As we here at Versus countdown the days to the opening of our gaming euphoria, I have been doing research on the impact of increased amount of gaming to our society. I stumbled upon what I consider an extremely well written, and researched article by Duke Ferris, who writes for Game Revolution(link above). The picture that you are looking at is a chart that Mr. Ferris pulled from the US Department of Justice, and ONLY edited with the release dates of the PS1, GTA1, PS2, and GTA3.
Duke's article is directed at the naysayers and "Blame Canada" type parents and political figures that want to point fingers and blame anyone but themselves, or just plain bad parents, for crimes in America. It's not our fault that certain people fail at parenting and thus lead to a midly retarded, most likely abused, mentally and physically child who grows up to shoot up Toys-R-Us and then you blame it on Grand Theft Auto, or Eminem (hey it wasnt my fault eminem told me to do it again). Stop by and check out the full article and do yourself a great justice. In the meantime I will be planning the GRAND release of a store full of video game violence that will house countless youth's and teen's day in and day out. Hey im doing my part to clean up the streets, what have you done lately?
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You know what doesn't make for a peaceful society, when your work blocks innocent gaming sites so you can't read these charts and articles.
Guess I'll have to wait till I get home.
That's when one must know how to reroute the connection to avoid a low level firewall that prevents the good sites from being viewed ;)
These parents piss me off when they blame video games for turing their kid into a psychopathic (spelling??) killer. Come on! MAYBE you should have been a better influence on your children in the first place, and these crimes wouldn't have happened. I just want to go up to those parents and "slap a hoe."
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