March 11, 2010 Entry 35

CRAZINESS! My half-brother flew in from Virginia yesterday! He's pretty cool. We talked about ROMs and things. Apparently there's a way to get a certain card thing that you can use in a Nintendo DS that you can download games, movies, music, all sorts of stuff. Then you can watch those and everything on the DS whenever you want. It's completely illegal, but Danny, my brother, made a good argument: if someone already made this technology and it's so much better than the DS is now, why not let him license it so they can actually make money off of it? Anyways, My mom is being hypersensitive about things recently. My dad and her heard a radio report on NPR or something about how letting kids play video games where you kill people has a psychological effect on them equivalent to "physically abusing them". This, of course, is utterly ridiculous. If it was true 80% of the boys and probably 30-40% of the girls in America would be psychologically wounded, or have aggression problems. My mom got all overprotective after she heard it though, and now she wants me to get rid of all my games where you kill ANYTHING, EVER. I think various sources including my dad and Danny have managed to mostly talk her out of it, but she's still acting overprotective and whatnot. It's partially my fault for being lazy and letting my grades slip down during the start of the quarter, but I had a talk with Mr. Mac and I would've fixed that on my own.