They didn't say the games would make you go out and kill your next door neighbor, but that's a decent list of the most violent games of the last year or so.
Actually from the press release:
Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, executive minister and officer, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ, and president, North American Region of the World Council of Churches, said: "Our concern about these violent video games is not guesswork. For example, there is ample evidence today that playing violent video games leads to increased aggressive thought, feelings and actions. "
How could you Australians pick such a beast. Were you drunk? Oh, never mind...
Yes, blame Australian geeks whydontcha? I was playing GTA:SA rather than wasting my time and money voting on who should stink up airwaves of radio stations I don't listen to anyway.
I'll be tuning in to A Current Affair tonight to see you're story and flicking over to Today Tonight to see how evil you are. Next year I'll watch MediaWatch to laugh about it.
If you're really concerned about your son being banal try voting at the Australian Idol website to decide what style of music Casey should be singing. I think Death Metal will be good for your son. That is assuming that they haven't already recorded the album and that they will actually take this poll to determine what to do and... hahaha... I've gone mad... Damn Australian Idol.
But the other interesting idea I can recall is the Red Dwarf episode Tikka To Ride:
They [the Red Dwarf crew] go back and appear in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on November 22nd 1963 just as Lee Harvey Oswald is taking his shot at President Kennedy. They knock him out the window where he dies hitting the ground, preventing Kennedy's assassination.
To avoid being captured they go ahead a couple of years, however Kennedy's survival causes an alternate reality where he has been impeached out of office and the new president is controlled by the Mafia, allowing the Soviet Union to build several Nuclear Silos in Cuba. Fearing the Soviets will start a nuclear war, all the major US cities are deserted.
Lister goes to the airport which would have been renamed JFK Airport where Kennedy is being transported to prison. He persuades Kennedy to go back in time with them, and be the gunman on the grassy knoll, and shoot himself for the ultimate conspiracy theory. After restoring Earth's normal timeline, The gang return to Starbug. Of course they still haven't got any curries...
Where the player has five senses to deal with, and they're well developed, the AI in Halo really primarily only responds to visual input and sound input. That's because the two ways the player generally makes himself known to the AI is: The AI sees the player or they make a noise, like shooting someone.
This makes me think a few thoughts all at once and I'll try to unscramble them.
1. what do the enemies in Halo taste and smell like? Okay, they probably taste like chicken, but how does this help the player? Do XBox's have scratch'n'sniff panels now?
2. Wouldn't a marine smell? Does playing Halo2 for hours upon end without taking a shower make the game harder as enemies could track you down? Are there showers in Halo2?
I have more, but I feel like I'm about to cross from funny to troll....
And your nation or city can't do anything about them?
I don't know about Sydney, but in Melbourne the police have been cracking down on organised crime, though thankfully (in a sense) the members of the gangs haven't killed any non-gang members yet (AFAIK). So the police (in the past) have allowed them to kill each other, presumably on the basis that there will be less criminals on the street. Generally if you stay out of certain cafes and pizza shops you're fine, because the gangs know that killing a 'civilian' will cause the police to bust things up.
I own a Gamecube and a PS2 (as well as a whole heap of older consoles), though I don't have any kids. Agree that the GC is very family friendly, but the PS2 is coming up with a lot of interesting family games (Singstar, Eyetoy for example). Looking at my collection of PS2 games though the only one that my (possible) future kids can play is Space Channel 5. GC I have Pikmin, Monkey Ball, Super Smash Bros, Harvest Moon and on and on.
I assume that you were a gamer when you were in your teens and thus know what's good for your kids (as well as yourself). Sadly if I ever become a parent, my children will have to start on the Atari, Coleceovision and Vecterex and work thier way up to modern systems:).
I get the impression from reading the article that the author was looking for a game for his mum. I remember trying to get my mum to play Super Mario Bros, but she gave up the first time she fell down a hole (while my brother and I were yelling at her to get the mushroom).
While I generally disagree with the article, family party games generally need simple concepts and the ability to jump into the action from the get go (as the article suggests) just like Bomberman and Super Monkey Ball.
There's no crisis here. Retro gaming has it's place, but it isn't the answer to all of gamings questions. Why can't we celebrate gaming more often instead of trying to find potential pitfalls...
"In the distance, you hear a sound you can't easily identify. {sound plays}"
Thinking about this a while ago, the problem you would have is that {sound plays} would need to download from the server, which say would be about 15K compared to the very small amount of text. So you'd be faced with a situation of either:
1. MUD server sends sound to player before any other data is sent
or
2. MUD client downloads sound from MUD server while server continues sending other data to client.
In the case of 1, I could be dead before the sound is recieved by my client (and I wouldn't know about it until after the sound played) and in 2 I could have discovered what the sound was being created by before I hear it.
