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Gamepolitics has an excellent report about how a Minnesota Girl Scout has made a video encouraging parental awareness on video game content. Gamepolitics’s report can be found here, and the video can be found here.

Just for that, expect me to buy Girl Scout cookies from the next buyer who approaches me.

That video should perhaps be shown to Jack Thompson; his actions of late just might get him disbarred. Gamepolitics has the report here; personally, while it would be great to see Thompson lose his legal license, I think that he will find an alternate means to broadcast his anti-video game views, for all I know, Fox will employ him as a ’school shootings’ expert.

I hope that does not happen; Thompson’s views have clearly proven toxic to our society and no one should consider him to have any credence. Maybe he could take some lessons from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who announced her intent to assist in an effort to create an online civics learning game for students.

Good to see that the courts will finally swat Thompson the fly out of the sky; perhaps he will finally see that games can be a positive force, as seen by AMD’s efforts to support games for social change.

On that note, Kotaku has a report about Nintendo handing out free DS systems at a teaching conference. Maybe those teachers will teach the virtue of the game “Brain Age” to their students. I know that educational DS games are effective; my current favorite is Crosswords DS.

The more reports that I see of individuals recognizing the good thing that is gaming, the better our society will be for it.