PS3 = Opium; Geeks = Terrorist Fodder
Or at least so sayest Bill O’Reilly, perennial blow hard and self aggrandizement magnet. In a typical hallucinatory screed brought about by the excess of hot air, the Fox commentator rallied against the borg… at least the coming of it.
Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don’t deal with reality - ever. So they don’t know what day it is; they don’t know temperature it is; they don’t know what their neighbor looks like. They don’t know anything… because they are constantly diverted by a machine.
The source of this vile escapism - the PS3!
The newest thing is the PlayStation 3. Now this is a machine that allows you to play games in hi-def and all this other stuff… It’s the newest state of the art system from Sony…. It has a video game console, plays DVDs, connects you to the Internet, tells you how handsome you are. It’s six-hundred bucks. Now people lined up for hours to get this thing. Hours!
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Hours! Hours he sayest! But Bill, what should the youth of America be doing instead?
If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? …I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.
Sounds like somebody is still pissy that they couldn’t find all the stars in Mario 64…. Anywhoo, remember kids: if you play with your Wii, the terrorists will win.
Coverage via the Game Politics blog and CNet’s Gadget Blog.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
[…] The Japanese launch of the Nintendo Wii, a competing product that has been showered with critical and fanboy love alike, saw 372,000 units sold in two days. At some locations the queues were 1500 deep. Everyone left pacified; unlike the violence that broke out over PS3 scarcity - the kind of violence that Bill O’Reilly believes isn’t good enough to battle the terrorists with. Even Sony executives were publicly stating that the Wii was more fun than the PS3; a tactic that is sure to boost sales… for the other company: “Wii is a core gaming device. It’s a more fun, intuitive sort of product to pick up, where the PS3 is a broader entertainment solution…” […]