You can't fix stupid, but you can fix laziness!

Hello again everyone!  It's been a while again!  I have been real busy, and even have a date tonight.  But enough about that.  What you want is a blog.  So here it goes.

I was in Target the other day shopping for games.  Game shopping is always fun!  Can't go wrong with game shopping.  But that isn't bothering me.  What is bothering me, is the fact a mom bought her 5 year old son a copy of Saints Row.  It could be worse; she could have bought him a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV.  But what bothers me more, is the fact that the store clerk ignored the ESRB rating and failed to tell the mother about the games maturity content.  But before that happened, I actually took the time to tell the mother that her son should not be playing that game and I even took the effort to show her the game and how the ESRB rating works.  She totally blew me off.  She said "It is ok, I am the other, and it’s only a video game."  For me red flags go up in an instant. Years from now we will probably have some sort of crime committed by this child and the game is going to get the blame.  Mom won't get the blame, the store clerk won't get the blame, the child won't get the blame, but the game, the developer, and everybody else will get the blame.  Just because mom, the store clerk, and nobody used common sense. 

 

I even myself tried to stop this mess.  Look I believe that minors have the right to purchase violent games, games all the way up to the T for teen rating, but when it comes to the M rated games, that's a no go.  Look, there is a reason why we have the ESRB rating system.  It's there to help our youth, like the movies have its rating system.  But we have ignorant people that stir this controversy.  We have done what we can do to stop minors from buying violent games, but at the end of the day, common sense fails to take control of people.  We shouldn't have the United States government involved either.  Does anybody remember the violent games ban act that the former governor of California implied, but was latter shot down in the United States Supreme Court.  Yes Arnold Schwarzenegger, probably the biggest hypocrite of them all.  The man made violent movies, how come those don't get banned?  If the government has to get involved, they should fine the idiot parents and the idiot sales clerks, for not using common sense.

 

"We have a rating system for a reason!"

 

Now I know this is really old news, but a great war ended between the Supreme Court and video games in general.  Video games came out on top.  Mom and dad have to do their jobs now; the government can't do everything for you.  We have had tax payer dollars wasted on this thing called freedom of speech.  This was such a serious deal, the game bans law almost needed free speech if you look at it in the long run.  Tax payer dollars were wasted just because people are too stupid to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong.  Now that I think about it, when it comes to stupid people, maybe stupid people shouldn't be allowed to vote, because we have nothing but idiots running the country I live in!  But ultimately, those idiot's find nothing wrong with video games, so I am happy.

 

"Wow, for once these guys got the call right!"

The moral of the story is mom and dad, use common sense please.  All I want to do is play my games with no problems.  Do your job, and let the government do theirs.  Read the ESRB, It is you the people with no common sense that gives us gamers a bad name and not the gamers themselves.