Everything in life is a suspect for controversy, be it the food we eat or the books we read. However there is one topic that simply is too famous to ignore:

Video Game Controversy

If you live in the US then you probably heard this topic to the point of nausea. But I am not going to talk about the games that cause the controversy,no I am going to talk about the people who ignite these controversies.

Here is a list of people who are most likely to ignite a video game controversy:

The Churchgoers
No matter which church people go to, these are usually the first people to scream controversy whenever a game that contains blood, nudity or foul language. In the cases of the latter these are extremely rare, but in the case of blood and nudity it is almost too common to hear a churchgoer bash a game for such things.

The Media
Where do you go in order to make sure your anti video game message is heard on a national, if not international, scale? Why go to the news networks of course! Yes suspect number 2 in this list in the media, mostly tv news network. If you ever bothered to watch Fox News you will know what i mean. Rather than investigating the truth or, better yet, wait for the police to tell what was the REAL cause, TV news would rather listen to rumors from people who claim themselves experts in school shooting/ car accident/ drug overdose. If the rumor is based around video games then the media is more likely to produce news bashing it. Yes it is very rare for a news network to state that something bad occurred because of bad parenting/crime/ others if they heard rumors about it, in most cases they will state "reason/s yet unknown"

The Government
There is an old saying which states that "Power Corrupts". I can not say that there is a honest politician out there who is well known or truthful, be it in the US or right here in my island country of Malta. The US government is probably filled with video game haters since every time a new GTA comes out either Hilary "I am so racist" Clinton or some other ass-jacket politician jumps out of his chair to scream that the game is evil despite the fact that they never picked a game controller in their life. If, and I mean IF, there is a politician who doesn't believe that video games are the greatest evil in the world then they are doing a good job hiding it. Why? Because they most probably fear that they would be cast out of their position or even worse would lure the attention of the greater demon known as the media who would probably stalk the person until they find something that could ruin his/her career.

Parents
Parents aren't really one of the major controversy starters, but many an occasion did a video game controversy spark from a single ember into a blaze because a parent heard that a game is bad because it has nudity/blood/foul language. How? Because most parents were not raised in a time where video games existed. Parents were raised watching television or listening to the radio or reading books. For them the term "video games" is not easy to understand. It is these people who are usually misled by the news or rumors and end up rallying against games because they were told so.

Jack Thompson
Do I really have to say something here? Seriously? Why should i bother to write a single paragraph, let alone a sentence about this self-centered, egocentric, gay-hater, religion freak, expert-of-school-shooting-my-ass and god's greatest liar? If you want to know who this asshole is look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

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