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Saturday, January 03, 2004

Vice City: The Great Corruptor of Our Youth 

Hey guys, have you seen this shit: http://www.nypost.com/seven/12292003/business/14640.htm
Read along with me!

[This post is pasted together from an AIM conversation I had with Mikey, so the writing style will seem a little strange and fragmented. I kind of like it that way.]


It's a New York Post article about the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City". It's a complete bashing of the game, following the old "it teaches kids to kill" line. You can screw hookers and beat them to death, oh, oh my.
Okay, maybe that wasn't a good example. But it's still a terrible article. The guy acts like this is the first violent game on the market, and how you're a mobster, and how awful that is. What about the game "Mafia", huh? You didn't mention that.
And besides, there's very little evidence that games cause violence. The other thing is, lots of people know about this game, have played it, and don't care if it's violent, so the article will piss them off, or they haven't played it and the article piques their curiosity. Everyone else will get offended. Or won't care.
I forgot what my point was.
But I know I've played Vice City, it didn't make me more violent. Unless I'm around hookers. Ha ha... sorry.
The guy that wrote the article is all like, "You're a cocaine dealer. And then you get ripped off. And you have to get your drugs back by committing as many homicidal acts as you can."
Okay, sure.
But that hasn't made me homicidal, or want to deal cocaine.
And what's to say it's so much worse than a violent movie, like... you know... anything. Like Kill Bill, or whatever.
Of course, those are under attack too.
By different people.
The author also says that two teenagers, 14 and 16, decided to drive around and gun people down, just like in Vice City.
Hello, those kids are 14 and 16 years old! Don't you think they're old enough to know the difference between life and video games? If someone were to say to you, "Shooting people from a moving car is awesome, and really fun," would you then say, "That guy told me it was awesome, and it SOUNDS fun. I'ma go do it!"
I think you have to have head problems to do that sort of thing.
Not just video games.

Nicky

MY E-MAIL! Okayeahwhatever@yahoo.com.

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