FoxNews bashes Bulletstorm (LOL)
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I really don't understand this... you could say the same thing about all stuff that kids are not allowed to do. Drink, smoke cigarettes... etc. I think the rating system is a great start, but first off the kids shouldn't be coming home with these games in the first place. There should be enforcement at the retail level. If a bar sells a minor booze they have their license suspended, if they do it again they have their license revoked. This would be easy to do with game retailers.
Also, if a kid gets so bad at school that child services has to be called in and they feel the need to inspect the kids home, why not check it for mature games in which case it's the parents fault.
They said pornography caused rape years ago, and we all know that it's bullshit. It's not the content of the game that causes violence it is irresponsibility of the parents and retailers.
Also, if a kid gets so bad at school that child services has to be called in and they feel the need to inspect the kids home, why not check it for mature games in which case it's the parents fault.
They said pornography caused rape years ago, and we all know that it's bullshit. It's not the content of the game that causes violence it is irresponsibility of the parents and retailers.
Yep - my social eduction (British term for "killing time period") teacher used to teach us about;Tsaba said:
- How to distil our own alcohol
- How to inject alcohol into fruit and vegetables to make them alcoholic
- How he used to get involved in sectarian violence (he went to a Catholic school in Livingstone) and the details of what he and others did
- How to mix such potent drinks you will pass out and wake up in hospital with you stomach pumped
All of this was with the "I did it, but you shouldn't" label, even though he obvious had no regrets about any of it.
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Why don't we, as the entire gaming fanbase and industry agree to never, ever, EVER talk to or aknlodage fox news.
Seriously, just treat them like the plague.
And if we ever do, make it only to point out how the outright lie and make rumors, them immedatly leave the interview or whatever.
I'd love to point out that stuff like law and order SVU is super popular as well.
(still waiting on MM's thing as well bloodstain..."
Why don't we, as the entire gaming fanbase and industry agree to never, ever, EVER talk to or aknlodage fox news.
Seriously, just treat them like the plague.
And if we ever do, make it only to point out how the outright lie and make rumors, them immedatly leave the interview or whatever.
Exactly.Bloodstain said:Oh, Postal 2 has a successor.
I refuse to believe that. Especially, I refuse to believe that this is the common consequence of sexually violent video games.TheFPSisDead said:
I'd love to point out that stuff like law and order SVU is super popular as well.
(still waiting on MM's thing as well bloodstain..."
Same here. Also the way they went from 9 year old's playing violent video games to real life rapes is just laughable. I seriously wonder how that psychologist got her degree (no offense to any psychology student on the Escapist, I'm pretty sure you guys agree that voicing opinions as facts is not professional)dathwampeer said:
The sad thing is that there'll eventually be some new scapegoat within a few decades to a century (if I'm alive around that time, I'll be mature about it and don't automatically blame the product).
Here's an uncommon thing! An adult who can remember what it was like to be a child!
So before I reached the age of 'adulthood' (18 years of age, they tell you, while ignoring that you could also go and join an army at that age, but can't vote.) I had done the following:
Nearly killed myself through acts of misadventure several times.
(Rescuing frisbees from guard dogs, swimming in polluted water, falling three floors off a building while trying to recover a football because of the anti-climb paint, electric shocks from security fences and nearly drowning because someone couldn't be bothered to close a canal lock gate properly.)
Had sex lessons from women more than 10 years older than me. (Which topped anything my priest had to tell me).
Had either snuck into cinemas to watch movies way too 'old' for me
(Predator, Debbie Does Dallas, Terminator, Blade Runner and Alien) or had just bought bootlegs at markets for the same result.
Incidentally; my parents took me to see Time Bandits back in 1981. I don't think the censors would allow that movie for kids nowadays but those people are idiots anyway.
Had successfully built an entire collection of 2000AD comics from issue 1 to issue 100.
(And then sold it all to a Scotsman for a van that I drove around Poland.)
If I had a kid that did any or more of that kind of thing, I don't know how happy I'd be. Probably ecstatic. Fuck Fox News and their perpetual fear-mongering and conformity enforcing.
And to hell with the safety culture.
I want my kids to be awesome!
So before I reached the age of 'adulthood' (18 years of age, they tell you, while ignoring that you could also go and join an army at that age, but can't vote.) I had done the following:
Nearly killed myself through acts of misadventure several times.
(Rescuing frisbees from guard dogs, swimming in polluted water, falling three floors off a building while trying to recover a football because of the anti-climb paint, electric shocks from security fences and nearly drowning because someone couldn't be bothered to close a canal lock gate properly.)
Had sex lessons from women more than 10 years older than me. (Which topped anything my priest had to tell me).
Had either snuck into cinemas to watch movies way too 'old' for me
(Predator, Debbie Does Dallas, Terminator, Blade Runner and Alien) or had just bought bootlegs at markets for the same result.
Incidentally; my parents took me to see Time Bandits back in 1981. I don't think the censors would allow that movie for kids nowadays but those people are idiots anyway.
Had successfully built an entire collection of 2000AD comics from issue 1 to issue 100.
(And then sold it all to a Scotsman for a van that I drove around Poland.)
If I had a kid that did any or more of that kind of thing, I don't know how happy I'd be. Probably ecstatic. Fuck Fox News and their perpetual fear-mongering and conformity enforcing.
And to hell with the safety culture.
I want my kids to be awesome!
And it's this kind of shit preventing video games doing anything meaningful as a medium.
Thanks, FoxNews, for setting the industry even further back.
Jerks.
Thanks, FoxNews, for setting the industry even further back.
Jerks.
I call BS!!!!!!!!!!! Everything else i could say is summed up in the term "Ugh....."TheFPSisDead said:
Thanks for the free ad space Fox! Same deal as always: the game has a rating and saying that the rating isn't enforced at retail outlets doesn't put the blame on the developers. We all know Fox isn't good for anything but making us laugh and advertising fear.
In other news, I might actually pick up a copy of Bulletstorm as it seems like a good game for stress relief or killing time.
In other news, I might actually pick up a copy of Bulletstorm as it seems like a good game for stress relief or killing time.
Firstly, why is Fox trying to bring this game down when friggin' Dukem Forever is right around the corner?
Secondly all their arguments make as much sense as this:
Secondly all their arguments make as much sense as this:
YEPP...i agree with this 100%...+ like 5%Tsaba said:
There are almost no retailers that will sell bulletstorm to a minor. Im 18 and never shave (IE there is a wookie on my face some days and i still get carded...This is a parents issue. HIT YOU KID IF THERE PLAYING SOMETHING YOU DONT LIKE AND TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE...Be a real parent and TEACH them things.