I use Windows for one reason and one reason only, to play games. Like many such people, I go to "the Black Viper" (or did, I just checked and his site is down) to shut down the unnecessary, useless clutter that slows down my game of Dawn of War or whatever else I'm playing.
Why would I want to use an Operating System that will degrade my enjoyment of entertainment when Linux is free? True, Linux doesn't really offer the entertainment options that Windows offers, but if I have to have ads for Brylcreem popping up in the middle of my Dawn of War games it might be worth it to try to get it working in Cedega.
I use Microsoft because their dominance in the Desktop market guarantees that games are coded for Windows and almost all hardware has drivers for Windows. ADs would undermine the gaming advantage. The hardware I can replace with stuff that will work in Linux (I can get the old soundcard out of my old P2, I know that one works.)
M-Rated games aren't the equivalent of porn, they are supposed to be the equivalent of R-Rated movies. If the argument is that a particular M-Rated game is the equivalent of porn, then it was misrated and should be either AO or unrated. AO rated games are already very restricted with no need of a law, and a law impacting only them would have little or no effect on the way things currently stand (i.e. most people wouldn't really care one way or the other).
This law doesn't care about M-Rated games anyway, it uses it's own vaguely defined criteria for determining what is unsuitable for a minor. In other words any game can be restricted, whatever the ESRB rates it. ESRB ratings are essentially worthless if this law stands, and the video game companies will need to lobby for some kind of government ratings board authority so that they will be able to release video games that will be able to comply with this law. Otherwise, they run the risk of abitrary fines being levied based on the whims of individual law enforcement. Since this is a state law, the state board's rating will only be valid in Michigan, and the ESRB will still need to rate those same games for the rest of the country.
One could argue that the law should define and restrict pornographic games outside of the ESRBs ratings, but pornographic games are already covered by existing anti-pornography laws anyway. It is very clear that this law does not relate to video game pornography, but to much milder fare.
If the argument is that milder video games that are equivalent to R-Rated action or horror films ought to be restricted, then the same legal restrictions need to apply to films because they are no less harmful. I don't agree that either are particularly harmful, but the arguments ought to be consistent.
The main point is:
1. I don't concede that M-Rated games are porn, and that includes GTA:San Andreas.
2. I don't concede that games need to be more restricted based on content than other forms of media.
That's why he took himself off of the case. He's not really a lawyer, though he has the credentials. His main goal is to keep his lawyering credentials and I imagine that being removed from a case for violating legal ethics would be a step toward getting him disbarred. He's basically an unsuccessful politician (I honestly don't know what his income stream is, I assume he does not work on contingency.)
He made an interesting comment according to the article, which was a tactical error on his part:
"Certain regional governments in Japan have banned the sale of the Grand Theft Auto games to minors, but Japan's Sony has no problem whatsoever dumping this garbage into American kids' brains. Looks like Pearl Harbor 2 by Sony/Take-Two..."
and followed it up with:
"Insensitive? What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist. The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor."
Now, a reference to Pearl Harbor in this way is inteneded to have an effect on other members of Thompson's generation. That's when the "dirty Japs" launched their "cowardly" "sneak attack." Pearl Harbor led to some extremely racist imagery in American cartoons and films of the time.
It's very crude, and he probably could have got his intended effect in the minds of his audience, that "the evil Japanese are trying to destroy America's youth" without being so blatant. Especially considering that Pearl Harbor doesn't have the kind of visceral resonance with people who don't remember it as it does with people of his generation. Subtlety is not his strong point.
I remember that one of the articles I read, had the line "Jack seems to be intent on looking like a narrow-minded bigot in the eyes of all as he continues to dig a deeper and deeper proverbial grave for his own career." News - Miami's Corrupt Counsel Adds Racism to his List of Idiocies This makes me sigh, as the man has built his extremely odd career on race-baiting, starting with his attacks on rap stars and the following it up with gay baiting against Janet Reno. So this isn't anything new.
Personally, if I were trying to profit from a moral panic, I wouldn't have opened myself up to the charge that I was a racist, unless I was sure that I could get away with it. This isn't the 40's after all.
Role Playing Games encompass a lot. One big part of role playing games is designing logical systems for determining the outcome of events. Example: You are Jay D'Canton, a Paladin, you are wearing chain mail and carrying a mace. You enter a room with four Orcs. Three of the Orcs are armed with wooden clubs and wearing thick animal furs, the fourth has a short sword and studded leather armor. How does the battle go?
