User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Alatreon/@comment-969093-20101209221044/@comment-2040723-20101212183746

(Warning: TL;DR rant ahead. You have been warned.)

Looking through all of this again reminds me of something else I found while I was surfing the web today. Words cannot describe the critical mass of stupidity (and possible schizophrenia) that lies behind thie link I am going to post below. Suffice to say that the only thing as stupid as trying to say that video games depict an external world made by a higher power is attempting to shoehorn a mixture of pseudo-libertarian ideology and Biblical morality in a bizarre attempt to make video games comparable to the Iliad and the Odyssey. It comes complete with nonsensical rambling descriptions and unwarranted self-importance, too!

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEOGAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHERIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=exalted&as_psra=1&as_psra=1#v=onepage&q&f=false (WARNING: MAY CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO SANITY)

PROTIP: a video game is escapist entertainment, not the works of fucking Shakespeare.

(Sorry, just had to get this off my chest. Besides, I have found that making fun of crazy people on the Internet is highly cathartic in cases like this, especially if you put up with anons every day. It helps to put their idiocy in perspective by comparing it with even greater stupidity.)