This was a pencil drawing I did while reminiscing a story I wrote about a year back. Though I usually tend to keep moving forward, I do find it occasionally calming to visit ideas of past days.
Well, let's kick off the first installment of what I like to call:
[So...this happened...]
Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association and Entertainment Software Association
A little late to the party, I know, but a similar subject (video game violence and its impact on minors) crept up in a psychology class of mine. As I read more and more about this, I kept thinking two things:
The first, more mature thought, was that parental controls are a very good answer to this problem. Not just the parental controls in the system. I mean parental control. It is a parent's job to decide what their child can and cannot watch/play. A common misconception that seems to keep popping up is that "I don't want to watch/play what my child is watching/playing," for various reasons. I really believe that watching cartoons and playing games with one's children can be a real bonding experience. To boot, if something inappropriate does show itself, they can talk to their child about it. (Knowing is half the battle...GI JOE!...ect.)
The second, less mature, thought was that, "Lolz, this effects large developers and not me." Which isn't entirely true. However, I can't help but chuckle a little thinking what my artistic response to this would be if happens at some point. I could only imagine what I would create would be an extreme of what they feared most.
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