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aegisx said: hrm.. hope no kids try to conquer the galaxy....malfador could be in some legal trouble.

Depends...if the kid succeeds, he'll be positioned to change the laws and let Malfador off the hook.

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Atrocities said:
That is a good point Beck. If the label cannot be read, ie its not in Spanish or Russian, can the companies then be sued because they failed to warn people in their own language not to try and dry their hair in the shower while taking a shower?

On a side note, it won't be long before some arsehole tries to sue a game company because their kid enacted or tried something at home that they saw on a video game. They will blame the game for the act of their child instead of taking responsibility for the act themselves. After all its better to leave your kids alone to play games, watch tv, and listen to rap, that way when they do something bad based upon those exposures, they can sue. Oh of course its never their fault for leaving their kids unattended, for not turning off the TV, or taking away the cellphone, the Xbox, or insisting on moral behavior and self respect. Oh no, its never the parents fault for what their kids do, its always someone else who is to blame.

It's already happened. Several times.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/newsarti...025&page=0
Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive, Sony, Wal-Mart, and GameStop are blamed for the murder of three policemen by a teenage car thief.
(Yes, they are suing the retail store as well as the game developer!)
Last winter, a multi-million dollar lawsuit was filed in Alabama against the makers and marketers of Grand Theft Auto, claiming that months of playing the game led a teenager to go on a rampage and kill three men, two of them police officers.

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/sep...ed-04-killing/
Video-game maker blamed in '04 killing
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against Cody Posey and the makers of "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," alleging that the video game trained the southern New Mexico teen to gun down three members of his family.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...15/ai_54968253
The Violent World of Video Games
(from 1999, as Michael Carneal staged his school attack in 1997)
The lawsuit filed by Breen in April is starting to wend its way through the courts. "Michael Carneal clipped off nine shots in about a 10-second period" says Breen. "Eight of those shots were hits. Three were head and neck shots and were kills. That is way beyond the military standard for expert marksmanship. This was a kid who had never fired a pistol in his life, but because of his obsession with computer games had turned himself into an expert marksman."

* All of this from a quick Google. Serious research would probably turn up many more. An Attorney named Jack Thompson seems to be particularly active. Googling on his name might turn up more information.

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Oh for the love of God give me a break... its time we kill all he lawyers. (Say for those who play SE IV and games from shrapnel games)

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that third one sounds unbelevable, you can't tell me that you can be an expert marksman with a handgun by only playing computer games. it's stupid, if you think that, then you've never ever fired a real gun in your life.

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se5a said:
that third one sounds unbelevable, you can't tell me that you can be an expert marksman with a handgun by only playing computer games. it's stupid, if you think that, then you've never ever fired a real gun in your life.

I 100% agree. Some kid who's never fired a gun in their life, will not be able to do that. The recoil alone has to be experienced several times before it can adequately be compensated for, especially for a large caliber hand-gun. A smaller caliber handgun, such as a .22 (about the smallest caliber hand-gun that's made) would have much less recoil, but still would be plenty to throw off the aim of someone who's never fired a gun before.

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Yeah. For a little perspective, one of my biology classes involved firing a bolt-action .22 tranq gun and a net gun powered by a .303 or so.

Now, we had several game players there. Most of them MISSED with the net gun, despite the fact that the thing spreads the net over five feet or so! Even with the .22, at less than 10 yards, the best most could do was hitting the target. Forget about bulls-eyes or any sort of precision.

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Good old 303 Lee Enfields. Gotta love those British rifles. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I can remember being shot and killed while playing HL2 on line. I remember shooting the SOB in the head with my SR but he didn't die.... instead he shot me from the other side of the map with a pistol and bang, I was out of the game.

I would like to see him try that in RL. I guarantee you it wouldn't go down like it did in the game.

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Phoenix-D - sounds like your school lessons were more exciting than the crap I had to put up with. Mind you in pottery, I majored in 500 and poker.

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Some parents never want to believe that 'their precious little angels' could ever do anything bad.

I had a principle like that in elementary.

She wasn't a bad person at all, but because of her...

...Let's just say I still hate her and that school.

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Atrocities said:
I guess we all have a special moron in our lives that we would all miss if something stupid were to happen to him.

I love you too.