Dear people of the US and A. You're really, really making my stripes lose some of their shine lately. Both as a taxpaying, voting, conscience-having citizen, and a gamer as well. Why? This whole next gen console launch has people stooping to all new lows I didn't think even we were possible of. To be blunt, it's nothing short of sickening.

For starters, there's the whole PS3 launch-capade. Where to begin? How about with the full-on riots while waiting to get one of the $600 bricks? Or the whole lines-don't-matter-mall-riot in Boston's Copley Center, or the asshole Wal-Mart manager that deputized himself to be Caesar and had waiting gamers fight for their consoles? People getting shot with BB's, shot for REAL... madness. Deplorable, senseless madness. Why? For the System? Probably not. When these things were going for $2,000+ on eBay (and are still getting 200% of the purchase price), the morons literally killing each other aren't doing it to play the damn things, they're doing it for a profit.

And then... and then you have these other folks. Fucktards, really, ones that take a) several hundred bucks that could have been used for lord knows what, b) a game system people are literally killing for, c) a chainsaw and some gasoline...

And then there are people that truly deserve to be sterilized. And of course, brat copy cats that should spend some time living in a world where mummy and poppop don't throw handfuls of money at you to shut up your incessant spoiled whining. Like, you know, the reality where most of the rest of us in the country live.

I mean, really. Aside from seeing an incredible piece of engineering destroyed, we're talking about $600 wasted. Gone. No salvage, no second chance, nothing. Gone. They might have well as set it on fire (though it does the retailers good enough) when it was in their wallets. Personally, I find it wasteful, shameful, and pitifully ignorant when there are any number of places/charities/causes that would love to get $600 that needed to be put to some use. Combine all this with the bitter lingering taste of the riots, and it paints a pretty sad picture. And speaking of painting pictures, while any number of objects have been destroyed in the name of art, this doesn't even come close. It's rage, waste, mockery, and a whole bunch of other things that'll bump you closer to the bottom of Santa's list.

You know the only other place I've ever seen people that frantic to get their hands on limit quantity items? Videos from BBC where UN food trucks arrive in refugee camps.

Want to ask a refugee if they could find a way to make $600 disappear?