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Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts
Wingchild writes "Haitian civil rights groups in Florida have filed a lawsuit with the circuit court in Palm Beach County, which Rockstar Games has asked to be moved up to a federal court for a final decision on whether or not their game has to be banned from stores. This move happens as the court of media opinion begins weighing in on the subject (facts irrelevant, of course), a fact which Slashdot Games noted a scant two days ago."
They are bitching about a damn game while their country rots. Haiti is one of the most corrupt 'goverments' in the world.
And they are bitching about a game.
Are you killing your brother because he is Haitian?
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
I think this post indicates only one thing we can learn from this debacle: All Haitians must be deported from the United States to their island hell hole of orign. Nowhere in the history of mankind has a more wretched place existed. Somehow, nature in its randomness has bestowed upon those people a level of barbarity previously unknown. They are cruel joke, a testament to Werner Heisenberg, who first made us understand that pretty much anything can happen out there.
The only rational course of action we as civilized members of society can do is insure that this vicious cancer upon our society does not spread. After all Haitians are returned to their island home, that island should be permanently quarantined, with escape being punishable by death. People of the Dominican Republic should be encouraged to flee, with generous rewards given to those who wish to settle in Antarctica.
Once the Haitian threat is isolated, the Prime Directive will take over. Let the Haitian people develop in peace, naturally, without the undo influence of our corrupt society. There, they can work their fine art of mind control and zombification so that in several centuries, we can perhaps steal that technology from them and use it to make the perfect business manager.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
First off, where do you get off that everyone defending the Constitution and the rights enumerated therein is a "liberal?"
Umm, all one has to do is read the last line of your post to know that you're a "liberal".
Haven't we lost enough of our civil liberties in the last two and a half years?
I rest my case.
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
If Scarface isn't engaging you, it's not doing it's job. Every movie or book or play gives you someone to indentify with, someone that you ultimately have a substantial degree of control over in your own mind due to the purposeful uncertainties you build into a movie. A game just takes that to the next level.
Neither Scarface nor VC is art. It's not like anything is being communicated here. It's hormone-stroking, but I find it interesting that you're finding VC more repugnant than Scarface. The pleasure you get from Scarface is good strong hunter-killer pleasure, the joy of killing your enemies. VC is more the farmer-gatherer pleasure, like gambling or buying shit from Ikea. Who the hell enjoys killing the Hatians? You enjoy finishing missions, or jacking a nicer car. No killing instinct there. Helluva lot more peaceful than pretty violence, even if it is probably more dangerous.
Anyway, in my opinion, the game of chess itself is speech. I'd think that ought to be obvious. You play a game of chess, it's telling you all kinds of shit. It's a reflection of the world, like any other work of art, it's just a bit more dynamic.
The thing that's in danger of not being speech isn't the game, it's the dressing they slapped on top of it. The comparison to chess would be if you made a chess set with drunken, NASCAR hat-wearing white trash for white and watermellon-clutching black people for black. The game is speech no matter what, the question is whether "Kill the Hatians" is an integral part of the game, making it as much speec h as the rest of the game, and if not, if the "Kill the Hatians" dressing they stuck on the underlying speech can be considered speech on it's own.
It's funny that the US of A are always like "land of the free, freedom of speech and shit" but there is no way you'll see the smallest part of a nipple (female, duh!) on TV even late at night and you can't say so-called 'dirty' words, even when they would be used in real life situation. Here in Quebec, you may be surprised to see full frontal nudity anytime of day and people don't get blipped on TV. Violence is of course something we do NOT encourage but at least our reaction is not "let's hide it and act as if it's not there". We'd rather use the "let's sit and talk about it" approach. Just my 2 cents.