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Hillary, GTA, and High School Football
The LA Times is running a really worthwhile story discussing the recent attack on video games in congress. It talks about GTA, the decline in youth violence, and mentions that football actually encourages real aggression, causes real injuries, and is treated totally differently. It's worth a read. Unfortunately I'm fairly certain that very few U.S. Senators are listening over the sound of hype.
If the allegations of football and videogames as stated above are true, that would explain a lot about my high school football team. The spoiled brats had all of the video game systems that their parents could buy them, and a 0-10 record on the field...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
football actually encourages real aggression
well, duh
I know for a fact that when I was younger playing Doom I, II and Heretic that it kept me from actually living out my desire to kill demons on Mars and fight the undead. I know for a fact that Mars Demons and the Accursed are living better lives today because of those games.
Foo you on Senator Clinton.
So, the net result of videogames is that when threatened, you respond faster? Sounds like standard issue eye-hand-coordination boosting to me. Instead, let us address the real issue of how the population of Nazis have been utterly decimated due to kids playing Wolfenstein 3D and being trained to go out and shoot mutant Nazi soldiers 20 times in the face with a shotgun. And don't even get me started on the population of demons since the release of Doom. When was the last time you've heard a demon mating call? I thought not. Clearly these murder simulators are decimating our endangered species!
Won't someone think of the Nazis?!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Violence? Aggression?
PEOPLE!
This is about naughty SEX!
You crush heads and break bones, even allow fights on the field or have the loosing team executed after the game. SO LONG AS they don't have sex or are encouraged to engage in sex.
If we keep sexuality out of games and media, our precious, perfectly innocent children wont learn of it until they are a proper age, like 30.
Its important to remember that raising your children should in no way take time away from YOUR all important life, and anything that goes wrong is the sole responsibility of something else that is sue-able.
REMEMBER! Children are perfect, until they are corrupted by someone else and its their fault. You are not responsible for your children, and should not have to educate, protect, or raise them yourself. That is the job of the Government. Now go back to paying attention to yourself.
i don't care
You know, you've got to stop worrying about voting for the lesser of the two evils. That's why I voted for Cthulhu!
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Did you just ask, with a straight face, why Slashdot posters aren't even-handed with their dealings of members of both political parties, and both genders?
Well, I'll assume you're in earnest and answer.
1. Democrats are better than Republicans by the slimmest of margins. Actually, most of us really adore Democrats but since we know they're just as slimey and two-faced as Republicans, we pretend not to. But we vote for them anyway, despite all of our talk of voting for Libertarians, who more closely resemble Republicans than Democrats. When you boil it all down, we didn't get up on time on election day to make it to the polls.
2. Women are weird creatures who don't think we're funny and who can't appreciate the subtle humor necessary to doggedly recite tired lines from British pop-culture trash from the 1970's. Since they shun us at social gatherings (like family reunions and GenCon), we harbor unspoken misogynistic tendancies that manifest at odd times. For as much as we hate George W. Bush, at least nobody of his gender has ever rolled their eyes when we quoted Jabberwocky!
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
"think of the children" has typically been the liberal gun banners mantra, not the conservatives. How many times have the gun grabbers repeated the same tired "if it saves just one childs life" phrase?
You're right. The conservatives mantra is "think of the fetus".
Hell, I'd bet it was a factor in Christ's execution too.
It's going to be Hillary versus Condi...you just watch. The 2008 presidential race will be known as the "catfight of the century."
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!