That's a very compelling and thought-provoking post. I'll now have to reconsider every stance I've developed. Quite an existential crisis you've caused. What a predicament, average white cat.

It was still cute and had a good message...if nothing else I would like some to take that much away from watching it.

I suppose I can agree with you there.

W/regards to being hypocritical: The Lorax also was VERY guilty of this...especially considering the message of the film/short.

Another similar example there, I agree.

Yeah all the adverts were like "save the planet/humanity but here....buy this suv and these other lorax branded products and pollute all you want because it somehow helps the environment I guess *shrug*?"

What are you doing here with your facts and varifyable data. This is no place for such nonsense :P!

Truth be told you have to be very cynical and/or biased to think that most games are garbage, realistically. Even most low rated games are actually not really "that" bad. What is a 4/10 game would've easily been a 7/10 or higher only 12 years or so ago. There are people out there who think the direct opposite and have way stronger opinions than me however.

It has been a while since I've played a truely bad game that doesn't even feel like one. I feel that even the more simple games do alright things nowadays. I don't really think that shovelware exists in a way it did 20 years ago thanks to the indie boom and cheap games (lots of "shovelware" is actually pretty cheap and fun to play with for a day or two).

Facts are, the industry is large enough so even smaller devs can make their fair share of money regardless of the 9 games per day being released with lots of competition. It gives good perspective how diverse the video game industry really is.

EDIT: Reading through this thread two times its really weird that people feel compelled to defend games and gaming, I thought this was a positivity thread at first. The WHO simply talking about people who actually risk danger from playing way too much. Its simply acknowledging the outright extreme gaming can do to you, its also more tame since its far less physical than lets say alcohol consumption. As with gaming, there are far less physical "links" that can change your metabolism to make you addicted to games through mental stimulation (this happens obviously, its just takes much longer and you really have to play video games very frequently). Even then there is a big chance that it doesn't really manifest as a full addiction like many physical drugs do.

Statistically, even if you game around 6-10 hours a day (if you have a job) you're far more at danger getting hit by a car while getting groceries than getting addicted, which isn't exactly of high probability either.

As opposed to the post it was in response to? lol

BTW, is that self-deprecation, or is your Freudian slip showing? o.O

Alzheimers???