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Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
That kid was fucked up and psycho anyways, again, it wasn't the video games. He was trying to manipulate people into thinking that, didn't you read the article?
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
I would bet you that kid would have turned out the same way if he had never seen a video game in his life.
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
That kid was fucked up and psycho anyways, again, it wasn't the video games. He was trying to manipulate people into thinking that, didn't you read the article?
Yeah, my point is it also wasn't really the parents fault.
No one is hurt by the actual playing of a video game, if anything, in the hands of responsible people they're actually a means of preventing violence by providing a harmless way to vent stress, that seems a little more controlled then say, throwing rocks at car windows or whatever other shit retarded fucking kids my age try to pull off.
man, my mom had a brilliant solution to this, my nephew wanted to play GTA 'cause I had it and she said he could as long as he didn't kill anyone. that lasted about 5 minutes.
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
That kid was fucked up and psycho anyways, again, it wasn't the video games. He was trying to manipulate people into thinking that, didn't you read the article?
Yeah, my point is it also wasn't really the parents fault.
We don't know that. The 29-year-old stepmom (warning sign, the stepmom is 14 years older than the kid) said that everyone tried everything they could think of to fix it, and I'm not condemning her or anything, but we don't know that it isn't the parents' fault.
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denihilistAncient and MightyRegistered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
man, my mom had a brilliant solution to this, my nephew wanted to play GTA 'cause I had it and she said he could as long as he didn't kill anyone. that lasted about 5 minutes.
man, my mom had a brilliant solution to this, my nephew wanted to play GTA 'cause I had it and she said he could as long as he didn't kill anyone. that lasted about 5 minutes.
man, my mom had a brilliant solution to this, my nephew wanted to play GTA 'cause I had it and she said he could as long as he didn't kill anyone. that lasted about 5 minutes.
Ambulance/taxi missions?
the kid was 6 at the time
the whole reason he wanted to play was to kill people
he tried, I give him that, drove around in a cop car for awhile and then he was like
"without the killing this game's pretty boring"
then he played tekken
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denihilistAncient and MightyRegistered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
edited March 2007
MY brother used to dress up in the leather gimp suit, stalk hookers and kill them using a knife in GTA: Vice City. The whole time he would shout like a street preacher about the lord.
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denihilistAncient and MightyRegistered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
The whole thing's bullshit, what if some little shit read The Lord of The Flies or watched The Silence of the Lambs? When a new medium comes out, they'll leave video games alone, in the mean time, people just love to bitch about the newest thing.
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denihilistAncient and MightyRegistered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
edited March 2007
coldbrand that is an interesting argument, how long did it take you to memorize it?
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denihilistAncient and MightyRegistered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
Taking all violent games away from kids before 18 is stupid bullshit, there are plenty of kids who reach maturity, well before that magic age that the government tells you is when you're old enough to play some game that includes violent or sexual themes. It's bullshit that everyone should be penalized for Billy Fuck Face in New Jersey because his mother was too busy drinking to go "Oh hey, by the way, ripping someone's spinal cord out like Kano is stupid."
You didn't really read what Knob wrote, did you?
It's well and good to say parents should shoulder the responsibility, but there are too many that don't, and foster care is not a decent alternative. So you need someone else to take care of them. That's where the media comes in. Maybe they aren't the best source, but someone is better than no-one.
Honestly I think you're wrong Knob, I grew up with Mortal Kombat and really I think the idea of hurting other kids is just weak and cowardly. So really, I'm gonna' go ahead and agree with Gabe here and say idiots will be idiots, and place the blame on the parents. There's no fucking excuse that you can't explain to a member smartest species on the planet that killing a fucking police officer or hooker is wrong. If you can't get that through, you shouldn't be parenting in the first place.
Taking all violent games away from kids before 18 is stupid bullshit, there are plenty of kids who reach maturity, well before that magic age that the government tells you is when you're old enough to play some game that includes violent or sexual themes. It's bullshit that everyone should be penalized for Billy Fuck Face in New Jersey because his mother was too busy drinking to go "Oh hey, by the way, ripping someone's spinal cord out like Kano is stupid."
You didn't really read what Knob wrote, did you?
It's well and good to say parents should shoulder the responsibility, but there are too many that don't, and foster care is not a decent alternative. So you need someone else to take care of them. That's where the media comes in. Maybe they aren't the best source, but someone is better than no-one.
Also Kano rips out his opponent's heart.
Sub Zero took the spinal cord with the head.
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited March 2007
Not all M games are equal, though. Both GTA and Halo are rated M. Now, I probably wouldn't let a young kid play GTA just like I wouldn't let him watch The Departed or something like that. But I don't see the harm in letting a young kid play Halo because it's just blasting aliens and that's harmless.
And some kids can see the stuff in GTA and know it's all fake and won't cause them to become murderers. That's why the ratings are there. They're to let parents know in general that a game might not be appropriate for a young kid, but it's really up to them to make a judgement call.
