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The Myth of the Media Myth

TurMoiL911 | March 31, 2008 | Blog | Misc 
If you've been keeping up with the times when video games are mentioned in mainstream news outlet, it's rarely positive. Take the whole situation with Fox News and the Mass Effect sex scene, for starters. As well as how video game violence is blamed for practically every violent act committed by a minor these days. We all know those allegations were completely un-called for, but where are these ideas coming from ?
Videogames are addictive, violent and blood-soaked. People just shouldn't let their kids play games. One attendee agrees with the next, polite apologies are made in my direction and the memes pass around the table with the bread.

On the way home, I wonder where the hell all this comes from. These are the same people who drowned machines in quarters back in the 1980s, who played Super Mario Bros. until their thumbs were sore. I know, because I was there. I bet some of them even had Pac-Man lunch boxes like I did. So where's the love?

Within the hour, I send off an email to 40 people over 30 who aren't gamers. "Just off the top of your head, what would you say if someone stuck a microphone in your face and said, 'How do you feel about videogames?'"
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    jmac353 | April 01, 2008
    I didn't even know what sex was until mass effect.
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    StarJet | April 01, 2008
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    Videogames are addictive, violent and blood-soaked. People just shouldn't let their kids play games.
    Seriously? What about Mario and Yoshi' Story? Aren't they games? There's a thing called a rating, you know.
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    redneonfish | April 01, 2008
    Animal rights activists have made several complaints abount Mario due to a recent upsurge in children jumping on turtles.
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      StarJet | April 01, 2008
      WTF? Children jumping on turtles? ROFL!!! Since when?

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