you'd be asking the wrong person, because I doubt she could answer them if she tried. That's one of the things I hate about ANY interview..not just Faux news. People throw stats at each other as if they're irrefutable evidence. but the old saying goes...stats don't lie but liars use stats.
I think its hilarious that no one is picking up on the LAST word that actually got said which does pretty much sum up the salient point here: if you are a parent - be active in your kids gaming habits (yes that includes locking up the XBOX/PS3 when you arent at home).
Yeah, but to quote the blonde: "Yeah. But it's getting SO hard to be a parent out there." Yeah. You're right, it's so hard to be a parent. If you think that it's going to be too hard for you, close your legs and PLEASE don't have any children.
It's not hard to set the parental controls on the machine. And it's really hard to buy a game if you're under 17 that's rated M.
Even if the kid does manage to buy the game, what do you do when you see him playing it? Say, "Well, shit, I guess I did all I could"? Fuck no - take it away from him (maybe pay him back some of the money) as punishment for buying an adult game when you (presumably) told him not to. That would have been the very least I would expect from my parents if they found porn in my possession when I was too young.
From what I have heard, this book is not just pornographic and ethically-repulsive, it is dangerous. Unlike the video game and movie industries, the publishing industry is not regulated by a ratings authority. There is no mechanism in place to inform parents about the contents of this book, or any other book, before allowing their children to read.
This book's title seems positive, when the actual book is anything but. The effort of the author and publishing company to market this book towards children is disturbing to say the least. While they claim that this book is actually marketed towards young adult women there is not yet an effective way to stop children from purchasing this book. The purveyors know this and see it as nothing more than an advantage to their bottom line.
And even if there was such a mechanism in place, do you really think that children wont be able to get their hands on this book? Do you keep your pornographic books in a locked safe? The majority of book readers do nothing to protect their children from offensive books. And why should they have to? The job of being a parent is hard enough without filth like this infecting our children's minds.
This was my favourite.
Damn unregulated book industry running rampant, destroying our children and their minds.
I think its hilarious that no one is picking up on the LAST word that actually got said which does pretty much sum up the salient point here: if you are a parent - be active in your kids gaming habits (yes that includes locking up the XBOX/PS3 when you arent at home).
Yeah, but to quote the blonde: "Yeah. But it's getting SO hard to be a parent out there." Yeah. You're right, it's so hard to be a parent. If you think that it's going to be too hard for you, close your legs and PLEASE don't have any children.
It's not hard to set the parental controls on the machine. And it's really hard to buy a game if you're under 17 that's rated M.
Even if the kid does manage to buy the game, what do you do when you see him playing it? Say, "Well, shit, I guess I did all I could"? Fuck no - take it away from him (maybe pay him back some of the money) as punishment for buying an adult game when you (presumably) told him not to. That would have been the very least I would expect from my parents if they found porn in my possession when I was too young.
ahh but then you wouldn't be the "cool parent" can't have that now can we.
Hmmm, I'm thinking it'd be alot of fun to call in and complain about the graphic sexual content featured in Viva Pinata, and the over the top violence it includes. Also comment on the fact that the sex scenes are interactive in the form of a mini game.
Could really help Fox look ridiculous even to the general public on this one.
Okay guys, I just looked up the video on Youtube...
Wow... okay? That was worth all this fucking brew-haha? All this 'outrage'? Man, if people are really pissed about this shit, then they are just being shmucks and acting all sensationalist to get public attention, which they are getting...
The Amazon raid was great. Initially it was tastefully done and just completely smacked of delicious irony and poetic justice. She bashes a product without using said product, well so did the raid. She complains that the game objectifies women. But wait a minute, why is she on the cover of her own book in a sexy, provocative pose?
I missed the link the first time I read through the page, but this comment made me look again for it.
I wonder if this would push for more sales of Mass Effect.
"Oh my god, Johnny. Did you hear about that Vidya game? It's got full frontal nudity and SEX in it! It was called Mass Gravity or something like that. Can ya believe it?"
