PoB

It’s a strange and wild world we live in. Hookers at every street corner, drug deals in front of cops and a murder every second… I wish I was talking about Grand Theft Auto. But, now that we’re on that topic I feel the sudden urge to point the finger for such violence not at video games, but at the people who seek to destroy them.

It seems like a loud-mouth, misinformed senator looking for a few more votes spews their vile mess into the ears of concerned parents everywhere. “Concerned” is relative, but I’ll get back to that in a moment. I could show you dozens of videos showing fat, conservative pundits telling you the problems with violent video games, but I’d rather not. I don’t like to give these guys anymore attention than a bag of AIDS.

The almost impossible to ignore truth is that it’s been proven that video games do not cause violent behavior in those that are not already prone to such. The true reason behind all of these attacks from the televised press is hardly innocent. They have to worry about no one watching them. Which no one is. Except “concerned” parents and brainwashed extremists that claim to be for the greater humanity.

See, it’s easy for a place like FOXNEWS to call out video games and the ease-of-access to violent and pornographic content presented by the internet, “an express way to hell”. Do you ever see any television news outlet complaining about violent television? The only  shows that they yell at are ones that question what they believe in. If there’s a show that brings heavy religious themes into the mix, or, God forbid, show news stations for what they really are. Suddenly, the show was directed by the devil. You pay for entrance, stay for the pitchforks. Unless! Unless that show’s production company is in association with that specific news channel. But I digress.

The truth is, video games are young. Much like rock music and kittens, these “journalists” fear and attempt to destroy what they do not understand. Most of the people making such claims are usually very old and are on the verge of being cut from the budget or have never attempted to play a game or browse the web. Or worse: Both. They bow to the parents of the world, they get weak at the knees by trying to squeeze every last controversial story out of thin air that they can and they blow a load when they can set up an unaware professional in the video game industry that came to the show expecting a reasonable and fair discussion. “There’s sex in that Mass Effect game. Luckily for us, the people that watch us are so blind that they don’t even realize that there’s been sex in movies and TV since before they were born. And just now there’s a show on basic television (CBS) called Swingtown that totally, totally doesn’t imply anything and in no way could a child see this even though just yesterday some neighbor kid came over and wanted to watch something (he’s about 7) and guess what was on?

Let’s cut it. I’m tired of leading up to something: Parents are to blame. OH NO! The truth is, there are ratings, restrictions and all of that for parents to follow. They just don’t. Ratings on video games, ratings on music, ratings on movies. Hell, there are even giant signs on porn sites that say “18+! Are you 18+?! IF NOT, GTFO!” But how do these ratings slip under the nose of such AWARE parents? I actually have two stories about this very topic. Funny, huh? Both of which, ironically, take place in Best Buy.

As I walk past the video game section I see a boy give his mom a video game. I believe it was a cartoon-based game. The mother looked at it and then turned it around and asked her son “Why is this rated Everyone if there is ‘Cartoon Violence‘. I’d give a moment to let this set in but I refuse to do so. I give this mother merit for apparently caring so much about her child that she didn’t even want to subject him to a frog get smacked over the head with a giant rubber hammer, but on the flipside it’s utterly ridiculous for the very reason I just stated. This woman must have never seen Looney Tunes before or any cartoon for that matter. An over protective mother with an under powered brain.

Second story is rather brief but I was standing behind a woman checking

out with her son standing next to her. He was getting a game that he told a lie to obtain. And he was caught. As the cashier checked the box he stopped and told the woman that the game was rated Mature and intended for people over the age of 17.” The mother looked perplexed, dumbfounded, mentall retarded. And as she said “I thought M stood for Minor” all those looks were reassured truths. Not like there was a word above the M saying “Mature +17″.

The problem with these scenarios is that no one has the guts to tell these parents that they’re not doing their job because that might hurt their feelings. Wouldn’t want to hurt the feelings of a parent. They might just go off and drown their eight children. Parents aren’t too blame! Just because they don’t watch their children or monitor what they play and how long they play it doesn’t mean they’re bad parents! Right, because it’s the video game industries cause to make sure they’re game doesn’t fall into your kids hand. What was the definition of parent again?

I like to imagine that about 6 years later those same kids were able to convince their mothers that Big Tits at School was actually a website about the education of an extinct and majestic bird.