I bought SEV...

[Atrocities]

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

R O T F L M A O - You get a 5 star laugh award for this one!

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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.

[Baron Grazic]

Atrocities said:
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.

And pretty soon they will have scientific 'evidence' to back them up - http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.a...edate=20061201

Surely these Medical researchers could be spending there time better on on Cancer research or some such advancement of medicine.

[Suicide Junkie]

Baron Grazic said:
And pretty soon they will have scientific 'evidence' to back them up - http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.a...edate=20061201

Surely these Medical researchers could be spending there time better on on Cancer research or some such advancement of medicine.

Alternatively, think about how good it is that these particular ones AREN'T doing cancer research.

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Atrocities said: 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.

I could swear this has already happened, repeatedly, but I'm probably just thinking of criminal cases where that "logic" was used by the defense. Don't recall any cases where that argument worked, fortunately.

[Baron Munchausen]

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...=360025&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.

[Atrocities]

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)

[AminMaalouf]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
...Which threads are best for catching up on stuff?

See mod section: "Dark UI Mod".

[Spectarofdeath]

If I ever go on a rampage, please blame it on barney the purple dinosaur. He's sitting on my shoulder telling me "kill all those mfers KILL THEM ALL NOW!!!" And what big birds telling me can't be repeated it's so graphic. Anybody with half a brain knows you can't NEVER fire a gun and play some games and then all of the sudden, your a marksman. The sheer fact of having never fired the gun, he's probably not going to know how to aim the thing, he'd be looking for the auto target button.

[Possum]

It's not just the recoil, it's the noise. The report actually has more to do with flinch. And yes, I am a shooter IRL.

As far as that "study", OMG what bull**** science.

The groups didn't differ in accuracy or reaction time, but those who played the violent game showed more activity (brightly colored scans) in the amygdala. That is an area of the brain connected with emotional arousal.

And that proves exactly what? Hello? Just how does activity in the amygdala translate to violent realworld behavior? Obviously, it does not, which is why there's no stated conclusion, only the cleverly implied one...

Dr. Vincent Mathews, an Indiana University radiology professor who led the study, said..."During tasks requiring concentration and processing of emotional stimuli, the adolescents who had played the violent video game showed distinct differences in brain activation than the adolescents who played an equally exciting and fun - but nonviolent - game,"

Oh, so "exciting" and "fun" are now scientific terms? Pray tell, just how were these properties quantified, measured, and compared, to determine that the non-violent games were "equally exciting and fun" ? And just how does being a radiologist (ffs!) qualify the good doctor for this study?

Furthermore, at no point are the terms "violent" and "non-violent" defined for purposes of this study. Is Madden Football non-violent? Hell, no. Is NASCAR racing non-violent? Tell it to the ghost of Dale Earnhardt!

This whole thing reeks of Jack Thompson-style bull****.