Yeah California has been real retarded lately with this and trying to legalize marijuana.

Just a few days until the case starts, I doubt it will actually pass but god if it does.......

Great story. Can I get a link please?

Good read. she makes some very interesting points. Cleaver lady.

Hey Mat, could you please include the link.

Found the article, but I don't know how to make the hyperlink show up in the comments section to show it to everyone.

Edit: Nevermind.

Surprisingly there is no link. Google is my friend though :D

Sorry about that, everyone. The invisible link was a problem in our backend. It's fixed now, so the link should be appearing with the words "Industry Gamers."

Thanks, Olson. It's nice to see there are some non-gamer adults that actually know what they're talking about in regards to this issue. Hopefully we can make sure the bill doesn't pass.

Few, read the ENTIRE article...took awhile...but I read all of it.

Lots of interesting points.

I recommend also reading the entire thing and not just the small bit.

Regardless of the arguments, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will just make up its own mind and decide what it wants. There is a reason that the appointment of the justices is such a political issue and that is because they sit on the bench to make decisions in line with their ideology. As counter-intuitive as this may sound, let us hope that the conservative justices carry the day.

it's called parenting. You don't want your kids playing violent games, pay attention to what they are doing.

Matt, have you even read her book? You should - particularly page 99, also, Olsen is the "Co-Author", her husband is the other co-author and her entire 'brief' uses herself as a majority of sources. I get in academia self-plagiarism is still bad, but it doesn't remove the concept that her co-authored book is largely devalued in the academic world as employing poor methods (e.g., some of their findings were based on what a 13 year old told them they did....via a post card)...

Her points are good common sense points I'll give it that, but she and her husband are largely trying to debase studies and say "relax". True, there are no causal links just as there are no causal links between smoking and lung cancer - only "factors that contribute highly." However, Coronary Artery Disease has been directly linked to smoking, and that disease is a catalyst for heart attacks. I'd get my dad to weigh in on that, but he died from it a couple months ago.

california sucks

Judgement day is almost upon us, and I'm actually a little nervous about it...

OH there's no doubt it would backfire.  Politicians are some of the most shortsighted idiots on the planet, only surpassed by the sheeple that love them.

And since this is a fair an unbiased website, here is a counter argument:

gameinformer.com/.../opinion-and-justice-for-whom.aspx

Interesting.  I hope the California law is not upheld by the Supreme Court as there is no recourse for game enthusiasts legally.

I suppose even our enemies could be friends at times.

I can't wait for California to fall into the ocean, with all their tree huging f@gits...

I think California has been passing bunches of laws like this...

I'm pretty sure it's just their lazy way to try and get out of debt. of course it's obviously just making it worse.