Showing posts with label Blame it on the Game.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blame it on the Game.. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
German School Shooter Played Counter-Strike
German School Shooter Played Counter-StrikeBy lindsay As you have been informed by the mainstream media for quite some time now, video games are the root of all evil....(read more)
Monday, November 06, 2006
To Lose A PlayStation 3…
To Lose A PlayStation 3…
Spong -
Yes, that’s right, some ‘dewd’ in
Saturday, October 21, 2006
ISU researchers part of summit on violent video game
ISU researchers part of summit on violent video game
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA
... He says they hope to work with the video game industry and the software ratings board so people realize that there are some risks to letting children play ...
Police: Brother Shoots Brother Over Video Game
Police: Brother Shoots Brother Over Video Game
Source: NBC13.com - Birmingham,AL,USA MONTGOMERY, Ala.
A late-night argument between siblings over a video game led one to shoot the other. Few details are known, but ...
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*sigh* So which game will be blamed for this one?
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Blam it on the Game: The Terrell Owens Story.
As you might have heard, Terrel Ownens may or may not have tried to kill himself by overdoseing on pain killers.
Since everyone else seems to think that Video games are training people to do abnormal actions, then T.O. might have been playing WAY to much Dr. Mario.
I can see the headline
TO's Family to sue Nintendo, makers of that drug pushing game 'Dr. Mario' for TO's possible suicide.
You read it here first!!!
Since everyone else seems to think that Video games are training people to do abnormal actions, then T.O. might have been playing WAY to much Dr. Mario.
I can see the headline
TO's Family to sue Nintendo, makers of that drug pushing game 'Dr. Mario' for TO's possible suicide.
You read it here first!!!
Monday, July 24, 2006
Is the ESRB really working?
1UP.com had a recent article about the ESRB, and one of my Xbox group members asked the question "Is the ESRB working?"As recent history shows, the media went ape-shit over the 'Hot Coffee' GTA mini-game that was found in the game long after the ESRB gave it's rating.
There has been a lot of debat about this topic. However, I believe the code was left in the game intentionaly. Granted its a good excuse to say 'There's a lot of lines of code and we can't just go and remove lines whilly nilly' and it might have have taken forever to beta test.However, i don't think that was the point of the 'Hot Coffee' mini game.If anyone else noticed, GTA sales where starting to slip. Other games where coming out and RockStar was starting to lose the market.. Then, all of a sudden, a 16+ line game shark code plopped on the internet and spread like Wildfire.
Now I don't know about you, but being a programming I know it would take a LONG time for someone to put in 16 random codes into a game shark to see what would happen. GTA also has a habit of messing with the media in order to boost sales. So did the ESRB fail? No I don't believe they did. They rated it correctly from the game someone played. Its not their fault they missed it. There was NO way to get into the the 'hot coffee' mini game without knowing the code. I believe the ESRB messed up when they went BACK and redid GTA's, and a few others (Oblivion) Ratings. Oblivion was a T.. now it's an 'M'. Oblivion is NOT an 'M' Game. It's a 'T", but the ESRB doesn't want to get spanked for not properally rateing a game now.
Which means all ESRB ratings will be biased, and not a true view on the game. Seems to me that after the 'hot Coffe' the ESRB has moved from being a simple free service based on the whole music rating system (thanks Tripper Gore) into the police of video games. The ESRB was never created to police anything. It's a bunch of 'non-gamers' making ratings for games. But now the media has everyone worked into a frenzy over the artform known as gaming. Are there games I wouldn't like my kids play? of course. Do I need some jack-ass 'know-it-all' telling me what's bad for my kids? No. I can do that myself thank you.
So is the ERSB working? On the business side of gaming, yes it is. Publishers are scared to death of the 'M' rating. Getting an 'M' is like getting an 'X' rating in movies. X = Failure. On the peoples end? No, it's not working. Grandma will still by the newest GTA for her 10 year old grand son for christmas because he asked for it.People need to learn that games are just that. Games.I mean really.. what does a game teach you?
1) If you jump on peoples heads a coin will pop out of their ass.
2) You can get hit with 20 bullets and still run around because it wasn't a 'head shot'.
3) Hookers can replensh your life.
4) Eating 'power pills' will allow you to catch ghosts!
5) You can hit cars from behind while driving and they only bounce away humeriously.
