New Kid in Town

I've been vaguely following the story about a game called Bully. This game is produced by Rockstar Games, the infamous creators of the Grand Theft Auto series. Simply the title and the producers seems to be enough to set off the ire of people, as the revered Jack Thompson, personal litigator for the families to bent on actually raising their kids to take the time to raise and outcry, has began prosecuting Rockstar to have it banned based on a Florida law.

Now the issue to me seems that none of the people objecting seem to know much about the game. They hear 1)Rockstar and 2)game called Bully and start screaming like a bunch of rabid howler monkeys fighting over the last banana. Add that there's actually fisticuffs and you got a near riot on your hands. Now, I haven't played it, and I really won't have a chance, not having any gaming systems it's not that surprsing that I don't play ANY video games anymore. But I have read some stuff about the game, and it seems to me that Bully is an ironic title, as the premise seems to be closer to the movie My Bodyguard. The big thug kid who, though not an angel, isn't a bully so much as he faces down the real bullies who are picking on the geeks and the girls.

I don't know, maybe I'm mistaken, but this doesn't seem to be a game like GTA: San Andreas, of which I can understand the objections, or even Doom, rather it's a rather mild, action, beat 'em up style game with a unique twist of actually accomplishing worthwhile. Who knows though, I could be wrong.

This is the body of Christ?

This story has me pretty irritated. This group, it seems, just likes making Christianity look awful. Really really awful. You know, I thought the point of Chirstianity was spreading the love of Christ to all the world. Apparently this group thinks it's better suited to offend people and ruin a healing process.

Don't get me wrong, their entitled to their views of why people are dying. They may even have something. But ruining a families moment is probably the worst way to make that point. Instead of winning people to their point of view, their alienating everyone who hears about them as they are being offensive. It's just awful. It's got me so irritated I can't even say anything more about it. Ugh