While you were marveling at the incremental timestamp at 123 seconds past 1AM this morning, I was slacking off at my other job.
Last night, a rather brief review of Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror for the PSP went online. Pocket-sized games earn pocket-sized reviews, regardless of how good they may be.
My last "On Second Thought..." weekly editorial kinda chomped on one of the gaming industry's legends, (On Second Thought... Was Molyneaux Worth The Fuss), just for the sake of stirring up attention and getting people mad at me. It worked, and I was acused of not liking British people in general because I went nuts on the career of one person. Fanboys are fun.
Action-packed week, eh?
In related news, the proposed law in Michigan (the state I'm sitting in at the moment) that would make it illegal to sell "ultraviolent" games to minors was just struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Another score for the ESA, the games industry, common sense, and our rights as Americans. This is the third or fourth state where such legislation has been proposed and struck down; the only state where it's gone through has been Illinois, and that's being fought now.
These cases are unrelated to the Family Entertainment Protection Act I mentioned in Dear Whitehouse,. These previous attempts have all been on the state level, while the FEPA abomination would actually be a Federal, nation-wide law placing the 17 year olds working at GameStop in charge of our kids instead of their parents. It seems like when identical laws are being thrown out, especially as "unconstitutional", in many states -- you'd reconsider trying to make it apply to the whole country. When someone says something is unconstitutional, your first response shouldn't be, "Oh, well let's try again."
Perhaps it should be, "Oh, maybe I don't belong in this country." At least not in charge of it.
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