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Game Industry Derided For Mature Content
Steve Rock writes "To the surprise of no one, game manufacturers and resellers were again
taken
to task over the production and sales of games containing violent or
sexual themes. According to the National Institute on Media and
the Family's Ninth
Annual Mediawise Video Game Report Card even games with beneficial
or neutral content can be harmful to children because of the connection
between gameplay and our obesity epidemic. Interestingly, out of
fifty
surveys mailed out by the Institute to retailers and producers only
two were completed and returned. The industry was given a passing
grade for the ESRB rating system but the actual enforcement of the
system by the retailers was not -- it is worth noting, however, that
the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association has stated that self-regulation
procedures were scheduled to be implemented by December 2004 and therefore
tests of retailer compliance to ESRB ratings was premature."
You want to see extreme violence. There are websites all over the Internet of the American prisoner getting his head severed by Iraq terrorists while held down and screaming in tears.
Yeah, let me tell you... those terrorists were influenced by Gran Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat. If they grew up with Tetris, they would have been good people. These rating systems are a joke. Stop blaming video games for the White house's fault.
oh good effing lord.
grow a pair of cherries assmunch, you've got to be funcing kidding me. you're big fears have been around for thousands and thousands of years, and yet we managed to fucking survive and thrive as a species.
you act like violence to children is a new 21st century invention - its not, there have been sick fuckers for thousands of years, and we've survived. children have survived.
... hi bingo
You have no idea what you are talking about. This statement is no less bigoted (and ignorant) than "All blacks are lazy." or "All Jews are greedy."
So tell me, how do you get the bloodstains out of your pillowcase?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.