Disgustor

Well, you know what gamers are like. When they're on a rant, they're indestructible. No-one can stop them.


But they try.

;___;

...September fool!

You're right, the holistic approach is being unjustly applied to videogames singularly. It's a testimony to the conservatism surrounding new media, in a time where the "old media" is throwing a plethora of toys from its proverbial pushchair, seemingly refusing to give up. The Murdoch publications serve as a great example. Every staple of ol' Rupert's portfolio – from Fox News to Sky to The Times – is bursting with new and innovative ways of jealously blaming its baby brother for everything in the hope that it will garner the hatred of those who previously cooed over it.

Historically any new form of media attracts a huge amount of scrutiny when it rises to prominence, and "dangerous" movements in the way of art, literature, comic books and television have all proven totally benign anyway. I'm not saying it's wrong to be cautious of an emerging medium, but the phrase "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" comes to mind. Sometimes in the process of scrutiny we are too quick to reach tenuous conclusions in support of an ingrained traditionalism; it's part of what makes us human, I suppose, but that doesn't necessarily make it the correct approach. It's easy to find some obscure causal factor or other if you look hard enough, but the evidence is usually either a complete fabrication used opportunistically as an outlet for advocacy (read: Jack Thompson) or an iffy testimony coaxed out by somebody exploiting said fabrication (read: Jack Thompson). The evidence is way too inconsistent – and the cases too frivolous – to ever amount to anything beyond the same sporadic attention the other mediums received in their prime.

I'm just going to stop you there while I file a restraining order....