
This is from a hosted blog through Blogger.com .If I told you this, would you believe me? Try doing so, because it's the truth. And also, in this strange and perverse world, young men and women are busy killing each other at an alarming rate. Do we really need something like a pseudo Mafia causing the same sorts of problems? Gangsterism, in other words, on our children's beloved video games?According to Wikipedia, the Web's foremost online encyclopedia, ever since 9/11 the FBI hasn't had much in time or resources to handle organized crime, and there has been a sudden resurgence in its activities.Right now, the online game "The Sims Online"-- which is labeled a "T for Teens" game -- has been overrun by several obviously Mafia named "families." These people don't seem to have enough imagination to be Mexican Mafia, Chinese Mafia or Japanese Mafia (yet), which also exist in real life. They are very aggressive and very obvious. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Whether or not they are the real Mafia is a question which I cannot answer. They may be a bunch of "errant" teenage boys and girls � but ones with some very eclectic adult tastes and also many violent and weird high tech tendencies. You should see the Playboy style icons they paste on top of their houses from certain views of the TSO video game. I can't tell who's to blame for that, adults or kids. And that sort of thing is not something you can ordinarily get as a regular player of that particular video game. Something is up with that, something way too mysterious.And one thing these kids, if they are kids, really do, even though it is to virtual and not real houses: they trash people's paid-for beautiful properties. The kind of properties that people would like to build, taking a lifetime to achieve. Beautiful, sprawling mansions you can't own in real life, the kind that are totally out of reach for the vast majority of people. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad",...
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