"Really? Well uh, yeah that's fucking awful... It's terrible!--I'm going to step out for a moment."
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From what I have heard, this book is not just pornographic and ethically-repulsive, it is dangerous. Unlike the video game and movie industries, the publishing industry is not regulated by a ratings authority. There is no mechanism in place to inform parents about the contents of this book, or any other book, before allowing their children to read.
This book's title seems positive, when the actual book is anything but. The effort of the author and publishing company to market this book towards children is disturbing to say the least. While they claim that this book is actually marketed towards young adult women there is not yet an effective way to stop children from purchasing this book. The purveyors know this and see it as nothing more than an advantage to their bottom line.
And even if there was such a mechanism in place, do you really think that children wont be able to get their hands on this book? Do you keep your pornographic books in a locked safe? The majority of book readers do nothing to protect their children from offensive books. And why should they have to? The job of being a parent is hard enough without filth like this infecting our children's minds.
This was my favourite.
Damn unregulated book industry running rampant, destroying our children and their minds.
Hmmm, I'm thinking it'd be alot of fun to call in and complain about the graphic sexual content featured in Viva Pinata, and the over the top violence it includes. Also comment on the fact that the sex scenes are interactive in the form of a mini game.
Could really help Fox look ridiculous even to the general public on this one.
I would say to tell them that Pokemon encourages enslaving animals and forcing them to have sex, but I'm pretty sure there was an actual anti-Pokemon thing going back when it was really big, so nevermind I guess.
Hmmm, I'm thinking it'd be alot of fun to call in and complain about the graphic sexual content featured in Viva Pinata, and the over the top violence it includes. Also comment on the fact that the sex scenes are interactive in the form of a mini game.
Could really help Fox look ridiculous even to the general public on this one.
I would say to tell them that Pokemon encourages enslaving animals and forcing them to have sex, but I'm pretty sure there was an actual anti-Pokemon thing going back when it was really big, so nevermind I guess.
There was. A few different angles. One of them was encouraging dogfighting or cockfighting, another was the vague references to non-Christian mythologies, and a third was because some dumb kid in either Turkey or China (I remember similar incidents in both countries, can't remember which this was) jumped off a balcony claiming he could fly because he was Ponyta.
Hmmm, I'm thinking it'd be alot of fun to call in and complain about the graphic sexual content featured in Viva Pinata, and the over the top violence it includes. Also comment on the fact that the sex scenes are interactive in the form of a mini game.
Could really help Fox look ridiculous even to the general public on this one.
I would say to tell them that Pokemon encourages enslaving animals and forcing them to have sex, but I'm pretty sure there was an actual anti-Pokemon thing going back when it was really big, so nevermind I guess.
There was. A few different angles. One of them was encouraging dogfighting or cockfighting, another was the vague references to non-Christian mythologies, and a third was because some dumb kid in either Turkey or China (I remember similar incidents in both countries, can't remember which this was) jumped off a balcony claiming he could fly because he was Ponyta.
Ponyta can't fly.
Neither can Chinese kids.
Man there is an entire class of Pokemon marked "flying." There's really no excuse for that.
Anyway, I'm not really angry at the original clip. I'm a little flabbergasted, but at this point I guess I'm used to it by now. Big points to EA for actually defending Bioware, though.
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If EA could demonstrate actual loss of sales & reputation from this then they might be able to bring some sort of slander suit up. Too bad that the opposite is probably likely to happen.
Actually, I'm not sure whether to say which would be a bad thing.
I'm not sure that the group of people who watch Fox News and the group of people who buy video games purely for their alleged sexual content overlap very much.
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
I'm not sure that the group of people who watch Fox News and the group of people who buy video games purely for their alleged sexual content overlap very much.
Actually I would assume that a high rate of Fox News viewers are weird closet perverts.
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
i love how you must do this in all mass effect threads. .
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
But Pancake! Don't YOU have an ME avatar?!!!
This isn't about me, this is about rebuilding a great conservative Christian America.
