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Illinois Game Law Passes
The Illinois law banning the sale of violent games to minors has passed another milestone. The Illinois House has given the law an okay, meaning both the House and the Senate have passed the law. It now moves on to be signed by the Governor. From the article: "... supporters insisted the government has a duty to help parents shield children from violence and sexuality. 'Don't let them become the monsters that we see in these violent games,' Democratic Rep. Monique Davis said."
Yep,
Now the only things that need to be done for the kids in Illinois is to stop posting violent content on the tv news, papers, books, puzzle games, toys, and coke bottles.
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"Don't let them become the monsters that we see in these violent games"
Wouldn't it be, like, wicked cool if some of the kids who played these games became real zombies, goblins and orcs and stuff? Would make for an interesting drive through the suburb.
Me: "Orc, 11'clock"
Friend 1: Click! "Dang, shotgun jam!"
Me: *sverve* BANG! "Eat car door!"
Friend 1: "Wow! Cool!"
Me: "Crowd of zombies!"
Friend 1: "Man the M2!"
Friend 2: "Ok!" rattattattatta
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I had a Federal Marshal and 2 FBI agents come to my house one day and ask if they could speak to me (this being Autumn 2001).
They asked a bunch of stuff about what I did for a living, where I went to school, knew I had thought about joining the Navy after high school, etc etc, before getting to the meat of it all. The Marshall then said that they had records dating back to 1996 of me requesting maps of municipal water and electric systems, city maps, county maps, lots of platt records, DOT road maps, and the like. I aasked them "Did you check to see where I've worked since 1996?", to which the answer was, to my surprise as he fliped thru his notebook, no.
I was then working as a runner for a law firm, which included a real estate lawyer, and often I'd end up in the county clerks office getting copies of maps for disputing property boundries, easements and the like.
I'd previously worked as a summer technology assistant for my school district, for 3 years, which had entailed laying uunderground conduit for ethernet, phone, and fiber between buildings on our central campus, thus needing maps of power and water systems so we didn't slice anything. Then I invited them to my room to see the other reason I needed many of those maps.
Posted on the walls were quite a few of them, with my own grid sheets on top. Powering up my G4, I showed them the SimCity2000 game in which I'd recreated my home town of ~20,000 people, and had started some of the surrounding towns too. The Marshall just looked in disbeleif and told me to have a good day, he didn't have any more questions.
~DW
If I weren't allowed to play violent video games at all, I'm certain I would be one of the most violent people I know.
I hope that my case can serve as a warning to other families. I let my daughter buy Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, and she turned into a giant moth that destroys airliners!
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
There was a news story this morning on CNN about kids going to trial for the 'stomping death' of a homeless man.
It's blatently obvious that this devious behavior is none other than the result of years of playing violent video games such as SUPER MARIO Bros and SUPER MARIO BROS 3, where innocent children are misguided into playing the role of the malacious character 'MARIO' in STOMPING koopas to death!
Not only does it induce children to stomp out the life of other beings, but it also teaches children racism. 'MARIO' and 'LUIGI' (if that is indeed their REAL names) are obvious and unfair sterotypes of Italian people. Koopa's are obviously represent a minority or, in this case but not limited too, homeless people as they are portrayed as mindless and capable of doing nothing but making you small.
These graphic and violent video games need to be banned so that my children are never exposed to the ideas such as racism or bigotry or the stomping of turtles. I'm a firm believer that so long as my children are shielded from violence that they will never be tempted to enjoy it, and further by controling every thing they are exposed to they will grow to be a wonderful contribution to our violence and sexuality free world. So long as they are not exposed to it until they turn 18 and their body chemically realigns itself into a mature state overnight, I wont need to waste precious time out of my day and my life and divert any attention away from myself, because that is what's important, to educating my child. And remember what kyle's mom said: "violence and sex are ok, so long as they don't use any dirty words!"
i don't care