Quote: "If Clinton wins the Presidency in 2008, I'm worried... petrified... that it will only spell disaster for our country"
Geez man, he can't be worse then bloody bush, the man that had to win his first election with a lawyer, the man that spread lies around about WMD, then invaded a country on a false premise (yes saddam should have been removed, but not on the basis of scare mongering and lies, that just reduces the american goverement to a dictator ship, and destorys your ideal's of "freedom of choice" for dictatorship by fear and propagander), the man who approched the world for permission then said "sod you" when it wasn't the answer he wanted. Beleive me, your country is already in big trouble.
Anyway back onto the subject. I love the way people are blaming the perants constantly
. Remember modern computer technology is pretty alien to alot of them. They have no idea what the lastest system can do, they come from an age of pong, side scrollers, and where the most violence you get was an animated red sprite. How many perants to do know, have time to play computer games? Yes they've put aged on boxed games for ages, but nothing up until recent years has approched any level of real, realisam. Now you have physics animating the way a dead corpse slides down the stairs. You have realistic fluids spurting from vanes, it's all sooo totally different from when they where kids. I suspect half of this outrage comes from perants who are shocked into reality. The only way to solve the perant issue is to kill off the existing generation who are totally clueless and allow the next generation to take over. Personally I think what I'll do if I ever become a perant, is just give my kid a bunch of old games and a low spec system.
Quote: "I was minor when i played Manhunt"
I'm sorry but that game was discusting and irresponsible of developers. Most games you act as some kind of hero, saving the day, that means there is some hint of morality within it, even with quake games you are a long warrior battling to save earth. With hitman, there was a reasonable story to it, you had a murderer, the central character is clearly a weak person but was at least trying to save a friend, and had tried to reform himself, and running off to save a preist by killing others (given what preists stand for) is shoddy reasoning at best, but you can see the reasons he's doing it. But in that, there is still a morality. I'm sorry but Carmageddon started this sort of thing, running over people in cars for no good reason (even they realised this was true and turned them into zombies afterwards). Games like manhunt really are horrible examples of what the games industry is willing to produce, you have a murderer, you have a sadistic film maker, and a scoring system that promoted a points for the most burtual killing possible. I mean what next? A game called sexual preditor? where the user must go to clubs, drug women and rape them? No there are limits, and it is partly down to developers not to break them, because once someone does, others will do the same. Once a rule or guideline is broken it's easier to break again. The movie industry has realised this at least in the main stream, there are some truely horrible films out there that I hope I never see, that have been banned with good reason. I do think some games shouldn't be allowed at all.
Quote: "And true as it is that teens have sex at 14"
No one at the age of 14 is either phyically or emotionally, or mentally mature enough to have sex at that age, normal or not. Alot of people at 24 aren't even ready for it! Treating it as a game of "how many can I have", qauntity over quaility. Teenage pregnacy is never a good thing, but it's not just games that promote this idea of sex being nothing but a game, every advert and tv show has some eliment of that.
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