I can't speak for the other cities, but there is nothing overly restrictive about the gun owenerships laws in Detroit or the state of Michigan. Open carry is allowed assuming the gun is registered and CCW is legal after taking the course and the background check. The people of Detroit do often keep guns in their house because they know the police are not going to show up in any reasonable amount of time, if at all.

Just because the city is a shit hole, don't assume the reason for that is one that fits your ideological bias.

I think the current zombie trend is about venting all the accumulated fear of biological warfare that accumulated immediately after 9/11. Also some of the climate change or genetic engineering fear - notice the cause of the zombies is no longer Black Magic, Satanic or End of Days, but now biological. At least for the well adjusted folk.
And for the not so well adjusted, I have to agree there is the thrill of unfettered killing of 'the others'.

Rule 34 strikes again!!

That was my first thought as well. I'm married to an incest and childhood rape survivor (and yes 'survivor' is the appropriate word here) and a lot of her therapy included extremely graphic written descriptions and drawings of the things that she went through. It brings it out into the open as something that really happened, rather than 'bad things happened, but we don't talk about'.
Who is to decided what the intent of any writing is? I'm sure some pedos would get off on her therapy art. Do we really want to jail people for getting better, rather than keeping it all in and self destructing? Just to keep a pedo from getting a boner and MAYBE doing something?

There's plenty of insanity being produced by other countries, available for import to the United States. But will the American consumer develop a taste for exotic insanity or prefer the home grown domestic stuff?

I'm a loser for replying to troll AC.

Losing jobs and a lower standard of living has been happening for a solid 3 decades.

Just how many facials do I need to take from the Capitalists who are really running everything before I can stop worrying about America becoming a third world country just for the sake of their stockpiles of money getting larger?

Because Mr LEO would never watch skype traffic between a husband and wife who are separated and missing each other.
Or just between a couple of freaky horny teenagers.
Because nobody would ever do such a thing, right?

There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza. Thank you.

I've known for awhile that I'm getting my fix of 'false accomplishments' playing games. I've always enjoyed empire building games, but that has fallen off over the years as I'm getting into my 40s and wondering what the hell happened to my 30s? Plus the games today suck, but that's a get off my lawn sentiment.

Sometimes I just love killing zombies in L4D. I don't care about 'progressing' into the harder levels, I just want the thrill of killing zombies. OK, maybe I should strive for less than 5 friendly fire 'accidents' a game. Yeah that sounds like a good goal. Yeap I suck at multiplay, but I don't care -- I'm here to kill zombies.

You mad bro?

Bender programs in Lisp?

When I start feeling down like I haven't accomplished anything in my life, I'll remember this and be glad that I work only 40 hours on most weeks and actually enjoy seeing my wife. Life is good, who knew?

Add Ogre3D, Irrlicht and Torque game engines to the list too.
    I spent way too much time recreating their functionality in DirectX. It gave me an appreciation for the fundamental concepts of 3D graphics, but I spent months wrapping my head around it -- yes, I know I'm a dumb-ass, but it eventually clicked.
    Now I work with Unity and Photon and am mostly happy.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter of empty rhetoric and angst filled superiority.

Indeed, students should be outside doing the landscaping themselves. Dual credits in PE and vocational training -ftw!