The top 7 hated habits of the mainstream media

[Eric]

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-h ... 3554113093

[SineSwiper]

This is one we’ve heard over and over again, particularly in reference to Grand Theft Auto: videogames reward you with “points” for doing horrible things, like beating up hookers, killing cops and running over pedestrians. Not only is this untrue, but the thinking behind it is outrageously insulting. To condemn a game for awarding points is to assume that gamers – and particularly children - do things for the infantile thrill of seeing little numbers add up in some remote corner of the screen.

Yeah, duh! Everybody knows that! We're not doing it for seeing little numbers add up in some remote corner of the screen. We're doing it to see little numbers add up in a character info tab. Fucking morons!

Excellent article, actually. I sent it to my parents (who play games), and father-in-law (who trolls democrats on the Internet and watches Fox News all day).

[SineSwiper]

And almost to counter their own point, a link on their site:

GTA 4 swearing (The bodybag one is awesome!)

[Mental]

I totally actually will cop to being utterly delighted by little numbers adding up in the corner of the screen to a figure that implies I am completely sweet.

[Tessian]

It's a good article... but his whole point can be summed up into one sentence:

The media doesn't know anything about video games and they know it, it's just a great boogy man to bring out every now and then to scare people into watching.