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Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow
SkinnyGuy writes that with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments tomorrow for California's controversial law aimed at keeping violent games away from minors, support for gamers and the games industry is coming from all corners. Writing for PCMag, Lance Ulanoff says the decision should rest in parents' hands: "If I have real concerns, it's up to me to argue it out with my son and take away the games or not buy them for him when he asks." Game developer Daniel Greenberg wants to know "how government bureaucrats are supposed to divine the artistic value that a video game has for a 17-year-old," adding that he's "disheartened and a little perplexed to see [his] art and passion lumped in with cigarettes and booze." The expectation within the legal community is that the statute should be found unconstitutional, and the Atlantic's Garrett Epps points out the irony of Gov. Schwarzenegger's involvement with the legislation.
You're saying that if it hadn't been for violent video games, you might have wound up a murderer? You needed to blow off some steam because you could have, quite literally, killed someone? It sounds like this has absolutely nothing to do with video games and everything to do with you being a latent psychopath.
Tell all of that to NPR and Juan Williams.
You want morality legislated, just your brand.
And by "Morality" you mean things like "sin" and stuff, right? But legislation based enviro-morality is perfectly okay (Kyoto, Cap-n-tax etc), right? Universal Health Care, right? You want the San Francisco Model of Governance?
You're no different than the "Christian Right", except you see yourself as morally superior to them.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Yes, we ARE doing it for the children. For one, I'm tired of a**hat game companies producing violent shit when they could be producing stuff that doesn't lead young gamers to model violence and other anti-community values. And please quit making the slimebags who create violent games look like victims, Throw the lot of them out into the public square so that we can see where they live and let theur neighbors know what they're doing. Screw the greedy bastard game, movie and music producers who think it's cool and "art" to challenge mores in a way that is designed to *sell* stuff, instead of enlightening people, or simply entertaining a part of their brain that isn't related to Neanderthal impulses. Anyone who lets a pre-teen play some of these games is just plain ignorant, or stupid. Sorry, I've had it with commercial interests helping to rip apart the fabric of worldwide culture with their crappy, so-called "entertainment". Now, if you don't like what I just said, go turn on your game console and play out your aggression on a shooter game, instead of arguing the point - the point being that rich alienated fame-producer fucks, along with just plain stupid, would-be "game art" fucks who make violent and other shit content, don't deserve to look like victims. Their *customers* are the victims, many of them jacked up on the imagery they have learned to love, because that's all that gets offered, or talked about as cool. Get a life! Seriously. And try to consider what life could be like without some of these games. Would it make a difference? Maybe not. That said, I can't believe that our world is better off because violent and other lowest-common-denominator games exist. btw, I'm a left-leaning moderate, sick-and-tired of people using the 1st amendment to cry 'foul". Screw people, like Scientologists, who use that amendment to fuck with the minds and lives of our children, and vulnerable adults. I don't like it when my kid, who has been exposed to crap at his elementary school, comes home mouthing sexually explicit lyrics that have been layered over the sacred beat. You know what? Screw the so-called "artists" that do that music and let it go to general distribution, or show their low-life selves in music videos that use women bodies to sell their crap. First Amendment? Don't make me laugh. Most of these asshats could care less about *anything* that doesn't make them a few easy bucks, as they score one mind after another in their quest to make a buck/ Screw 'em!