Submitted by Daniel - February 15, 2007 at 12:13 am -0500
When are people going to stop nominating for office idiots like this? Politicians should be concerned with other things besides video games.
@ Brokenscope
You want me to back up my views about why violent media is okay and not harmful to anyone? Here it is.
# 1 Violent video games are popular all over the world and very few people, who play games like Grand Theft Auto, ever commit murder.
# 2 The ones that do are almost always troubled, like Cody Posey.
# 3 A gun has to be heavier than a controller because it's made out of medal.
# 4 Guns are harder to use in real life because they're heavier than a controller and there is no automatic aiming system in real life like there is in Grand Theft Auto.
# 5 Most other countries don't blame games all that much for the actions of gamers, except maybe Germany.
# 6 Children are too small to pick up a real heavy gun and do some damage.
# 7 It always looks easier when someone else is doing it. When you see films with like "Desert Heat" and "Rambo" they show things that are almost immpossible or immpossible to do in real life. Most people couldn't duplicate what Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Dam do in movies if their lives depended on it.
# 8 The possibility of jail and consequences that keep people in line. People all know that jail isn't a nice place and that keeps people in line.
# 9 People also don't throw away their lives because of images on a screen. They know better than that.
Those are my reasons. Violence looks easy on a screen, but in reality, it's very hard to immpossible for the average person to even duplicate. Do those finally look like good enough reasons for my position and ideas?
Posted 08/21/08 at 04:15pm GRIZZAM PRIME: Hot damn, the Trolls must've taken some troll steroids...they are all over today.
Posted 08/21/08 at 03:03pm Talouin: @ZippyDSMlee: Yea, that game has a really high learning curve fun when you got the hang of it but the SE developers need a kick
Posted 08/21/08 at 02:45pm ZippyDSMlee: Talouin:I quit FF11 3 months after I started, is a horrible game from top to bottom.
Posted 08/21/08 at 02:28pm Talouin: @SimonBob: I have never been happier I quit FFXI last month until now.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:59pm ZippyDSMlee: Boyycotting only works when sheeple care, the masses have to want to care about subtleties, in general they do not thus why corporate gets as far as it does. However boycotting can raise a fuss and the bad PR might make them take note.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:20pm SimonBob: There's a full explanation of the FFXI PW fight up: http://rukenshin.livejournal.com/17133.html
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:16pm Talouin: @Quander, That fight is brand spanking new. People just don't know how to do it yet.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:06pm AM: @GP: Boycott is unlikely to be effective due to how few people would be aware/participate. That said, I boycott EA over their "3 installs then buy another copy" copy protection, so I can't say it's NOT a good idea.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:06pm GryphonOsiris: @Scribe, just read that. The reports are saying that is was a targeted killing. Odds are a bully, gang related or something.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:03pm SimonBob: I just glanced over some of the companies' game lists; turns out I was already boycotting three of them anyway.
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:53pm DarkTetsuya: @scribe999 yeah I heard about that, and I *thought* I saw a vulture circling the area...
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:53pm DarkTetsuya: @scribe999 yeah I heard about that, and I *thought* I saw a vulture circling the area...
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:36pm gamepolitics: is a gamer boycott of atari, codemasters, topware and the other 2 UK firms who are extorting file-sharers a good idea?
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:19pm scribe999: Another school shooting...this time in Tennessee. Terrible news. And I'm sure there's much hyperbole to follow.
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:10pm sortableturnip: hehehe ;)
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:09pm DarkTetsuya: @sortableturnip I'm totally putting what you said as my sig :P thanks!
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:02pm sortableturnip: OMG JT speaking in front of another BS group: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2007/09/04/
pardon-our-appearance.aspx?pg=2
&view=threaded
Posted 08/21/08 at 11:50am Neeneko: @Quander - I"m not all that familiar with FFXI, but maybe this mob just requires more gank? or there is a trick? larger group?
Posted 08/21/08 at 07:54am sortableturnip: The "smoking gun" is the Florida Bar dropping its insurance coverage from Nationwide
Posted 08/20/08 at 05:19pm jccalhoun: it would be interesting to hire a detective to investigae Jacko and find out his "smoking gun"
@ Brokenscope
You want me to back up my views about why violent media is okay and not harmful to anyone? Here it is.
# 1 Violent video games are popular all over the world and very few people, who play games like Grand Theft Auto, ever commit murder.
# 2 The ones that do are almost always troubled, like Cody Posey.
# 3 A gun has to be heavier than a controller because it's made out of medal.
# 4 Guns are harder to use in real life because they're heavier than a controller and there is no automatic aiming system in real life like there is in Grand Theft Auto.
# 5 Most other countries don't blame games all that much for the actions of gamers, except maybe Germany.
# 6 Children are too small to pick up a real heavy gun and do some damage.
# 7 It always looks easier when someone else is doing it. When you see films with like "Desert Heat" and "Rambo" they show things that are almost immpossible or immpossible to do in real life. Most people couldn't duplicate what Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Dam do in movies if their lives depended on it.
# 8 The possibility of jail and consequences that keep people in line. People all know that jail isn't a nice place and that keeps people in line.
# 9 People also don't throw away their lives because of images on a screen. They know better than that.
Those are my reasons. Violence looks easy on a screen, but in reality, it's very hard to immpossible for the average person to even duplicate. Do those finally look like good enough reasons for my position and ideas?