6) Invaders.. Possible from Space, are stupid because all they will do is increase speed and reverse direction.
7) ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
I mean really. I think the BIGGEST problem with gaming really has nothing to do with gaming. It has to do with the Government and the Media and no my thought isn't some weird ass conspericy theory. People are getting more and more stupid. People don't want to think anymore. They want to be spoon feed and told what to do.
They are becoming drones of the workplace and live itself. We are all running around like chickens with our heads cut off; always jumping around. Always doing 'something' but never moving forward. Never really learning anything. Always stuck in a rut and never really know how to get out of it, or too lazy to get out of it.
The 'Family unit' has fallen apart. Both parnets needing to work to make enough money to buy the new 'cool' crap and to make ends meet because they are over extended trying to live the 'American Dream' with out ever working for it. The kids are being brought up by daycare and school instead of the parents.
The News and media tell fat people they are really fat and going to die if they don't pop this pill. Children, while ACTING like children are told they have this horrible desise.. and here's a pill for that too. So while we are all drug addicted drones and doing stupid shit, it's easier to point the finger to anyone or anything other then ourselves.
The Games made me do it.. the Music made me do it.. I hear voices.. oh wait.. that's the walmart loud speaker. There was a 3 year old killed this morning in a local Walmart, because some drone put a large heavy standing mirror in the TOY section. This thing was big enough that 2 people where needed to pick up the mirror off the kids body. Have you EVER been to the toy section at Wal-Mart and not seen little brats running around with out their parents? Yelling, screaming and knocking into your and the products on the shelves?
Now, WHO in their right mind would thing that it was a good idea to put a large mirror in the toy section of Walmart? THAT, my friends, is a perfect example of a stupid human and the main reason why people believe that games and music really cause people to go out and see if a coin will pop out of your ass.
There has been a lot of debat about this topic. However, I believe the code was left in the game intentionaly. Granted its a good excuse to say 'There's a lot of lines of code and we can't just go and remove lines whilly nilly' and it might have have taken forever to beta test.However, i don't think that was the point of the 'Hot Coffee' mini game.If anyone else noticed, GTA sales where starting to slip. Other games where coming out and RockStar was starting to lose the market.. Then, all of a sudden, a 16+ line game shark code plopped on the internet and spread like Wildfire.
Now I don't know about you, but being a programming I know it would take a LONG time for someone to put in 16 random codes into a game shark to see what would happen. GTA also has a habit of messing with the media in order to boost sales. So did the ESRB fail? No I don't believe they did. They rated it correctly from the game someone played. Its not their fault they missed it. There was NO way to get into the the 'hot coffee' mini game without knowing the code. I believe the ESRB messed up when they went BACK and redid GTA's, and a few others (Oblivion) Ratings. Oblivion was a T.. now it's an 'M'. Oblivion is NOT an 'M' Game. It's a 'T", but the ESRB doesn't want to get spanked for not properally rateing a game now.
Which means all ESRB ratings will be biased, and not a true view on the game. Seems to me that after the 'hot Coffe' the ESRB has moved from being a simple free service based on the whole music rating system (thanks Tripper Gore) into the police of video games. The ESRB was never created to police anything. It's a bunch of 'non-gamers' making ratings for games. But now the media has everyone worked into a frenzy over the artform known as gaming. Are there games I wouldn't like my kids play? of course. Do I need some jack-ass 'know-it-all' telling me what's bad for my kids? No. I can do that myself thank you.
So is the ERSB working? On the business side of gaming, yes it is. Publishers are scared to death of the 'M' rating. Getting an 'M' is like getting an 'X' rating in movies. X = Failure. On the peoples end? No, it's not working. Grandma will still by the newest GTA for her 10 year old grand son for christmas because he asked for it.People need to learn that games are just that. Games.I mean really.. what does a game teach you?
1) If you jump on peoples heads a coin will pop out of their ass.
2) You can get hit with 20 bullets and still run around because it wasn't a 'head shot'.
3) Hookers can replensh your life.
4) Eating 'power pills' will allow you to catch ghosts!
5) You can hit cars from behind while driving and they only bounce away humeriously.
6) Invaders.. Possible from Space, are stupid because all they will do is increase speed and reverse direction.
7) ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
I mean really. I think the BIGGEST problem with gaming really has nothing to do with gaming. It has to do with the Government and the Media and no my thought isn't some weird ass conspericy theory. People are getting more and more stupid. People don't want to think anymore. They want to be spoon feed and told what to do.
They are becoming drones of the workplace and live itself. We are all running around like chickens with our heads cut off; always jumping around. Always doing 'something' but never moving forward. Never really learning anything. Always stuck in a rut and never really know how to get out of it, or too lazy to get out of it.
The 'Family unit' has fallen apart. Both parnets needing to work to make enough money to buy the new 'cool' crap and to make ends meet because they are over extended trying to live the 'American Dream' with out ever working for it. The kids are being brought up by daycare and school instead of the parents.
The News and media tell fat people they are really fat and going to die if they don't pop this pill. Children, while ACTING like children are told they have this horrible desise.. and here's a pill for that too. So while we are all drug addicted drones and doing stupid shit, it's easier to point the finger to anyone or anything other then ourselves.
The Games made me do it.. the Music made me do it.. I hear voices.. oh wait.. that's the walmart loud speaker. There was a 3 year old killed this morning in a local Walmart, because some drone put a large heavy standing mirror in the TOY section. This thing was big enough that 2 people where needed to pick up the mirror off the kids body. Have you EVER been to the toy section at Wal-Mart and not seen little brats running around with out their parents? Yelling, screaming and knocking into your and the products on the shelves?
Now, WHO in their right mind would thing that it was a good idea to put a large mirror in the toy section of Walmart? THAT, my friends, is a perfect example of a stupid human and the main reason why people believe that games and music really cause people to go out and see if a coin will pop out of your ass.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Violence in Video Games...
Violence in Video Games...
I just got off a HUGE debate with a group of people from a Yahoo group. We where talking about if violent video games like GTA, Halo, and UT cause kids to be violent when they grow up. I don't believe that for a moment. Seems people have always looked for excuses to get into and out of trouble. "Jesus made me do it", "Ozzy told me to kill myself", "I saw it in a movie (jackass)", "I saw it in a game", etc..etc..etc.Why must people blame TV, Radio, Movies, Books, Music, Video Games, Peers for there own stupid choices? Why can't people stand up and say. "Yeah, I did it.. and here's why..."and not hide behind an excuse of "Yeah, but I didn't want to. I saw it on a game and it looked cool" Are there really that many people out there with IQ's lower then my shoe size? What do you think? Do you think video games cause Violence in people or do people cause violence in people?
I just got off a HUGE debate with a group of people from a Yahoo group. We where talking about if violent video games like GTA, Halo, and UT cause kids to be violent when they grow up. I don't believe that for a moment. Seems people have always looked for excuses to get into and out of trouble. "Jesus made me do it", "Ozzy told me to kill myself", "I saw it in a movie (jackass)", "I saw it in a game", etc..etc..etc.Why must people blame TV, Radio, Movies, Books, Music, Video Games, Peers for there own stupid choices? Why can't people stand up and say. "Yeah, I did it.. and here's why..."and not hide behind an excuse of "Yeah, but I didn't want to. I saw it on a game and it looked cool" Are there really that many people out there with IQ's lower then my shoe size? What do you think? Do you think video games cause Violence in people or do people cause violence in people?Friday, April 07, 2006
New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Childhood TV and gaming is 'major public health issue'
New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Childhood TV and gaming is 'major public health issue':
Childhood TV and gaming is 'major public health issue - 08:21 04 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service by Alison Motluk
Child Health Institute, University of Washington in Seattle Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Childhood exposure to TV and video games should be viewed as a major public health issue and, like cigarettes, these media should come with a health warning. So argue researchers writing in a special issue of the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.Research shows that exposure " [read more at the link]
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Health warning? Why? Shouldn't parents already know, if their kid is playing games for 8 hours a day, plus school, and they are getting fat. Shouldn't you (as a PARENT) stop your kid from playing video games and make them play outside for a while? Honestly, how stupid are people getting that they can't figure out something as simple as that? Really, do we NEED 'health warnings' on video games now? "WARNING: Use of this product may cause you to get fat, and want to jump on peoples heads for coins." ANYTHING that stops a person from being active is 'bad' in large amounts of course, being over active is just as bad. Moderation is the key to EVERYTHING in life. Come home, do you homework, go outside for a while, come home for dinner, THEN play your games. Simple.
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