The first blog is always the saddest to me because I know very few will ever read it. However, I'm ok with that. I have many thoughts burning a hole in my brain, trying desperately to get out but for this first round of word spilling I chose to discuss the soon-to-be-announced decision of the Supreme Court on video games.
Today the Supreme Court will rule on The Govenator vs EMA. My first thought, when I realized this is Ahhhrnold we're talking about, was "WHAT ARE YOU DOING GOVENATOR?". I used to hold a deep amount of respect for him until this incident! Granted he was already making my throw-into-fire-for-fuel list with his working towards banning gay marriage but he certainly made the top of my list with this one. Ok what is it exactly?
Basically they are making a decision on banning the sale of M rated video games to children.
Wait.
Wait a second.
WHAT THE FUCK.
See, this is when I realize I must have jumped into this alternate reality after 1994 when the ESRB was created to regulate the sale of M rated games to children. I also might have jumped after certain laws being made that fined game store employees 3,000 dollars if a game were to be sold to a minor.
Either that or the MIB mind-erased most everyone but me because I remember these things vivedly (even able to FIND information on the internet about 'em) but no one else seems to remember the fact we've ALREADY MADE LAWS RESTRICTING THE SALE OF M RATED GAMES TO MINORS.
Why in game-hell are we spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a SUPREME COURT case to make laws that already exist? What MORE can you do besides tell game sellers they can't sell games to children without parental consent?
Well I suppose we can make every "mature" game "AO" rated. If this happens you can kiss your favorite games goodbye because AO games get banned and don't get put on most game shelves.
I suppose we can tell the game industry they can't even make them anymore but considering MOST game companies work out of Canada, Europe, and Japan I don't see what good that would do except to pratically eliminate the gaming inudstry in America.
We're not talking about some rinky-dinky porn store here; we're talking about a multi-BILLION dollar industry.
If this damn thing passes it'd be like taking adult candy from an adult.
The really hillarious thing is Govenator's main argument involves a 1968 Supreme Court decision restricting the sale of pornography to minors; claiming violence in video games similarly stunts a child's development like porn does.
First it seems to me children were developing into finer adults back when we weren't babying and coddling them so much.
Second, and I repeat, DIDN'T WE ALREADY DECIDE ON THIS?
So if you want your tax dollars being spent towards re-deciding on things we've already made laws over then good for you. Go eat your hotpockets and be gay er I mean happy (because you know, gay is such a bad word now).
If you DON'T want your tax dollars being spent on extraneous court decisions then maybe you should send letters to representatives or I dunno... try and figure out a way to get back to the other reality with me.
(Note: the ESRB does a better job enforcing video game laws than the MPAA does enforcing movie laws and than the Recording Industry does enforcing music sales)
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