Obama: Videogames spur tech innovation, interest kids in science

Obama gets a for this one.

Also, I recommend modifying the Aurora Toolset from NWN1, if you want software for kids to play around with.

Holy fuck that is the most awesome thing I've ever read.

Obama is a good guy.

He'll be President someday.

Is this before or after it turns them into vicious killers?

During!

I think this is before they're turned into surgeons, like Cracked said.

Finally, an authority figure that doesn't think that video games turn everyone into psychopathic murderers.

If I were an American citizen, Obama would have earned all of my votes forever with this.

edited 18th Feb '13 9:32:42 AM by Kayeka

The fact that he can't run for re-election says a lot here.

He can still run for election to other positions though.

Meh. It's a fairly safe thing to say, all things considered. Call me paranoid, but I don't put much stock in anything politicians say.

The person who believes nothing he reads is as much a fool as the person who believes everything he reads.

But who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?

...I'm not sure how that's applicable to what I said. I didn't say I don't believe him, just that I don't place much value on the fact that he said it.

edited 18th Feb '13 10:26:54 AM by CorrTerek

For once I actually agree with something the President says. I guess even a broken clock can be right twice a day.

And what do you disagree with him about? Gay rights? Free health care?

The notion that the federal government should be involved in any of that in general, but that's a discussion for another thread.

American politics always struck me as some alien, unknowable entity.

An increased confluence of computers within the classroom is something that needs to happen all across the country, especially in rural states where hardly any computers seem to be used, much less utilized as a baseboard for future innovators in the field. Nationwide reform is something that most certainly would be good for the federal government to do, since right now it seems almost like the states are at a cultural war with each other. We can't exactly be a strong nation when we have the population socially divided in half.

When the president, chief executive of the federal government, is acknowledging the deep scientific merits behind studying video games as a medium and as a technology, I'm mostly thinking "fuck yes" at the federal government actually taking definitive action on that.

edited 18th Feb '13 12:38:58 PM by GyraSolune

It matters at least a little bit that such things are being said now in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, and the resulting knee-jerk reactions that put video games and other media under scrutiny.

I'm more in the "even a broken clock" camp than not (not that that would change if someone from the other party was in the Oval Office). But Obama is also a parent...and I'll give him that in things related to that, he's more sane than not.

I'm from the US and that's pretty much my view on the subject as well.

Same. Small Government and Laissez-Faire are just such foreign concepts to me that I get confused when they're brought up

@Obama. I am dissapointed that I can't vote for this guy again. Seriously,

Its Federal government, despite only being the third most populated nation on Earth and in something of an economic downswing insists on putting more GDP into the military than any other nation today, even from a pure percentile standard.

Who does this military fight? When non government organizations attack it calls for criminal investigation, not war. Second amend is to fight government should one feel to need to? History says the reason USA government is militarized right now because someone fought it and won so by popular vote it was strengthened to stop such a rebellion from occurring again. To an outsider the gun loving military worshiping USA culture is the reason for all of its violence. Media could not be more than a side affect of such a crazed environment.