April 29, 2008 by vortmax.

A friend has recommended I get Grand Theft Auto IV.  They pointed out the rave reviews it’s received, and how the gameplay blows away any other game out there.  I’ve heard about the other titles in the GTA series, so I was skeptical about bringing such a game into my home with a 13 year-old impressionable boy who has already started some disrespectful teen-age style behavior.

Sure enough, there are many great reviews about the game, with many saying it’s a “must-have” game.  But this is what stopped me:

ESRB Rating: Mature - Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Blood, Partial Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol

Call me a prude, but I’m not going to expose my son to this just yet.  To be honest, I don’t think I could play a game with all that crap in it, no matter how good the “game play” is.  It’s one thing to blow away fellow players in games like Halo and the Quake series (which I’ve played since the first Quake), but another to be in a modern setting using drugs, visiting strip clubs, stealing cars, and blowing away civilians and police.

Yes, I have some principles.

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April 29, 2008 by vortmax.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been a controversial figure and a lightning rod for attacks on Barack Obama.  I have only one question:

Why?

Why should one man’s views be interpreted as the beliefs of another?  Why should one man’s experiences be cast upon that of another?  Why must one assume that a man cannot form his own independent ideas and opinions, instead using those of another to guess and judge that person?

Barack Obama is not Jeremiah Wright no more than I am my minister.  We are all individuals with our own values and ideals.  To use the opinions of one to judge another is oversimplification and, in my opinion, pure stupidity.

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