This is not so much an editorial or request,but more more of a warning. So I would listen very carefully if I were one of these over 40 people who have never picked up a video game in their entire life and disregard them as trash and children's games. I am getting very sick of the pending regulation trying to curb the freedom and expression allowed in video games. If you do not wan't your children to play a violent video game, don't let him. Try parenting, it will work wonders. But WARNING...do not do anything to compromise my video game content.

There is a life concept that is a very important social check and balance. It is called catharsis. Catharsis, Latin from the Greek Katharsis 'purification', is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for living. Call it venting. Releasing a little steam so that the teapot doesn't explode and send fragments of white hot shrapnel into the throat of your fat, bloated, disgusting, sedentary lives.
To put it simply, I kill fake computer generated hookers in grand theft auto, so I don't shoot you in the face. I mow down wave after wave of fascist Nazi bastards, so I don't have to mow down wave after wave of fascist american christians. Take your pick, me killing fake people or me killing you. There are alot of people like me, who need to vent, so that nothing bad happens. Video games are YOUR friend.
Not to mention, that you are missing the point completely. Video game story lines, sub plots, and immersive worlds are far more complex and artistic than 95 % of TV and movie writing out there. Why, because they are written by the smart people (computer Dorks) We are not collecting fruit anymore or jumping over little pits in side scrollers. You are jealous because we are immersed in a fantasy world in such that taking out the trash can wait another hour. That is something you 40 or older types will never get. Because you are not emotionally attached or passionate about anything. Stick to what you know best...being fat and wasting your life watching reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. Don't take my fantasy world away, its mine.
Excluding some Church people, most AMericans can easily tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Even Children know when they are pretending and when they are not. Sure there are a couple of sociopaths who copy some of the things that happen in video games... but if it wasn't video games, it would be something else. Music, Movies. What happened to just being fucking crazy..
But I can promise, if this society does something to my video games. You'll have more sociopaths on your hands. I'll come storming into your ultrawhite suburbanite cookie cutter neighborhood...dual wielding plasma rifles with an overshield and with my army of undervented, dissillusioned, mid to late twenty year olds who have had the one thing they are passionate about ripped away from them by people who hold the controller upside down. And through years of accuracy training, combat tactics, and multiple stimuli hand eye coordination simulations...we are all pretty good shots. Not one of my friends couldn't hit a butterfly from 500 yards with a high powered sniper rifle. Even the girls. Think about this, when you are laying on the ground with a burning plasma hole in your chest; I will be standing over you laughing, and looking real buff like. Dont' be surprised if I crouch and put my ball sack on your throat. It's called tea-bagging. You probably won't understand because its a video games thing. But it won't matter because you'll be dead. Remember, you are the one who made it real by taking away people's imagination.