Nintendo: The Root of All Evil

I love how people find excuses for anything. Take video games for instance. Do video games cause aggression in kids? I doubt it. I have played video games my whole life and never tried jumping on people’s head or shooting fire balls at turtles. And pretty much the majority of kids are perfectly fine as well. They know what’s real and what is not. There is no such thing as floating brick with question marks, mushroom people or green sewers that pop out of the ground and lead you to level seven.

I’m making this up but let’s say there is Trevor who kills his mother with some lawn darts. Noisy people blame it on Doom or Lawn Darts the Video Game because they imitate what they see and its gets them all mad and fired up. Screw that! Every one finds a reason except that he’s just fucking crazy.

And there are a slew of other supposedly bad influences like heavy rock music or violent films like Full Metal Jacket or Bambi.  They play the whole blame game. The thing is what would happen to Trevor if he is locked in a bomb shelter and never played video games or any other media. He would still be messed up. He would probably turn out even worse with nothing to vent his frustration or anger.

Kids learned violence throughout history long before video games or gansta rap music.  My dad watched Cow Boy and Indians as a child. He and his friends would play with wooden guns and swords and never tried to kill Natives or even squirrels. When I play Mario Kart I don’t get frustrated and start my mom’s car and drive down the highway leaving a trail of banana peels and turtle shells behind me.

So what cause aggression? A number of things. Abusive parents, being teased at school, drugs or anything really. So what is okay and what is not. Can Trevor play Risk or Putt Put the Game? How about Zelda because there is a slew monsters and even people Link kills. And then there is Quake. Does the child become aggressive from all of that shooting and become a weapon of evil? But wait; there are warnings on the game pretty much saying not for children or Grandmothers. P.S. I love how people sensor the middle finger now, so stupid.

So a worried mother should teach their own kids what is wrong or right and what is real or not and not try to shield a kid from anything they find reckless behavior. You know why, these kids become giant pussies because their parents sheltered them their whole life and they miss out on something fun and even stimulating that is much more interactive than television. Anyway I’m playing cup and ball and I’m fucking pissed off that I can’t get the mother fucking ball in the mother fucking cup. Eeeerrrr! I feel like breaking something!