Rider wrote:
Koukol 5 wrote:
Rider wrote:
I think our rush to say things replace other things in culture and media is a huge mistake and often over simplifies very complex cultural movements.

We love to make things into simple metaphors and analogies, the things are always far more then the two dimensional dichotomies we like to boil them down to.

People have only so much time in a day and money so pastimes do have to compete.

Nope sorry not as black and white and simple as you want to make it.

To be honest I spent 90% of my time before the internet and video games bored out of my mind.  I had much much more time doing absolutely nothing or watching whatever happened to be on TV.  Hell how much movie watching do you think people were doing 40 years ago when you had one or two movies playing in your town, no VCRs, and if you were lucky 7 TV stations that broadcast for 14 hours a day.

People spent mountains of time being bored, reading, doing hobbies and crafts.  This simple people play more videos games therefore they have less time for movies is just not something that meshes very well with reality.  If anything people are reading and doing arts and crafts less.  I don't know a single person anywhere who would say there are watching fewer movies.  If anything people are watching too many movies now between Cable, Red Box, and Netflix.  Even among the younger generation the only thing I see video games replacing with them is there are a lot less crappy cartoons on TV now, when I was a kid there was 5-7 hours of cartoons on every single day,  now almost all the cartoons are aimed at the preschool set.  

Sorry the world is not as black and white and simple as people try to make it out to be.

No one is saying ANYTHING is black and white.

But you're wrong if you think video games haven't had a negative impact on TV and films...SORRY!
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