Anger Management

I'm not going to talk about the shootings. Life is depressing enough.

However, I will talk about the aftereffects of the shootings... specifically, the scapegoating of the video game industry. It's just like 1993 all over again, and not in a good way. Personally, I don't think video games make people murderously violent, but it's hard to make that case when gamers start a campaign of harassment against a developer who decided to publish his software on the Epic Games Store instead of Steam. 

Look, I get it. Video games can be frustrating. I've broken a few discs, screamed a few insults, and posted a few angry tweets about them. (Okay, more than a few.) Having said that, calling a game designer a "kike," telling them to "drink bleach," and suggesting that their wife should be- uh, I'm not going to repeat that- may be taking things a little too far. And it's not just in poor taste, it's poor timing, when you consider that the politicians who have the power to take your video games away may use what you're saying as justification to do just that. Take a deep breath, count to ten, and pacify those pectorals.

Anyway! Here's some better news. Konami is adding even more games to the TurboGrafx-16 Mini, including a half-dozen Namco titles which were an essential part of the system's library. I mean, how are you gonna have a TurboGrafx without Galaga '90, Splatterhouse, and Bravoman? Okay, you're not getting Bravoman, but those other games I mentioned will be included. You'll also be getting two Spriggan games, which would probably be a good thing if I knew what the heck a "Spriggan" was. It's some weird giant robot thing, I guess. Thanks to Mollipen from Twitter for the scoop.

Also, Garfield is now the property of Viacom after decades of independent ownership. I'm not thrilled with this development, but since I haven't been emotionally invested in this character since I was a teenager, I'm pretty sure I'll live.