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Video Games are a Form of Expression

Mr. PoeMr. Poe Registered User new member
edited August 2007 in Games and Technology
Woot.

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Background, discussion, what is this?

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Shit, I think I just got served.

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  • plufimplufim Dr Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    You could at least tell us what page to look on. Much better, provide the relevant quote in the OP, as well as some background.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Should've RickRoll'd me, would've been more interesting.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    ben0207 wrote: »
    Should've RickRoll'd me, would've been more interesting.

    i don't know what you're talking about

    edit: and to be sort-of on topic, if this is the story i'm thinking about, isn't this the judge who agreed that games are a form of expression, and so should be protected by the First Amendment, but wasn't completely happy with the idea (or something). What i don't understand is, are violent (and i mean games that feature adult amounts of violence) legally allowed to be sold to children, or not? And if so, why can't they be rated the same as films, rather than what appears to be a 'suggested rating' at the moment.

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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Pretty damn inexpressive OP, considering the title.

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Pretty damn inexpressive OP, considering the title.
    It turns out video games are his only form of expression.

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  • slacktronslacktron Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    His first and only post. I smell shillery and call shenaniganery. A pretty poe first effort, truth be told.

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  • Clutch414Clutch414 Dodge Swinger.... ...WHENEVER IT FEELS RIGHT!!!Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Adrien wrote: »
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Pretty damn inexpressive OP, considering the title.
    It turns out video games are his only form of expression.

    Ohh...the delicious irony?

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    that thing wrote:
    "Violent video game" means a video game in which the range of options
    available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting
    an image of a human being"

    Good news, everyone, raping animals is still OK.

    *whew*

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    slacktron wrote: »
    His first and only post. I smell shillery and call shenaniganery. A pretty poe first effort, truth be told.

    What, he's shilling out a law in the state of California?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Nickle wrote: »
    that thing wrote:
    "Violent video game" means a video game in which the range of options
    available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting
    an image of a human being"

    Good news, everyone, raping animals is still OK.

    *whew*

    Yeah, violence in quite a few definitions only refers to actions against humans. If I blow up a house, it isn't violent.

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Nickle wrote: »
    that thing wrote:
    "Violent video game" means a video game in which the range of options
    available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting
    an image of a human being"

    Good news, everyone, raping animals is still OK.

    *whew*

    Yeah, violence in quite a few definitions only refers to actions against humans. If I blow up a house, it isn't violent.

    I know, I was just worried there for a moment. I'm not sure what I'd do if they took my hobbies away from me.

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    This thread isn't going to last too long.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    rayofash wrote: »
    This thread isn't going to last too long.

    Well no, not with posts like that.


    We should discuss persuasivegames.com, and the guy that was on the Colbert Report last night. He's totally retarded, and his games suck. In my humble opinion that is.

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  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Nickle wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Nickle wrote: »
    that thing wrote:
    "Violent video game" means a video game in which the range of options
    available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting
    an image of a human being"

    Good news, everyone, raping animals is still OK.

    *whew*

    Yeah, violence in quite a few definitions only refers to actions against humans. If I blow up a house, it isn't violent.

    I know, I was just worried there for a moment. I'm not sure what I'd do if they took my hobbies away from me.

    Just use the .50 excuse: "I was killing his belt!" :P

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    rayofash wrote: »
    This thread isn't going to last too long.

    Well no, not with posts like that.


    We should discuss persuasivegames.com, and the guy that was on the Colbert Report last night. He's totally retarded, and his games suck. In my humble opinion that is.

    Let's make fun of his googly eyes!



    Seriously, though, with him, I like the medium, but not the message. I wish he'd stop saying that he uses games to educate, when really he is just trying to push his own subjective agendas on the issues.



    Hell, I'm a pretty liberal dude myself, and haven't really foundanything I actually disagree with him on (albeit, I haven't looked that hard) but I HATE it when people no only presume that their opinions are right beyond a shadow of a doubt, but then go on to teach those opinions to others as "fact". How isthat any different from setting up a creationism museum thatstates thatman walked with dinosaurs?



    But yeah, googly eyes!

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