First Real Article

http://kotaku.com/5059192/sarah-palin-in-video-games

Surfing around Kotaku this evening and what do I see? republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin photoshopped onto some of gaming's famous "femme fatale" characters! Interesting to say the least. Seems that ever since recently disbarred lawyer Jack Thompson turned gaming into a political standpoint we have been seeing more of this sort of thing. Even though I believe it brings a certain maturity to the hobby that has been lacking for a long time, this mixture of gaming and politics doesn't quite end up being that "chocolate and peanutbutter mix" for me. You know, like Reese's.


Though yes, seeing politics show up in gaming does show that the set age for gamers is rising considerably as time goes on is a great thing. But having that newfound maturity soiled by the underlying layers of radical immaturity hiding just beneath is an unfortunate struggle the hobby is in right now. For example, the fact that politics show up in the gaming medium is great! But reading down the list of comments on the Kotaku article crushes that newfound joy quite quickly. In case you would rather not slip down that page and read through some of the more animated comments, I will provide a few here:

mufasa95: UUUUGH!!
The first one looks like a total transvestite!

AvidAbey: The GTA one was awesomely hilarious. No joke.
Now we just need an equally inflammatory gallery of images: "What if Barack Obama was in..."
And this gallery would display Obama's head photoshopped onto any number of middle eastern or african baddies from video games getting smoked, or blowing away soldiers. Yeah, that would be cool.

maskedaprentice: Last one, just made my pants a twinkie


And those are just a few. So now you see what I'm talking about (I hope). It's great to have a political opinion, no matter what that opinion may be. But combine that with the anonymity of the internet today and vulgarity runs rampant. If we as gamers want more mature products and fulfilling gaming experiences as a whole, then we need to stop crying like children and start discussing like adults. If my disjointed writing made any sense shoot me an E-mail.