Allow me to continue the series of rants recently posted here. This one in regards to the people who have no problem with sex, drugs, and violence in movies and television but completely object to it in video games. It’s safe to assume these people are in no way hardcore gamers and are therefore uneducated on the topic to begin with.

The only difference between the two mediums are that video games are interactive. Because of that simple fact people have made numerous claims about how they promote violence amongst the youth. It seems that since the invention of pong juveniles have been sprouting up like hot-cakes. Never mind Miami Vice. No, pong is the devil. I remember watching this Looney Tunes episode as a kid where this bandit walks up to a civilian and shoots him point blank in the forehead. This was a cartoon made in the sixties and now people want their reparations for violence spanning back entire generations. I’m sorry but kids have been exposed to violence long before the PS2 came around. Because of the PS2 I’m free to act out some of my wildest fantasies. No, I’m not refering to Hot Coffee. I’m talking about while I’m bludgeoning a pedestrian’s head in with a baseball bat on the streets of Liberty City and pretending it’s my boss. I can’t name one film I could watch that would give me the same satisfaction. If not for the invention of video games I might have watched that happen on tv and said “Hey! That seems like a really good idea!”. That would’ve been the end of ClownLotion as we know it. My ability to determine what’s real or not isn’t in question here. The point is video games can be a great stress reliever and keep me people from killing their bosses.

Why is it that selling a M Rated game to a minor will get you hanged? I could sell The Terminator to a kid and get slapped on the wrist for it. How much do you want to bet I’d be in front of a firing squad the moment I try to sell that same kid a copy of GTA. The punishment should be the same across the board. The law is playing favorites. That’s like saying it’s alright for me to sell cigarettes to your kid, but not liquor because liquor gets your kid drunk and makes them do stupid things. I guess rotting your kid’s lungs and giving them cancer isn’t a big deal. That’ll be $3.50.