CNN's Beck 'could care less' about games, bloggers are 'losers'

Agreed. Thanks for reading the site.

Xav, I love that you always have a response for these people on here! Keep it up!

@Bmurph: Well come on, who's a bigger loser? Me for writing here or the people who read everything here and then comment with garbage?

LOL, this is my job!

No, I think the latter is. How sad that Glenn Beck could care less about you, but you still feel the need to write about him here. Irony.

LOL.

Really, that's what you're coming back at me with?

Well, looks like Nintendo isn't the only thing that = FAIL. Your comments are too.

Just what we need. Another Douchebag flooding the older gerneration. 50-100 that our youth is going down hill because thier stupid parents cannot read that the Game is Rated M for Mature. I think that they are just pissed off because GTA IV makes fun of them (Liberals) in the game on WKTT Radio. Maybe Lazlo can gett him to be in GTA V....

If you watch the video, he actually gets owned by that author of "Grand Theft Childhood". She almost defends games and points to parents to actually pay attention.

Every time he brings up a point to blame video games, she responds with a very good counter-argument and he quickly dismisses what she talks about.

She'll never be a guest on his show again, haha.

screw it, I wanna be a loser if it means having a sweet ass video game editorial job. im sure it pays decent

I totally agree and have noticed that Americans always say "could care less" when it should be "couldn't care less". It's quite annoying but not as annoying as people who use "then" when they should of used "than".

Thank you someone caught that he said I could care less, the correct term is "I couldn't care less". They us (journalists) this in our basic grammar class, I guess Mr. Beck missed that class. But on topic, is GTA 4 any worse than the Godfather, Scarface, or The Departed? No. I don't see people up in arms about gangster movies that are considered classics (just the general public).

I totally agree with this as well, and I was thinking about it the entire time I read the article, but I definitely got a kick out of David's reply. You should have used "should have" and not "should of" in your sentence. Irony. ;)

What's not to get, sir? These posts are traffic drivers. Look how many comments posts about anti-gaming media receives?

I can certainly identify with your feelings of "I play my games and have fun, despite the political arguments over them," but the fact is that if we don't do something about it, these politicians and naysayers could kill many of the games we love. We'll all be reduced to playing "Cooking Mama" on our Wii (if you can ever find a system in the !@#^& store!).

Please don't take away my GTA IV fun! I like taking my girl on dates to the strip club before going back to her place and getting lucky. Not going to happen in real life, so I may as well enjoy it in the game. Heh.

LOL... Glenn Beck is actually a Democrat....

@wako: Have you seen any of this guy's show? He is far from liberal.

Exactly, I think this is an American thing, as I've seen it said on numerous websites, but only ever by Americans. "Could care less" doesn't make sense in this context. It should be "couldn't care less".

Hey guys, Steven here. Why not let Glenn Beck know how we really feel about this on HIS website poll.

"Are people who 'blog' about video games losers?" I dare you to let Glenn know what you think: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/9760/

;)~

because it's the american way to find someone else to blame.

I agree with RyanP.
Its just funny to me how quick X3F blogger are so quick to defend and bash ANYTHING remotely negative said about the video game industry. Even when its true.

Personally I don't care what he thinks of us. Technically we're all bloggers on gaming, from the people who write the articles to the people who comment.

My issue with this segment of Beck's show is his lack of knowledge.

Yes, Grand Theft Auto IV is popular but the gaming industry doesn't need it to sell to survive. This is a billion dollar industry, with or without the franchise and Beck claiming the industry needs it to sell is funny.

Then as Dr. Olson pitches valid arguments and research he rolls his eyes to the point where they need to cut off his video feed and then goes into a long 1-2 minute rant cutting into the woman's own time.

Journalistic integrity means you pitch the whole story, not only the story that makes your day brighter. I put this story up because I didn't like it, but we can't pretend people aren't hating on our favorite pastime.

You lived a sheltered life, dude. I was into my friend's dad's Penthouse magazines when I was 14 years old. I saw my first full-fledged porno when I was 16 years old (New Wave Hookers, and yes, Ms. Lords was in it at the time, before people realized she was the same age that I was while I was watching her.) I was on BBS services that were pretty nasty when I was 15 years old, and back in the 80s, all my classmates had seen "Faces of Death" before I did! (Actually, I watched about 2 minutes and decided it wasn't for me.) Most of my friends saw Porky's and Fast Times At Ridgemont High before their 15th birthday.

Our generation also had fewer safety procedures and child-proofing to protect us from the world. We had dangerous toys and playground equipment. We had toy guns that looked just like real guns. We had lead-based paint on our toys. We had lawn darts that were known to penetrate the skulls of stupid children. We had toy ovens that molded semi-toxic petroleum-based plastics into cheap toy monsters, cars, and bugs.

If anything, today's kids are MORE sheltered. What they get is not as raw and real as what we got. They might see the tits and sex and bloodshed a little earlier, but what they get is a watered-down, fake version of sex, violence, and nudity. They get digital boobies and blood. They get plastic surgery-enhanced girls and shaved boys.

The stuff I watched when I was a teen was filled with hairy, natural, gritty, dirty sex. It was filled with unapologetic, hardcore bloodshed. It was filled with unfiltered political messages and a complete lack of political correctness.

We didn't have FOX News scaring our parents into not letting us watch "Logan's Run" or "Conan The Barbarian."

I don't think kids should play GTA IV... But I don't think it's the end of civilization if they happen to see it, or if they are deemed mature enough to handle it by those who know them best.