I have a degree in Video Game Journalism!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

How to call something ridiculous: refer to the two to eight times you heard someone crack a joke about Dennis Miller's Monday Night Football run

Click here for professionalism: "Violent" "video" "game" "controversy" "makes" "for" "good" "undersexed" "teenager" "news"

Blue's News reports on a popular video game web site topic, that of

criminalizing the sale of "violent" video games to minors

If anyone ever denies a 12 year old's right to walk into a Gamestop and defy the almighty ESRB by picking up a so-called "violent" copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, this reporter is moving to Canada. I'll tell you something: this reporter's priorities are aimed at something a little more important than reporting on crime, and I'll be damned if I can figure out how else--other than video games--a 12 year old is going to learn about forming gangs or shooting hookers in the face while I'm keeping myself busy making furious hand waving gestures at the internet to retract this kind of hate legislation. And given my busy schedule, if video games don't teach children this kind of stuff, who the hell will? Surely not the same people who made alcohol illegal to all 12 year olds, when most of them are responsible enough to only drive drunk when necessary.
The headline suggests the bill is headed into the same losing constitutional battle as its predecessors in other states, with "pyrrhic defeat" an obscure play on words highbrow enough for Dennis Miller predicting the heavy losses its sponsors will suffer along the way.
A joke so funny Bill Maher weed reference Democrat flirt with that journalist chick I have seen HBO!

I have to apologize. I got so caught up in that Dennis Miller joke that I think I forgot to actually make a sentence. Much like the sterling reporters at Blue's News.

Reporting on reporting on reporting: the advanced state of news in 2006

Click here for professionalism: On flying cars and news at your fingertips in the year 2006

File Rush says that Evil Avatar says that Gamasutra says what Gamefly is saying: "Don't scratch your rented discs, moron."

In the year 2006 we get:

NO flying cars

NO teleporters

NO powered exoskeletons

But in the utopian future of 2005 it only takes fifteen seconds of cutting and pasting and pasting and pasting to become a journalist!!!