Or I could be wrong.:) The other idea is that you could send all the sound data to the client during login, but this is annoying (from my experience in Sims Online beta testing where it would download all the updates at start up)... when I want to play a MUD, I want to play it now:)
I suppose broadband and compression would help though...
The reality is, when you are a leader, you are NOT doing what everyone else thinks you should be doing. You are doing what needs to be done. And sometimes it takes a while before those behind you realize you are doing what's best for all concerned.
I wonder how long it would have taken for Iraqis to understand that Saddam was doing what had to be done. What you are describing is not a democracy, it's a four year dictatorship.:)
Austrialia very rarely gives out RCs or even R ratings for games and movies.
When was the last time Australia gave out an R rating for a game? Some people might point out that Australia doesn't have an R rating for a game, which means that games like Larry are outright banned. Perhaps if we had an R rating in this country we'd have less games banned and less whining from 'current affair' shows about the dangers of gaming.
According to this page at the Australian Goverment Office of Film & Literature Classification GTA:SA will NOT be censored like GTA3 was and we Australians should get the original version like the rest of the world.
Possibly not true. Or rather possibly half true. OFLC gave the version of GTA:SA they recieved from Rockstar an MA rating. BUT the version they recieved may be a cut version. I assume that because Rockstar have been knocked back on the previous GTA3's and Manhunt, they know what will pass and won't pass.
OFLC states that the original version of Vice City was given an MA rating according to this page. The OFLC can't cut a game (or a movie), they can only ban them or approve them.
But certainly NZ e-tailers seem to be making a big deal of it, trying to get sales over in Australia.
actually it's nice to see that the stations will be dynamic rather than just looping. Although I did like the fact that I knew what the next song would be in VC, having a more real feel is nice.
I think the fact that this new generation of parents are gamers, they'd also have some knowledge of games and can therefore determine what games are appropriate to buy for thier kids.
Perhaps you trust people who make you laugh. You think to yourself "Ah... they are funny... they can't be evil, they therefore have no reason to lie to me". Not that I'm saying that they are. I just trust Piro, Dom and Sarah more:) Possibly because they don't often push or slag off non-MT product that often. So possibly it's a case of less often is more weighted.
Okay, I think this is fairly simple... I'd suggest that you: 1. Every morning (or whenever the cleaners come) take the toilet paper from small bathroom to large bathroom; 2. Take no longer needed print outs and place them in small bathroom (optional)
I assume he'd assume that there would always be toilet paper in the small bathroom. This'd probably only work once at best though.
Hey, where's my fridge magnet? I thought Alston had quit, why do we have to have more internet blocking blah blah.
I mean seriously, if the set this thing up, how are we going to catch those those that are actually nonces (I've been watching the Bill)? And why should Christians decide what is and isn't appropriate for a country where less than half the population is christian. And in any case 39.2% are Catholic and 30.4% are Anglican (see nice graphs here). The churches are in Abbott's back pocket anyway.
Fundies like this dont really have much of a say in politics down here Sure, they probably won't win a lot of seats, so it doesn't really matter. Unless there's a hung parliment (which let's face facts, it's so close it could be) then Family First could become a bit of a problem. Oh... they're only going for the senate... hmmm... they will get killed by the Democrats and Greens... I'm no longer worried... Aww... they've got a geek (sorta) running in Victoria. I might have to vote below the line...
Can't wait till the Jedi population increases (2001 0.37%). Then we can get goverment funded lightsaber grants.
Where is your computer? What sort of puppy do you have? My suggestion would be something along the lines of "put computer on desk". But then it depends on what sort of puppy you have.
"By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would. Judgment Day, the day the human race was almost destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized it was never our destiny to stop judgment day - merely to survive it, together. The terminator knew; he tried to tell us. But I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written..." Terminator 3: ROTM
Yeah, see it'll be better if Skynet prints out a statement on a little bit of paper telling us this.
-- SKYNET -- Judgement Day will occur today Thank you for your input --MESSAGE ENDS --
I really, really need more sleep. Someone come up with something funnier... please...
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They didn't say the games would make you go out and kill your next door neighbor, but that's a decent list of the most violent games of the last year or so.
Actually from the press release:
Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, executive minister and officer, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ, and president, North American Region of the World Council of Churches, said: "Our concern about these violent video games is not guesswork. For example, there is ample evidence today that playing violent video games leads to increased aggressive thought, feelings and actions. "
How could you Australians pick such a beast. Were you drunk? Oh, never mind...
Yes, blame Australian geeks whydontcha? I was playing GTA:SA rather than wasting my time and money voting on who should stink up airwaves of radio stations I don't listen to anyway.
