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    Electronic Games & the First Amendment: Article on Brown v. EMA, History of Video Game Censorship

    Hey everybody, As you probably know, Brown v. EMA should be announced by the Supreme Court sometime tomorrow morning. I wrote a constitutional law article on the case law, cultural history, and theoretical work leading up to Brown v. EMA (formerly Schwarzenegger v. EMA). Tomorrow is the...
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    The possible American ban on selling violent games to minors?

    Hey guys. Didn't anyone notice this was posted in 2005? Four years ago? You know, when people still cared about GTA 3? The California law was overturned. The Electronic Software Assocation goes around swatting the shit out of these laws. No law like this has survived the Circuits or...
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    Made By People!

    The reason we don't see more information on game makers is because video gaming lacks an application of auteur theory. (For more information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory is a good start.) In short, auteur theory states that the director of a film should wield almost total...
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    What's your motto? (360/Windows Live)

    Pretty close man. Igneum is the adjective form. Correct version would be "Carpe Ignis".
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    What's your motto? (360/Windows Live)

    None of these words are Latin. It is kind of close to quod erat demonstrandum, otherwise known as q.e.d., which means "which was to be demonstrated". Just letting you know. I'd be pissed if I my motto was gobbledygook.
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    What's your motto? (360/Windows Live)

    Maybe you just mistyped it but that doesn't mean "We are your enemy" in Latin. Not trying to be a big jerk on the internet, just want to see it right. ("I love the language, that soft bastard Latin that melts like kisses from a female mouth.") Sumnus isn't a word, for one. And the verb in...