The Red Cross wants to put YOU in jail for warcrimes (stupidity / VG warcrimes thread)

Mayday

So basically every one of us does stupid things sometimes. Those on top and us bottomfeeders.
But sometimes these things take me by surprise.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/six-hundred-million-gamers-could-be-war-criminals-red-cross-says/story-fn6bqpju-1226216867843

tl;dr: The Red Cross and Crescent are debating introducing punishments for gamedevs and gamers that make or play games in which you break the International Humanitarian Law.

I guess we can also talk about stupid things WE've done, that's cool too.

Mysst

the last time I played a member of the military it was in the future against giant bug aliens, so the most I have to worry about is PETA

Blake T

I missed the relavemt part of the article can you please tell me the relavemt part in regards to war crimes that I commited?

The Geek

Mysst wrote:

the last time I played a member of the military it was in the future against giant bug aliens, so the most I have to worry about is PETA

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

Mysst

The Geek wrote:

Mysst wrote:

the last time I played a member of the military it was in the future against giant bug aliens, so the most I have to worry about is PETA

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

some days I want to get DEATH FROM ABOVE tattooed on my arm

Kadith

prosecute all CoD players

also we kinda talked about this in the bullshit thread

seeing as it's kinda bullshit

Langly

Blake T wrote:

I missed the relavemt part of the article can you please tell me the relavemt part in regards to war crimes that I committed?

Games that are military simulators often do not stick to showing your characters abiding by the Geneva Conventions. The Red Cross wants to look at restricting game developers from making games that do that, and at penalizing games that do.

Basically they want to protect pixels from being harmed against international codes of conduct, and think that enacting improper virtual violence is a crime.

(not really, they actually want to restrict that because they think it influences people to commit war crimes in real life. Which is also dumb)

Mayday

Kadith wrote:

prosecute all CoD players

also we kinda talked about this in the bullshit thread

seeing as it's kinda bullshit

Shit, I even wanted to just post it in the bullshit thread but then I looked at it and thought "no, this is about scams and charlatans, something else entirely". but yeah, ok.

Hunter

The only gamers that should be prosecuted are whiny bitches who rage quit at the drop of a hat as soon as things don't go their way.

Shabooty

have any of you guys committed a war crime lately?

Hunter

I bought Brink at launch and that game was offensive, but I don't think it's up there with war crime. Maybe hate crime.

peticanoe

Shabooty wrote:

have any of you guys committed a war crime lately?

my only crime is looking this good

i'll go quietly officer

Kadith

I am writing a paper about war crimes

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

in perfect dark you could disarm an enemy and then walk around them to shoot them in the back of the head as they cowered in terror

i remember thinking when i was twelve that that was pretty cool

Mysst

sherman is a war criminal

peticanoe

in one of the swat games you could arrest somebody and then kill them with a multi-tool after you cuffed them

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

i was a CHILD SOLDIER, i was ALL MIXED-UP

Arang

I let a paramilitary organization take charge of my prisoners of war

just kidding I only used landmines and cluster bombs and white phosphorous despite basically everyone else agreeing not to

CorporateLogo

Curtis LeMay admitted that if the US had lost WWII he would have been tried for war crimes

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

in 1880 when catherine started skirmishing on my borders with light cavalry i dropped nukes all over her larger cities

Tox

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN wrote:

in 1880 when catherine started skirmishing on my borders with light cavalry i dropped nukes all over her larger cities

I still remember the first time I dropped a nuke in Civ3. Someone had declared war with me, despite me having three allies (and being the biggest on the board). I said screw it and dropped a nuke on their capital.

Suddenly everybody (even my allies!) were at war with me.

So the next time I used a nuke, I made sure I had enough to nuke every single damn city on the map that wasn't mine. Twice.

Dichotomy

I just sat on my own little island and teched up and once all my cities had pressure domes I just launched the planet busters


nerve stapled the drones every week for three years straight to get all those missiles built

Arang

I played on the very easiest setting and got to the endgame like 600 years before anyone else

to keep the game going I diverted all of my production capabilities from research and stockpiled nukes to balance my enormous budget

and then I launched them all at once until every city in the world had one inhabitant

Hobnail

Arang wrote:

I let a paramilitary organization take charge of my prisoners of war

just kidding I only used landmines and cluster bombs and white phosphorous despite basically everyone else agreeing not to

Listen, if you got a better way than landmines to blast the hands and feet off the future children of your current enemies, well you oughta patent it cause man there is a market for that kind of thing.

