From Gods to goobers

 

I’m reading the news and I come across this: “Greece outlaws video games”, so I stop reading about how to make your employee’s perform better and switch over to this headline:

http://msn.com.com/2100-1103-956357.html

 

You can read it there if you like, but I’m pretty much going to recite the whole thing here because it’s insulting and proves the meandering lunacy we have to deal with as human beings.

 

The ‘geek’ government has banned all electronic games throughout the country.  The key there is all electronic games.  This doesn’t just mean those that you play on your computer, or on your playstation, game cube, xbox, gameboy, but also includes those that you get on your cell phone, or other hand held devices.  It says in the law 3037, apparently, “electronic mechanisms and software”…no more pinball I guess as well, unless the pinball machine uses non-electronic mechanics to operate.  There’s Adonis standing behind the pinball machine going, “Bong!”, “Zifff” when the ball hits something.

 

Why?  That’s a good question.  Why would the government of a country, mind you a country that has one of the longest recorded histories in the known world, write a law that forbids children from owning gameboys?  Are they afraid of the corrupt west?  It doesn’t appear so.  In fact according to a source in the article, “the blanket ban was decided in February after the government admitted it was incapable of distinguishing innocuous video games from illegal gambling machines…”  WHAT? 

 

Let’s see if I get this right.  The government makes gambling illegal.  Therefore all machines that are gambling orientated, like slot machines, video poker machines, are illegal.  But somewhere along the line the idiots at the top (who says the cream rises?) decide that it’s too much work looking at the physical differences between a gameboy and a one armed bandit.  Not only that, but they are incapable of distinguishing the difference.  Fuck, those are some dumb ass people in that country, if they don’t even possess the capability to see the physical difference between something that is a gambling device and something that is for play.  Jesus, the guys of eidos should just put a big fat idiot label on the cover of the new tomb raider game that reads: “WARNING: This is a video game, not an slot machine!” with a secondary warning that reads: “WARNING: If you need to be told the difference, you should buy a shotgun instead” adding a detailed description of how to insert the end of it into your own mouth.

  What insults my intellect about laws like this one is that it doesn’t even need to exist.  The bastards don’t like gambling, that’s fine and all, if they don’t like it they should outlaw it.  And that should be enough.  It’s like in this country where we have some special circumstance called “Hate crime”…what utter shit.  Any time a man walks into any building on this planet and starts killing people, that’s hate, we don’t need a special version of it for people who kill little kids in church.  The bastard should fry because he’s a loser and doesn’t need to be sucking at my tax tit, not because he committed some kind of special crime.  That’s crap. The crime is murder, and that should be enough.  The problem is that people don’t think that is enough so law makers take it upon themselves to invent new ways of redefining existing laws.  What those law making pig heads don’t seem to get is that we the people already said, “that wasn’t enough”, and just because you invent a nastier interpretation of it, doesn’t change our opinion.  I’m not agreeing with the populous here, but the damn lawmakers should at least realize that we the people are the bastards that vote them into office, and they should spend a little more time paying attention to how we act, not to what some emotional middle aged white trash mother has to say about the church bombings in Kentucky.

Anyway, Greece is a parliamentary republic, which was formed in 1974 after a few years of military dictatorship.  Before that, they were really part of the Ottoman Empire (up to 1829 when they achieved their independence), before that the Turks, before that Rome, before that the Greeks (I know I missed a few).  The point is that a nation that is so old should have a better understanding of it’s people.  But maybe that’s the problem.  Maybe they’re just to old, and some how their mentality is caught in middle ages.  Like grandpa in the day care.  He’s got no sense for what those darn kids are up to out there in the streets and he thinks that they are all thugs and drug pushers.

 

Well what the Greek government should do is outlaw everything, if they don’t have the time to figure out the difference between Mario Bros and Keno, then it’s only a matter of time before cars and bicycles are confusable for 5 card stud and baccarat.  Not to mention, I’m sure corruption is illegal in the country, they should outlaw themselves, for fear of being corrupted. 

Idiots, all of them.

11.06.02 Update - I meant to add that Greece as decided this law is in error and is has repealed it.