Grand Theft Auto's heist of the American character

Coke, Pepsi, Arby’s...

All of which I haven’t eaten at or drunk in over 10 years. Yeah, their advertising is very effective...

And none of you little people can stand a chance against the might of GODZILLA!

Roar, ROAR, crush, stomp!

(light up the night with radioactive fire breath)

:-P

But what’s “an affect”? Every video game I play as “an affect” on me, they entertain me. The desensitization line has been shown over and over and over to be 100% BS. For one thing it’s not even REAL violence it’s pixel, it’s obviously pixels, there’s nothing to be desensitized to.

Reality is as the age of the first person shooter has come upon us the violent crime rate has dropped, solidly and consistently. If violent video games could do 1/100 of what the people Wood and Dobson claim that wouldn’t happen. The reality is it’s JUST a game, I’ve played first person shooters since the first Wolfenstein, I also like horror movies so my “desensitizing” should be pretty advanced, and yet real world violence still really bothers me. This is because I’m a sane person, sane people are ALWAYS bothered by violence, and there never has been nor will there ever be a video game that changes that. And insane people are insane, video games aren’t changing them either.

Obama left out a key element in the Joe Six Pack existential-crisis remarks that were so blatantly twisted in the media. He got guns and God right, but forgot to mention Grand Theft Auto.

$500M in a week, folks. Call me an elitist, but our society has some serious growing up to do when a computer game featuring exploding cars outsells every Hollywood movie.

I have to wonder how GTA IV might do in Baghdad ... Aren't they building a Disney theme park over there?

To be honest, though, I've never played this new GTA game. I've only tried the first two versions. So my assessment could be a bit out of date...but probably not.

Um, you're REALLY out of date. The first two were from a top-down perspective. GTAIII moved to a third-person 'adventure-style' world that revolutionized the game industry (as claimed by multiple reviewers; GTAIII was the catalyst for the series' success).

I think my most favorite FPS game is paintball in the woods with friends.

Its a lot more realistic than any computer game and its a lot better for you than sitting in front of a computer pushing buttons, thats for sure.

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