Communism doesn't fail, people who had power failed communism...
Every political ideology is right.... the people who have power, uses that power until they overuse it to their own profit so much that the majority of the people use their personal power ot overthrow them...
The only good thing that democracy has right now is: it's not crooked enough to have the population revolt against it.
I'm sure there will be one day that the people will wake up and know that their system is so corrupt, that the elected officials are only idiots who are popular and that the majority of the electorate refuse to vote because they know that no choice they can make will the right one, when every choice is a bad one...
The one thing that i really wonder in that is: where do they get those leaves? isn't it illegal to get cocaine leaves?
Since they should get big shipments of it to use for their production, wouldn't the police make a raid at their production facility? it would be a pretty big bust wouldn't it?
One the 7th day of Fallujah, they could have released the game.... as long as they had changed the title, the media blackout would have made the game "fictional"
I think the army wouls prefer to do the opposite... a fake blitzkrieg would totally trash the enemy morale compared to having a couple trucks shooting at you...
If RapeLay, for example, sat next to Disney Game Du Jure at Toys R Us, parents would rightly complain. Toys R Us would get bad press, and they would pull it for what they would call "bad judgment." And it would be bad judgment, because it would make their customers mad at them. This is essentially a self-correcting problem. Anything that, as a society, we won't tolerate will quickly be forced out of sight where most people won't have to deal with it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have to actively search for RapeLay if you want that sort of thing.
If by self-correcting you mean every retain company that offers games physically refuses to sell a game that has a rating of "adult Only" (18+) but still has a copy of every "mature" (17+) game, i think society is very wrong...
Making every single game that has any sexuality unmarketable is just like making it illegal...
If there were one change I'd have made to Fallout 3, I'd have included the ability to have lovers/wives/etc. There are enough subplots in the game involving family, enough families, heck the whole Republic of Dave thing, that it would have added another element to the game. The unfortunate problem with this is that American society is prudish and stunted when it comes to sexuality, to the point where what is considered "normal" is actually quite unhealthily repressed.
The problem here is that the game is in 3D... The previous iteration of Fallout would let you have non-graphical sex with multiple partners as well as homosexual sex, given that the screen go black and there is barely some comments on your "performance" afterwards... nothing much, but at least you knew what happened...
Now that Fallout is in 3D, having anything close to any sexual relasionship is a big no-no.... why? because americans are scared of sex!
You complain about all those sex games coming from Japan... yet you fail to see that they have much harsher laws... the simple fact that they can't legally show any genitals in a game/comic/movie makes them much more harsher than us...
But all you americans see is the sexual content in some games while most of the games with sexual content in Japan actually uses the sex as a reward for your hard-earned gameplay... just look at Katawa Shoujo, the content that is available for now is not even close to pornographic... the part of the game that has been released (for free) contains nothing of sexual nature... yet it WILL contain pornographic images as a reward to the player who will play hours upon hours to form a relationship with a single character or walk the thin line of the "harem" route... but, as for now, you already have multiple hours of story without even a hint of anything sexual... Still, the game is included in the Japanese pornographic dating-sim game genre wich is extremely hard to get in America.. why? because the ESRB rates those games as "Adult Only" like they should be, no retailer will have a single copy available in his store...
America is scared of censored genitals... just because they imply sex... Even if the average gamer is well over the limit of buying his own porn, he can't buy a game that contains porn because the industry prefers showing mass murdering than scrambled genitals...
I'm sure the US government has the plan of "spotting" some Weapons of Mass Destruction... otherwise, they'll find a way to invade them and plunder the ressources...
The console sells great, but there is still very few good games... Too many people got PSPs gathering dust, it's not the early interest that is lacking, but the current interest. I don't play my game console because i have no games to play onit... even if i can pirate games, it won'T matter because there is no games to pirate...
Hello, my name is Mishotaki and i'm addicted to using the computer...
By that, I mean that all my spare time goes to using a computer to entertain me. Therefore, i spend all my week-ends on the computer...
Are they trying to fool us into telling us that playing videogames is less interesting to kids from 8 to 18 than studying? because i'm sure that it seems that the people sponsoring the researchs wants us to think so... videogames are fun, studying isn't. Kids prefer to have fun than not to... nothing new in that...
When someone knows he's downloading a Madonna album, he knows he's taking a couple bucks out of a multi-millionnaire...
When someone downloads and learns about a fairly unknown group and he likes what he hears, he know that if he buys a CD from that group, the group won't see his money as useless change while they ligth their cigars with 100$ bills... the smaller groups needs the money and people know that... people commit much more into buying indie albums than buying the latest Celine Dion because they know that if they can make the album more known, the group will want to release more and bigger is usually "better" for the fans
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Every political ideology is right....
The only good thing that democracy has right now is: it's not crooked enough to have the population revolt against it.
So every political ideology is right, except democracy?
Every political ideology is right, except what is not ideology... sure, the ideal democracy would be great, but it's not like we have one, do we?
Communism doesn't fail, people who had power failed communism...
Every political ideology is right.... the people who have power, uses that power until they overuse it to their own profit so much that the majority of the people use their personal power ot overthrow them...
The only good thing that democracy has right now is: it's not crooked enough to have the population revolt against it.
I'm sure there will be one day that the people will wake up and know that their system is so corrupt, that the elected officials are only idiots who are popular and that the majority of the electorate refuse to vote because they know that no choice they can make will the right one, when every choice is a bad one...
Since they should get big shipments of it to use for their production, wouldn't the police make a raid at their production facility? it would be a pretty big bust wouldn't it?
Blackmailing?
So the Hummer will soon be illegal to have in the states?
