The good die young and pricks live forever....
Blah. I'm sorry guys... I hate it when I blather on like some kind of half-witted idiot like I did in the last post. I'm usually not prone to those sort of things... but I was then and now I have to see that ugly entry every time I look at my livejournal until I post enough so that it gets booted off the front page. I could delete it but that's like trying to erase a memory... the more you wish it would go away the more it stubbornly refuses to leave.
I hate it how the news/media portrays the video game industry as some kind of terror that will either slay our children or turn them into vicious little monsters with the insatiable hunger for blood. I've been listening to a lot of Lewis Black lately... and everything seems to come back to the fact that we, as Americans, lack common sense out the wazoo. We blame every violent crime a child commits on video games... Oh noes! Grand Theft Auto taught my child how to shoot an automatic weapon, steal cars and bang prostitutes! What a fucking stupid thing to say. First of all, your children should not be playing Grand Theft Auto because, as the rating label clearly states, it's for a mature audience only. You're kid is not mature. I don't consider myself all that mature and I'm less nuts then most kids my age. So how can you blame the video game industry for this when you're buying your kids the game in the first place? It's called parental responsibility assholes. Furthermore, you should be thinking about the fact that the television is not an electronic baby sitter, nor is it healthy to leave your kid watching it for more then an hour at a time. You think video games are violent and sex obsessed? Take a look at what your kid watches during the day. If I look outside my little computer room into my family living room, you'll see my little sister watching that shitty movie with Britney Spears in it. Julia knows more about sex at age 10 then I did at age 15 (although truthfully, that might be more because of my lack of female contact in middle school). Also, when I see parents renting Blade Trinity for their kids I better not ever hear "Doom taught my children to shoot people." Blade taught your children how to knife someone into little pieces and then blow them away with shotguns. Doom taught your children that hell is a bad place and if that if they ever think of going there they need to bring lots of ammo.
P.S. All of you who say they're going to stop writing (so I take off your journals) and then continue writing... ugh. Just.... ugh.
I hate it how the news/media portrays the video game industry as some kind of terror that will either slay our children or turn them into vicious little monsters with the insatiable hunger for blood. I've been listening to a lot of Lewis Black lately... and everything seems to come back to the fact that we, as Americans, lack common sense out the wazoo. We blame every violent crime a child commits on video games... Oh noes! Grand Theft Auto taught my child how to shoot an automatic weapon, steal cars and bang prostitutes! What a fucking stupid thing to say. First of all, your children should not be playing Grand Theft Auto because, as the rating label clearly states, it's for a mature audience only. You're kid is not mature. I don't consider myself all that mature and I'm less nuts then most kids my age. So how can you blame the video game industry for this when you're buying your kids the game in the first place? It's called parental responsibility assholes. Furthermore, you should be thinking about the fact that the television is not an electronic baby sitter, nor is it healthy to leave your kid watching it for more then an hour at a time. You think video games are violent and sex obsessed? Take a look at what your kid watches during the day. If I look outside my little computer room into my family living room, you'll see my little sister watching that shitty movie with Britney Spears in it. Julia knows more about sex at age 10 then I did at age 15 (although truthfully, that might be more because of my lack of female contact in middle school). Also, when I see parents renting Blade Trinity for their kids I better not ever hear "Doom taught my children to shoot people." Blade taught your children how to knife someone into little pieces and then blow them away with shotguns. Doom taught your children that hell is a bad place and if that if they ever think of going there they need to bring lots of ammo.
P.S. All of you who say they're going to stop writing (so I take off your journals) and then continue writing... ugh. Just.... ugh.