I'll be tuning in to A Current Affair tonight to see you're story and flicking over to Today Tonight to see how evil you are. Next year I'll watch MediaWatch to laugh about it.
If you're really concerned about your son being banal try voting at the Australian Idol website to decide what style of music Casey should be singing. I think Death Metal will be good for your son. That is assuming that they haven't already recorded the album and that they will actually take this poll to determine what to do and... hahaha... I've gone mad... Damn Australian Idol.
If I was the Dead Gay Porn Star, id sue BACK, for re-directing -my- traffic to -their- website.
No you wouldn't, you'd be dead.
Gah, I was going to post exactly the same thing.
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But the other interesting idea I can recall is the Red Dwarf episode Tikka To Ride:
They [the Red Dwarf crew] go back and appear in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on November 22nd 1963 just as Lee Harvey Oswald is taking his shot at President Kennedy. They knock him out the window where he dies hitting the ground, preventing Kennedy's assassination.
To avoid being captured they go ahead a couple of years, however Kennedy's survival causes an alternate reality where he has been impeached out of office and the new president is controlled by the Mafia, allowing the Soviet Union to build several Nuclear Silos in Cuba. Fearing the Soviets will start a nuclear war, all the major US cities are deserted.
Lister goes to the airport which would have been renamed JFK Airport where Kennedy is being transported to prison. He persuades Kennedy to go back in time with them, and be the gunman on the grassy knoll, and shoot himself for the ultimate conspiracy theory. After restoring Earth's normal timeline, The gang return to Starbug. Of course they still haven't got any curries...
From: http://www.britannia.org/tvarchives/dwarf/episode
Seven out of five stars?
I think it was supposed to be 7 half stars out of 10 half stars.
Hmmm... I like this quote
Where the player has five senses to deal with, and they're well developed, the AI in Halo really primarily only responds to visual input and sound input. That's because the two ways the player generally makes himself known to the AI is: The AI sees the player or they make a noise, like shooting someone.
This makes me think a few thoughts all at once and I'll try to unscramble them.
1. what do the enemies in Halo taste and smell like? Okay, they probably taste like chicken, but how does this help the player? Do XBox's have scratch'n'sniff panels now?
2. Wouldn't a marine smell? Does playing Halo2 for hours upon end without taking a shower make the game harder as enemies could track you down? Are there showers in Halo2?
I have more, but I feel like I'm about to cross from funny to troll....
And your nation or city can't do anything about them?
I don't know about Sydney, but in Melbourne the police have been cracking down on organised crime, though thankfully (in a sense) the members of the gangs haven't killed any non-gang members yet (AFAIK). So the police (in the past) have allowed them to kill each other, presumably on the basis that there will be less criminals on the street. Generally if you stay out of certain cafes and pizza shops you're fine, because the gangs know that killing a 'civilian' will cause the police to bust things up.
I own a Gamecube and a PS2 (as well as a whole heap of older consoles), though I don't have any kids. Agree that the GC is very family friendly, but the PS2 is coming up with a lot of interesting family games (Singstar, Eyetoy for example). Looking at my collection of PS2 games though the only one that my (possible) future kids can play is Space Channel 5. GC I have Pikmin, Monkey Ball, Super Smash Bros, Harvest Moon and on and on.
:).
I assume that you were a gamer when you were in your teens and thus know what's good for your kids (as well as yourself). Sadly if I ever become a parent, my children will have to start on the Atari, Coleceovision and Vecterex and work thier way up to modern systems
I get the impression from reading the article that the author was looking for a game for his mum. I remember trying to get my mum to play Super Mario Bros, but she gave up the first time she fell down a hole (while my brother and I were yelling at her to get the mushroom).
While I generally disagree with the article, family party games generally need simple concepts and the ability to jump into the action from the get go (as the article suggests) just like Bomberman and Super Monkey Ball.
There's no crisis here. Retro gaming has it's place, but it isn't the answer to all of gamings questions. Why can't we celebrate gaming more often instead of trying to find potential pitfalls...
"In the distance, you hear a sound you can't easily identify. {sound plays}"
:) The other idea is that you could send all the sound data to the client during login, but this is annoying (from my experience in Sims Online beta testing where it would download all the updates at start up)... when I want to play a MUD, I want to play it now :)
Thinking about this a while ago, the problem you would have is that {sound plays} would need to download from the server, which say would be about 15K compared to the very small amount of text. So you'd be faced with a situation of either:
1. MUD server sends sound to player before any other data is sent
or
2. MUD client downloads sound from MUD server while server continues sending other data to client.
In the case of 1, I could be dead before the sound is recieved by my client (and I wouldn't know about it until after the sound played) and in 2 I could have discovered what the sound was being created by before I hear it.