Anyone know anything about that study the Fox "expert" was talking about at the end? Something about kids who play video games can't tell the difference between reality and the game?
I asked this back on page 1, and didn't get a response. So I just did some very rudimentary Googling, and I found this, which seems to respond to our question fairly well.
I wonder if she's seen the studies that calculate the average age of gamers at 33 years old.
I don't know many 60+ year old gamers who might be skewing that average. I certainly know a lot of young kids who play video games, so to bring the average upwards of 30, there have to be A LOT of 30-somethings playing games.
To be fair, that study DID happen to list one six-thousand year old gamer.
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I don't even think that this news report even deserved the attention necessary to produce a rebuttal. But if you want Western media outlets to really think twice before producing something you disagree with you could riot over small inaccuracies and ill-perceived slights and perhaps even behead a few people. But even then, don't expect decent reporting. I mean for Christ sakes, how the hell does Bill Oreilly have a job anyhow?
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
But Pancake! Don't YOU have an ME avatar?!!!
This isn't about me, this is about rebuilding a great conservative Christian America.
We /// we have to observe tradition. There has to be some way to turn this around so we can get backi to hating EA for dissolving Origin.
Hmmm ... EA planned a scheme where they would pay Fox News to badmouth a critical success and then EA would ride in like a white knight, defending Mass Effect. Gamers would rejoice and buy three copies of Crysis to celebrate. Nice try, EA - your clever, shadowy PR maneuvers can't fool us!
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
seriously im worried. these are truly the end of days. duke nukem forever is coming out, and the best nintendo ds game on the horizon is a sonic the hedgehog rpg by bioware.
You know what makes this such a joke? God of War as exposed tits, an interactive sex scene and is jam packed with gratuitous violence, including the killing of innocent people, but I don't remember FOX attacking that game. Nope, instead they go after the rather tastefully-done game.
You know what makes this such a joke? God of War as exposed tits, an interactive sex scene and is jam packed with gratuitous violence, including the killing of innocent people, but I don't remember FOX attacking that game. Nope, instead they go after the rather tastefully-done game.
Are you saying God of War wasn't tasteful?
Kratos was being tasteful.Why do you think they were alive afterwards?
You know what makes this such a joke? God of War as exposed tits, an interactive sex scene and is jam packed with gratuitous violence, including the killing of innocent people, but I don't remember FOX attacking that game. Nope, instead they go after the rather tastefully-done game.
Are you saying God of War wasn't tasteful?
Kratos was being tasteful.Why do you think they were alive afterwards?
Kratos is quite the gent, I admit, but I don't think America will agree with us here.
You know what makes this such a joke? God of War as exposed tits, an interactive sex scene and is jam packed with gratuitous violence, including the killing of innocent people, but I don't remember FOX attacking that game. Nope, instead they go after the rather tastefully-done game.
God of War is a heroic tale and history lesson of the trials and tribulations of the God Kratos.
You know what makes this such a joke? God of War as exposed tits, an interactive sex scene and is jam packed with gratuitous violence, including the killing of innocent people, but I don't remember FOX attacking that game. Nope, instead they go after the rather tastefully-done game.
Seriously. God of War IS exactly the type of game these people just love sinking their teeth into, AND it's massively popular. You're pretty much rewarded at every turn for acting completely immorally - in fact, the game REQUIRES YOU TO (something which isn't even true of Grand Theft Auto).
Screw God of War, didn't The Witcher effectively have a collectible card game of screwing women?
Not to mention some of the worst porn dialog of the decade. "In there? I might get my frock dirty." "I have potions for that."
Edit: We could probably talk all day about how there are better games to target, but meh. Remember when for YEARS the only game anybody could attack was Doom? Entire series of far more violent games were born and died before they got off of poor old pixelated Doom.
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Partial nudity in 2008? Civilization is eroding right before our very eyes!
Enlist in Star Citizen! Citizenship must be earned!