Well, figuring out whether the Orcs get Jay's head for their pointy stick, or whether Jay makes short work of them depend on a lot of factors. Is Jay fresh out of Paladin school, or has he been at this for a while? How much protection does his armor give? Are the furs the Orcs are wearing purely decorative or do they offer cushioning versus Jay's mace?
So, varous systems are created, if Jay has killed x number of Orcs, he'll become a "level two" Paladin who is better at fighting and avoiding attacks. The Orcs will get a damage and "to hit" penalty based on Jay's armor, which will also be represented by a number called an armor class. So too will every aspect be determined, with each step be given a logical number value and with the steps relating logically. You should be able to take a list of numbers, including numbers created by die rolls, run them through your system, and figure out the outcome.
Ah, the systems... the beautiful beautiful systems. Everything from systems for determining the weather to a system determining the random effects of the Wand of Wonder.
This all works until those horrible Players come along and mess up your beautiful system. "I don't think the Orcs should be able to hurt me with wooden clubs. Oh, and," quick edit to Jay's character sheet, "turns out my mace is a magical mace +5 versus Orcs."
Meanwhile, you have some people across the street dressed up as Vampires, but they aren't rolling dice at all. They are treating the game as improvisational Theatre. They may have a system, too, but they seems to see things in terms of "roll playing" versus "Role Playing." (I really don't know much about them, though I have one of their game books, for the collection of course. Still... I got a distinct impression from reading White Wolf magazine while looking for Call of Cthuhlu articles.)
Personally, I prefer board games in the popular genre's to their role playing equivalents. They have a nice, rigid sense of order. Of course, you don't get to create your own systems, or build a big "Dungeon" or "Module" system out of the smaller systems provided in the books. However, what does it matter when your fellow players would rather ignore the rules or shoot the breeze.
Besides, I more likely to get a "non-gamer" to play a game of Dungeon! or Black Morn Manor with me than a game of Dungeons and Dragons (and believe me I've tried!)
Of course, my brother (call him "Inu Yasha"), who is deathly afraid of computers loves getting together with the guys for an evening of pizza and D&D. I think it is more for the comaradery than enjoying of watching a rigid system designed to determine the effects of an undead invasion in a small medieval hamlet. Trust me, the guy just started using Email, and when he sees some of the things I do with my computer, he's like, "That's horrible, that's like the inventions of that guy from Gremlins. I'll be happy using a DVD player to watch movies rather than that complicated set-up." Actually, he may have said The Goonies, but I think Gremlins is a cooler movie...
Burger Time would be cool, but you must play Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators!. Thrill as Ronald McDonald himself uses his evil clown powers to send a couple of hapless kids into a hellish world where they must collect M symbols and fight hideous beasts.
Seriously, I wonder how much of the rights to that game McDonald's owns, since it was basically designed as an advertisement for the chain. It's actually a good game, too. (Well, I thought so anyway, at the time. It used that trademark Virgin/Shiny style animation that would show up in the Genesis version of Aladdin and reached its apex in Earthworm Jim.)
Well, I've mainly been playing the campaign on the "Disorder" side so far (and a few skirmishes as Orks to get used to the changes), so I haven't really done much with the Guard (I ran through the tutorial because of the nag... but that was unnecessary, I though). Which enemy do you usually skirmish against?
I guess I'll try a skirmish as the Imperial Guard and see how I do.
There's one map that's pretty good for defense... except for the Orks, I just can't figure out any way to use them defensively. I'll try them on that one...
It was part of the "S" modules series which were all special in some way. For example the Tomb of Horrors in which the players mainly fought deathtraps or the The Lost Cavern of Tsojcanth which came with its own mini-monster manual for monsters found only in that module (at the time...)
Good times.
Dawn of War: Winter Assault
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Review: Dragonshard
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· Score: 5, Informative
It's been a slow year for Real-Time Strategy, but after some time working with Dragonshard it began to grow on me.
Well, I don't know about that, as the RTS I've been looking forward to for a long time, the expansion to Dawn of War, Dawn of War: Winter Assault just came out. It's gotten generally good reviews, and I think the addition of the Imperial Guard and a more complex single player game makes it a worthwhile purchase.
