Oh, also, there's alot more stuff at Penny Arcade about this whole thing.

Video games have "no conveyance of ideas, expression, or anything else that could possibly amount to speech"
This is according to Judge Stephen Limbaugh, who yesterday reviewed a whopping FOUR (!) games, and decided that video games have "no conveyance of ideas, expression, or anything else that could possibly amount to speech. The court finds that video games have more in common with board games and sports than they do with motion pictures." That's crap. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Last I checked, games like (here comes the list!) Mortal Kombat, (Oh! That's a new one!) Fear Effect, (using that game as an example is like taking the most sexually explicit movie that's out, and assuming that all movies are just like it.) Doom, (Whoa! Looks like they worked hard to get the latest games, huh.) and finaly The Resident Of Evil Creek (Funny, last I checked, that one doesn't exsist), aren't at the fore-front of the video game industry and it's pathetic that this judge could even think to make a decision based on just four games. So games like Metal Gear Solid (complete with it's anti-nuke diatribes), and all the RPGs ever made are nothing more then fancy board games. That's absurd. you can't possibly compare games like Final Fantasy 7 (with almost more FMV then game play) to Backgammon (does anyone actually know how to play that game??).

Also brought up during the hearing was the school shooting stuff and how the kids involved in those were also involved with video games. Here's a news flash, the video game industry is bigger then the movie industry revenue wise, so the chances that these kids WOULDN'T be involved with video games are slim. That's like blaming football because some kid who liked football got in a fight or something.

Video games cannot influence normal people to shoot other people. If there are people who can be influenced by video games they obviously can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and should probably but put somewhere where they can't hurt anyone, because video games or not, if you're that unstable, you're going to hurt someone, with or without video games. In my opinion, video games probably stop more violence then they cause, I know that for me, they're great for relieving stress. Mad at someone? Instead of beating them up, play them in some good multi-player action!

Well that's it, I'm done. I need to go cool off with some video games.

My mp3 pick of the week
Well, here it is, I'm going to try to post an mp3 site that I have enjoyed every week... My bet says I'll only last two weeks, but we'll see. Anyway, this week the award goes to The Fine Print. The best song on there is English, or Strawberry Jam, or Gravity Well... Hmm, looks like I'm a little unsure of which is my favorite... Anyway, the band isn't really that amazing, but they do some cool guitar stuff, and it's pretty catchy, even though the quality could be better. On a related topic, the lead singer of this band is "Tycho" from Penny Arcade which is a funny site about video games. There, that's my blog, I'm going to go finish talking to Destroyer on messenger now. Have a nice day.

Bloody Tears
I tell you what, video game music freaking rules, I mean, with names like "Bloody Tears", "The Tragic Prince", and "Boss Theme", how can you go wrong? But seriously, if they weren't so darned expensive, I'd be knee deep in video game soundtracks! I wish there were more bands like The Mini Bosses that covered video game songs, in fact I wish I was one of those bands. What games have the best soundtracks you ask? Why the Castlevania games of course! Also pretty much any game by Square has an excellent soundtrack. Well, I'm off to go look at over priced import soundtracks. Bye all.

Last night I saw the show called Space Ghost Coast To Coast, and it did not suck. If you're a fan of things like old cartoon super heroes interviewing celebrities like Ben Stiller, and all the awkward silence you can handle, tune in my friend! It's on The Cartoon Network at 10:30 central standard time on sunday, so do yourself a favor and be there.

I tell you what, there's nothing like a nice sunday afternoon nap. You just find a nice recliner, lay back, and take a ride to nap city... Yeah... It rules. Especially when you get to wake up an hour later with a headache amd your younger brother making vomiting sounds. I mean seriously, he didn't even have the courtesy to come within my reach so I could kill him! That's just not proper manners. I think there should be a federal law that says you can't be loud on sunday afternoons. You hear that President Bush? If you want to clinch the next election, you better push the nap law!