Fun gif animation… pretty clever stuff, especially if you remember playing Pokemon:
Source: http://www.gamewithabrain.com/2008/04/24/news/if-politics-were-more-like-pokemon, though they’re not sure of its origin themselves. Now if only it weren’t just a GIF and had that wondrous battle music…
Funny thing… I might have noted this before, but it’s funny how most every game industry advocate seems very quick to refute that violent video games have any effect on use whatsoever.
Why we wish to content that our games are toothless is beyond me, and I that assertion does fly in the face of some common sense (acting out violence in a game naturally means you will think MORE about violence than if you hadn’t… that’s just a function of your memory really). Whether it means you become a killer is debatable, but I wish game makers would stop downplaying all violence in games as harmless. I mean… this is an issue we need to view with a critical and objective eye, not reactionary replies.
Tipped off to a video by GamePolitics.com where Fox News states their utter hate for all games with mature content and advances unsupported claims. Wrote a long email about it that took the better part of the morning to piece together (but hey, I didn’t have anything else pressing to do), so I figured I might as well post it on here for future reference. What follows is the email in its entirety:
