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I have a modest proposal.

Lets do one study on videogames and violence, and a second study under the same terms on football and violence. Then we ban the one with the higher violence result. Oh... and we don't ban the other one... in fact from that point on anyone who so much as suggests banning the other one gets a boot to the head.

Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Someone get Jack Thompson on the phone and get him on the plan... assuming he's not too busy firebombing the Florida Bar Association and some godless judge.

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So does this mean that the scourge of the telecom industry may manage to survive?

"So remember, there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in 'pie'. In 'meat pie'. And 'meat' is an anagram of 'team' . . . I don't know what he's talking about."

a) I do own a Wii. b) You're correct that the Wii can use WEP, but i) it's no easier to set up that WPA and ii) why are you using WEP? You do know someone can get access in a few minutes, right? c) No ethernet. You have to purchase a dongle from Nintendo to get it to work. d) I believe you are correct about there being no games currently with online functionality, but Nintendo has stated the codes are going to be per game: no just jumping online. e) I agree: see you in 6 months.

a) Disclaimer: I don't live in the US.
b) Just because Mrs. Clinton shares the bias against video games does not mean that millions of conservatives do not as well. I'm not trying to say that all conservatives hate video games and all Democrats are bleeding-heart liberals and think video games are fantastic, but I think it's pretty safe to say that Democrats are a more liberal party and more likely to be OK with video games.

Also (purely postualation) the Democrats in the US (I would guess) have a lower average age among party members meaning they are much more likely to have played video games and actually know something about them, unlike Mr. Thompson.

And to the AC who was so angry about my posts - why don't you just sign up for an account, Jack?

We need more protests. Where are the people protesting the reduction of Habeus Corpus that allows a citizen to be imprisioned w/o trial indefinately on the whim of the President? What about the no-paper-trail spying? What about the use of torture? All these acts were used to demean the USSR when I grew up in the 80s. Only godless commies wouldn't let you get a trial...only evil soviets spy on their citizens...

The generation that taught me to hate these afore mention 'tools' of government is the now piss-pants-scared generation willing to give it all up in order to feel secure.

So yeah...more protests would be good. We can arm everyone and then see how an 'armed society is a polite society'.

From the desk of the millions of normal people who play games:

Much like you, we were deeply disturbed by the actions of the shooter at Virginia Tech and feel terribly for the families of the lost. However we deeply resent the fact that you have totally bypassed the issue at hand and chosen instead to scapegoat the electronic entertainment industry. Perhaps instead of blaming videogames (which are clearly not your area of expertise) we should instead delve a little deeper in order to find what causes these depraved/deprived individuals to take such drastic measures. Your "proof" of a link to video game violence is tenuous at best - equivalent to such joke statistics as bread creating murderers. Statistical correlation is not proof of cause and effect but beyond that, you have failed to even show a statistical correlation, instead bringing up the specific examples where the statistics say what you want to prove.

Like naysayers for the past several centuries, you see the advent of a new form of entertainment as the downfall of society. Novels, the waltz, radio and television have all been targetted in the past and so far civilization has emerged unscathed (but not unchanged).

Perhaps this is the issue; you (and millions of right-wing conservatives) are afraid of what the future may bring. Who knows what changes the liberalization of the West may bring?

In short, we feel that you are doing nobody any good - you are attempting (and luckily failing) to take the attention away from the actual issues (which in the case of the VT shooting are as of yet indetermined).

Signed,

Gamers of the world.

P.S. While we harbour you no malice, I wouldn't suggest you attempt any retribution - we have all been trained on "murder simulators" . . .

Double speak would be talking like this talking like this.

Well, that was pointless (goddamned /. comment system . . .).

Of course what was meant to be added after that wonderful quote . . .

It's a bitch, isn't it?

I've always wondered; was that simply a mispronunciation of gigawatts or was it an imaginary unit in the line of zillions?

I'm sure this is overanalysing the phrase, but this is how my mind works. I also wonder why we can compel, repel, impel and expel but we can't just pel.

The parent post wins the thread.

In all seriousness, my local EB Games (they still haven't converted to GameStop up here in the frozen north) has 8. The game rental chain (Microplay) has 3. Not to say they're not selling - I only finally managed to get one a few weeks ago - but they seem to be over the hump as far as supply/demand are concerned.

Barely related video link: A Ninja Pays Half My Rent. If you have not watched, you must.

On a more related note - I think this really is a publicity move: I did see a preview of Kane & Lynch in OXM a while back but it's not getting the press it needs to garner any sales; if the PS3 fanboys (no offense) still have their backs up about the lost DMC they might jump all over this just to convince themselves it's not that bad.