| But I'm getting sick and tired of the cultural double standard when it comes to established media. You know, the one that gives books like Anne Rice's The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and movies like Saw IV a pass, when arguably less graphic games like Manhunt 2 are threatened with interdiction. What's most infuriating, though, is the implied analogy between video games and marlboro cigarettes. Cigarettes cause lung cancer. Lung cancer. Don't tell me video games cause "psychological cancer." That it's games and not bad parenting that's to blame when some GTA-tweener goes on a real-life gun rampage and the parents can't be bothered to consider how their working two jobs a piece and leaving the kids unsupervised had anything to do with it. |