Today's... Thing

In a desperate need of new ideas for the blog, I came up with the idea: Write about something no one cares about. So, todays subject is: Violence in games.

Have you ever thought about it? In the stores over here at least 80 % of he games contains some kind of violence. Why? Actually, I sent an e-mail to a proffesional game-reviewer company about this, and the answer was disturbing... They told me that violence sells. ...and what a n00b I was, asking about something that obvious. ...Okay, ignore that last sentence.

Now I got a new question: Why does violence sell? I think that is because we are violent by nature. (Isn't very upclearing...? ...Ye- No? Okay, it's just me then...
Then, again: Why are we so violent by nature? Who wanted us to be like this? Well... The answer is that the totally outdated lifestyle of the stone age needed us to be like that. Killing ...and other stuff, was the only way to survive!

Somebody thinks that games which are violent, may cause the player (in scientific language: gamer) to flip out and kill/hurt somebody! Actually... I read a comic strip about that. I know it was just to make people laugh, but it actually came up with a good point: "Have you read that violent games may make people that plays them violent themselves?" "Yes, but they never think of us that actually has to kill somebody sometimes!"

That's all for today, I'll leave to you to comment that comic.

Written by Håkon.