House M.D. Is over...or is it.

As I'm sure most of you know House has aired it's final episode and is now over. I am going to get my praise for the episode out of the way very quickly and say it was a good one. I can't really qualify that statement as House does let Foreman know he is alive and there is no closure for the final episode of the series. I would have liked to see House and Wilson die, or at least House so that I can know that Fox, Global or some other big conglomerate will not try a haphazard effort to resurrect the series. On that note where the hell was Cuddy at the funeral, you can get the other doctor back in and House's ex in there too but not Cuddy?

Those points aside House was great and the series ended on a note that I was not really expecting, so I guess I should be grateful that it has run as long as it has. Now my only question is what the hell am I going to watch now?

Video games and violence

To begin with I am going to state that I am very well adjusted and have never thought of killing someone ever. Well sure once or twice I have thought about it, but I would never actually do it. That being said let's jump into the story of the day.

I have been playing video games for most of my life and for the most of my adult life I have been curious about serial killers, and children who are killers as well .The one thing I have seen over and over is it all gets traced back to violent games and television. I don't agree with this synopsis, there has to be another factor in there somewhere, if all it took was a violent game to make someone a killer then I would be 76 kills into an unstoppable kill streak that would make Ted Bundy jealous. Perhaps the missing element is how I was raised, I lived with my dad and he always taught me that all life is equal, he didn't teach me to hate blacks, jews, gays or anything like that. I learned to hate people for who they are on a personal level without judging them by their outward appearance.

So why are games targeted; Because someone can turn on almost any game released between October to December every year and (in the even of the 2011 Christmas release) they would have seen Saints row the third, Gears of War 3, battlefield 3, and Modern warfare 3. All of these games have one thing in common, they are all violent and they are all visceral in the application of it. The thing is that the most realistic game in the world is still distinguishable from reality very much so. This makes a good point for someone trying to say that games are violent, so the people who play them must be as well. But I can also say that corporal punishment (E.G. spanking) has also been kicked off the table and most other forms of discipline have been as well.   C.A.S. (or C.P.S for my american readers) have stated that should you wish to punish your children and opt to give them a time out in the corner, a child should be placed in the corner for one minute for every year of their age. I don't know about all of you but that would have been like giving a murderer 10 hours of comunity service so far as I was concerned as a child.

I guess what I am trying to say is that parents need to spend more time raising their children and teaching them how the world works.

Why Battlefield?

Why play battlefield, or any other game, for it's multiplayer function for that matter.

I am going to run you through my typical battlefield spawn in multiplayer

1. I spawn in after being sniped
2. I run about 45 feet in any direction before realizing that I am nowhere near a foe and I decided to spawn in with a shotgun
3. I find a corner to sit in with a motion detector and my shotgun (It's not camping, it's tactical waiting)
4. Someone uses the noob-tube (or pro-pipe) and now suddenly I have no wall left to hide behind.
5. I run out and start firing my shotgun and finally kill someone. 
6. A second for just managed to spawn on the person I was fighting, usually I get to kill them too
7. The sniper from earlier has found me again and lays my brains out on the battlefield
8. 8 go to 1

Now this is me in single player 

1. I load the game and watch a cut scene
2. The game picked my weapons for me for the most part so I can be assured they are going to be ok for the coming encounter.
3. I kill hundreds of people for some reason I don't understand
4. I die because I didn't see the neon orange grenade warning light. 
5. But I hit a checkpoint just a second ago, so I guess lesson learned.
6. I beat the mission
7. 7 go to 1 until the credits roll.

That being said how can example 1 be more fun than example 2? The answer is very simple, if in my spawn I used the noob-tube to kill three assholes on top of a crane and killed their spawner too. I ruined the match for them, because now they know I know they got up there, and I know that they -don't- know that I am going to wait for them to go back. You fall into a pattern, throw on the headset and try and interact with the smarter of your squad, kill the people who are on the parts of the map that should be inaccessible, hop into the AA gun and kill the chopper that's killing all of your vehicles before you can use them. Get into your liberated vehicles and go and do it to them while four or five smarter players in the match fight for the control points (If it a C.Q. Match) win or lose, look at your accolades and wait 30 seconds to do it again. 

I am not in any way saying that I am good at Battlefield 3, or halo or mass effect, but I enjoy them, and sometimes that is so much better.