PROCRASTINATORS UNITE - To: The Press, politicians, et al From: Me

Enough with the Manhunt 2 stuff already!

Honestly. It's a mediocre game (owing to poorly-implemented censorship in post-production), and the people who care about it already have a copy, finished it, and have put it on their shelves, where it's like to stay. And if those people happen to have kids, it's going on the top shelf, out of Junior's reach, probably behind Halo, so the kid'll have to get through it, first.

To Sens. Brownback, Lieberman, Bayh, Clinton: Send a follow up letter with the following message: "Never mind; we realized that we're playing into their advertising campaign by pitching a fit about a collection of ones and zeroes on an optical disc, and the ability of that to warp the minds of kids."

It's really making you look like idiots, and you don't need any more help, I assure you. The ESRB's present system is as effective as you can ask it to be. You don't want kids to play things like that? Don't ban it. Instead, run ads like the TV folks did when they rolled out their program ratings. Inform parents what those curious little white boxes int he lower-right corner on their new game purchase means, and that if it's shaped like two inverted V's touching, then it's probably not for Little Timmy. I'm fairly certain that all current-gen game systems have parental controls; when used, they won't allow any titles over a certain rating to be played. Whether this includes the use of an ovverride code or not, I don't know, but if it does, it's a safe bet that it's not likely to be an easy guess.

More later, probably..