FoxNews bashes Bulletstorm (LOL)
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Why don't we, as the entire gaming fanbase and industry agree to never, ever, EVER talk to or aknlodage fox news.
Seriously, just treat them like the plague.
And if we ever do, make it only to point out how the outright lie and make rumors, them immedatly leave the interview or whatever.
I'd love to point out that stuff like law and order SVU is super popular as well.
(still waiting on MM's thing as well bloodstain..."
Why don't we, as the entire gaming fanbase and industry agree to never, ever, EVER talk to or aknlodage fox news.
Seriously, just treat them like the plague.
And if we ever do, make it only to point out how the outright lie and make rumors, them immedatly leave the interview or whatever.
Exactly.Bloodstain said:Oh, Postal 2 has a successor.
I refuse to believe that. Especially, I refuse to believe that this is the common consequence of sexually violent video games.TheFPSisDead said:
I'd love to point out that stuff like law and order SVU is super popular as well.
(still waiting on MM's thing as well bloodstain..."
Same here. Also the way they went from 9 year old's playing violent video games to real life rapes is just laughable. I seriously wonder how that psychologist got her degree (no offense to any psychology student on the Escapist, I'm pretty sure you guys agree that voicing opinions as facts is not professional)dathwampeer said:
The sad thing is that there'll eventually be some new scapegoat within a few decades to a century (if I'm alive around that time, I'll be mature about it and don't automatically blame the product).
Here's an uncommon thing! An adult who can remember what it was like to be a child!
So before I reached the age of 'adulthood' (18 years of age, they tell you, while ignoring that you could also go and join an army at that age, but can't vote.) I had done the following:
Nearly killed myself through acts of misadventure several times.
(Rescuing frisbees from guard dogs, swimming in polluted water, falling three floors off a building while trying to recover a football because of the anti-climb paint, electric shocks from security fences and nearly drowning because someone couldn't be bothered to close a canal lock gate properly.)
Had sex lessons from women more than 10 years older than me. (Which topped anything my priest had to tell me).
Had either snuck into cinemas to watch movies way too 'old' for me
(Predator, Debbie Does Dallas, Terminator, Blade Runner and Alien) or had just bought bootlegs at markets for the same result.
Incidentally; my parents took me to see Time Bandits back in 1981. I don't think the censors would allow that movie for kids nowadays but those people are idiots anyway.
Had successfully built an entire collection of 2000AD comics from issue 1 to issue 100.
(And then sold it all to a Scotsman for a van that I drove around Poland.)
If I had a kid that did any or more of that kind of thing, I don't know how happy I'd be. Probably ecstatic. Fuck Fox News and their perpetual fear-mongering and conformity enforcing.
And to hell with the safety culture.
I want my kids to be awesome!
So before I reached the age of 'adulthood' (18 years of age, they tell you, while ignoring that you could also go and join an army at that age, but can't vote.) I had done the following:
Nearly killed myself through acts of misadventure several times.
(Rescuing frisbees from guard dogs, swimming in polluted water, falling three floors off a building while trying to recover a football because of the anti-climb paint, electric shocks from security fences and nearly drowning because someone couldn't be bothered to close a canal lock gate properly.)
Had sex lessons from women more than 10 years older than me. (Which topped anything my priest had to tell me).
Had either snuck into cinemas to watch movies way too 'old' for me
(Predator, Debbie Does Dallas, Terminator, Blade Runner and Alien) or had just bought bootlegs at markets for the same result.
Incidentally; my parents took me to see Time Bandits back in 1981. I don't think the censors would allow that movie for kids nowadays but those people are idiots anyway.
Had successfully built an entire collection of 2000AD comics from issue 1 to issue 100.
(And then sold it all to a Scotsman for a van that I drove around Poland.)
If I had a kid that did any or more of that kind of thing, I don't know how happy I'd be. Probably ecstatic. Fuck Fox News and their perpetual fear-mongering and conformity enforcing.
And to hell with the safety culture.
I want my kids to be awesome!
And it's this kind of shit preventing video games doing anything meaningful as a medium.
Thanks, FoxNews, for setting the industry even further back.
Jerks.
Thanks, FoxNews, for setting the industry even further back.
Jerks.
