March 7th, 2005
Man, a back to back Blogger Log posting. A pretty rare occurance in these part of the woods, and these parts being the Blogger Log Woods, so enjoy it while you can. I feel like typing and thinking and stuff... uhh, yeah.
Anyhoo, school's been busting my chops. Math has been freaking easy as all hell, and passing with at least a B should be no problem at all. I could get an A, if I studied more, but coasting with a B without doing any studying at all is pretty good enough for me. C's get you degrees, baby.
The only class that has been bugging me is English. It's not that English is hard, hell, I love writing. I could bullshit a twelve page research assignment and have it done before the class was over. The thing that irks me, is all these weak ass tedious assignments "The Teach" is giving us.
Do I really need to rewrite the same essay over and over again, until my brain is fried. And is it possible to rewrite a paper using someone else's point of view??? It's my point of view I wrote about... how is it sanely possible to write a credible report, in the guise of some imaginary friend that I'm supposed to have moral and theoretical battles with???
Meh, whatever.
Anyhoo... these English papers are getting me worked up. All these research papers written by scholars and doctors in response to the rise in delinquency due to violent content in video games.
Why is it that every person that chooses to write about video game violence, regardless of how recent the study is, have to include the original Doom and Mortal Kombat games into their arguments??? Do they not know that these games are older than dirt??? Do they really think that children are still playing these weak ass games??? And to be influenced by the stupidity that is Mortal Kombat??? C'mon now, that's just ludicrous.
And now there's the Grand Theft Auto series. Yes, mayhem, destruction, and all sorts of good shit wrapped into one neat little package and stamped with a seal of approval by JOBNUMBER himself. JOBNUMBER... the smoking monkey up there, who longs to be a pirate.
Okay... there's a warning on the box, Mature. Not suitable for children. How these games get into the hands of children... don't know. Could be the stores neglecting to follow general rules set forth by the video game industry, could be the fact that the rules set forth are so lenient that stores don't care about the outcome, could be many things.
But is it really the video game industries fault??? Is it the mega-supermarket-global-axis of doom that is to blame???
Why are lawmakers and activists so quick to blame everyone but the parents??? Who puts the money into the children's hands??? Who buys them the games???
Many studies show that video games are becoming such an integral part of a child's life, that children are spending over 5-6 hours a day in front of the TV, playing video games. Hell, I've played games with my friends from morning, noon, night, and until morning again. Hell, video games have a hypnotising effect, I ain't gonna lie... that shit has me hooked. But is it the video game industry's fault that they are producing a top notch product, and that that shit is fucking banging???
Or is it the parent's fault that they allow their children to be completely absorbed into a video game, unsupervised, because the children are content and out of their way??? Is it the industry's fault that these "violent" video games are raising children, something that it has never meant to do, and parent's are not???
I don't know... people in the US are always looking for someone else to blame. I'm not fat because I choose not to exercise, I'm fat because your delicious fatty burgers are cheap, abundant, and easy to find, it's your fault. I'm not broke because I never wanted to do the right thing by investing in a 401k, I'm broke because the government doesn't know how to save the social security money that I've been putting into all these years, It's not my fault, it's your fault.
Meh... leave a comment.
