GREECE BANS VIDEO GAMES!

The first thing I thought when I heard this was: "You've got to be kidding me!" O_O Sure enough, the government of the country of Greece has enacted a law this week that bans any form of video game or interactive entertainment within their country. You can not play video games publicly or even in your own house! What kind of fucked up sort of shit is that? Might as well call the government of Greece a pile of Nazi's. If you get caught even playing a GameBoy or the video game on your cell phone you could be fined or even put into jail! Even tourists visting the country unaware of the law can be fined heavily. Greece claims that this had to be done to curb gambling.

This completely proves my point when I say that people who make laws are usually uppermiddleaged to old fuckhead fuddyduddies that have no common knowledge of digital culture, and the tide of changes that have swept across society since the days when they gathered around the hearth and listened to "Little Orphen Annie" on their Victrolas. Has any one of those congressmen ever played a video game? Probably not, or they might just know the difference between a slot machine and a Playstation. Even though this took place in Greece there are wallet-padded jackasses up on capitol hill Washington D.C. that think the same way, trust me.

So. What are they going to do now? Are they going to send Gustapo Police Commandos to each house with AK's drawn to check for Nintendos, Playstations, and video game software on PC's and burn it in the streets and throw the owners in jail? As far as I can tell a law this nearsighted is just begging to get repealed or brought to lawsuit in any democratic society. I can't see this lasting, but if it does, this is truly a sad day for gaming, and a sad day for individual freedoms. My condolences go out to the gamers in Greece who are getting screwed, and a collossal middle finger gets raised to the numbskulls that made that law.