Or I could be wrong.
I suppose broadband and compression would help though...
So it wasn't Cheney's warning? Okay... it's the Onion... but it's funny.
The reality is, when you are a leader, you are NOT doing what everyone else thinks you should be doing. You are doing what needs to be done. And sometimes it takes a while before those behind you realize you are doing what's best for all concerned.
:)
I wonder how long it would have taken for Iraqis to understand that Saddam was doing what had to be done. What you are describing is not a democracy, it's a four year dictatorship.
Austrialia very rarely gives out RCs or even R ratings for games and movies.
When was the last time Australia gave out an R rating for a game? Some people might point out that Australia doesn't have an R rating for a game, which means that games like Larry are outright banned. Perhaps if we had an R rating in this country we'd have less games banned and less whining from 'current affair' shows about the dangers of gaming.
Hey, you guys remember the time Lothar was smashing those rocks together and invented fire.
Bah, we all know that Gark did it first, but just didn't make it down to the patent office before Lothar...
According to this page at the Australian Goverment Office of Film & Literature Classification GTA:SA will NOT be censored like GTA3 was and we Australians should get the original version like the rest of the world.
Possibly not true. Or rather possibly half true. OFLC gave the version of GTA:SA they recieved from Rockstar an MA rating. BUT the version they recieved may be a cut version. I assume that because Rockstar have been knocked back on the previous GTA3's and Manhunt, they know what will pass and won't pass.
OFLC states that the original version of Vice City was given an MA rating according to this page. The OFLC can't cut a game (or a movie), they can only ban them or approve them.
But certainly NZ e-tailers seem to be making a big deal of it, trying to get sales over in Australia.
actually it's nice to see that the stations will be dynamic rather than just looping. Although I did like the fact that I knew what the next song would be in VC, having a more real feel is nice.
Confused as to why parent is modded down. See article here
I think the fact that this new generation of parents are gamers, they'd also have some knowledge of games and can therefore determine what games are appropriate to buy for thier kids.
Perhaps you trust people who make you laugh. You think to yourself "Ah... they are funny... they can't be evil, they therefore have no reason to lie to me". Not that I'm saying that they are. I just trust Piro, Dom and Sarah more :) Possibly because they don't often push or slag off non-MT product that often. So possibly it's a case of less often is more weighted.
Okay, I think this is fairly simple... I'd suggest that you:
1. Every morning (or whenever the cleaners come) take the toilet paper from small bathroom to large bathroom;
2. Take no longer needed print outs and place them in small bathroom (optional)
I assume he'd assume that there would always be toilet paper in the small bathroom. This'd probably only work once at best though.
One editor (male) at the company would stop at least once each day, stomp around his desk, and mutter "KILL! KILL! KILL!"
Maybe he's just singing Alice's Restaurant....
stFuck the children.
So have the cops come around to seize your computer yet?
Hey, where's my fridge magnet? I thought Alston had quit, why do we have to have more internet blocking blah blah.
I mean seriously, if the set this thing up, how are we going to catch those those that are actually nonces (I've been watching the Bill)? And why should Christians decide what is and isn't appropriate for a country where less than half the population is christian. And in any case 39.2% are Catholic and 30.4% are Anglican (see nice graphs here). The churches are in Abbott's back pocket anyway.
Fundies like this dont really have much of a say in politics down here
Sure, they probably won't win a lot of seats, so it doesn't really matter. Unless there's a hung parliment (which let's face facts, it's so close it could be) then Family First could become a bit of a problem. Oh... they're only going for the senate... hmmm... they will get killed by the Democrats and Greens... I'm no longer worried... Aww... they've got a geek (sorta) running in Victoria. I might have to vote below the line...
Can't wait till the Jedi population increases (2001 0.37%). Then we can get goverment funded lightsaber grants.
Where is your computer? What sort of puppy do you have? My suggestion would be something along the lines of "put computer on desk". But then it depends on what sort of puppy you have.
Player 2 controlling the ducks in Duck Hunt was even better if the person with the gun didn't know about it.
Gameplay became a bit dull when as Player1, I'd control the ducks with my toes on the second controller.
"By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would. Judgment Day, the day the human race was almost destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized it was never our destiny to stop judgment day - merely to survive it, together. The terminator knew; he tried to tell us. But I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written..."
Terminator 3: ROTM
Yeah, see it'll be better if Skynet prints out a statement on a little bit of paper telling us this.
-- SKYNET --
Judgement Day will occur today
Thank you for your input
--MESSAGE ENDS --
I really, really need more sleep.
Someone come up with something funnier... please...