WidowPC Gaming Computers - I'm in Trouble
Have you ever had a really great time at a party and thought you were a big hit, only to come home with your significant other and have her tell you that you acted like a fool and everyone was laughing *at* you ala Will Farrell in Old School...
We're going streaking!!! OH. Hi, Honey.
Well that's the kind of 'talk' I got from my significant other after I wrote the piece about Jack Thompson's crusade against games, yesterday. She used her significant oratory powers to convince me that attempting to incite a riot aimed at destroying computer gaming was not nearly as evil as the "crystal night" of Nazi Germany and that I shouldn't have made the comparison.
I admit that moral crusaders killing computer games is not killing people. She's right. Maybe that's why we work. I get crazy and enthusiastic about something and she is there to tamp down my craziness while encouraging me just enough to help me see my new idea through, often to success.
However, I get to score some points here too. Political people killing games is not killing people and, logically, killing in games is not killing people either. In fact, kids have been play killing in games for long, long before computer games.
I'm old enough to remember the days before the Internet, and...yes, even before computer games. So, I have proof that kids existed before computer games, but - I submit, that the first kids and the first violent games came into existence at the very same instant in prehistoric time. For example, my favorite games as a kid (before computer games) were always the ones where we got to play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians. These games involved a lot of running around and yelling and shooting at each other. Admittedly, this usually involved more yelling than shooting but only because we were yelling "I shot you" and "No, you missed." This is because were were shooting at each other with fingers and thumbs cocked into gun-like shapes. Not to mention, the lucky kids with a sticks shaped like a guns. Even better, sandwiches eaten into the shapes of guns.
My favorite gun sandwiches were the ones that we got at the little cafe on the corner that used tiny plastic swords to hold the sandwich together. That way, when you took the sword out of the sandwich and ate the bread into the shape of a gun you were virtually armed to the teeth!
So, here's my point in all this if you aren't already nodding your head in agreement. Kids play games. It's in them from the start. Eliminating or (the equivalent) allowing Hilary Clinton to regulate games will not stop kids from playing violent games. That's what we...err they do. So, Hilary, unless you are willing to go without pastrami on rye, leave off the anti-game crusade. It's not a game you can win.
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