This is just a bullshit distraction to not do anything on gun control. Diversionary tactics and all that.
Source: VG247.com
Source: Washington Post
Trump just had a meeting with several people from the video game industry. For the meeting, they have made a video condemning violent video games. Shown in it are Fallout 4, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 & Black Ops, Wolfenstein, & Sniper Elite. MW2's "No Russian" scene is included. The cuts in this video are stolen wholesale from other YouTube channels, as the watermarks show. Oh, so our president is also an IP thief?Tch, tch, tch. That channel with the DM watermark should flag this video for stealing their content. I made sure to slap a dislike on it at YouTube. Right now it's at 1.6K likes & 55K dislikes.
In the meeting, some urged Trump to consider new laws making it harder for young children to buy this sort of game. Others asked him to also focus on violent movies & TV. Trump opened the meeting with the above montage, asking "This is violent, isn't it?" & claiming that these games are "shaping young people's thoughts". Present were ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman, Take-2 CEO Strauss Zelnick, & ESA leader Michael Gallagher. On the other side were Melissa Henson of the Parents' Television Council, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), & Brent Bozell of the Media Research Council.
One Democrat lawmaker with the right idea scoffed at the effort, saying it detracted from the real issue: seeking new restrictions on gun sales.
At least there wasn't much serious talk of government restrictions on content. However, there was discussion of stronger age restrictions. Bozell said violent VGs need to be given the same treatment as tobacco & liquor. The ESA did bring up scientific studies discrediting connections between video games and real violence, the 1st Amendment protection of video games, & their ESRB ratings. Let's hope the government doesn't make laws requiring retailers to card for video game purchases. I'd get annoyed at having to show ID for a game or movie Blu-ray. I'd not take it out on the clerk. I would bitch about the government requiring it.
Trump, why not let the parents do the actual parenting? It's not like they need YOUR help! You have it all wrong, sir. Regulate guns, not video games.
Discuss.
Last edited by gameoverDude; 09 Mar 2018 at 11:56 PM.
This is just a bullshit distraction to not do anything on gun control. Diversionary tactics and all that.
I've seen enough 12 year old assholes on GTA and shit. I'd be doing for making it harder for them to buy stuff. Parents don't give a shit, they barely even look at that shit.
But yes, gun control please.
I don’t really care if they enforce the 18 rating.
I’m an adult.
Boo, Hiss.
I don't care if they card kids. Though it does beg the question: how are we going to prove our ages for digital content on steam?
its all a little pointless though. If we start carding kids, those games will be like horror movies and dirty mags were for us. They'll be that forbidden stuff we tried to sneak because it was mysterious.
Here's another idea: if we start carding kids for this shit, does that end the feminist critique that is all the rage on youtube for gaming?
If you argue that this stuff is really little more than a power or sexual fantasy for men, and then sell it as that, can anyone demand it be something else? Doesn't that demand now become silly? Like demanding milk become water?
Doesn't the current narrative hinge on the idea that these games are for everyone and shouldn't secretly be violence or sexual porn? If it is sold as violence or sexual porn, and kids are carded for it, does it become pointless to ask it to be something else?
This shit means nothing to me sadly.
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I don't believe that violent video games turn kids into killers, but I do believe that it can desensitize children that are mentally unstable and don't have a grasp of imaginary vs. real. The Immortal John Hancock and his wife did a nice piece on the subject.
I don't know what to think really. Most of what we think about freedom and the US is a lie. And I don't mean that in an edgy way. I mean like our government has always thought they could regulate it. Obscenity laws are a real thing.
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