Controversial games subject (A.K.A. The government problems

[Bartman]

All right a. I will keep it to myself. 18-29 year olds will be ticked off by the government for the game bill. Video games have been protected by the First Amendment because companies like Nintendo, Sega, Namco, Sony, Square, EA, Capcom, Konami, etc, etc... have rights too.

[Roperious1]

[QUOTE=m0zart][QUOTE=IronKnux]If you don't like it, go to Canada. Besides, the Sega CD failed because it did nothing new except add grainy videos, scratchy digital sound and looong load times. Like the Saturn, it was hard to produce for, and hardly worth the effort.[/QUOTE]
 
Uhm... no... if we don't like it, we'll keep on complaining, and lobbying, and fighting, until the stupid laws passed around such subjects are repealed.
 
That's one of the privileges we have in this country.  If you don't like that... go to Canada.
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Are you saying that Canadians participate in none of these things?

[m0zart1]

[QUOTE=Roperious][QUOTE=m0zart][QUOTE=IronKnux]If you don't like it, go to Canada. Besides, the Sega CD failed because it did nothing new except add grainy videos, scratchy digital sound and looong load times. Like the Saturn, it was hard to produce for, and hardly worth the effort.[/QUOTE]
 
Uhm... no... if we don't like it, we'll keep on complaining, and lobbying, and fighting, until the stupid laws passed around such subjects are repealed.
 
That's one of the privileges we have in this country.  If you don't like that... go to Canada.
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Are you saying that Canadians participate in none of these things?[/QUOTE]

 

Pay more attention!  I wasn't saying *anything* about Canadians or Canada.  What I said is that if I don't like how things are, I don't *have* to move to Canada instead of complaining.  Rather, I'll just complain, loudly, and hope it gets on every last nerve of the proponents of bad legislation.

 

The "if you don't like that... go to Canada" part was basically me throwing his words back at him.

[Roperious1]

Although I understand that you were throwing his words back at him, and you weren't directly taking a shot at Canada. I think it was in poor taste to use the phrase in the first place.

[m0zart1]

[QUOTE=Roperious]Although I understand that you were throwing his words back at him, and you weren't directly taking a shot at Canada. I think it was in poor taste to use the phrase in the first place. [/QUOTE]

... which was the point of throwing it back in his face.  Either you have liberals threatening to move to Canada if they don't get their way, or you have conservatives telling you to move to Canada if you don't like some level of authoritarianism on the home front.  I'd much prefer the phrase(s) just go away, but that's not going to happen until its no longer viewed as clever, or as some kind of trump card on any argument.

[Bartman]

All right, all right. I won't cause any more problems and would everybody stop talking about Canada. It is bugging me. We are talking about the government on violent games, not Canada here.

[Bartman]

I'm gonna talk about stuff that was controversial in games. Someone from last month said something about sex in the games. Now, I need an answer: Is it controversial or not? Sort of, because of the "Hot Coffee" mod. I mean, that mod caused GTA: SA to be re-rated. But do people hack in the game? Yes and no. It is pathetic to put sex in games. I mean, I would rather make love in real life than in a game. You need entertainment and developers think of sex sometimes. If you have kids, don't play those games.

 

October 07 is going to have GTA: IV coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3. That Jack Thompson guy is already trying to get the 360 version banned. He gave an email to Bill Gates about banning it and going to court if it was not settled. Thompson has gone on TV and try ranting on the other games from previous school shootings. Have you heard of the Salt Lake City Mall shooting that happend earlier this year? Thompson thought a teen played GTA and shot people in the mall. Because of trying to ban the Xbox 360 version, I have seen on Wikipedia, that he has received multiple death threats.

[Bartman]

I'm gonna talk about stuff that was controversial in games. Someone from last month said something about sex in the games. Now, I need an answer: Is it controversial or not? Sort of, because of the "Hot Coffee" mod. I mean, that mod caused GTA: SA to be re-rated. But do people hack in the game? Yes and no. It is pathetic to put sex in games. I mean, I would rather make love in real life than in a game. You need entertainment and developers think of sex sometimes. If you have kids, don't play those games.

 

October 07 is going to have GTA: IV coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3. That Jack Thompson guy is already trying to get the 360 version banned. He gave an email to Bill Gates about banning it and going to court if it was not settled. Thompson has gone on TV and try ranting on the other games from previous school shootings. Have you heard of the Salt Lake City Mall shooting that happend earlier this year? Thompson thought a teen played GTA and shot people in the mall. Because of trying to ban the Xbox 360 version, I have seen on Wikipedia, that he has received multiple death threats.

[JustLikeHeaven1]

[QUOTE=Bartman]

I'm gonna talk about stuff that was controversial in games. Someone from last month said something about sex in the games. Now, I need an answer: Is it controversial or not? Sort of, because of the "Hot Coffee" mod. I mean, that mod caused GTA: SA to be re-rated. But do people hack in the game? Yes and no. It is pathetic to put sex in games. I mean, I would rather make love in real life than in a game. You need entertainment and developers think of sex sometimes. If you have kids, don't play those games.

 

October 07 is going to have GTA: IV coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3. That Jack Thompson guy is already trying to get the 360 version banned. He gave an email to Bill Gates about banning it and going to court if it was not settled. Thompson has gone on TV and try ranting on the other games from previous school shootings. Have you heard of the Salt Lake City Mall shooting that happend earlier this year? Thompson thought a teen played GTA and shot people in the mall. Because of trying to ban the Xbox 360 version, I have seen on Wikipedia, that he has received multiple death threats.

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I'm not really sure why you are so obssessed with sex violence and vidoegames, but I'll give you an answer.

Yes its fine to have sex in videogames.  God of War has a sex minigame in which Kratos ravages a couple of chicks.  Its all implied, but you know whats going on.  Plus if you do a good "job" you gain extra experience orbs...just like in real life...wait, damn that doesn't happen does it? 

Leisure Suit Larry was an entire franchise based upon a loser getting laid.  Basically if they made, 40 Year Old Virgin into a game it would be Leisure Suit Larry.  I'm actually surprised Sierra didn't try to sue that film studio for copying the premise to a 20 year old computer "adventure" game.   If you slept with a hooker in the first game and didn't use a condom your penis would explode and you died...just like in real life..wait, no that aint right...ouch!

People are too PC these days and everything bothers people.  Its just a videogame, if you don't like it don't play it.  So you can bang a hooker in your car in GTA...it happens in real life, why not try to stop that instead!  The government could save a dude from having his junk explode!

[Alienblue]

I've said it before and I'll say it again; my beef is that people are NOT so worried about "Everything" these days. We seem to have become numb to VIOLENCE, while sex-a purely natural and necessary thing (To propigate the species)- bothers people no end. Showing a guy getting blown to screaming bloody bits, his intestines hanging out, or hands and head chopped off...eh, no big deal. But just let ONE girl run around topless in a game, everyone is sceaming how "wrong" it is! WAKE UPPPP, America!

...having said that I admit there are degrees of good taste here too. I just got Family Guy, Season 4...I thought sesons 1 through 3 were hilarious - it was certainly not PC but not TOO bad... but seson 4's first episode was just RAUNCHY! Toilet jokes, Peter pooping off a bridge, sex shows, boob pics... god, it seems to have gotten the Howard Stern disease!