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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."
Comic books were "the devil", went through legal hassle, and eventually became accepted culture.
TV shows were "the devil", went through legal hassle, and eventually became accepted culture.
Heavy metal was "the devil", went through legal hassle, and eventually became accepted culture.
Video games are "the devil", going through legal hassle, and becoming part of accepted culture.
In light of this, I submit that the next big mind-warping fad needs to be "public sex with minors".
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go carjack an old LTD, provoke a gang war, then go for some pizza and hookers.
Video games don't affect kids.. I mean if Pac Man effected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching on magic pills, listening to repeditive electronic music.
heh heh...
Good thing we have the wholesome, trash-free alternative known as television to distract us from this video game smut.
Sweet informative mod.
Just beware the "extra sausage" - on the pizza and the hookers...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Let's see, a thinktank orginized to combat the corruption of minors by video games and other media finds that video games corrupt minors...
Thanks slashdot. Maybe next you can post an article about greenpeace saying that everything isn't hunky dory with the environment...
Anyone else have to hit dict.org to find out what that meant?
I'm not a criminal. I'm not a sociopath. I'm not overweight.
Then why are you posting here?
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
Oh! But I don't eat fast food. I eat vegetables and fruits and healthy food, and I can count the number of times I went to Micky D's last year on one hand.
Well there's your problem. Work on it.
"In my day, all we had were large squares on the screen and we LIKED it. All of this realistic video is bad for the kids - makes them soft. I say that we force all gaming consoles to conform to the Atari 2600 display standards. Now where did I put that copy of Space Invaders."
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
Unless they are still living in their 60-year old parent's basement, since they devoted their entire life to munching pills in the dark, blaring their techno music.
I for one am taking the high ground here and currently producing "Christian Cell" a first person action game that will teach children about the bible while they infiltrate godless liberal political organizations before they can put Hillary Clinton into Office and outlaw the bible.
After being air-dropped in the middle of the night your role as a member of Christian Cell will be to use your bible knowledge, high tech gadgetry and stealth skills to sneak up behind enemy targets, collect information and ultimately destroy the leaders of this terrorist organization.
> Maybe, moron, because video games are for kids. Plays for adults have been around forever,
> so it would make sense that movies for adults would also exist. (In fact, plays/movies
> were for adults first and kid-themed performances were added later.)
>
> Video games are for children. See the difference? Some of these new "games" are almost
> like giving codoms out in Happy Meals. It's just not right.
Breasts are also for children, yet a lot of adults like to play with them.
And please note that reading, school attendence and homework contribute to obesity.
Children of the world, arise, arise!
Loose yourselves from the corpulent shackles that bind you,
Gripping your hearts in a greasy fist of early death,
Sucking you to the earth with the inexorable force of mass attracted to mass.
Eschew literature. Screw Math. Fuck school!
The stalwart guardians of your interests have spoken. Sitting is bad for you,
And in the words of the great prophet Moss, "Movement is serenity."
Go outside and play. You have their blessings.
KFG
From the commentary: Perhaps the most telling moment of the entire call came when a reporter asked in essence, "Why is it that crime rates are falling just as videogame content is getting more violent?" Without irony, New York City councilman Eric Gioia replied, "I'll take a stab at that" You see Councilman Gioia, context is everything.
There is not nearly enough love in the world, but there is far too much trust.
Riiiiight. Show me a DM that looks like that and I'll show you a game with 67 guys packed into a basement, each one of them trying to roll a d20 and look sexy at the same time.
"Soooo, lady DM - what'cha doing after I slay this gelatinous cube? Want to come over for some Cheez Doodles and the latest Next Gen DVD?"
Age checker? I remember when i was maybe 14 on my dad's IBM PC Jr, opening leisure suit larry and answering questions like "what are the names of the beetles", and getting in no problem- It was a good thing i got in, because i learned early that if you find a girl to have sex with you and don't wear a condom, you die
what a geeky bar -- lots of hells angels there?
I think I remember the scene in Roadhouse where they are all playing Halo2 and some guy comes in wearing a Marios Brothers costume and picks a fight..
They had a video during their live presentation which was attended by Senator Lieberman and covered by CSPAN. I didn't realize what it was, at first, because I was flipping through channels when I saw DOOM III being played. It turns out the video they were playing was a montage of various "problematic" games, including GFA and others, designed to show just how inappropriate to kids they were.
Towards the end, they showed the latest Leisure Suit Larry game and something called The Guy Game. The Guy Game, for those of you that aren't familiar with it, seems to be a trivia-type game that allows you to see real video of real girls taking off their tops when you answer correctly. Can you guess where this is going? Sure enough, their demo showed full boobage, which CSPAN did not censor. There were a good 5-10 seconds of actual, real (or at least not simulated) breasts running on CSPAN! This has got to be a first. Thank you, Senator Lieberman!
They don't need to be protected from the world.
They don't?
Great. What the hell am I supposed to do with all this bubble-wrap?
most activites you can do sober you can do stoned.
Not entirely true. I'm far better at Soul Caliber 2 when stoned.
Fuck the children. Seriously.
I believe that's illegal, but the rest of your post is spot on.
so it's ok for christian groups to use whatever flimsy evidence they can to point fingers at non-causal relationships, push for leglislation that supports their oppressive version of moralism, and generally shout from the top of their lungs how we're all going to hell in a handbasket... literally... because we like blow jobs or RPGs but someone is an asshole for shouting at the top of his lungs that christian groups are often full of shit?
I suspect you of a slight double standard here.
Well, heavy metal is the devil...
I definitely agree with this. Especially the Christian heavy metal bands.
...
:P
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
In light of this, I submit that the next big mind-warping fad needs to be "public sex with minors".
Ok, but they have to take their hard-hats off first.
my other penis is a vagina