On completetionist fantasies and the viability of media as information delivery systems
I am finally done. Every mp3 in my computer is loaded into iTunes. I can finally begin to organize and remove the duplicates. This is a glorious day. Soon I'll be able to truly assess how much of my harddrive is free space. I need to burn off some videos anyway. Maybe I'll take some time out this weekend and do that. I was listening to an earlier show on NPR where they discussed Grand Theft Auto IV with Adam Sessler and had Jack Thompson on air as well. People get all up in arms about various aspects of video games and in truth I suppose I would be all for legislation to control the sale of violent or overly sexual video games, but I wouldn't accept it unless it also covered video as well. There's no point in crying foul over GTA when movies like Hostel and Turistas just sit there on the shelf with everything else. Noone would think that is sensible and this is why gaming legislation is idiotic.

This discussion 's a great listen because it restores my faith in media. Gamers as a whole suffer from what I like to call the Nintendo effect. Last generation the only system I owned was the Nintendo Gamecube. Which is all fine and well it's a hugely underrated game system but it's not something I admitted constantly because people tease you about playing games for 3 year olds. You can only take so much of that before it changes you into something that strikes first and sometimes for no reason. This is exactly what happens to Adam Sessler. He's so used to 'interviews' where Jack Thompson gets to have his say and no matter how stupid it is noone is willing to listen to him.  This is what happened to gamers when Barrack Obama said something about how he wanted to get kids outsides and 'off video games'. Noone noticed he wasn't singling out video games unlike everyone else he said he wanted to get kids off the TV and such as well. He wasn't targeting video games. He was targeting lazy.