http://pwned.com/Sticky/blogs/ Pwned.com - Sticky's Blog Feed en-us http://pwned.com/showblog/3303/Sticky/Coke-Bottle/ nbsp; Shortly after this I had to go to class, but it was fun while it lasted. :P http://pwned.com/showblog/3303/Sticky/Coke-Bottle/ http://pwned.com/showblog/3086/Sticky/Sleeplessness---Shoutbox---Good-Music---Yay/ http://pwned.com/showblog/3086/Sticky/Sleeplessness---Shoutbox---Good-Music---Yay/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2678/Sticky/Video-Games-and-Violence/ I wrote this paper in late 2006 as a part of the AP Language and Composition course at school. It's considered above average by AP standards (7+) and it got a 91 percent. Here it is, copied word for word. nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; When looking at the game market today, it has in the little more than three decades of its existence started off as a simple game of bouncing squares to full three dimensional games depicting any number of activities. Players are given a myriad of choices in games, from the actions they take to the style of clothing they wear. These games are getting attacked by the government, the media, and parents concerned for their children's health and mental state. These attackers often times present evidence of school shootings or violent rampages that were sparked by video games, when the truth is that the majority of video game players are people who eat, sleep, and wor http://pwned.com/showblog/2678/Sticky/Video-Games-and-Violence/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2613/Sticky/Look-how-Productive-I-am-in-my-Free-Time-/ Hehe. :D nbsp; http://pwned.com/showblog/2613/Sticky/Look-how-Productive-I-am-in-my-Free-Time-/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1907/Sticky/The-Grand-Theft-Auto-Phenomenon/ nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; To be specific, from GTA III on. nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; What is it that makes Grand Theft Auto so damn addicting? Is it the fact that you can cause nearly unlimited destruction with a few well-placed pistol shots? Is it the fact that nearly everything is already open from the beginning? Is it's amusing tongue-in-cheek storytelling? nbsp; No. I think the classic underdog story that is the base for all of the Grand Theft Auto games. Take a look at Grand Theft Auto III. Betrayed by your girlfriend after knocking over a bank and being sent to prison, only to escape through sheer happenstance and end up killing your girlfriend. Likewise, bieng ruthlessly hunted by Sonny Ferelli for money in Vice City is the same base. CJ from San Andreas? The victim of escalating gang warfare and circumstances beyond his control, like Pulaski and Tenpenny. nbsp; What do Carl Johnson and T http://pwned.com/showblog/1907/Sticky/The-Grand-Theft-Auto-Phenomenon/ http://pwned.com/showblog/835/Sticky/Stop-It-Congress--It-s-Not-Funny-Anymore-/ Games. We all play them. Even the old stodgy bastards in Congress who are trying to ban them have played Monopoly. I suppose that gives us every right to try and prosecute them under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but I digress. Games are a fundamental part of human life. It allows us to stop focusing on the world where time is money. There's nothing like sitting down for a nice game of solitaire with your beat-up deck of 52, and looking up seemingly only seconds later and it's in reality half an hour. The same applies with a game. Play a game of Civ IV and before you know it, it's two hours later. You haven't even finished researching iron working! All I'm trying to say here is that games provide a release. And they most certainly do not cause violence. How do I know this? I RESEARCHED IT! SUPRISE! Unlike many politicians who blindly quote the same sources over and over again (David http://pwned.com/showblog/835/Sticky/Stop-It-Congress--It-s-Not-Funny-Anymore-/