Violent videogames at the center of some Senate discussion.

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Just when you think we've crossed the threshold of stupidity, you see a quote like this...

Dr. Kimberly Thompson, a shrill-voiced professor of "Risk Analysis and Decision Science" at Harvard's School of Public Health, has a definite grudge against the ESRB. She and her researchers do their own ratings of certain games and chides the ESRB for how "inaccurate they are." For an example of how this woman's mind works, she has stated before that the gameplay of Pac-Man is "64% violent" and at this very hearing tried to denounce the ESRB's ratings by saying that "60% of games rated E (age six and up) by the ESRB reward players for 'injuring other characters." Yes, this includes Mario, for he jumps on turtles which apparently incites youngsters into fits of carnal rage.

Y'know, I was playing Hitman: Blood Money for a couple of hours tonight, and this article is what made me want to start killing for real.

And of course, thanks to Hitman, I am now a trained killer.