Where Politics And Video Games Collide

Didn't Mr. Thompson try to get the President to testify on one of his cases at one point? This is starting to come together...the conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Mr. Thompson is a man out to find the truth no matter what the cost...where the hell is Don LaFontaine and a movie script when you need it?

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Warrior culture has been around for, oh, several thousand years. Videogames...not so much. You want to bitch about mediums that make war and violence attractive...call the MPAA and take a bite out of them. The line about glamour, cool, and risk-free sounds like a movie to me. No interaction, no failure, no lost time, no lost life, etc. Yup, sounds like Hollywood.

/rant on

And where does this prick get off chatting up the Nebraska shooting. I thought those cards fell at the feet of a religious zealot of a parent, a troubled teen who had a bevvy of priors in violence and theft, and a lack of medication and treatment that eventually led to a doc holiday-esque shooting spree where he didn't care if he lived or died, but that he would be remembered forever. Games didn't make that little pissant shoot up the mall, a F@#$ed up mind and narcissism did.

Last thought. The funny thing about video games is that you are remembered for saving the world, being a hero, righting wrongs, etc, etc, etc. Last I checked, all the asshats that ever shot up schools or malls were looking to be remembered. They've all said it. Every 'goodbye note' and every bit of footage from videos that were made held that little bit of gold.

Infamy for the rest of eternity is better than being nothing for life, but we all remember their names and what they did. How many Honors students can you name? How many student athletes that have done community service can you name? How many good kids go through this world every day, doing the right thing, playing video games, and not shooting up the local community go unnoticed? Yet, we remember these bastards that decide to go on a shooting spree because they want to be remembered. For a moment in their lives they are somebody, and have created something that will be recalled long after they have died. So, who, really, should we be giving a damn about? The little bastards who shoot up a mall, or the ones who truly deserve a place on the front page of the newspaper. Frankly, the shooters should have an obit, small obits, and nothing more.

/rant off