so if they DID ban violent games.....
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These are the same fucking self-righteous twats that were advocating the removal of comic books or rock music a few years ago. It's such an obvious scapegoat for their bad parenting skills it's almost hilarious. Kid's do not act out because of comic books or violent video games, they do it because they have a batshit crazy parent who is advocating against video games.
Video games are meant for escapism so they are violent because we can't do that in real life without being labeled out of your mind.
If the did ban them I would form an underground resistance who smuggle games from other countries so that no gamer goes insane enough to murder
If the did ban them I would form an underground resistance who smuggle games from other countries so that no gamer goes insane enough to murder
Give them a finger and they will want an arm, censorship should not exist in any form, the end.
Even if we get down to Mario someone will have problems with it, I mean it's a plumber tripping on shrooms while abusing all sorts of flora and wild life, for gods sake thing of the children, ban it now!
Even if we get down to Mario someone will have problems with it, I mean it's a plumber tripping on shrooms while abusing all sorts of flora and wild life, for gods sake thing of the children, ban it now!
While not meaning to put words in the OP's mouth, I believe rhey're referring to a term, usually used in studies, called 'simulated drug and alcohol abuse', which, for the purposes of scaremongering/sensationalism is usually shortened into simulated drug use (since alcohol is technically a drug) or just drug use.Valkyrie101 said:
So I don't believe the above is saying that there's a cunningly hidden bit in the bible where Jesus and the disciples pass a crafty joint around, but, if you used the usual sensationalist 'journalism' style of, say, Fox news or the tabloid media, to build a case against the bible, Jesus turning water into wine could be portrayed as him being a drug dealer.
Also, come on Rockstar, not like you're busy right now, where's the opportunistic 'State of Emergency 3 - London edition'?
You could actually cause full on aneurisms in some news anchors and journalists with an announcement like that.
You could actually cause full on aneurisms in some news anchors and journalists with an announcement like that.
Are you seriously precluding human hypocrisy? Because we've already seen examples of people trying to ban game sales to children in a state famous for Hollywood and who will not apply the same to film and TV..shadow_Fox81 said:
shouldn't (or isn't) a rating system a ban for children to buy things or is the ban in question just all video games.Zachary Amaranth said:
I don't really care because for all the "talk" of bans and sanctions on video games i don't think any ones ever pulled through to my knowledge in much more than a token way (and i assure you censorship of games is worse here in Australia). I may bastardise this story quote because some quite crass individual i know throws it at me whenever i try to get him to stop speaking "in a society like ours if you want the best of us to speak you must let the worst of us speak" he said the founder of hustler said it. but they are wise words all the same and no matter how much flak games weather they are a mode of expression and no democratic nation is bold enough(today at least) to say this demographic is denied the right to freely express themselves while others can.
i may be wrong but i hope i'm not.
With any type of media at all (movies, comics, books, music), I personally think it depends on the person who is viewing that media and how they take in and experience what they are viewing. In that sense anything can make anyone violent, if they view it in a way that can relate them to an act of violence. That doesn't mean things shouldn't try to stay away from areas that could awaken these emotions, because that's what makes viewing movies, comics etc worth doing so, to evoke an emotion.
Shouldn't? Not according to the Supreme Court. Doesn't? Not at all.shadow_Fox81 said:
A lot of people seem misguided about the rating system. The fact is, it's entirely voluntary and willingly enforced by stores, but there is no legal mandate. Legally, you can sell R rated movies, M rated games, and just about everything but smokes, guns (not even true in some places), hooch and pornography.
But that really wasn't the point. The point was that the ban was attempting to do so solely on games, meaning it would still be legal for you to sell R-rated movies to minors. In short, human hypocrisy in action: Holding two "mature" examples to different standards. While the quote from Larry Flynt is nice, he's a pornographer, not a legislator. Though it probably means he lives a more wholesome lifestyle than one.
Performance art is held to a different standard. Even TV and movies are. The point being, it doesn't matter if other media is worse, games still get blamed in ways that other media is not held accountable.
Human hypocrisy in action. Therefore, isn't it a little naïve to say a ban couldn't happen based on the notion that performance art is worse?
Am I the only one who pictured prohibition era type under ground "game"easies where people meet up to play CoD or something, with secret knocks and passwords leading to the rise of another mob era where a the smuggling of violent video games is a market controlled by organized crime.
Kids get searched because they're carrying laptops... cops hassling people because they said "controller"
maybe my imagination is a bit messed up.
Kids get searched because they're carrying laptops... cops hassling people because they said "controller"
maybe my imagination is a bit messed up.
If they banned violent video games the murder rate would probably increase, because there is bound to be psychos that would be killing people but they don't because they can do it in a game.