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The Video Game Industry Goes Political

An anonymous reader writes "The video game industry is finally forming a PAC by the end of March to get some political clout. A story in The New York Times yesterday reports that the video game industry has finally woken up and realized that in order to stay strong going forward, it can't rely on 13-year-old pimple-faced kids to promote its agenda."

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  2. I'm Confused... by Philotic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't it be more appropriate for the game industry to go postal?

  3. Video games are but one item... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, step aside my friend
    I've been doing it for years
    I say, sit on down, open your eyes
    And open up your ears

    Say
    Put a tree in your butt
    Put a bumblebee in your butt
    Put a clock in your butt
    Put a big rock in your butt
    Put some fleas in your butt
    Start to sneeze in your butt
    Put a tin can in your butt
    Put a little tiny man in your butt
    Put a light in your butt
    Make it bright in your butt
    Put a TV in your butt
    Put me in your butt
    Everybody say

    I, hey, that's, man, I ain't putting no trees in nobody's butt,
    no bees in nobody's butt, putting nothing--
    You must be out your mind, man,
    y'all get paid for doing this?
    Cause y'all gotta get some kind of money
    Cause this don't sound like the kind of--
    I'd rather golf, to be perfectly honest,
    than put somethin in somebody's butt
    to be truthful

    Well step aside my friend and let me
    show you how you do it
    When big bad E just rock rock to it

    Put a metal case in your butt
    Put her face in your butt
    Put a frown in your butt
    Put a clown in your butt
    Sit on down in your butt
    Put a boat in your butt
    Put a moat in your butt
    Put a mink coat in your butt
    Put everything in your butt
    Just start to sing about your butt
    Feels real good

  4. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My mom said my acne cleared up...!

  5. Re:yep, thats right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heres pplz discussing about games so cant stop my self to say a industry name online game builders. Online game builders are also generating games and satisfying thier clients by there great work.

    Verticity

  6. Re:Conflicts by Cal+Paterson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Libertarianism : noun, an economic model for the justification of selfishness and abject greed.
    Are you trying to be avant garde when you say that?

    What're you actually trying to do is quickly get the boot in on libertarianism using the format of a two line slashdot signature. This is as inane as it sounds. You're trying to look clever and cynical, but you're failing, because all but the most stupid (yourself, by the looks of it) knows that philosophy cannot be debated in shouted slogans.