I’ve been catching up on some of my post-E3 web reading (ie, bookmarked links) pertaining to the Washington state “police violence ban” bill. And, I must say that it is listening to these people talk that incites me to be violent… Argh!

In this CNN transcript, Daphne White from Lion&Lamb described the goal of GTA as “…shooting them even when they are begging you not to, and that’s how you get points and that’s how you win.” Clearly, she knows what’s she’s talking about. It amazes me to no end, that NONE of these people ever play the games or really have any clue. In another CNN transcript, David Kushner (author of “Masters of Doom”), makes a really good point that such tactics are counter productive.

While the following EGB article plays up the progress of the games industry, fact is that anti-game legislation in on the rise (~15 bills in 2001, ~30 bills 2003). A local WA paper takes a rare balanced approach to the topic, despite including Dickerson’s line “like a porn film, violent video games do not have a plot� when asked if games were capable of expressing ideas.

Perhaps they should read some the academic papers from the recent Digital Arts and Culture conference in Australia. I’d say the reading of Resident Evil-Code Veronica X by Susana Pajares Tosca would be particularly telling.

Oh, and I’m not even going to touch this one…