German Group Holdling a "Killer Game" Cull

[Panda Mania]

Count me in. Standing by the bin to "dispose" of them, that is.

 

[AceDiamond]

Oh the Irony, everything they try do make us less violent eventually creates more tension and aggression.

I was about to say. They might as well start delivering speeches that say "We're not violent fascists anymore, honest! To prove it watch as we destroy these evil forms of media!"

 

[Spitfire175]

"Where they burn games they will soon burn gamers!"

Seriously, what is the big deal with this sort of people.

 

[dommyuk]

I hope they know what happens when you heat discs....or do I?

 

[scotth266]

But didn't the Nazis do the same thing with book burnings?
It's like an endless loop! They can't help but burn things!

I suppose that German protesters follow the "Beavis and Butthead" method: Fire is cool.

Though B&B would probably be banned over there.

 

[Doug]

Ugh mental people ruin all our fun.

The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.

So violent video games are the equivalent of fucking Nazi's?

Idiots.

What, didn't you know? Hitler once glanced at a game of counterstrike and it turned him into one of the most evil men to walk the world.

 

[Lost In The Void]

Damn. That's another country off my list
of places to live. Is Canada still sane?

We've never been "sane" per sec, but hey at least we don't censor our games, and we got some good studios up here too so we'd just be injuring our own GDP

 

[Skarvig]

Though B&B would probably be banned over there.

Wow, you fail at quite a few details. First of all the sheer fact that Beavis and Butthead were first aired in 1993, so MTV (oh my gosh we also have MTV) would have had a few years to bring them to other countries, like Germany. And they did. We know Beavis and Butthead since 1995. And why the f would B&B banned in Germany? That doesn't make any sense. They are funny, childish and a little bit retarded but not overly brutal. Hell we even have the Happy Tree Friends and they are not banned.

 

[ChocoFace]

But didn't the Nazis do the same thing with book burnings?
It's like an endless loop! They can't help but burn things!

Not that there's anything wrong with burning things.

 

[Mcface]

Proving not all nutjobs live in America and Australia.

its obvious whats happening..
They will turn in the games to these people, rather than burn them, they will sell them all to Gamestop, earning enough money to begin world war 3 and resurrect Hitler.

Make no mistakes comrades, this is obviously the nazi party in disguise!

 

[Triple G]

German Group Holdling a "Killer Game" Cull

A German group calling itself Aktionbundnis Amoklauf Winnenden is calling on people to turn in their violent videogames as part of the Families Against Killer Games event, taking place this Saturday night in Stuttgart.

Formed by families of the victims of the ran aground this summer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90185-Surprise-Surprise-Germany-Shooting-Linked-To-Games], so the Action Alliance has gone to Plan B: If you can't ban 'em, burn 'em.

Or at the very least, collect them up in one convenient location, presumably for safe disposal later. Thus, the group is holding the "Familien gegen Killerspiele" [http://www.translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.memo-software.de%2Faaw%2Findex.php%2Faktionen%2F148-familien-gegen-killerspiele&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=] event on October 17, inviting everyone to come to the State Opera House in Stuttgart, where they can toss their violent videogames into a big bin. People who throw away a game will be entered into a draw for a jersey signed by the German national soccer team.

I'm not going to make the obvious joke about what happened the last time Germany tried something like this but according to GamePolitics [http://gamepolitics.com/2009/10/14/german-group-plans-killer-game-drive] there is an interesting connection to the country's Nazi past: The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.


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I live in Germany. Those stupid parents and conservative politicians are just trying to establish some dictatorship state. First they save your every move on teh intarwebz for 6 months, then they form a army internet special force, then they want to legalize online-inspections on your PC without going through the court. After that they want to enable the "three strikes system". You do something bad on the web 3 times, they cut your internet forever. Nice democratic state, eh?

 

[scotth266]

Though B&B would probably be banned over there.

Wow, you fail at quite a few details. First of all the sheer fact that Beavis and Butthead were first aired in 1993, so MTV (oh my gosh we also have MTV) would have had a few years to bring them to other countries, like Germany. And they did. We know Beavis and Butthead since 1995. And why the f would B&B banned in Germany? That doesn't make any sense. They are funny, childish and a little bit retarded but not overly brutal. Hell we even have the Happy Tree Friends and they are not banned.

Aiyaiyai.

In America, B&B almost got completely taken off the air, so I was making the assumption that you guys had gone through a similar rigormorall when it came to your shores. You know, "IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF OUR CHILDREN" and such.

 

[Skarvig]

Aiyaiyai.

In America, B&B almost got completely taken off the air, so I was making the assumption that you guys had gone through a similar rigormorall when it came to your shores. You know, "IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF OUR CHILDREN" and such.

No, I can't remember that we ever had such a cry out. If you felt insulted I want to apologise but it made me a little angry what people now will think of Germany. Germany isn't always that uptight. This group presented in the first post would have never assembled if there wasn't the school shooting in Winnenden. Now they are just looking for a scapegoat. Besides that Germany always had a problem with media and violence. I think we were the first nation ever to ban a videogame. River Raid was the first game to be banned in germany and that was in 1984.
Also those upholder of moral standarts aren't that present here. We have near naked woman in commercials at 1 pm. That's the huge difference between Germany and America.
Germany : Sex = Ok ; Violence = Bad
America : Sex = Evil ; Violence = Awesome.

 

[Eric the Orange]

It's a book burning, but with video games.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Right because getting together and burning peices of culture you don't agree with ALWAYS ends well.

 

[ReZerO]

Damn. That's another country off my list
of places to live. Is Canada still sane?

I haven't heard of anything here in Canada about crazies trying to ban games. although there could be some little group somewhere making an effort. you just need a lot of money (more than a little group like this could muster) to start any kind of campain like that here, with how large our country and spread apart our population is.

and anyway, almost every major city in Canada has a big games studio, and a number of small ones... they supply employment and pay taxes, an industry our local goverments wouldn't want to see gone.

Phew. I'm glad ONE of my backup countries is still ok. Tell me, are there Lucky Charms, and/or Lucodade in Canada?

lucky charms the cereal? yeah we have that, but no, sorry we don't have Lucozade, although we do have things like it.
in addition we have ketchup flavored chips (which i hear you can't find in some countries)

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

It's kind of hard for me to be sympathetic to the families of shooting victims if this is their response.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Damn. That's another country off my list
of places to live. Is Canada still sane?

I haven't heard of anything here in Canada about crazies trying to ban games. although there could be some little group somewhere making an effort. you just need a lot of money (more than a little group like this could muster) to start any kind of campain like that here, with how large our country and spread apart our population is.

and anyway, almost every major city in Canada has a big games studio, and a number of small ones... they supply employment and pay taxes, an industry our local goverments wouldn't want to see gone.

Phew. I'm glad ONE of my backup countries is still ok. Tell me, are there Lucky Charms, and/or Lucodade in Canada?

lucky charms the cereal? yeah we have that, but no, sorry we don't have Lucozade, although we do have things like it.
in addition we have ketchup flavored chips (which i hear you can't find in some countries)

That's good. Canada is now top of my list.

 

[AceDiamond]

in addition we have ketchup flavored chips (which i hear you can't find in some countries)

I had those over the summer when I visited Prince Edward Island. Those things are damn tasty.