What a bunch of c$%ts!

Okay, so it’s getting a bit ridiculous. First off, for the last few months “experts” have been predicting the hottest summer on record. Supposedly, we were all supposed to be walking around in a desert heat feeling the effects of global warming!? Well, it appears they were wrong, it’s been pissing rain for as long as I can remember and I’m beginning to think Eric Draven was wrong when he sang “it can’t rain all the time“.

But that just adds to my bad mood right now, and is definitely not the main topic of this rant. So, first there’s the weather. Topped off by stupid things like the smoking ban, you can’t drink on the street, you can’t smoke inside, and now you can’t drink after 1.30am. It was getting to the stage where I said, “fuck it, I’ll stay at home and do what I want”. Plus I could also avoid the monsoon weather we’re having. “It’ll be alright once Manhunt 2 comes out!”

And then today, they… (they, being the Film Censor Board, not the weatherman, the Gardai or the bloody politicians this time)…they go and bloody ban Manhunt 2. This is the first time in Ireland that a video game has ever been banned. With the Film Censor, John Kelleher, claiming that Manhunt 2 “features gross levels of manipulation and torture“.

Well, I’m sorry, but maybe that’s the kind of thing I’m looking for in a game!!!!!!!!

Britian has also gone and banned it. Most of the time they advise the gaming company on ways they can edit the game or cut out anything, which they deem is too “unrelenting and gratuitous”. But not on this one! No, they went and said “it was not possible to modify the game to tone down the violence. The board said that Manhunt 2 was bleak and callous and encouraged visceral killing.” Which again is probably what would be good in a game, seeing as it’s a GAME!

Oh and sure, you can fire up the old argument that “these types of games encourage violence in real life!” But sorry, I’m not buying that one. I’ve been playing violent games for years. It’s kind of one of the ways that means I don’t go out on the street and do these things! And if people know me, then they are familiar with the fact that I’ve been assaulted several times, but, while I was lying on the ground as 3 scum-bags kicked me in the head, NEVER, did I go and fall back on my old violent video game training to swiftly remove limbs, break bones, gouge eyes and chainsaw people. (Ok, I wouldn’t really have a chainsaw with me, and if i did, I doubt the fight would have been started at all)

So, now it’s a case of I don’t want to go out, because it’s raining, oh and because I CAN’T drink outside, and I HAVE to smoke outside, and then somebody will tell me when it’s time to go home even though it’s still early. But then again, I could just stay at home after spending 70 bucks on some stupid game where a fluffy animal jumps around collecting shite, which is what “they” would like us all to be playing!?

And either way, the world is still gonna be a fucked up place, with people performing the most horrible acts of violence against each other, but it certainly won’t be because they were playing a fucking video game! Because let’s face it, there are more evil things in the world than a violent video game!

Let’s just hope that before some genius in a suit comes up with the idea of “banning the internet”, that some less repressed country realises “it’s just a game” and allows the game to be sold so we can all buy a copy of it and just play a game, because IT’S JUST A GAME!