I may pick up Dragonshard eventually too... but I imagine that with the little time I have available for Game Playing I'll have my hands full with Winter Assault.
True story. I've been living with Thais for years. Well, one day we went to New York city with one of the aunts of one of my Thai friends and we spent a lot of time in China town, mostly eating. I was surprised, at first, that in most of the restaurants we went to, the aunt could find someone who could speak Thai. Then after a while I caught on that she was the only one in our group who was speaking to the people in the restaurants, and she was speaking a Chinese language, not Thai.
You are right about Japanese of course, but Thai is a tonal language, like "Chinese." (I put quotes around Chinese because there are a bunch of different Chinese languages, like Mandarin and Cantonese to name the two most prominent ones.)
My ex-wife is a Chinese Thai. Which means that she looks very Chinese... she's very beautiful actually, sigh... but her nationality is Thai, you wouldn't be able to tell she was Thai just by looking at her. However, my current roommate is ethnically Thai, but she is not someone you would confuse for Chinese, she has those classic Thai looks.
I think you missed the money quote from the article:
"You party and blow off homework now, but in ten years, you'll be making merely wonderful money as investment bankers and consultants, while I'll be getting laid off from a great job at General Electric."
Hillary Clinton. Who is really a conservative disguised as a liberal.
She was a Goldwater Girl, you know, "I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent."
Wow, I'm surprised that there is actually someone who hates Sony more than I do!
Kudos to you, Urusai! *bows politely*
Arr, it'll be the plank for those scalawags! Methinks, they'll be doing their "corporate synergy activities" and singing from the depths of Davy Jones' locker, yarr!
"Why would a company like Microsoft do this?" asked Richard Lang, who is Burst's CEO and half the company workforce. "We were a little company. Microsoft could have had our technology for almost nothing, but instead they stole it. We called them on it, and they could have settled at any time, but they didn't. They stuck their heels in and won't give an inch even now. The only way I can make sense of this behavior is that they need to win no matter what the cost."
-- Stupid Microsoft Tricks:
Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat
I think I've seen other examples of this behavior from Microsoft, but I find Burst's CEO's, "But why" amusing. It's that old story of the Frog and the Scorpion.
This is all well known enough for there to be this bit on The Simpsons
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane
laughter]
-- SNPP:5F11
To paraphrase Prostetnic Vogon Geltz, "Apathetic bloody company, I've no sympathy at all."
What's becoming clear after viewing the revolution controller and the DS is that Nintendo has fallen in love with the idea of a console mouse. Now, for years, mice have been an important part of PC games, but they haven't taken off on consoles.
They've been tried. When I was working as a Nintendo demonstrator in college, I did a good enough job (actually, I was in a good enough location) to win a mouse for the Super Nintendo, which came with Mario Paint.
However, that was really a single-game mouse. While mice have come out for other systems, they had various degrees of utility (an example would be the Dreamcast mouse, which was mainly useful for using the Web browsing software in my experience). I think the reason why is up until now a mouse isn't good for living room play. Even with Mario Paint, a flat surface was needed to use the mouse. I had my Dreamcast set up as a quasi-PC (hooked to a VGA monitor, with mouse and keyboard as well as joystick), in order to make good use of the mouse and keyboard.
The Gyration technology they licensed is designed for a mouse that doesn't require a flat surface, which is a much better design for the living room.
Nintendo are basing their next generation console and handheld around the concept of the mouse. It will be fairly easy to translate DS concepts to use this controller on the big screen, which they are probably planning to use to leverage the popularity of the DS. We may see a big divergence between the consoles, Nintendo specializing in mouse base games with their competitors sticking to standard controllers.
It's a gamble, but if they can create a killer app, Microsoft and Sony may not be able to follow. Nintendo paid a lot for the patents on this technology, so any implementation from their competitors will have to follow different design routes. (I could see Sony trying to do something similar with an implementation of their Eyetoy controller, which I think is also a kind of mouse, however. I'm not sure if that will work as well for ports. Microsoft, however, seems to be left out in the cold here.)
The people who are pushing this law are intending to reduce the amount of violent content in video games. However, the First Amendment currently prevents an outright ban. So, they make "adult" content less attractive to publishers, causing the amount of adult content to be reduced.
