, I haven\'t tried it. Should it be marketted? Why not, someone might like it. Should they act like everyone\'s family is ungrateful and driven by some stereotype of a dominant male? Hell no. I get tired with stupidity and stereotypes of what the world is being crammed down my throat.

And yes, I do interpret you calling me a fascist. You put words in my mouth that I want people to dress, act, and watch the same thing. If you meant something else, then I certainly missed it.

The way you\'ve argued, it seems that everyone should watch a certain show, dress a certian way, like certain things. they should all be squeaky clean.

It sounds like your calling me a fascist. That or a prude.

I don\'t expect people to be anything, other than what they are. If you think me having hopes for a better world is expecting too much, then I\'m sorry you expect me to just lay down and accept the world as it is. If that happened, we never would have reached the Rennaisance. If we just accepted everything for the way it was and not what it could be, then as far anyone knew the world would still be flat. I don\'t demand people to change. I urge them to try something new. Something I\'m starting to take steps in myself.

I\'m not even going to touch on the whole \"God exists or not\" argument. I\'ll respect your beliefs but you damn well better respect mine and anyone else involved in this. Religion is irrelevant in all this.

I also indulge in things that are frowned upon. Reading comics that depict horrible violence. I watch FLCL. For the sex? No. I like the story and animation. I watch:

The Simpsons (When the rare chance comes around}
FLCL
Family Guy
Futurama
Samurui Jack
Spongebob
Mystery Science Theatre
Cowboy Bebop
XPlay

There\'s a huge differance in knowing that filth exists in life, and dodging it, and knowing that filth exists in life, and wallowing in it.

Just so you know, I have no sex, protected or otherwise. I don\'t swear in front of children, speak in foul tongues in front of women. There\'s alot of things I don\'t do, and still better myself. I would hope you would understand and reciprocate.

Free Will. Everyone has the right to do whatever they want, but that doesn\'t make it acceptable. If I wanted I could rape someone in front of an orphanage. Would that make it okay? No. Attack the Constitution. You know, one of the biggest things wrong in America is Freedom of Speech. It allows good people to enrich the lives of others, but it allows morons to spill their grey matter vomit across unsuspecting victims. It allows revolting lyrics to be played in Parking Lots while children are trying to get to school. It lets bands like Cannibal Corpse say things to disgust as many people as possible.

Attack the glorious Constitution and Bill of Rights? You bet. Because it started out with the best intentions and was twisted into something that let freaks get away with crap, and call it \"The way they choose to be.\" And they have that unviolatable right, which they deserve as much as any American, and yet they abuse it.

No wonder other countries laugh at us.

I\'m sitting in a computer lab at my College. I\'m looking around and thinking, \"My God. Maybe there is hope.\" Because a majority of these people, these REAL people, have better things to do than waste their lives away mooching off the government and killing their braincells with chemicals outlawed by the government. THere was a guy with bright orange hair, all in black at my college. I thought he was just some slacker taking college work to avoid actual work. I was wrong. He knew way more about Math than I was able to comprehend. You can\'t judge people. These people I go to school with, I see hold chance for a brighter future. Who have better things to do than watch a 3-hour Best-of Spring Break marathon.

Television isn\'t real. It\'s a marketting device. Industries use it to force their way into brains, like sperm into eggs, planting their little mottos, logos, and any other BS they can get away with. There\'s nothing wrong with sitting and watching something. You have a right to do so, and have every chance to exercise it. They know that, and take advantage of it whenever they can. Just because bilboards depict grotesquely advertised skin clubs, doesn\'t mean you can\'t take a sunday drive once in a while. Just because the Playboy channel is on doesn\'t mean you can\'t watch the Civil War documentary on a differant channel. People choose the slime they bathe in. I did, and change for the better whenever I realize what I\'m doing. Most people don\'t care. They continue ignoring better sense, to indulge in their own little wills.

Messages brought to you by Phillip Morris. Remember how they weren\'t supposed to have cigarette commercials on television? They found a way around that. And people just sit and take it up the pipe, because it doesn\'t bother them. Making it seem like they care about your health. They don\'t give a damn, otherwise they wouldn\'t have a cancer increasing substance stuck on the back wall of convience stores in a big white box for all to see. And we have a choice not to smoke up. One choice I made a long time ago. To be honest:

I drink coffee, cola, and the occasional mixed drink (like twice a year maybe). Cola should count as bad substance, man that stuff gets sickeningly sweet at times, AND it can melt nails.

For every show that could be considered acceptable, there are easily 20 others that cater to home shopping, soap opera\'s, skin shows, and crappy music videos (Though that\'s my opinion of them).

It would make more sense to say what was wrong with me, than wallow in self-rightousness about stuff I don\'t do. However, I HAVE led a sheltered life (or something that can be called that, at times). I\'m thankful for it, and yet I suppose I regret it. I haven\'t been exposed to enough of the filth of society to accept it as normal, but I\'m better than it. I have my faults, and maybe I screw up, but I\'ll roast in Hell before I sit grinning at some screen for hours on end like a slack-jawed, 21 chromosone, dumb, money-spending American that damn box wants to think I am.

Real World most certainly NOT is the best show ever made. For one thing it\'s deprived of anything real.

Empty-V sets them up a nice little crib and  personally I haven\'t seen them do jack other than make idiots of themselves. How many normal people have a hot tub, and how many normal people have money to burn that they didn\'t earn? Mostly, people still living with their parents.

That\'s what Empty-V is, anymore. Started cool with music videos, now it\'s the big pimp daddy to an army of slathering creatures who barely pass for human. Spring Break on MTV, I once witnessed a game to see who could undress and change clothes with a girl in a cramped phone booth. That\'s sick, sad, and pointless. If you can\'t see they\'re shoving \"naughty\" under your nose for ratings, then your pretty blind.

How many of those punks have NORMAL jobs. Sacking Grocceries, changing the tags on store items. Christ, they live in an uptown penthouse, and they eat at the nicest resteraunts. Do you ever see them settle with F\'ing McDonalds?

Besides, if that\'s what normal people are like anymore, then let this war end in a quick global genocide, because we\'re screwed where we stand. I never see so many people p*ss and moan about whose laundry is laying around. If people have that much sex, with that many partners, then the world is sadder and sicker than I thought. If that is so \"real\" then, again, that would explain the rapidly growing population, variations of VD, and why the world is so filled with a-holes.

And sashok, don\'t you dare blame God. He gave Adam and Eve warnings early on. Still they proceeded. The human race has a tendancy to destroy ourselves. Be it with drugs, food, sex, greed, blasphemy or what else you can think of. I wonder myself why he didn\'t just stomp out the human race early on, but it\'s not for you to pass judgement. Don\'t forget, your under him.