And there we have the problem, video games are still not seen as a mature form of entertainment.
Australia's Jack Thompson?
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He can't compare that if Australia could get R games we would have massacres to an extent like America. Guns are legal to adults over there so has this man lost all sense of the outside world? He reminds me of the vault overseers in Fallout, always trying to exceedingly protect us.
On a technicality, South Australia was first: property-owning women were allowed to vote in local elections in 1861. It only granted real women's suffrage in 1894, one year after New Zealand. They were both beaten to it by the Pitcairn Islands way back in 1838, which was (and officially remains) a territory belonging to the UK.avykins said:
Incidentally, the Australian state of Victoria (where Melbourne is, where I live) gave women the right to vote by accident by the wording of the Electoral Act of 1863! Women voted in the 1864 election, but after that the Act was amended to take the right away again. (We gave it back later.)
Copter400: "swine" was a poor choice of words, but probably not meant as a direct insult. He uses it as part of a saying: countries that allow R-ratings are "just so many gathering swine going over the cliff". Malygris was irresponsible to pull that word out of context in the first paragraph.
He makes a good point, however when you have super violent movies like Saw being advertised everywhere I would say that small percentage of people are going to become violent anyway. They shouldn't be aloud to ban and create new laws for every little thing anymore, I wouldn't be surprised if they made a law to wear helmets inside a car one day.
Sure a man who called Bully a "public nuisance" is not crazy.Milkman Dan said:
Comics still suffer from this problem. Only in very recent years have they been seen as less juvenile. So video games have another 40 or so years to go.Aardvark Soup said:
Whenever I see an idiot like her try to claim video games make people violent, I wish she was smart enough to actually understand the difference between aggression and violence. It would also be nice if she understood the studies she claims to have read.Malygris said:
Edit: I'm glad that I'm American with an idiot leaving the white house soon and another idiot being debarred. Now for the Senate.
These people need to read (grand theft childhood)
All these augments have been shot don in this book there is no direct link between watching violence and becoming violent
All these augments have been shot don in this book there is no direct link between watching violence and becoming violent
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&resnum=0&q=grand%20theft%20childhood%20video&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Take a look at the XPLAY interview
Take a look at the XPLAY interview
We can't ever call anyone insane or psychopathic anymore. It's always someone or somethings fault. Therefore, punish everyone for it.
Wait...what?
Wait...what?
I'm quite happy laugh at mr. Atkinson from my little industrialized western country(Also, where the hell would you find a western country that isn't industrialized?) with it's complete absence of school shootings & lack of violence that in any way takes place near a video game.
Truly, the man is a steadfast pillar of true and righteous behavior, to force others to stand tall against an onslaught of absolutely harmless entertainment.
Truly, the man is a steadfast pillar of true and righteous behavior, to force others to stand tall against an onslaught of absolutely harmless entertainment.
I'd agree with you, but the saying is "lemmings going over the cliff." Replacing "lemmings" with "swine"...he has to be saying something there.Fraser.J.A said:
Me, but unfortunately I can't vote him out (not my district). If the Labor party gets ditched in the next state election (2010 I think), he won't be a problem.stompy said:
As I mention to people whenever I see this guy on TV: "He can die in a fire and burn in hell."
Either way the turn of phrase is offensive, insinuating our intier society is going to collapse over videogames while benevolent wise superpower Australia goes on.thebobmaster said:
What I find amazing is that for the whole country to get an R18+ rating there must be a unanimous decision from all the states' Attorneys General. Who came up with that idea? When you make unanimity required you *always* get one fruitcake that stuffs everything up.
I didn't vote for this guy, why should someone the South Australian voters put into power be able to control what I can do in New South Wales?
Yet one more reason to dump all state governments
I didn't vote for this guy, why should someone the South Australian voters put into power be able to control what I can do in New South Wales?
Yet one more reason to dump all state governments
Oh No! poor Australia, and to think we finally vanquished Thompson here in the States. If only Logic and Reason could finally prevail once and for all!
Wait, how many loony parents do you have in South Australia? Maybe it's the people in Atkinson's district that vote for the guy because he's like them: can't admit that maybe, just maybe, Timmy parent's were to blame for his joyride, and not GTA.Samah said: