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Vasagi
04-07-2008, 05:01 AM
Article at EW.com where King talks about the Mass. video game violence bill.

Stephen King: Videogame Lunacy (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20188502,00.html)

Seriously ... SK for president.

Nerak
04-07-2008, 05:15 AM
That was a good article. Read it over the weekend.

Wuducynn
04-07-2008, 08:06 AM
Great article, and I agree with him for the most part.

Daghain
04-07-2008, 08:16 AM
I totally agree with him. I'm really getting tired of this bubble-wrapping the world crap.

ves_ka_Gan
04-07-2008, 11:42 AM
Right, cause you can't baby everybody forever. That kind of coddling will lead to kids being carried through a world of bubble wrap, then be thrust out into the real world, where they'll fall apart at the first sign of trouble.

Matt
04-07-2008, 11:44 AM
I've always felt that way and totally agree. Getting hurt feelings every now and then is a part of being human.

^in regards to everyone being so PC

Wuducynn
04-07-2008, 11:50 AM
I'm offended

mae
04-07-2008, 11:52 AM
God of War and the 50 Cent game have nothing in common. Otherwise, he says true.

fernandito
04-07-2008, 12:16 PM
God of War and the 50 Cent game have nothing in common...

Those games were mentioned in the same sentence because they both have certain aspects about them that are controversial in the way the article is describing : 50 Cent because of the gang related violence and vulgarity, and God of War for its endless amount of bloodshed.

/k/ommando
04-13-2008, 10:33 AM
I would rather have kids blowing pixels off each other than blowing bloody chunks off each other.

Ruthful
04-13-2008, 02:01 PM
God of War and the 50 Cent game have nothing in common...

Those games were mentioned in the same sentence because they both have certain aspects about them that are controversial in the way the article is describing : 50 Cent because of the gang related violence and vulgarity, and God of War for its endless amount of bloodshed.


50 Cent has a videogame now?

obscurejude
04-13-2008, 04:23 PM
His game was about as short lived as his movie, thankfully. Fuck that guy.

Mattrick
04-13-2008, 10:08 PM
His game was about as short lived as his movie, thankfully. Fuck that guy.

False, since the sequel is coming out.

ZoNeSeeK
04-13-2008, 11:38 PM
Good on him. Politicians who believe that violent video games create violent behaviour are lazy and stupid and probably shouldn't be in a position to fuckup any more legislation. Children tend to copy their adult role models, not images on a screen.

razz
04-17-2008, 03:47 PM
Funny you mention this, yesterday on he radio, they were lking on the radio about this, and tese guys who did a study proved that
1. games don't case violence in kids
2. kids who don't play VGs are more likely to be violent
3. teen violence has dropped significantly in the last 30 yeas, as games became more popular.

Darkthoughts
04-18-2008, 02:01 AM
SK wasn't saying though "Theres nothing wrong with violent videogames", he was saying that they're a reflection of society, as opposed to them dictating behaviour.

The trouble with legislations of this kind are that, the powers that be seem to simply use vidoe games, rock music etc as scapegoats rather than looking at psychological predispositions or family dynamics. They want to the point the finger in a direction where theres room for them to remove the "cause" rather than having to say "we all need to take a good long look at ourselves, and its still going to be a long hard road even if we can do that honestly."

I thought it was a good article and it made a good point. As SK said, why worry about banning shoot em up video games, when it would seem people can obtain real guns just as easily.

Matt
04-18-2008, 06:21 AM
Exactly...its not the cause, its the effect.

jhanic
04-18-2008, 07:06 AM
This whole argument is SO reminiscent of the crusades against the horror comic books back in the '50s. A large number of publishers ended up going out of business because their opponents used almost exactly the same arguments you hear today regarding video games.

STUPIDITY!

John

razz
04-18-2008, 04:31 PM
so in 20 years, videogames will be as violent as they want, with little to no regulation. And govts. will find a new scapegoat when they finally run out of ways to chastise the gaming industry.

jhanic
04-18-2008, 05:53 PM
You got it!!

John

Mark
04-18-2008, 07:27 PM
So, what i'm reading here is, that people under 18 wont be able to buy 18 games? Isn't that what already happens? And, anyway, i just get my Mum to buy it for me.