Skull Man

oh my god if I start getting prosecuted for video game crimes...

well, I hope no one checks the abyssal mass grave behind my house full of imperfect IV pokemon

that's gotta be cruelty to something

Hunter

Tox wrote:

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN wrote:

in 1880 when catherine started skirmishing on my borders with light cavalry i dropped nukes all over her larger cities

I still remember the first time I dropped a nuke in Civ3. Someone had declared war with me, despite me having three allies (and being the biggest on the board). I said screw it and dropped a nuke on their capital.

Suddenly everybody (even my allies!) were at war with me.

So the next time I used a nuke, I made sure I had enough to nuke every single damn city on the map that wasn't mine. Twice.

The best is when someone declares war on you because you won't trade a resource or because you built a city near their empire to steal oil or aluminum.

You fuckers have 1940's tech if you're luck and I have giant walker death robots and nuclear subs off the coast of your major cities. Know your role and shut your mouth.

Then I nuke them anyway. It's the only way they learn.

Arang

one time I taxed the people of france so harshly that 30 million people starved to death while every other province under my control was totally tax-exempt

the endgame for this arrangement was that they would be forced into a peasant's rebellion which would give me a chance to test out quicklime shells

BugBoy

Skull Man wrote:

oh my god if I start getting prosecuted for video game crimes...

well, I hope no one checks the abyssal mass grave behind my house full of imperfect IV pokemon

that's gotta be cruelty to something

I warned you

I warned you all

Dichotomy

Skull Man wrote:

oh my god if I start getting prosecuted for video game crimes...

well, I hope no one checks the abyssal mass grave behind my house full of imperfect IV pokemon

that's gotta be cruelty to something

oh, naive skull man

nobody cares about imperfect pokemon

Skull Man

bugboy you'll be tried for reckless endangerment

just for the chumpy way you battle

BugBoy

man, I don't battle like a chump

cotton guard/rest ampharos and technician cincinno will take on all comers with style

Arang

in battlefield 1942 it was possible to turn up the spawn rate of AI opponents to be something like ten times what the map was meant to hold

I exploited this by going onto stalingrad, camping near an ammo crate and throwing grenades at their flag from beyond the range where they would even try to hit me

by the end of the round I had killed 1200 men

Hunter

Arang wrote:

in battlefield 1942 it was possible to turn up the spawn rate of AI opponents to be something like ten times what the map was meant to hold

I exploited this by going onto stalingrad, camping near an ammo crate and throwing grenades at their flag from beyond the range where they would even try to hit me

by the end of the round I had killed 1200 men

Auschwitz simulator.

TankHammer

They'll never take me alive! I have power armor and a jet pack and a space ship and I've killed whole armies on my own!

Yesterday I fought a pope using a techno-magic sphere to duplicate myself.

Come at me Red Cross!

Hobnail

Skull Man wrote:

oh my god if I start getting prosecuted for video game crimes...

well, I hope no one checks the abyssal mass grave behind my house full of imperfect IV pokemon

that's gotta be cruelty to something

Who remembers the Armenians Pokemon?

The Geek

Mysst wrote:

The Geek wrote:

Mysst wrote:

the last time I played a member of the military it was in the future against giant bug aliens, so the most I have to worry about is PETA

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

some days I want to get DEATH FROM ABOVE tattooed on my arm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThrVQKl04Ak

Dichotomy

so if they're thinking of punishing people for fictional war crimes are they also considering rewarding people for fictional heroism


'cuz if so I'm gonna need a new jacket to display my seven hundred victoria crosses on

Mayday

Yup, it's right in the article

They want to penalise the bad behaviour and reward the good.

Dark Raven X

Whenever I lost a single Lemming, I would nuke em all.

This is what they get for not following my orders.

Skull Man

Mayday wrote:

Yup, it's right in the article

They want to penalise the bad behaviour and reward the good.

don't games tend to do that already, to a degree

Dark Raven X

Only people who play games know that.