I call BS!!!!!!!!!!! Everything else i could say is summed up in the term "Ugh....."TheFPSisDead said:
Thanks for the free ad space Fox! Same deal as always: the game has a rating and saying that the rating isn't enforced at retail outlets doesn't put the blame on the developers. We all know Fox isn't good for anything but making us laugh and advertising fear.
In other news, I might actually pick up a copy of Bulletstorm as it seems like a good game for stress relief or killing time.
In other news, I might actually pick up a copy of Bulletstorm as it seems like a good game for stress relief or killing time.
Firstly, why is Fox trying to bring this game down when friggin' Dukem Forever is right around the corner?
Secondly all their arguments make as much sense as this:
Secondly all their arguments make as much sense as this:
YEPP...i agree with this 100%...+ like 5%Tsaba said:
There are almost no retailers that will sell bulletstorm to a minor. Im 18 and never shave (IE there is a wookie on my face some days and i still get carded...This is a parents issue. HIT YOU KID IF THERE PLAYING SOMETHING YOU DONT LIKE AND TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE...Be a real parent and TEACH them things.
"The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games,"
No it can't. Whilst I don't know about America, in the UK I'm pretty sure rape cases are going down year-on-year, whilst there's been a dramatic rise in gaming. Does not compute.
I think Fox could have just cut the shit and realised that any parent stupid enough to buy a 9 year old kid a game called Bulletstorm isn't the sharpest tool in the shed anyway and possibly can't read this as it is.
No it can't. Whilst I don't know about America, in the UK I'm pretty sure rape cases are going down year-on-year, whilst there's been a dramatic rise in gaming. Does not compute.
I think Fox could have just cut the shit and realised that any parent stupid enough to buy a 9 year old kid a game called Bulletstorm isn't the sharpest tool in the shed anyway and possibly can't read this as it is.
Im not suprised. I mean its fox news were talking about.
And also, I learn so much worse stuff in school. Im in 10th grade and heres some things I learned in school that are much worse
1. I was saying fuck in 3rd grade
2. Kids around me were doing drugs in 5th grade(it was mostly weed until 8th).
3.I learned my drinking limit in 7th(That was a bad mistake. yeah im done drinking till im 21. so atleast if I get wasted,I wont get in trouble for it).
4. My first fight was in school when I was only 7.
5. In 8th I learned ciggaretes taste probably like godzillas Shit.
Yeah So what im saying is they should be focusing on why school is so fucked now.
Oh yeah I almost forgot
6. I found out one of my friends in 7th grade was a crackhead like 6 months after he moved to New york.
And also, I learn so much worse stuff in school. Im in 10th grade and heres some things I learned in school that are much worse
1. I was saying fuck in 3rd grade
2. Kids around me were doing drugs in 5th grade(it was mostly weed until 8th).
3.I learned my drinking limit in 7th(That was a bad mistake. yeah im done drinking till im 21. so atleast if I get wasted,I wont get in trouble for it).
4. My first fight was in school when I was only 7.
5. In 8th I learned ciggaretes taste probably like godzillas Shit.
Yeah So what im saying is they should be focusing on why school is so fucked now.
Oh yeah I almost forgot
6. I found out one of my friends in 7th grade was a crackhead like 6 months after he moved to New york.
Yeah, I remember when I ran around and raped everyone after finishing the romance subplot in Mass Effect...
Yes, because if a 9 year old child watches porn, smokes/drinks, watches horror movies that can traumatize him/her it is EVERYONE'S fault except the parents. Wait a go organizations who don't know what it means to be a parent.
Fox News, proving that it is physically possible for the media to get worse then the Daily Mail and the Daily Star combined.
I'm not even sure how they manage to pull it off, but low and behold here we are. The slightly depressing part is how many Americans take it seriously..
I'm not even sure how they manage to pull it off, but low and behold here we are. The slightly depressing part is how many Americans take it seriously..
That is exactly what I thought.Physics Engine said:
Sexual references in games increase rape? Where is your source?
I dont think that Fox News can be called a news channel, when they are going crazy about 'evil' games.
I think that they usually manipulate the interwievs, so that people will think what Fox News want them to think, not offering an opportunity for an individual choice.
I think that they usually manipulate the interwievs, so that people will think what Fox News want them to think, not offering an opportunity for an individual choice.