Video Game sales are up 45% in the first 5 months of the year. Has the quality of reality outside the door gone down 45% in the same period? Grand Theft Auto IV is driving the upswing with massive sales as the top seller of the year, having sold 4.2 million copies. What's missing from our regular life? What are the people going to the games for most? We must not be getting enough killing, stealing, and prostitutin in our regular lives. I have a feeling the Japanese Knife killer was an avid video gamer. I think once you play enough games you long to bring your virtual world into the real one. Is it any surprise that we generally play war games before we go to war? Oh I don't know, maybe not. Why are we filling our minds with such crap? If we create reality, then why are we making such a nasty one? For some reason the Care Bears game just doesn't sell. I guess we are the lizards, and we just don't care.