I have no problem with the basic idea that young kids probably shouldn't be exposed to games with really mature themes, but Jack's issue is one of "all M games are terribly, horribly violent and sexual and a pox upon humanity and only people who are 18 or older should be able to buy them with ID from a locked safe behind a counter. Also, I read the bible so I know I'm right."
The problem is further complicated by the stupid kids who respond with nothing more that 'LOL JACK IS A FAGZ AND I SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY ANY GAME I WANT BECAUSE I'M NOT VIOLENT AND I HOPE JACK IS SHOT."
Jack has more than enough fodder to fuel his cause because people, espeically young people, are generally stupid and don't respond to him intelligently. Jack is a smart guy and knows how to work the system. He purposely provokes knee-jerk reactions to make us all look like violoent morons. Plus, he's got that whole "lone holy crusader against the heathen masses" thing going for him that conservative America really digs on.
dammit, didn't anyone here see his latest letter to the board in response to Take two suing him?
it's like some religious manifesto.
i'll go dig it up if you like.
Edit: I was wrong, he sent it to the company covering the lawsuit, here it is:
Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere:
I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered.
This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law--while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.
I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don't own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit:
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:
it shall rejoice in his salvation.
The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back. Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed.
Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games. Jack Thompson
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
edited March 2007
That letter, combined with Glottis, is pure hilarity.
that letter kind of makes me want to shoot him in the face.
Not because he's speaking out against video games or anything like that. I'm 23 and I don't give a shit about anything that douche says.
But that letter is such a gross display of what a festering bag of douche he actually is.
THis is off topic but I was thinking about making a halloween costume that was Jesus on the cross. My idea was that I could make the cross out of foam and glue it to my hands and one foot so while I was walking around it would be a sort of nonsensical brown thing on my back but when people asked what I was I could just assume the crucifix position and look dead.
Nah. You should make your costume like that picture of buff Jesus breaking free of the crucifix. Just get really buff, grow a beard and nail some wood to your hands.
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I guess, but what about the letter that Gabe posted a month or so ago from the woman who was stepmom to one of the little demons that killed that homeless guy?
Honestly, fuck those kids.
Play the murder and sex games when you're old enough.
That kid was fucked up and psycho anyways, again, it wasn't the video games. He was trying to manipulate people into thinking that, didn't you read the article?
I would bet you that kid would have turned out the same way if he had never seen a video game in his life.
Yeah, my point is it also wasn't really the parents fault.
We don't know that. The 29-year-old stepmom (warning sign, the stepmom is 14 years older than the kid) said that everyone tried everything they could think of to fix it, and I'm not condemning her or anything, but we don't know that it isn't the parents' fault.
Ambulance/taxi missions?
the kid was 6 at the time
the whole reason he wanted to play was to kill people
he tried, I give him that, drove around in a cop car for awhile and then he was like
"without the killing this game's pretty boring"
then he played tekken
I hear that
You didn't really read what Knob wrote, did you?
It's well and good to say parents should shoulder the responsibility, but there are too many that don't, and foster care is not a decent alternative. So you need someone else to take care of them. That's where the media comes in. Maybe they aren't the best source, but someone is better than no-one.
But I'm too tired and lazy to make such a choice at the moment.
Also Kano rips out his opponent's heart.
Sub Zero took the spinal cord with the head.
And some kids can see the stuff in GTA and know it's all fake and won't cause them to become murderers. That's why the ratings are there. They're to let parents know in general that a game might not be appropriate for a young kid, but it's really up to them to make a judgement call.
I have no problem with the basic idea that young kids probably shouldn't be exposed to games with really mature themes, but Jack's issue is one of "all M games are terribly, horribly violent and sexual and a pox upon humanity and only people who are 18 or older should be able to buy them with ID from a locked safe behind a counter. Also, I read the bible so I know I'm right."
The problem is further complicated by the stupid kids who respond with nothing more that 'LOL JACK IS A FAGZ AND I SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY ANY GAME I WANT BECAUSE I'M NOT VIOLENT AND I HOPE JACK IS SHOT."
Jack has more than enough fodder to fuel his cause because people, espeically young people, are generally stupid and don't respond to him intelligently. Jack is a smart guy and knows how to work the system. He purposely provokes knee-jerk reactions to make us all look like violoent morons. Plus, he's got that whole "lone holy crusader against the heathen masses" thing going for him that conservative America really digs on.
it's like some religious manifesto.
i'll go dig it up if you like.
Edit: I was wrong, he sent it to the company covering the lawsuit, here it is:
I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered.
This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law--while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.
I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don't own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit:
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:
it shall rejoice in his salvation.
The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back. Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed.
Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games. Jack Thompson
Not because he's speaking out against video games or anything like that. I'm 23 and I don't give a shit about anything that douche says.
But that letter is such a gross display of what a festering bag of douche he actually is.
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Yeah, that is pretty funny
I wonder what Jack's promised reaction will entail. Extrapolating from his letter, it can only be grand.
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Especially on the holiest night of the year.