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Alright. I have a new game idea. Cannibal Cops. The twist is that you play as one of them kinda like Stubbs the Zombie. You're initially controlled by a central intelligence agency and used to keep law and order, only at some point you break your programming and wonder if consuming villains is ok or not. In another twist, you end up thinking it IS ok and gobble someone down. The scene results in a lot of controversy online and we all discuss whether or not first person cannibalism in a game is appropriate.

Back to your regually scheduled program: I never was attracted to the GTA games for just your concerns. It always made me uncomfortable to be a bad guy in a game or shoot police. Duke Nukem's LARD pig aliens (get it. LAPD, LARD) also kind of bothered me along those same lines... um... but I still played that one.

It's an appealing fantasy to be the guy to break the rules or misbehaive. It's also great fodder for media of all sorts. Gangster movies in the 30's used to draw a lot of controversy. People thought it glorified gangsters and their lifestyle. Well, it does, but a movie is arguably not a huge influence to act out in real life. Same with games. A few people do act out, but they are very few. So some people like the bad guy fantasy, it's just not me. 

Robin Williams as Eisenhower? He's not an Eisenhower. He's a Wisenheimer. That movie sounds wacko and I think if my wisecracking friend and I saw it in the theater, we would be on the floor laughing. Probably get thrown out.

Now I'm not sure what "long a" sounds like. Dic-tay-da? 'Cause maybe I used the short "a". Why didn't she just call the book Mortal Lessons.

Yea and that guy's makin' it look easy.

Played the demo. Always meant to buy it 'cause I liked it. Gonna go get it now for sure.

I starting to work on a 9 to 5 job possibility. That would make getting to these things a lot easier. I wouldn't have to take off work or I would get sick days or vacation days to do so. As it stands now, I just lose more money, and I get hassled for taking off. I'd like to do a blog from a con. That would be awesome!

Yea, that one's massive. I should consider adding various comic cons to my list. Usually there's gaming stuff there as well.

See! That's cool. I want some of that.

At the beginning of the year I went a little crazy researching gaming conventions and related events and found at least one somewhere on earth for almost every week of the year. I've been favoring ones near me because maybe someday I could go to one. I'm not too comfortable in crowds, but I could definitely use them for Street Pass if nothing else. I've been carrying around my 3DS for days now all over my town and I've yet to pick up any people for my Bravely Default town gorram it all.

I've been meaning to check that place out since Jeremy Parish writes there, but I really only have time for Pixlbit right now.