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I really don't want to limit my thoughts on this to GTA, but it is the best example of how videogames are actually preventing me from comitting real violence. You see, I am a hostile and aggressive person in real life. I swear, I rant, I yell, I swear some more. I suffer from extreme bouts of road rage. There are at least 3 times every day (usually more) when I feel the urge to physically shake, shove, punch, or throw the people around me. I often have clenched fists and a furrowed brow. Driving home from work it is all I can do not to run the people around me off the road. But then, I get home, I change into comfy clothes, I avoid news programs at all cost (for fear of having an anuerism), I get a beer, I turn on the 360, and in my virtual world I get to run people off the road, mow... Read more »

So I've been neglecting all my online communities for the past several weeks (as I mentioned might be the case) and the situation won't be improving any time soon. Unfortunately we are totally over-taxed at work and with GTAIV out, all my free time has been spent running people down in stolen virtual cars. I'm hoping things slow down over the summer and I get a chance to get back to regular posting and commenting on other people's blogs.In the meantime, I'd like to comment on all the hate GTA is/will be getting. Once again the general public (and msm) seem completely unable to grasp the idea that a videogame could be made for and marketed to adults and not children. The level of rhetoric about training our children to be criminals is absurd. Of course videogames are not the first... Read more »