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California Passes Violent Games Bill
TecnaDigit writes "Today, after sitting on the bill for nearly a month and constant political pressure, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 1179, the bill that would prohibit the sale and rentals of violent video games to minors. Again, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) are challenging the bill. According the the VSDA, the bill is faulty in that a game is decided whether or not it is 'violent' by juries, and different juries could have different opinions on what is defined as 'violent'." Commentary on GamerGod.
They're complaining that juries give inconsistent results?
That a jury might rule one way one time, and another way the next?
These guys need to start submitting Slashdot stories. They're experts at old news.
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Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
That's right, violent games make violent people, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour makes professional golfers.
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Heh. The Terminator just terminated terminating.
Have you seen this Mario dude? He kills these little mushrooms and turtles by smashing them with punches, kicks, and landing on their heads. He hits stuff with hammers and burns his enemies with the fireballs he throws.
The game is also racist. ALL Goombas are evil, ALL koopas are evil, and ALL of bowsers children are automatically evil. What happened to judging people on the content of their character?
Is this the kind of game you would want your 12 year old playing? Are we going to let some punk kid deal this to our children from orders handed down from an evil corporation called "EBGames", it's true intentions hidden behind a veil of technical legality?
Gentlemen, I propose a witch hunt.
Hmmm.... I think I'll have to alter my game design a bit...
Let's see, yeah - the main character will now be carrying around an arsenal of flower-based projectile seeders. Upon hitting the target, these "horticulture tools" will instantly spread a rather red blotchy flower, possibly dripping petals. People will be so enamored by these lovely blooms that they will instantly transcend their ugly everyday lives, given enough flowers, and fall to the ground in pure bliss - possibly with a soul-shattering scream of freedom.
Some people will be driving around in horticulture-tanks, which do massive seeding. Upon sufficient counter-seeding, these tanks will celebrate the wonder of the event by launching short-range non-violent fireworks, breaking down once they are satisfied that their flowery job has been complete.
The flowers will be everywhere - breaking down walls, flooding innocent cities, carried by massive armies of rabid horticultualist monsters. Apparantly, many people in the game world will be flower-phobic until properly administered to with a variety of area-affect flower spreaders.
Thanks, California, for providing the perspective we need to make games imaginative, once again!
Ryan Fenton
all that is not compulsory is forbidden!
A jury of 15 have found that Sylvester and tweety was too violene for anyone under 18. This Came about after the parents of the 8 year old heard that their 8 year old had watched The Warner Bros cartoon at a neighbors home. They are now Sueing for an unspecified amount.
Imagine reading that in the paper.
Have you seen this Mario dude? He kills these little mushrooms
At least he's on the right side in the War on Drugs....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
At least he's on the right side in the War on Drugs....
Not true. He also eats the "magic mushrooms" which give him "special powers". Druggie...
That's not really a bad idea... I could go into a video game store like EB and buy up a few extremely violent or sexual games. Then I could sell them to kids for 10 bucks more than they cost.
5 kids buy a game and w00t free game for me.
I kind of doubt the chances of cops doing an undercover bust for something like that.
Like I said, he's on the right side in the War on Drugs ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Source that violent crimes for majors and minors have been going down since (about) the time video games became really popular.
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...if John Carmack wrote it.
I see you've played Grim Fandango.