Even if the kid does manage to buy the game, what do you do when you see him playing it? Say, "Well, shit, I guess I did all I could"? Fuck no - take it away from him (maybe pay him back some of the money) as punishment for buying an adult game when you (presumably) told him not to. That would have been the very least I would expect from my parents if they found porn in my possession when I was too young.
This was my favourite.
Damn unregulated book industry running rampant, destroying our children and their minds.
ahh but then you wouldn't be the "cool parent" can't have that now can we.
Enlist in Star Citizen! Citizenship must be earned!
Could really help Fox look ridiculous even to the general public on this one.
Wow... okay? That was worth all this fucking brew-haha? All this 'outrage'? Man, if people are really pissed about this shit, then they are just being shmucks and acting all sensationalist to get public attention, which they are getting...
Holy shit, she got destroyed.
"Oh my god, Johnny. Did you hear about that Vidya game? It's got full frontal nudity and SEX in it! It was called Mass Gravity or something like that. Can ya believe it?"
"Really? Well uh, yeah that's fucking awful... It's terrible!--I'm going to step out for a moment."
Okay Jayne
Oh god this is hilarious.
I would say to tell them that Pokemon encourages enslaving animals and forcing them to have sex, but I'm pretty sure there was an actual anti-Pokemon thing going back when it was really big, so nevermind I guess.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
There was. A few different angles. One of them was encouraging dogfighting or cockfighting, another was the vague references to non-Christian mythologies, and a third was because some dumb kid in either Turkey or China (I remember similar incidents in both countries, can't remember which this was) jumped off a balcony claiming he could fly because he was Ponyta.
Anyway, I'm not really angry at the original clip. I'm a little flabbergasted, but at this point I guess I'm used to it by now. Big points to EA for actually defending Bioware, though.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Actually, I'm not sure whether to say which would be a bad thing.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Why are you defending EA when all Fox News has done was report something good that will help parents keep their children away from this filth?
Whatever happened to good conservative values? This new America we live in is disgusting and so are all of you faggots and your limp-wristed liberal agendas. Go whine about the healthcare system (which is the best in the world) or throw false accusations at our brave soldiers in Iraq and let people parent their children.
Actually I would assume that a high rate of Fox News viewers are weird closet perverts.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
i love how you must do this in all mass effect threads.
But Pancake! Don't YOU have an ME avatar?!!!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
This isn't about me, this is about rebuilding a great conservative Christian America.
To be fair, that study DID happen to list one six-thousand year old gamer.
This is in such poor taste and I love you for it.
Color me shocked!
I don't even think that this news report even deserved the attention necessary to produce a rebuttal. But if you want Western media outlets to really think twice before producing something you disagree with you could riot over small inaccuracies and ill-perceived slights and perhaps even behead a few people. But even then, don't expect decent reporting. I mean for Christ sakes, how the hell does Bill Oreilly have a job anyhow?
Zieg Heil!
I never asked for this!
Pervert!
Game footage which they stole from IGN. They illegally took the video footage from the IGN video reviews and cropped out the IGN watermark.
Hillary rants about having FOX steal his "Queenie Shepard" for a bit on the new TRL podcast.
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PLEASE be sarcasm...
PLEASE
/kidding i know it is
Are you saying God of War wasn't tasteful?
Kratos was being tasteful.Why do you think they were alive afterwards?
Kratos is quite the gent, I admit, but I don't think America will agree with us here.
God of War is a heroic tale and history lesson of the trials and tribulations of the God Kratos.
Thus it's education.
Seriously. God of War IS exactly the type of game these people just love sinking their teeth into, AND it's massively popular. You're pretty much rewarded at every turn for acting completely immorally - in fact, the game REQUIRES YOU TO (something which isn't even true of Grand Theft Auto).
Not to mention some of the worst porn dialog of the decade. "In there? I might get my frock dirty." "I have potions for that."
Edit: We could probably talk all day about how there are better games to target, but meh. Remember when for YEARS the only game anybody could attack was Doom? Entire series of far more violent games were born and died before they got off of poor old pixelated Doom.