Bully Trailer Hits the Web

GGLucas writes "Contrary to the rumours that have spread about the Rockstar game, Bully, and it's storyline, the game's trailer as released by IGN today spins in a completely different direction, anti-game critics will not be happy. From the article: 'Bully puts players in control of 15 year-old Jimmy Hopkins — a boy who has just begun his first year in the New England-based Bullworth Academy, and a guy who's charged with the mission of ridding the school of a number of its undesirable elements.'"

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Re:1999: My Life *was* hell; then Columbine

[DesireCampbell]

corrective lenses

What? Oh, man. Even *I* would beat you up for that.

psychophysically tortured

Oh man. "Psychophysically"? They were physically torturing you with their minds? They were *teasing you*. Grow a fuckin' spine.

All of a sudden, my harassment stopped! Literally that very same day! I was called into the Principle's office a full three times. The reason? I met a lot of the characteristics of the massacrists; sans a close friend (at that time I had none). All of a sudden, people would actually come up to me and spontaneously *apologize* for how they treated me; even 8 years later people are still *apologizing* to me as I sporadically meet them in town :O

Yeah, your school's full of pussies. They see a couple of psychos go ape-shit and they're scared it'll happen there too.

I used to go to the Principle's office to report being punched in the face, jumped in the parking lot or being spat on by groups of girls (seriously :(, just to be told to "fight back" or "suck it up" or something.

Didn't *I* just tell you to do that?

Now, my 15 yr-old nephew got guys *expelled* or transferred to other schools merely because they made fun of him and the school now has a zero harassment policy!

I really hope you're not happy about that...

After nearly 2 decades of near persistent parent-teacher meetings, moving to different schools, etc, to try to assuage the torture my peers inflicted upon the obvious physical grunt of the pack (but i have an IQ of 150), schools are finally taking things seriously

Oh, you ARE happy about it. Great. Do you know how bad a 'zero tolerance policy' is? These are children. Children. They don't have adult brains, they can't be held to adult consequences.

Kids fight with each other - it's normal. Parents (and in their absence: teachers, sport coaches, and other guardians) should be teaching their children that violence is wrong - but straying from that ideal is something an adolescent brain will do. Thus we do not punish children to the same extent we would punish adults. Kicking a kid out of school just because he said he'd beat up some other kid is absurd.

These policies are put in place, not to help kids, but to protect them. There's a difference there. You should be teaching kids not to fight with each other at all - not restraining all aggression to non-supervised areas. Teachers should be acting as 'teachers', not 'police'.

Truly, children need guidance, not punishment. I repeat: children need guidance, not punishment.