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"The case for games"

Gaming. It’s a way of life isn’t it? I mean sit me down all day on my PS2 and I’d love it. So many games out there at the moment and so little time to play them all, how can I possibly get bored of games?

Gaming has brought joy to millions upon millions of people, even though there are plenty of games about killing, it actually makes you calmer, stopping real violence on the streets by letting you get your aggression out on a fictional character. Fantastic! Now all we need to do is get the government to provide free consoles and it will solve all our violence problems, no more looting and shooting, no sir, they’ll all be playing their (free) copy of GTA3 instead of doing all those nasty things in real life.

Games pods should be put in hospitals to keep everyone amused, a great big network game of Gran Turismo between the beds would rock and weight loss clinics could install Dance Dance Revolution mats, that would get those pounds off! Games can be the answer to all of life’s problems, unemployment? Well the more people playing games the more we will need people making, packing and selling games.

Marriage guidance? Nah, all you need is a good workout in Goldeneye or Timesplitters and the winner gets to make the decision, and we all know how good girls are at fighting games, don’t we, so just let them beat you at Tekken and there will be harmony between the sexes. Can’t understand what your other half is saying? They could build a game for that, they can build a game for anything there days.

There are so many possibilities for the future of gaming and as soon as the rest of the public realise what they have been missing, then the sooner this society will function that much better. Homeless people? Provide games shelters, it will soon get them coming inside when they can play free arcade games of Crazy Taxi. Euros? Why not trade in games instead, with a Phantasy Star style translator you need never be stuck for foreign words again!

So write to your MP now and insist on games power for the people, you know it makes sense.

Really society's biggest problems are the people within it. Some say they hate society for oppressing them and yet they don't go and live in a jungle somewhere or create their own way of life far away without trying to oppress everyone else into their own idea of society. Really some of these people who call themselves "rebels" can be very stupid indeed. Free games, could work but what about people who need houses, and where's all the money going to come from? Do you expect rich people to go for this? Remember it will likely require an increase in tax. So is communism really the way forward? Well we'll never know, it's never really done that well. Look at Star Trek though, what would you say, Capitalist or Communist? Those American's never picked up on the anti-capitalist messages in Star Trek did they despite the timing. Mind you the writers probably missed it too.

The best solution to society's problems I've ever heard.
Free games and consoles on the National Health. Games wherever you go uniting people and helping to solve problems. Your vision of the future is my idea of utopia.

I think you are on to something there pb, genius. I agree and would love to see some of those things. :)

Gaming. It’s a way of life isn’t it? I mean sit me down all day on my PS2 and I’d love it. So many games out there at the moment and so little time to play them all, how can I possibly get bored of games?

Gaming has brought joy to millions upon millions of people, even though there are plenty of games about killing, it actually makes you calmer, stopping real violence on the streets by letting you get your aggression out on a fictional character. Fantastic! Now all we need to do is get the government to provide free consoles and it will solve all our violence problems, no more looting and shooting, no sir, they’ll all be playing their (free) copy of GTA3 instead of doing all those nasty things in real life.

Games pods should be put in hospitals to keep everyone amused, a great big network game of Gran Turismo between the beds would rock and weight loss clinics could install Dance Dance Revolution mats, that would get those pounds off! Games can be the answer to all of life’s problems, unemployment? Well the more people playing games the more we will need people making, packing and selling games.

Marriage guidance? Nah, all you need is a good workout in Goldeneye or Timesplitters and the winner gets to make the decision, and we all know how good girls are at fighting games, don’t we, so just let them beat you at Tekken and there will be harmony between the sexes. Can’t understand what your other half is saying? They could build a game for that, they can build a game for anything there days.

There are so many possibilities for the future of gaming and as soon as the rest of the public realise what they have been missing, then the sooner this society will function that much better. Homeless people? Provide games shelters, it will soon get them coming inside when they can play free arcade games of Crazy Taxi. Euros? Why not trade in games instead, with a Phantasy Star style translator you need never be stuck for foreign words again!

So write to your MP now and insist on games power for the people, you know it makes sense.