Since you've decided to be childish about this with your little logical fallacy nonsense, I'm forced to respond with documentation of the intention of Michigan Democrats toward Mature rated games. I'm not intending to convince you with this quote, since I think that you are one of the people who would be happy if M rated games were banned outright:
State Senate Democrats said Wednesday the maker of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" should recall the game and urged retailers to pull it from their shelves. Granholm sent a letter to nearly 60 retailers last week asking them to adopt a policy of not selling adult-rated games.
-- Michigan Democrats call for removal of violent video game from shelves
Note, it doesn't say, "Granholm sent a letter to nearly 60 retailers last week asking them to adopt a policy of not selling adult-rated games to children."
Now, I'm tired of making the same argument over and over again to Christian liars who know what they want (games like GTA banned, for starters) and naifs who pretend that there is no political reality behind legislation that makes it a crime to sell GTA to a minor but not to sell Taxi Driver to the same minor. (Truthfully, I tend to believe no one who debates the issue is that naive, which means I include you among the liars. I don't know which is more insulting, would you rather be evil or stupid?) The penalty for violating this law is severe, it will have a chilling effect. The chilling effect is the intended purpose of this law, and the statements of the people behind it, who are full of hysterical outrage that these games even exist, is the proof:
"It is disgusting that these types of images are available," he said of the download that allows a player to see female characters naked, and shows a male and female character engaged in various graphic sexual positions. "It's pornography."
-- Michigan Democrats call for removal of violent video game from shelves
Now, I know you are keen on Jesus and everything and figure that the ends justify the means here, but don't you people ever get tired of covering up your true intentions?
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Why would I want to use an Operating System that will degrade my enjoyment of entertainment when Linux is free? True, Linux doesn't really offer the entertainment options that Windows offers, but if I have to have ads for Brylcreem popping up in the middle of my Dawn of War games it might be worth it to try to get it working in Cedega.
I use Microsoft because their dominance in the Desktop market guarantees that games are coded for Windows and almost all hardware has drivers for Windows. ADs would undermine the gaming advantage. The hardware I can replace with stuff that will work in Linux (I can get the old soundcard out of my old P2, I know that one works.)
Those must be the ones they used to use on The Prisoner.
Gnusto Firefox Extension
That'll run any Z-Machine games you like. Some are also online in a format you can play in a browser, like HHGG.
Ye can't get ye no flask!
Well, do they have The Black Watch ? Because I'm not exchanging my valuable Britney Spears rootkit for anything less.
This law doesn't care about M-Rated games anyway, it uses it's own vaguely defined criteria for determining what is unsuitable for a minor. In other words any game can be restricted, whatever the ESRB rates it. ESRB ratings are essentially worthless if this law stands, and the video game companies will need to lobby for some kind of government ratings board authority so that they will be able to release video games that will be able to comply with this law. Otherwise, they run the risk of abitrary fines being levied based on the whims of individual law enforcement. Since this is a state law, the state board's rating will only be valid in Michigan, and the ESRB will still need to rate those same games for the rest of the country.
One could argue that the law should define and restrict pornographic games outside of the ESRBs ratings, but pornographic games are already covered by existing anti-pornography laws anyway. It is very clear that this law does not relate to video game pornography, but to much milder fare.
If the argument is that milder video games that are equivalent to R-Rated action or horror films ought to be restricted, then the same legal restrictions need to apply to films because they are no less harmful. I don't agree that either are particularly harmful, but the arguments ought to be consistent.
The main point is:
1. I don't concede that M-Rated games are porn, and that includes GTA:San Andreas.
2. I don't concede that games need to be more restricted based on content than other forms of media.
Hmm... He's younger than he looks. I fear for the man's health.
He made an interesting comment according to the article, which was a tactical error on his part:
and followed it up with: Now, a reference to Pearl Harbor in this way is inteneded to have an effect on other members of Thompson's generation. That's when the "dirty Japs" launched their "cowardly" "sneak attack." Pearl Harbor led to some extremely racist imagery in American cartoons and films of the time.It's very crude, and he probably could have got his intended effect in the minds of his audience, that "the evil Japanese are trying to destroy America's youth" without being so blatant. Especially considering that Pearl Harbor doesn't have the kind of visceral resonance with people who don't remember it as it does with people of his generation. Subtlety is not his strong point.
