Oh, how we love our violence.  Until the children get a hold of it.  Then we have to have it surgically removed from every sweaty crevice of the social body.

I took a moment out of my busy day to comment on this ZDNet article.

In a nutshell:

“Now that our children are getting older and wanting to play some of the more adult games, we are more aware of the violence”

“When I was younger, I loved blood and gore in my games… Violence in games like Mortal Kombat should not be watched by children.”

“Now when I see my kids playing the same games, I have an immediate reaction and curb their playing due to the violence.”

“As I get older, the games seem to get bloodier and bloodier”

We have a word for this: hypocracy.

If it was ok when you were a kid it’s probably just fine now.

And the idea that 3-D Ultra Mini-Golf is going to be as satisfying over time to a gaggle of testosterone-hyped youths is just plain simple.

How about this, how about instead of expending resources to reduce the amount of violence in video games we work instead to reduce the amount of stupidity permeating a given area?