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Geek Culture / Gamers being represented

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 13th Mar 2006 20:51 Edited at: 13th Mar 2006 20:51
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http://www.videogamevoters.org/

In the U.S. they're talking about the Family Entertainment Protection Act. This site is a means of making the voice of gamers heard politically. Fill in your info and they send an automated letter to senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Joe Lieberman (D-CT), and Evan Bayh (D-IN).

Show your support guys! Some game industry articles have speculated that a motive of these politicians attacking videogames is that it's a safe avenue for taking political action in a cause to win the support of many concerned mothers while not losing many existing supporters since gamers are not typically active in current issues. We need to show them otherwise.


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Cian Rice
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Posted: 13th Mar 2006 21:49
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I'll definatly participate. I mean honestly I believe that video games should not be trated in such a hrash way. I mean even the ESRB is overly harsh... Eg: OMGZ! This game has a tiny bit of blood in it.

We have to give it an M for Mature rating!

Meanwhile there are Pg-13 movies with plentiful amounts of blood.. =/

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Posted: 14th Mar 2006 11:48
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ratings are nonsensicle, I am still trying to work out why Star Wars episode 4 is rated U, and the "making of Star Wars" supplimental CD in the same set is rated PG , or why LOTR bounces from PG to 12 and then Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow is PG and Van Helsing is rated 12 (for those who havent seen either they are pretty much comic book storys made into a movie), ratings make no sense whatsoever.



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Mattman
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Posted: 14th Mar 2006 14:34
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Our movie ratings are pretty consistent here.

Why make sense when you could make brownies?
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Van B
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Posted: 14th Mar 2006 16:43
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Over where? Britain?

Yeah, I'm assuming Blighty because I'd agree that it was quite well maintined over here - it's actually not strictly abided by, but most parents would use it as a general guide, like taking 2 years off the recommended limit for example, as most british 16 year olds have commited more attrocities than they'd ever see in a movie!.

Really, it should be a (sensible) parents decision whether or not a movie is suitible for their kid. If your kid is more sensitive to violence then it's upto the parent to put in measures preventing them from seeing anything they shouldn't. Heck, when I was about 9 or 10 my uncle let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street, to be honest I remember being more scared at Doctor Who (damn you Davros you freak!) than the adorable Freddy.


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