I remember that one of the articles I read, had the line "Jack seems to be intent on looking like a narrow-minded bigot in the eyes of all as he continues to dig a deeper and deeper proverbial grave for his own career." News - Miami's Corrupt Counsel Adds Racism to his List of Idiocies This makes me sigh, as the man has built his extremely odd career on race-baiting, starting with his attacks on rap stars and the following it up with gay baiting against Janet Reno. So this isn't anything new.
Personally, if I were trying to profit from a moral panic, I wouldn't have opened myself up to the charge that I was a racist, unless I was sure that I could get away with it. This isn't the 40's after all.
Which is OK since I'm usually playing with hm.
Role Playing Games encompass a lot. One big part of role playing games is designing logical systems for determining the outcome of events. Example: You are Jay D'Canton, a Paladin, you are wearing chain mail and carrying a mace. You enter a room with four Orcs. Three of the Orcs are armed with wooden clubs and wearing thick animal furs, the fourth has a short sword and studded leather armor. How does the battle go?
Well, figuring out whether the Orcs get Jay's head for their pointy stick, or whether Jay makes short work of them depend on a lot of factors. Is Jay fresh out of Paladin school, or has he been at this for a while? How much protection does his armor give? Are the furs the Orcs are wearing purely decorative or do they offer cushioning versus Jay's mace?
So, varous systems are created, if Jay has killed x number of Orcs, he'll become a "level two" Paladin who is better at fighting and avoiding attacks. The Orcs will get a damage and "to hit" penalty based on Jay's armor, which will also be represented by a number called an armor class. So too will every aspect be determined, with each step be given a logical number value and with the steps relating logically. You should be able to take a list of numbers, including numbers created by die rolls, run them through your system, and figure out the outcome.
Ah, the systems... the beautiful beautiful systems. Everything from systems for determining the weather to a system determining the random effects of the Wand of Wonder.
This all works until those horrible Players come along and mess up your beautiful system. "I don't think the Orcs should be able to hurt me with wooden clubs. Oh, and," quick edit to Jay's character sheet, "turns out my mace is a magical mace +5 versus Orcs."
Meanwhile, you have some people across the street dressed up as Vampires, but they aren't rolling dice at all. They are treating the game as improvisational Theatre. They may have a system, too, but they seems to see things in terms of "roll playing" versus "Role Playing." (I really don't know much about them, though I have one of their game books, for the collection of course. Still... I got a distinct impression from reading White Wolf magazine while looking for Call of Cthuhlu articles.)
Personally, I prefer board games in the popular genre's to their role playing equivalents. They have a nice, rigid sense of order. Of course, you don't get to create your own systems, or build a big "Dungeon" or "Module" system out of the smaller systems provided in the books. However, what does it matter when your fellow players would rather ignore the rules or shoot the breeze.
Besides, I more likely to get a "non-gamer" to play a game of Dungeon! or Black Morn Manor with me than a game of Dungeons and Dragons (and believe me I've tried!)
Of course, my brother (call him "Inu Yasha"), who is deathly afraid of computers loves getting together with the guys for an evening of pizza and D&D. I think it is more for the comaradery than enjoying of watching a rigid system designed to determine the effects of an undead invasion in a small medieval hamlet. Trust me, the guy just started using Email, and when he sees some of the things I do with my computer, he's like, "That's horrible, that's like the inventions of that guy from Gremlins. I'll be happy using a DVD player to watch movies rather than that complicated set-up." Actually, he may have said The Goonies, but I think Gremlins is a cooler movie...
What was my point again?
Seriously, I wonder how much of the rights to that game McDonald's owns, since it was basically designed as an advertisement for the chain. It's actually a good game, too. (Well, I thought so anyway, at the time. It used that trademark Virgin/Shiny style animation that would show up in the Genesis version of Aladdin and reached its apex in Earthworm Jim.)
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes...
Well, I've mainly been playing the campaign on the "Disorder" side so far (and a few skirmishes as Orks to get used to the changes), so I haven't really done much with the Guard (I ran through the tutorial because of the nag... but that was unnecessary, I though). Which enemy do you usually skirmish against?
I guess I'll try a skirmish as the Imperial Guard and see how I do.
