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Violence, video games and personal responsibility

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

If you don’t think that this site is one of the most disgusting things you’ve ever seen, then forgive me for being blunt, but you have a problem.

For the last couple of decades, the media, sleazy lawyers (redundant, I know) and opportunistic politicians (there I go again…) have been, from time to time, creating media circuses because computer and video games are corrupting our children with gratuitous violence, blood, gore, disrespect for authority and, worst of all, nudity! That no scientific study (and there have been several) has ever linked real life violence with computer games is of no interest to these parasites – it is an opportunity to get richer (to a lawyer like the vermin above) and an opportunity to be seen as “protecting children” and “fighting for family values” (just check out Hillary Clinton, whom I had nothing against until now).

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An insane world

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

A friend of mine had told me about this as she read a newspaper, and today my brother initiated a thread about it in my forum (in Portuguese).

Basically, Marina Bai, a Russian astrologist, sued NASA for… wait for it… “changing her horoscope” by crashing a probe into a comet, in order to study it.

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