This Week in Gaming (Snarky Edition): U.S. Senators Discuss Violent Video Games, Facepalms Follow

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I really want to be snarky about something else.  There should be plenty there, right?  I could talk about the Wii U forecast being lowered like a limbo bar, or all the people complaining about the price of the new Call of Duty: Black Ops II map packs who bought them anyway.

Alas… various Senators and pundits keep opening their mouths about “violent video games” despite not having any real qualifications to talk about gaming.

You can’t learn about video gaming from a trailer or a short play through of a game.  If you ain’t lived it, you shouldn’t yammer on about it.  Since they continue to do so combined with the fact that I’m more than qualified to talk video games… well, they had this coming, didn’t they?

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