Nerd Mentality

GAV - Top 10 Things Gaming Taught Me

Posted May 9th 2007 by Curtis Brunet.

Gaming has been in the news recently. No, I'm not talking about IGN posting the latest review, Spong posting the latest crazy rumour, or Joystiq posting whatever they feel like. No, I'm talking about places like CNN, FoxNews, and other large news outlets speaking about how video games teach children terrible TERRIBLE things.

Yes, a tragedy happened at Virginia Tech. No, video games were not involved, but that didn't stop all the supposed "experts" from proclaiming that video games taught the young man to kill. Desire has a great blog post on the matter, so I will not be going into anything more then I need to.

And even more recently, Jack Thompson (yes, the one who hopefully soon will be unable to practice law in Florida) even has gone as far as to target Wendy's of all places of all establishments for, get this, having Wii toys in a kids meal. Why is this bad you ask?

Well, Manhunt 2 is coming to the Wii.

You didn't make that connection?

But I digress, Mr. Thompson has been valiantly trying to get Manhunt 2 pulled from the shelves (yes, we know it's not out yet) in a vain attempt to stop children (the title will more then likely be rated M for Mature like it's predecessor) from utilizing the title as a murder simulator.

I'm sorry, but if video games really teach people to kill, then it also teaches you a lot of other messed up things. Which brings me to the top ten things video games have taught me while growing up:

1a- Turtles are the most vicious creatures on the planet

1b- Stepping on a turtle's shell will force the turtle out of it's shell

2- Every town has 1 inn, 1 weapon/armor store, and 1 item shop.

3- Animals can be stored in tiny palm sized balls to be used later to fight against each other. It is perfectly legal to catch and contain "them all".

4- A backpack can store hundreds of thousands of items.

5- The place you grow up in has the weakest and cheapest armor/weapons in the world.

6- The best weapon against aliens, zombies, and Dracula are a whip, a baseball bat, and a yo-yo. Not in that order.

7- Parents really don't mind if you need to take off on globetrotting adventures. You are saving the world of course.

8- Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal are the greatest heroes this world has ever seen.

9- Dogs can and will laugh at you.

10- A woman can actually be a pretty kickass space bounty hunter.

BONUS

11- Circle strafing, while jumping, is the BEST line of defense when in a gun fight.

This week is Gamer's Against Violence week, so get out there and show the world we're not crazy!

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