Casting Decision Summary:
"Michael Clarke Duncan is big AND black, so he's PERFECT!"
"Taboo has long hair, so he's PERFECT!"
"Chris Klein has a Y chromosome, so he's PERFECT!"
"Neil McDonough looks just like Geese Howard, so he's PERFECT!"
"Um, Geese Howard is from Fatal Fury. We need to cast M. Bison."
"Too late, I've already dialed the phone!"

Or you could buy a dog.

Still the best security system after 10,000 years.

How does a bunch of eyeliner models ripping off 1988 Metallica riffs qualify as "modern metal?"

Was Opeth just some dream I had?

Just because there's Constitutional precedent doesn't mean that these laws are just. I agree with you that parents should be able to make the decision for their children, but don't current industry practices do a good job of that? The FTC says almost 90% of parents are involved in the game purchasing decision.

What then is the point of writing more laws? To build expensive committees to interpret and enforce them according to their particular political agendas?

Any law that constrains rights should be passed only when necessary. There is no need for a law when the industry does a fine job of regulating itself.

@Duke-

Parents do have the right to control what content their children have access too, but they don't have the right to use elected officials to enforce those standards on the children of every other parent in America.

If it became a law to restrict minor's access to objectionable content, it would become the responsibility of the government, not the parent to regulate what content comes into a home. The last thing we need is give parents more excuses to be irresponsible.

The government is not a parent.

There are no laws about R-rated movies.

Because we live in a prudish culture. I don't think 12-year-olds should have access to porn (though it's not like they can't get it), but it's not the federal government's job to decide when someone's ready to see a nipple.

The videogame and film industry both do great jobs of self-regulating without spending my tax dollars. If the publishing industry could do the same, we could do away with bullshit "obscenity laws" that are infringements on our 1st Amendment protections.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Emphasis mine. Not a lot of room for interpretation there.

Come on, Guitar Hero, you're going to have to jump higher than that if you want to get over the shark!

Jouten & Zertoss, you're both off track here.

TV hates videogames because kids who are playing videogames aren't watching TV. This is the same reason that TV hates the Internet. What's the best way to get kids to stop playing videogames and hanging out online? Tell the kids' parents that videogames & the internet are evil.

This isn't a political or economic agenda, it's just a business defending itself. You hear similar comments from encyclopedia publishers when they talk about wikipedia. Or Roger Ebert's bleating about how videogames are irrelevant.