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Illinois Senate OKs Violent Games Bill
The Illinois senate has approved the violent games bill proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The bill was also passed by the House, but the Senate stripped the possibility of jail time out of the wording before approving it. The House must now reconsider the bill before it can be passed into law. From the article: "The sponsor, Sen. Deanna Demuzio, denied the measure would interfere with free speech rights.'Video games are not art or media,' she said. 'They are simulations, not all that different from the simulations used by the U.S. military in preparation for war.' Apparently I have been misinformed as to what exactly I've been doing for the last twenty-odd years. Thank you, Illinois Senate, for correcting my error.
They are simulations, not all that different from the simulations used by the U.S. military in preparation for war.
We couldn't find the weapons of mass destruction because of bad war simulations. The Marines have been training by playing Lemmings!
Does this mean that I was simulating goomba smashing and princess rescuing all this time?
-Dipster
Ah, good ol' Violent Games Bill. He was the best GTA player I ever saw.
How could anybody in the great state of Illinois not like that guy?
Keep on truckin' Bill!
Go senate.
I approve violent games too.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
"Simulations"? Awesome! I was worried that I was a slowly weakening pasty-faced desk jockey wasting my life in the cold blue glow of a computer monitor but maybe that's not true.
If this bill passes it will be LEGAL PROOF that I am actually a expertly-trained bad-ass motherfucker.
I have a lot of opinions about Cyborgs and Architects
Of course they're just simulations.
How else does one expect to get a job as a tetris engineer without first practicing in the simulator?
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"I vote that anyone who believes video games are not at least as good as novels as art forms be made to read the entire Harry Potter series and *then* play the entire Final Fantasy series for comparison."
Me too. By the time they're close to finishing trudging their miserable way through 11 Final Fantasy games, they'll either kill themselves to end it all, or it'll be time to elect someone else anyway...
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After reading this, the average
Sorry to inform you, all those "simulations" were really the real war, Ender.
Sometimes my arms bend back.