Whats I"m Up To

12.09.2002

At work today, I was waiting for the last 10mins of my shift to end, since there was nothing to do. I looked through last months Rolling Stone (not something I normally read, but it was the only magazine around) and it had something that really pissed me off, it was their little Political Cartoon type thing. It was of a door marked "Exit of the Video Game Store", and beyond that was another door marked "Life of Murderous Crime" (or something very similar or worse) and in the game store they had little boxes marked "Bunny Shooter", "Teddy Bear Hunter", and "DIE! DIE! DIE!", etc, etc.

I sat there, with my mouth gaped open, and kind of loudly said "What the Fuck!"
I mean no beating around the bush, for that. Hold on let me check something...

*walks away*
*looks at his Gamecube, Dreamcast, Playstation, N64, Super Nintendo, and thinks of the NES downstairs*
*counts number of games that could be considered violent: 25*
*counts number of times I've committed a violent crime: 0*
*counts number of stuffed animals or plushies in my room: 4* (not counting the ones downstairs)
*stops to pet the Dijiko plush, and hug the Puchiko plush*
*walks back*

Yeah I can honestly say after checking my room that, I'm a gamer, I play and enjoy violent games, I love cute fuzzy things, haven't killed anyone, or been very violent in general in the last few years. So I've proved this utterly ridiculous scandalous cartoon totally wrong in every possible respect. I'm all for free speech, but that's really only applies for people that aren't complete morons. I mean essentially it said "All games are violent, and anyone who plays them is going to become a very violent person and is going to harm or kill somebody." which is the dumbest thing I ever heard.

Its almost funny, because who was on the cover of this magazine...Eminem, the guy who sang about killing his wife, and killing or beating up homosexuals.
Hello Pot, the kettle is calling, something about being black?

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