There's one map that's pretty good for defense... except for the Orks, I just can't figure out any way to use them defensively. I'll try them on that one...
It was part of the "S" modules series which were all special in some way. For example the Tomb of Horrors in which the players mainly fought deathtraps or the The Lost Cavern of Tsojcanth which came with its own mini-monster manual for monsters found only in that module (at the time...)
Good times.
Demo Available here: New Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War Winter Assault demo
I may pick up Dragonshard eventually too... but I imagine that with the little time I have available for Game Playing I'll have my hands full with Winter Assault.
Red Hat surges on upbeat earnings
I made a lot of money today...
You are right about Japanese of course, but Thai is a tonal language, like "Chinese." (I put quotes around Chinese because there are a bunch of different Chinese languages, like Mandarin and Cantonese to name the two most prominent ones.)
My ex-wife is a Chinese Thai. Which means that she looks very Chinese... she's very beautiful actually, sigh... but her nationality is Thai, you wouldn't be able to tell she was Thai just by looking at her. However, my current roommate is ethnically Thai, but she is not someone you would confuse for Chinese, she has those classic Thai looks.
Kudos to you, Urusai! *bows politely*
Arr, it'll be the plank for those scalawags! Methinks, they'll be doing their "corporate synergy activities" and singing from the depths of Davy Jones' locker, yarr!
This is all well known enough for there to be this bit on The Simpsons
To paraphrase Prostetnic Vogon Geltz, "Apathetic bloody company, I've no sympathy at all."Deadlands
The Website is not very informative, though...
Here's more info:
Exclusive first look: Deadlands
They've been tried. When I was working as a Nintendo demonstrator in college, I did a good enough job (actually, I was in a good enough location) to win a mouse for the Super Nintendo, which came with Mario Paint.
However, that was really a single-game mouse. While mice have come out for other systems, they had various degrees of utility (an example would be the Dreamcast mouse, which was mainly useful for using the Web browsing software in my experience). I think the reason why is up until now a mouse isn't good for living room play. Even with Mario Paint, a flat surface was needed to use the mouse. I had my Dreamcast set up as a quasi-PC (hooked to a VGA monitor, with mouse and keyboard as well as joystick), in order to make good use of the mouse and keyboard.
The Gyration technology they licensed is designed for a mouse that doesn't require a flat surface, which is a much better design for the living room.
Nintendo are basing their next generation console and handheld around the concept of the mouse. It will be fairly easy to translate DS concepts to use this controller on the big screen, which they are probably planning to use to leverage the popularity of the DS. We may see a big divergence between the consoles, Nintendo specializing in mouse base games with their competitors sticking to standard controllers.
It's a gamble, but if they can create a killer app, Microsoft and Sony may not be able to follow. Nintendo paid a lot for the patents on this technology, so any implementation from their competitors will have to follow different design routes. (I could see Sony trying to do something similar with an implementation of their Eyetoy controller, which I think is also a kind of mouse, however. I'm not sure if that will work as well for ports. Microsoft, however, seems to be left out in the cold here.)
The people who are pushing this law are intending to reduce the amount of violent content in video games. However, the First Amendment currently prevents an outright ban. So, they make "adult" content less attractive to publishers, causing the amount of adult content to be reduced.
Since you've decided to be childish about this with your little logical fallacy nonsense, I'm forced to respond with documentation of the intention of Michigan Democrats toward Mature rated games. I'm not intending to convince you with this quote, since I think that you are one of the people who would be happy if M rated games were banned outright:
Note, it doesn't say, "Granholm sent a letter to nearly 60 retailers last week asking them to adopt a policy of not selling adult-rated games to children."Now, I'm tired of making the same argument over and over again to Christian liars who know what they want (games like GTA banned, for starters) and naifs who pretend that there is no political reality behind legislation that makes it a crime to sell GTA to a minor but not to sell Taxi Driver to the same minor. (Truthfully, I tend to believe no one who debates the issue is that naive, which means I include you among the liars. I don't know which is more insulting, would you rather be evil or stupid?) The penalty for violating this law is severe, it will have a chilling effect. The chilling effect is the intended purpose of this law, and the statements of the people behind it, who are full of hysterical outrage that these games even exist, is the proof:
Now, I know you are keen on Jesus and everything and figure that the ends justify the means here, but don't you people ever get tired of covering up your true intentions?