The UK doesn't have an Admendment 1 equivalent that is sanctioned as such, yeah, you can't sell a Mature Rated game to a minor, just as much as you can't sell a T rated game to a 10 year old. Such a thing is in the United States, it has always been there, but most retailers ignored it because it wasn't good for business, and now the opposite is proving to be that way.
Figure that crock of horse crap out.
Jack Thompson kept trying to point the issue to the game having imagery that has been made in real life first before Pong was every invented, let alone the first f'in Etcha-sketch back in the 50's.
Social hostility has been around many years before even Ms. Thompson himself was every born, perhaps if he did his research, he wouldn't be so f'in stupid.
The Mob, the Mafia, the rise of Caesar and the Ransacking of the Roman Empire an 375BC. Yeah, that's violence before video games were invented.
How about tag?
How about full-contact football when bones are broken?
How about the locker-room fight between a straight guy not liking the gay guy? Hello, it's not video games causing this?
A black kid having his head dunked in a dirty toilet? That's been around since the first publis schools had recess and their own damn bathrooms. You don't like the kid, you get yourself and a few buddies to shit and piss in a toilet and then dunk the kids head into it and flush it. That's been around for a long time, a very, very long time.
Hell, that's like saying just joining the Army makes you a violent person.
I'm a non-violent person, I've played Doom up until Doom 2, I've played the original Wolfenstein, I've played Half Life, I've played Halo, and Halo 2, I've played Grand Theft Auto, I've played Unreal Tournament and UT 2004, I've played BattleField 1942 and BF2, I've played Medal of Honor and its expansions, I've played so many damn games, and a lot of them Ms. Thompson are citing I HAVE PLAYED, and still am non-violent. This, however, does NOT mean I do not have an urge to not want to kill someone. I want to kill Ms. Thompson himself, but you do not see me running off on that whim, no do you? That's because, despite being a gamer, I'm still non-violent. Would I become violent if the situation forced me into it? Most definitely. I, however, find that killing someone in a video game, brings a wanted relief to any pent up aggression from an earlier situation.
My 9th grade fight, started because some guy said I was throwing candy at him and his friends, I considered putting him in the hospital, just for touching me and trying to blame me for the candy throwing. I decided against it, because if I put him in the hospital, I would have ended up in juvy while he basically got to relax in the hospital. I did not feel a single hit on me from in while I stood there and took it. We both ended up with supervised probation, and we had the next 2 weeks off from school. What did I do? killed people in the old Wolfenstein for a while before going to kill people in MechWarrior 3, and I felt better, a lot better. I let my aggression go into the game. But that didn't stop me later on in my Junior year to floor his ass out of nowhere and go right to my class. I broke the motherfuckers jaw. I know how many saw me do it, too, at least 100 people. I know of at least 50 that didn't know him, 30 that didn't like him, and 20 that hated him - of which those 20 knew 30 other people that didn't know him to convince them to say they didn't see how it happened, of which those other 30 socialized with all the rest in the hall, which would spread the word not to say who did it. Of the original 20? I knew 5 of them personally. The perfect fucking crime. He didn't even see it coming, let alone who did it to him. If Ms. Thompson heard that one? He'd probably try to pin it on some wrestling game or some FPS game with physical combat in it.
Of course gamers are going to say Violent Video Games don't cause Violence in Gamers, BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT THERE ON THE FRONT LINE YOU DUMBASS. You cite evidence to say violent games cause violence in kids, and it's a total lie, you know it better than anyone, because you FUND the research to go your way, while real research says completely the opposite, and is actually truthful, unlike your research.
Now, notice he's constantly going after Rockstar Games... considering Dice (Owned by EA) produces BattleField '42 and BF2, Atari produces Unreal and Unreal Tournament series, of which the UT series is really the pinnacle of violence of the senseless violence, he only goes after Rockstar. That's the only reason he is successful, because Rockstar in all truthfulness, doesn't know any better when it comes to dealing with his kind. If he went after Dice and EA, or Atari, he'd be beat down, and I'm sure he knows that, but he'll eventually go after them.
I'm waiting for the crime that gets commited, and he says it was a gamer that got the idea from a game, finds out the guy NEVER touched a game in his life because he didn't want to be a geek.
Adam Sessler was right, it's not games, it's the poor condition of the poorer-90% of this fucking country that causes it, the poor condition of schools, let alone teachers aren't paid enough to give a flying fuck about actually teaching you.
The only way to really get rich is:
1) Drug Trafficking
2) Career Criminalism
3) Acting
4) Politics
5) Lawyerism
6) Musician
Drug Trafficking is the most risking of the ventures, Career Criminalism is a second.
Acting is hard to get into. You really have to have talent, and often have to go to school for it, same with Politics and Law. Go fig, like people are going to take the HARD WAY for it, you stupid dipshit. Going into Drug Trafficking and Career Criminalism are by far the easiest there to do.
Becoming a Mucisian can be easy, but generally, it's rather hard. Why? If you can't lip-sync or even audio-sync, then you have no hope. If you can't sing or even play an instrument, you're still screwed, this is the harder to do than the former.
Blaming games for violence has been proven a fallacy, more than once, more than 100 times, more than 1000 times and even more than 100,000 times. Look at history before you start blaming something unique to the 20th and 21st centuries, violence has existed long before the Video Game.
There's reasons for violence, and none of which are actually caused by Violent Video games or Violent Movies.
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