Oliver

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  1. Posted

    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/04/27/supreme_court_to_rule_on_violent_video_games/

    You know, when I first heard this was happening, I couldn't believe it. A ruling like this would violate basic rights to freedom of speech for minors everywhere, and could potentially cripple the gaming industry. In prior court cases like this, video games have won because regulating their content was deemed unconstitutional.

    Why do people think that video games don't deserve the free speech protection given to films and books? I know that other media have to fight for their right to free speech, but not the extent that video games do. Is it because they're a new form of medium, is it due to their interactive nature, or is it because they somehow don't count as a valid form of artistic expression?

    There's already a ratings system for games, similar to that for movies. Isn't that enough? The only reason kids are playing M-rated games in the first place is because their parents are dumb enough to get the games for them. Well, parents of North America, congratulations: you've proven that since you're not responsible enough to regulate what your kids play, the government's gonna do it for you.

    When I heard about the earlier court cases I wasn't too worried. Surely the first amendment will win in the end. But lately there's been a growing trend of infantilizing anyone under the age of 19 and making it seem like they can't be trusted to make the right decision. To me it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You treat someone like a child, they just might start acting like one. But that's another subject entirely.

    The point is, I wasn't concerned then because I didn't think this was something that would affect more than a state or two at the most, and even then only temporarily. Now that it's reached the supreme court suddenly the idea that games like Bioshock and Fallout will be relegated to the back room with the pornography is plausible. Hell, even Zelda games might be back there with them if the people in charge decide they're too violent.

    Anyway, this is rapidly turning into a rant, and I want to make this more of a discussion. So, your turn.

    You talk about your right, as a minor, for free speech or expression but how is playing a video game an expression of yourself? That's puppying stupid. Vidya gaems are entertainment, nothing more. If you're going to talk about the violation of the right to express yourself freely then say it's a violation of the companies right to produce their own content under their own jurdistiction,

    'Artistic expression'? That's a sketchy territory, I thought artistic expression was paintings and physical objects not billions of digits in binary on a physical disk or flash memory. If you want to create a game engine which renders a whole world of your imagination then that's cool but don't try and pin games which are sold for the purposes of entertainment and money as 'Artistic expression'

    There is a rating system for games but the moms which were born last generation are puppying ignorant and they ignore it, instead they're SHOCKED AND HORRIFIED that the 18+ only/Adults Only(contains drugs violence, sex etc) game they bought for their 8 year old dipshit contains drugs, violence, sex, sexuality, swearing, fear and so forth, thus complaining to the game companies (which bend over backwards because of some PR bullshit, I'd like a company more if they told the moms "puppy you, stop buying our Adults only games for your children, play it yourself and don't let timmy experience it.")

    I agree, it's ridiculous but guess what? They start saying "hurp durp, you cannot sell violent(as defined by our team of lawyers) vidya gaems" the companies stop selling physical copies and heavily invest in direct digital downloads, which currently, resides on the internet and no one can touch the internet because that's a completely different realm.

    Not that this discussion will directly affect the outcome of the grand scheme of things, utimately the people in power are the ones out of touch with the current affairs of society as a whole.

  2. Posted

    As you all know, I'm a big puppying retard for believing that the mayans predicted the end of the world. Discuss.

    Quoted for Justice.

  3. Posted

    I prefer playing it online... Though, I seem to perform better on split-screen.

    I only seem to play with my father locally.

    I'm also rather introverted. I havn't many friends, and the ones I do have, I don't hang out with much.

    NOW, IF PEOPLE LIKE YLA PLAYED WITH ME, I'D BE LESS LONELY.

    Then maybe you should play with those friends.

    I have access to a one-month subscription and I wouldn't mind doing multiplayer with you though I don't have a headset.

  4. Posted

    Only lonely if you have no IRL friends to play it with. Must suck, tbh. I think I'm gonna do the campaign again w/ Mythic and Thunderstorm.

  6. Posted

    Wow, here's a gold star for your spectacular feat of common sense. It's not like it was advertised anywhere that any modded Xbox 360 would be banned from XboxLIVE. gold_star.jpg

    In other news:

  7. Posted

    I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

    Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

    But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

    In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

    But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

    We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

    It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

    But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

    The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

    We cannot walk alone.

    And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

    We cannot turn back.

    There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."ยน

    I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

    Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

    And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

    I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

    I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

    I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

    I have a dream today!

    I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

    I have a dream today!

    I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

  12. Posted

    Dude, are you puppying kidding me? Swampert is up there with Quagsire. So the puppy what if he has 4x weakness to Grass? No one uses Grass.

  20. Posted

    WHY, WON'T, YOU DIE?!?!

    <They mob you, hitting you with their Silver swords, you are at 20% HP>

    <You hit them but they don't seem to be hurt>

    >Stay and fight

    >Run away

    >Yield

  23. Posted

    I just remember Tarrius being an asshole.

    And, lo and behold, look at the first post he made coming back.

    And it wasn't even that he was being an asshole to Puck, that was fine, it was just that he hadn't read the topic, hadn't given any real thought to his answer, just came up with some "be a man" shit.

    Well, if it's bullshit, why do men get laid? I forget, this is a Zelda forum. How silly of me.