Naked News will survive much longer than their paid service.
We all know we prefer to pay to see women undress than a dressed person reading the same news...
One the 7th day of Fallujah, they could have released the game.... as long as they had changed the title, the media blackout would have made the game "fictional"
I dunno. Maybe we should ask the wife of their marketing executive.
She's a lesbian? Proof plz!
I'm sure some big porn websites(those that regroup many websites together especially) have quite a lot of servers...
They forgot to tax school busses!
If all the kids would walk to school, even a few miles, they would get a lot more exercise than they do today.
I think the army wouls prefer to do the opposite... a fake blitzkrieg would totally trash the enemy morale compared to having a couple trucks shooting at you...
2 Euros (why does Slashdot not display the Euro sign correctly when pretty much every other internet forum does?)...
try gametrailers.com forums... they hate europeans so much that their forums deletes everything after an euro or pound sign...
I swear i was joking when i told them that they could buy Linux for 30 Billion Dollars!
Now i wish i would have said that they had to pay in pennies
If RapeLay, for example, sat next to Disney Game Du Jure at Toys R Us, parents would rightly complain. Toys R Us would get bad press, and they would pull it for what they would call "bad judgment." And it would be bad judgment, because it would make their customers mad at them. This is essentially a self-correcting problem. Anything that, as a society, we won't tolerate will quickly be forced out of sight where most people won't have to deal with it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have to actively search for RapeLay if you want that sort of thing.
If by self-correcting you mean every retain company that offers games physically refuses to sell a game that has a rating of "adult Only" (18+) but still has a copy of every "mature" (17+) game, i think society is very wrong...
Making every single game that has any sexuality unmarketable is just like making it illegal...
If people can't buy it, why make it?
If there were one change I'd have made to Fallout 3, I'd have included the ability to have lovers/wives/etc. There are enough subplots in the game involving family, enough families, heck the whole Republic of Dave thing, that it would have added another element to the game. The unfortunate problem with this is that American society is prudish and stunted when it comes to sexuality, to the point where what is considered "normal" is actually quite unhealthily repressed.
The problem here is that the game is in 3D... The previous iteration of Fallout would let you have non-graphical sex with multiple partners as well as homosexual sex, given that the screen go black and there is barely some comments on your "performance" afterwards... nothing much, but at least you knew what happened...
Now that Fallout is in 3D, having anything close to any sexual relasionship is a big no-no.... why? because americans are scared of sex!
You complain about all those sex games coming from Japan... yet you fail to see that they have much harsher laws... the simple fact that they can't legally show any genitals in a game/comic/movie makes them much more harsher than us...
But all you americans see is the sexual content in some games while most of the games with sexual content in Japan actually uses the sex as a reward for your hard-earned gameplay... just look at Katawa Shoujo, the content that is available for now is not even close to pornographic... the part of the game that has been released (for free) contains nothing of sexual nature... yet it WILL contain pornographic images as a reward to the player who will play hours upon hours to form a relationship with a single character or walk the thin line of the "harem" route... but, as for now, you already have multiple hours of story without even a hint of anything sexual... Still, the game is included in the Japanese pornographic dating-sim game genre wich is extremely hard to get in America.. why? because the ESRB rates those games as "Adult Only" like they should be, no retailer will have a single copy available in his store...
America is scared of censored genitals... just because they imply sex... Even if the average gamer is well over the limit of buying his own porn, he can't buy a game that contains porn because the industry prefers showing mass murdering than scrambled genitals...
What a bunch of pussies(should that be censored?)
they'll surround your car with sandbags and water barriers and blow it up.
Did the bomb squad get replaced by the Mythbusters?
AOL Acquires Time Warner in Largest Ever Expenditure of Pretend Internet Money
they paid with AOL disks?
I'm sure the US government has the plan of "spotting" some Weapons of Mass Destruction... otherwise, they'll find a way to invade them and plunder the ressources...
The console sells great, but there is still very few good games... Too many people got PSPs gathering dust, it's not the early interest that is lacking, but the current interest. I don't play my game console because i have no games to play onit... even if i can pirate games, it won'T matter because there is no games to pirate...
Hello, my name is Mishotaki and i'm addicted to using the computer...
By that, I mean that all my spare time goes to using a computer to entertain me. Therefore, i spend all my week-ends on the computer...
Are they trying to fool us into telling us that playing videogames is less interesting to kids from 8 to 18 than studying? because i'm sure that it seems that the people sponsoring the researchs wants us to think so... videogames are fun, studying isn't. Kids prefer to have fun than not to... nothing new in that...
News usually refer us as violent peole who use their games as simlation for mass murders... does that mean i'll be able to shoot their newscasters?
FINALLY!
When someone knows he's downloading a Madonna album, he knows he's taking a couple bucks out of a multi-millionnaire...
When someone downloads and learns about a fairly unknown group and he likes what he hears, he know that if he buys a CD from that group, the group won't see his money as useless change while they ligth their cigars with 100$ bills... the smaller groups needs the money and people know that... people commit much more into buying indie albums than buying the latest Celine Dion because they know that if they can make the album more known, the group will want to release more and bigger is usually "better" for the fans
The answer is twofold. First, the vast majority of people will not pay a hefty monthly fee for immediate access to recent movies and TV shows.
Unless that includes every single show on earth as soon as it airs...
You'd be surprised to know what's in my pockets...
I BUY macs for all of my relatives after their PCs have died. It saves me time and money.
I wonder how fast i can make my PC "die" so that you can buy me one of those slick, sexy and resellable Macs?
I don't mind if you ask me: "Who's your daddy?" at all you know...