It felt so good to sleep until noon today; I think it’s the first time this summer where I’ve slept for twelve hours straight. (Do the math if you want). I also had a really weird dream which involved writing picture books in Spanish class… but then again I did have seafood last night. And I usually have at least one ‘school’ dream each summer month, so June’s is now out of the way. So, as you can tell by the title, I did absolutely nothing today. I played Half-Life 2. Watched NCIS. Read Bourne Supremacy. Played more Half-Life 2. Ate dinner. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
In other words that is my summer… nothing interesting to blog about. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely don’t prefer school… but it does get boring pretty quickly. This means that I quickly have to think of something to write about…
Oh yeah! I remember now! I booted up Steam today and instead of seeing the advertisements I saw a piece of paper that said “First Amendment FTW”. Naturally I clicked the link, which led to a PDF about a court case that was just decided today. A Supreme Court case. About the (you guessed it) the First Amendment and video games. I didn’t read the whole thing (who could? It would have taken me days), but the gist was that someone or other living in (of course) California (which recently gave birth to Prop 19 and harbors Schwarzenegger), tried to sue an association of game developers with their goal being that the sale of violent video games be restricted to minors… in other words those under eighteen. And I know I just shoved a lot into that one sentence… so in layman’s terms “no teenagers get shoot-shoot games.” The verdict: doing so would violate first amendment rights. I love that, not because I’m in favor of letting eleven year olds drive around in a virtual world blowing people apart (though I don’t think it’s as bad as everyone else seems to think… I mean you let your eleven year old watch the news right?), but because I hate people who think that the First Amendment is selective. “Yeah, I can say whatever the fuck I want but you can’t say that if I don’t want you to!” Freedom of Speech is a blanket law. It applies to movies, books, music, video games, anything you want and everything you do not. There are no loopholes. It’s too simple for there to be any. And just think… if a bunch of bastards can jeer at a soldier’s funeral then why should video games be any different? So thank you United States government, for finally doing something right!
SONG OF THE DAY: A MATTER OF TRUST
When I have nothing to post, I go to Billy Joel. I love the music, and the videos are great without any special effects. Just so you know, the song itself starts at 0:47. Now goodnight!
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