Submitted by myrpok - February 29, 2008 at 10:22 am -0500
I think a lot of you guys that think he's right about the lack of diversity in games.... aren't looking hard enough. Look at the Xbox Live Arcade or the PSN, it's filled to the brim with innovative and bloodless games. Some of them are PC re-releases, but most of them new to me: Eets, Wik:fable of Souls, Marble Blast Ultra (not so innovative but it was damn fun), Geometry Wars, etc.
For consoles shooters are noticeably repetitive, but for every Black Site that comes out, you have a (admitedly bland) licensed, sports, or really good different adventure/puzzle game. The numbers speak for themselves, it's the gamers that are the visible demographic that perpetuate that stereotype, and there's nothing wrong with us 18-24 violence loving males, it just sucks when people use that against us for legislative purposes.
Most of Hollywood SEEMS to appear to appeal to the same crowd, but that's ignoring the vast majority of the film community that I think loves the indie/drama/documentary stuff which don't have the budget for big action blowouts.
TL;DR- If you can't find fun and bloodless games, you aren't even trying to look beyond the largely advertised titles.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:58am ZippyDSMlee: to license more doctors,dentists and such so there would be a drop in price.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:58am ZippyDSMlee: Government should get into nationalized medicine make generics for the people it would make as much money as it would lose, health care itself (paying doctors and insurance and such) really needs to have its own market, it would also not hurt for them to
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:54am ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:people and then why not make it a full blown free market with no rules....
you have to force the market to do something to deal with the complete spectrum in a reasonable manner.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:53am ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: number 3 being millions with no healthcare leaving he fed and states dealing with losses due to healthcare concerns raising the prices of local hospitals and ect even more to off set the burden, unless you want hospitals to not take peop
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:48am E. Zachary Knight: Personally, I think that healthcare should not be a for profit business. It needs to be not for profit. No more share holders ic
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:46am Dark Sovereign: I never said a "complete open market" for health insurance. I said people should be able to pick their insurer and pay privately
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am E. Zachary Knight: I personally hate the idea of socialized healthcare. there are other ways better ways to improve national health.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am Dark Sovereign: The market sets prices based on: 1) What people CAN pay. 2) What people WILL pay.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark, sorry, I was not saying anything about socialized healthcare. i was just saying that both parties will be raising taxes.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:43am Dark Sovereign: We've never had privatized health insurance. The market was never allowed to take over.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:43am E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:33am Arad: I think the ShoutBox is getting too serious. New Subject: Will Portal's cake-centric gameplay be blamed for America's obesity?
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:23am Neeneko: DS - purely private health care is very short sighted. fewer people covered = more disease vectors and lower GDP. n
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:21am SticKboy: Just like to add that "unfettered greed" is a sentiment that could be applied to pirates as well as corporations
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:57am ZippyDSMlee: DS-forces the industry as a whole to band together to make a efficient cheap system or lose all their government licenses.
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:56am ZippyDSMlee: DS-Then you can add taxes to those in the 80k+ bracket who use it they get less returns, the government stays in money, the industry is able to do what it wants as long as the low end is covered, also by forcing them to save money out to subsidize it forc
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:50am ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:as they do not cover much), you can gain profit AND ensure your brothers are taken care of at the same time, unfettered greed is too corrosive for any society to properly mitigate it.
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:49am ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:it by forcing them to allocate X amount of profit and use that to subsidize the low end plans(ensuring all citizens under the 150K bracket can get them easily, they will of coarse get the better plans as they would not want the basic plans
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:48am ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: a complete open market for health care and insurance dose not work it leaves to many people without thus tax payers pick up the bill at X2-10 the price because they can tripple charge people for being a complicated emergency.... regulate
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:47am scribe999: I'll also remind you, while Clinton had many faults, the govt ran a SURPLUS under him...a Democrat.
For consoles shooters are noticeably repetitive, but for every Black Site that comes out, you have a (admitedly bland) licensed, sports, or really good different adventure/puzzle game. The numbers speak for themselves, it's the gamers that are the visible demographic that perpetuate that stereotype, and there's nothing wrong with us 18-24 violence loving males, it just sucks when people use that against us for legislative purposes.
Most of Hollywood SEEMS to appear to appeal to the same crowd, but that's ignoring the vast majority of the film community that I think loves the indie/drama/documentary stuff which don't have the budget for big action blowouts.
TL;DR- If you can't find fun and bloodless games, you aren't even trying to look beyond the largely advertised titles.
oh well /rant