These grotesquely out-of-touch “leaders” of the NRA easily confuse video gamers like myself for cold-blooded murderers whom have no respect for life. If you allow your kid to base their morals & values on just what they see in video games and television, that is a failure of parenting and of other various supporting social structures. Kids learn the difference between fantasy and reality – as well as a value for life – through a proper environment during their up-bringing.

Why are people like the NRA not coming down hard on all the parents that buy Call of Duty (a game rated for 18+ years of age) for their 12-year-olds and just let them play it unchecked, as if the video game is a babysitter, and these same parents will then blame everything and everyone but themselves when their kid goes nuts? Where is all the anger – or recognition, for that matter – toward all the bad parenting? Are the majority of people/parents really this unwilling to take a hard look at themselves and say “where have we failed our children?” If the NRA really wants to help, they will start a campaign advocating more involved parenting, instead of equating every gamer to knuckle-dragging sickos and flaunting their ignorance as a home-spun virtue.

Blaming the violence of deranged people on video games is classic diversion from the real mental, social, and parental issues at hand all so the NRA and its constituents can try to save face.

Why is politics bloated and seemingly full of nothing but idiots? My theory is: Because intelligent people are disgusted with it, realize all the petty in-fighting doesn’t move the world forward, and are too busy doing constructive things on their own.

Life is capable of experiencing things that the Universe – without life as we understand it – could never comprehend.

Without life, there would be no dreams and imaginations. Without life, there would be no recognition or conception of emotions and feelings. Without life, there would never be any physical manifestation of imaginations – the inventions that humans all use and take for granted. Without life, there would be no witness to the existence of this immense place.

Perhaps life is the tool that the Universe created in order for it to comprehend itself.

Management tends to throw away valuable people based on blind statistics and personal prejudice, then hires subordinate drones whom won’t challenge the management’s superiority complex.

There should be a common method of voting established that allows employees of companies/organizations to vote for no confidence in the managers. Allowing management to go on conducting their poor behavior by not instituting a method of recourse is directly counterproductive to progress in general. Intelligent individuals should not suffer because of the jealousy and self-righteousness that management holds toward people whom are clearly smarter than the managers.

Interface design seems to be a thing that is extraordinarily under-appreciated by the world. All technology must have a proper interface in order for humans to make any practical use of it.

Additionally, interfaces themselves are nothing more than just a stiff scaffolding without properly-intuitive interaction. Front-end & user-experience development is how an interface gains its function, and determines (in part with the interface itself) how a human’s mind links with the technology.