It's gonna hit the fan big time when the new GTA is finally released. Not only do we have have Tanya Byron's review on the harms of video games to children going public at a similar time, but we've also got the Presidential election in the States heating up, with hungry politicians just grabbing hold of anything to push them ahead. I'm looking at you, erm, all of you actually!
Things are probably going to get pretty messy and underneath it all will be one game. It's a good thing that game is GTA and not another rubbish publicity hounding, violence-for-the-sake -of violence-run -of-the-mill-shooter. We have a tough time ahead of us. We should start planning are arguments now ahead of time. We should be prepared to defend our favourite past time and not appear like a bunch of apethetic illiterate idiots.
It's a sad thought but were not ever going to fully get rid of this kind of stigmatism. Just ask the film industry. They've been legitimised for years as an art and they STILL get crazy right-wing nuts claiming that movies are a serious threat to the children.
Won't somebody, PLEASE, think of the children.
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They should invent a target practice shoot-em-up in which the aim is to shoot right wing politicians' heads into small bloody pieces. That'll show them that gaming is for pacifists!
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