Game violence taken to US court

OmegaFenix

The Legendary Troll Hunter
Their at it again...

California's children are exposed everyday to video games that glamorise killing sprees, torture and sexual assault," Brown said in a statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2519857,00.html

The proposed law requires that violent video games are labelled with an "18" to prevent their sale or rental to minors, with fines of $1 000 for anyone violating the regulations.

Aren't games already marked with a big fat 18?:confused:

Games don't kill people, Fraken Stupid Parents that buy their kiddies R rated games Kill people. :mad:
 
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I bet that guy Brown was teased by the Nintendo and Atari guyz back in school so now he has a grudge against anybody related to video games.
 
we are voilent
we are sexual
we are rebellious

we are so because of

cave drawings
plays
scrolls
books
music
movies
comics
radio
<insert here>


yet we are given our daily fed via real life...
 
Its gna be thrown outta court, this is honestly getting ridiculous and boring. why dont they just blame gaming for terror attacks? :mad:
 
It kind of looks like Americans will sue over just about anything.

Just imagine how much it would suck if they won the court case. I suppose all the old violent games will have to be removed and so forth.

It just won't happen.
 
I don't know about it being thrown out, their legal system seems to have a lot of free time :P

Regarding censorship though, SA is no different, there are a number of titles that never made it "Officially" to our shores, one example is Kingpin, after the demo appeared here it was pulled from active distribution as it was deemed too violent etc.

I don't understand the idea behind blaming external media for ones internal issues.
Music has gotten blamed, after waco, PC games have been the main target though.
Ultra violent games are part and parcel of what makes gaming what it is, whether your shooting zombies or hellspawn, I don't see it causing any serious harm to anyone, even the more impressionable youth.

I can tell you one thing though, we live in an age where parents seem all to eager to pass the buck on final responsibility, I was faced with one such case when starting iGame.
I was asked, by a mother, straight out , if I would accept responsibility in enforcing age restrictions on our servers.
Thats sort of a double edges question, Is it my responsibility, or is it the responsibility of the FPB ( Film and Publications Board who set age restrictions ) , the Retailer that sells the title to people who do not meet the set age restriction , or the parent, who funds the above purchase.

I just smiled, put up a disclaimer and said : " I don't know about responsibility, but I sure will knife him a few times :P "
 
"Ultra Rant time"

These people have no lives..they have no sense of reality and they are completely and utterly idiotic with these pathetic and lame ass accusations!!

1st things 1st...I remember the columbine high school shootings, the 2 guys that killed all those kids had a fixation with "THE MATRIX" the wore the same lame ass jackets as neo and the gang, used the same weapons, wore the same glasses ect. So how the f*ck can someone blame that on the gaming industry???? That was a movie(yes it came out as a game many moons later).

Games that are violent are rated with these huge ass 18+ stamps, The parents buy these games for kids even when they aren't nearly old enough to play them, so why not blame the parents???? That's a new concept but try it you bunch of freaks!!

If kids play video games and then decide to go on a murderous killing spree, its a conscious decision. The video game didn't put a gun to little timmy's head and made him shoot those people!!

Ive been a hardcore gamer all my life, Have I killed anyone??? Have I gone on a killing spree??? No you dumb ass idiotic bored with your life people!!

Stop blaming the gaming industry for your f*ck ups as parents.

"Rant over"
 
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Go Joker. I played DN3D, Quake and all that when i was 14 and 15, been playing hardcore shit all these years and i haven't killed anybody either.
 
Dude, you have no idea how pissed I get about this subject.
I have this intense hate for these BAD parents that have no life, blaming video games...Whatever!!
 
"Ultra Rant time"

These people have no lives..they have no sense of reality and they are completely and utterly idiotic with these pathetic and lame ass accusations!!

1st things 1st...I remember the columbine high school shootings, the 2 guys that killed all those kids had a fixation with "THE MATRIX" the wore the same lame ass jackets as neo and the gang, used the same weapons, wore the same glasses ect. So how the f*ck can someone blame that on the gaming industry???? That was a movie(yes it came out as a game many moons later).

Games that are violent are rated with these huge ass 18+ stamps, The parents buy these games for kids even when they aren't nearly old enough to play them, so why not blame the parents???? That's a new concept but try it you bunch of freaks!!

If kids play video games and then decide to go on a murderous killing spree, its a conscious decision. The video game didn't put a gun to little timmy's head and made him shoot those people!!

Ive been a hardcore gamer all my life, Have I killed anyone??? Have I gone on a killing spree??? No you dumb ass idiotic bored with your life people!!

Stop blaming the gaming industry for your f*ck ups as parents.

"Rant over"

Just a correction it wasn't a Matrix fixation
They blamed it on games Doom, Wolfenstein 3D,
Music : Rammstein, Manson and KMFDM
Movie: Natural Born Killers

Americans are such tards have no one to blame but themselves
 
Just a correction it wasn't a Matrix fixation
They blamed it on games Doom, Wolfenstein 3D,
Music : Rammstein, Manson and KMFDM
Movie: Natural Born Killers

Americans are such tards have no one to blame but themselves

I was wondering about the matrix thing. Im sure it was also part of it. Bloody stupid yanks.
 
Studies have shown that 100% of all killers ate some form of grain product/byproduct in the years leading to the killing. I say ban grain!

I listen to Metal, smoke, drink and play violent games, but yet, I have never killed anyone...

I might have knocked someone senseless, but that was because that person looked for kak. Blaming games for killing is the same as saying food kills, lets all stop eating :mad:

Stupid idiots.
 
Just a correction it wasn't a Matrix fixation
They blamed it on games Doom, Wolfenstein 3D,
Music : Rammstein, Manson and KMFDM
Movie: Natural Born Killers

Americans are such tards have no one to blame but themselves

It was a fixation with the matrix, i watched a 3 hour documentary on the whole issue.
 
These kids who go on these killing sprees already have some other mental issue. But its so much easier to blame games,music,movies or tv then the parents for not being aware of the issues their kids are going through. If the parents were involved 99% of these things wouldn't happen.

I have played all the rpg's and fps which were rated 18 while I was still a kid never got the urge to go on a killing spree. Parents need to know their kids and what they can handle and can't handle. But then I suppose that would be good parenting and it seems most of today's parents aren't interested in that.;)
 
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