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Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List
heli0 writes "CNet is reporting that Germany has placed EA's newest Command & Conquer game 'Generals' on its restricted list, which means it may not be advertised or displayed on shelves although it may be kept under store counters and sold to adults. The reason according to Elke Monssen-Engberding, director of the Ministry for Family Affairs: 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'"
Can we put George Bush onto a Restricted list? He certainly portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.
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the title alone promotes war, portrays it as a skill, as something to strive for and improve on !
And solitaire, what kind of an asocial name with an egoist attitude is that ?
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
And my brother is a marine... muhahahaha
"We have evidence that the Brotherhood of Nod does indeed have a harvester. For all we know, they could be harvesting Tiberium as we speak."
"We Germans are not a warlike people"
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Seems to me if the game has a quit button, there's an alternate way of resolving the conflict.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
"Everyone who has seen the first Harry Potter movie knows the brutal truth about what really happens when you 'capture' a piece in chess."
Or perhaps Star Wars and that round-boarded holographic chess game Chewy and R2-D2 were playing.
"They might also point out that only one piece out of 16 on each side is female. Why not half? It's sexist as well as violent!"
Ah yes, but she is by far the most powerful piece on the board, can be resurrected from the dead, and can be cloned. Besides, do you honestly believe that the King is the one in command? Hell no! That manipulative bitch is the one really pulling the strings in that army! She's obviously more than willing to let the other male pieces get slaughtered in the violent carnage while she hides behind her protective line of foot-soldier/cannon-fodder pawns (who are, no doubt, meager peasants forced to fight for the royalty to keep their farms). Oh yeah, she'll dart out every once in a while to attack, but as soon as she's threatened directly, she'll turn tail and run.
Yes, we are working hard here in to put chess on the restricted list, too. Then again, one might introduce some new rule, where the black king and the white queen can sit down on G4 and talk for a while, or we might replace the knight by a new figure: "the diplomat". The diplomat can't move, but will have some really cool abilities. What exactly is not yet clear, the EU games council is still negotiating.
Cheers, from good old Germany.
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"Perhaps we could even have a Sim Kiddie-Porn. Or a kill-the-president JFK-Mod for Doom3. Bloooooood! Gooooore! Violenz! Our childen have to learn the cool things, killing, maiming, slaughtering, so they will become good little americans."
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"Me too!" said the liberal sheep.
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'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'
Somehow, I don't think that "Concede and Compromise" would be a big seller.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. =)
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One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
Gerhard Schroder: See guys? We can master the art of mindless idealism and nauseating political correctness and forget about our past of fascism and genocide. Now all of our pretty children smile and love each other because they play healthy video games.
Assistant:Sir, von of ze children iz not schmiling...I think he has been playing das "Grand Theft Auto."
Schroder: Vat! Ze children must schmile! YOU VILL SCHMILE!
Child cries...
Schroder: I see. You vant to be deeeficult. Herr Assistant, bring zu me mein tools...
Schroder (grinning): Now you vill schmile...
Child: Aaaahhhh! Das schmertzt! Bitte tot mich nicht!
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'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflict'
:
In the intro they have somebody say:
"In the modern world, great leaders resolve conflicts with words, words like
Scud Luncher
Carpet bombing
Tomahawk missiles "
The game is pretty fun to play if it wouldn't crash all the time and reboot my system because my video card was a ATI Radeon 7200 and they can't make the game not crash on anything lesser then a 7500.