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National Review Defends Gaming
The National Review has a piece up entitled National Born Regulators, in which they lay out the problems with legislator decision-making processes when discussing videogames, and lay to rest some of the most common misconceptions around gaming. From the article: "Those games are the exception to the rule. The vast majority of video games sold each year do not contain intense violence or sexual themes. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), the video-game industry's self-regulatory labeling body, places ratings and numerous content descriptors on almost every game sold in America today. These ratings and descriptors are remarkably detailed and displayed prominently on all game cartons, making them easy for parents to evaluate."
This just in! Anti-regulatory group against regulation! Film at 11!
National Review is basically a conservative think-tank.
Contrast: National Review with National Review Online, the latter being a den of ultra-racist, mysognistic, violent and depraved lunatics (see also: Little Green Footballs, FreeRepublic).
If only the Democrats had the guts to step in and fill the void instead of likewise pandering to its base...
To clarify, the Democrats are pandering to the same base. Rather than refocus on some core concepts, they've apparently decided that if they pretend to be George Bush and Friends they can get elected. Except, nobody who would vote for them would be stupid enough to vote for a Bushite, and nobody who's stupid enough to vote for Bush would ever vote Democrat anyway, just because they're Democrats.
American voters for the fail.
From now on, I buy only Intel.