Links to articles.

this one is where i got most of my topic from:
http://www.cracked.com/article_20927_5-ridiculous-things-media-blamed-video-games-for.html

where i got the GTA (grand theft auto) topic:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-parco/violent-video-games_b_3945609.html

where i got the portal 2 topic:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/behold-the-dumbest-video-game-controversy-yet/#!XTucq

i got my entire topic from the first link, but i did more research on the other 2 links. also, you might want to copy-paste these links to actually go to them. thanks for reading...again.

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BLAMEING EVERYTHING ON VIDEOGAMES

There are alot of things that get on my nerves but this is up on top! poeple and the media will look for anything and anyone to blame when it comes to things like shootings or suicides "oh, call of duty was the reason that guy shot and killed 20 poeple at that school!" or "this guy killed himself because of battlefield 3!" and then thier going on about "WE NEED TO BAN THESE EVIL VIDEOGAMES BEFORE OUR CHILDREN DO THE UNTHINKABLE!". when things like shootings and suicides happen poeple will look for anything or anyone to blame other then themselves. parents of a person responsible for the shooting will blame T.V , movies or videogames other then themselves. but i wont blame them, its pretty much human nature for poeple to look for something or someone to blame. but when they put ALL the blame on videogames thats when you've gone too far. they only think "videogames are the reason we have violence in the world" that is bullsh%t. violence has existed before our ancestors could even walk on their hind legs! also, its pretty much all about mental illness.  you dont let someone with a mental disorder play a game about shooting, give the person the ability to buy a gun anywhere with ease and just let him go crazy! the reason WE (or at least everyone whos a gamer) arent grabbing guns and killing ourselves or others is because we build strong mental barriers between reality and fantasy. something usual shooting perpetrators dont have too much of. not only are shootings and suicides are being blamed on videogames but also DISEASES! poeple are blameing dieases like rickets! the reason their blameing rickets on videogames was because of a study that said "rickets is caused by lack of calcuim and vitamin D, something you get from natural sunlight. kids these days dont get enough sunlight because they tend to spend more times indoors on things like computer games." thats all the media needed to put the blame and hurt on videogames. and then thiers poeple getting offended or even traumatized over something in the game. one example is portal 2 where the villain "wheatly" tries to insult the hero "chell" by makeing fun of the fact that she was adopted. now, that sounds pretty bad right? well the thing is "wheatly" was made in the game to be a comlpete idiot and mostly for comedic relief of some sort. unfortunatly for "VALVE" the company who made the game, there were poeple who's feelings get hurt way to easily started to complain how portal 2 is full of hatred for adopted children. one last example is how grand theft auto encourages drunk driveing, violence, raisism, car surfing and other miscellaneous bullsh$t. first off, your an idiot or mentally ill if you do something that you do in grand theft auto. second, grand theft auto is suppose to be an exageration of THE REAL WORLD! everything in the game DOES HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE! and yet poeple and of course the media are thinking all these things only happened and started happening because... you guessed it! VIDEOGAMES! so if your one of those people  who thing all of our problems are caused by videogames. do us all a favor and GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! you dumbsh%t...

thanks for reading.

homework

well, the first thing i'd like to point out is that alot of words change meanings or even thier spelling over time. this can be either caused by useing the specific word differently or incorrectly but catching on. an example being the word "literal" meaning "takeing words in thier usual or most basic sense without metaphore or exaggeration". now (or at least its what i've heard) the meaning of the word has changed so that you can use the word for emphasis rather then being actually true. another word is "meat" it use to refer to all foods and food types but has later on changed its meaning and had it narrowed down so you can specify more food types like fruits or vegies. and then theres mixing up words such as "aurol and oral", "ascend and accent", "prescribe and proscribe", "restfull and restive" and so on and so forth. and slang is a completely different story so i wont poke into that for now. anyways, the whole "sell-out" thing...i really dont know too much about it to explain it too well. but what i did explain was kinda the point of the article. thanks for reading.