German "Killer Game" Culling Fails to Set the World on Fire
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The Germans have a word for that feeling.KeyMaster45 said:
Schadenfreude. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude]
I love that word SO MUCH.
Coming up next, Pac-Ban! Because games that depict compulsive eating are why more kids these days are obese!
...oh please.
...oh please.
Hey dudes. TELL ME this wouldn't be the coolest scene EVER:
A white van comes barreling down the street, does a 180 e-brake stop. 2 dudes BUST out wearing facemasks and all black commando attire. The van driver starts quickly driving around the place in circles to avoid getting his lisence number seen. They take the extendable ladder off the top of the van and in 2 seconds they have it in the dumpster.
"7 seconds left!" yells the driver
The 2nd accomplice quickly slides down the ladder while the 1st one holds it at the top. He gets the 4 games and throws them into the gym bag, " 4 seconds!" screams the driver.
He blazes up the ladder, as soon as his foot leaves the ladder the first guy shouts 'READY!' and the van stops. They throw the ladder in, jump in "were IN! GO! GO! GO!" and the van burns rubber as it takes off down the street.
Dude that would be awesome, a professional heist of 4 old games.
A white van comes barreling down the street, does a 180 e-brake stop. 2 dudes BUST out wearing facemasks and all black commando attire. The van driver starts quickly driving around the place in circles to avoid getting his lisence number seen. They take the extendable ladder off the top of the van and in 2 seconds they have it in the dumpster.
"7 seconds left!" yells the driver
The 2nd accomplice quickly slides down the ladder while the 1st one holds it at the top. He gets the 4 games and throws them into the gym bag, " 4 seconds!" screams the driver.
He blazes up the ladder, as soon as his foot leaves the ladder the first guy shouts 'READY!' and the van stops. They throw the ladder in, jump in "were IN! GO! GO! GO!" and the van burns rubber as it takes off down the street.
Dude that would be awesome, a professional heist of 4 old games.
They're hyping it up in hopes that this will stop people from playing games and get them TV's tuned back to good, wholesome television.YurdleTheTurtle said:
Seriously, think about it! Every TV that's playing a video game is one TV that isn't watching Fox News, or TNT, or Discovery Channel. Games have been stepping on the television industry's toes for a long time now; is it any wonder why they'd throw in with people who want to get games banned?
In any case, reading this thread cheered me up a great deal. It's nice to be validated in my opinion that most people are level-headed clear thinkers who take personal responsibility seriously, and realize that incidents like school shootings are more likely caused by mental instability or emotional and physical abuse (i.e., bullying) than by games or movies.
They realize that violent media doesn't affect people this way without other contributing factors, and that these kinds of events are just shameless scapegoating for the benefit of idiots who don't want to look that the real causes of these kinds of tragedies.
To quote, "Guns don't kill people, death kills people." (Kudos to anyone who knows where that's from.)The Austin said:
I mean, everyone seems to have good intentions in whatever they're doing, but you've got to wonder when good intentions end up being nothing more than a moot point to a subject that may very well not be worth the time and effort to put into. How far can you take such a thing if you get a turnout as portrayed in the video?
Yet even funnier: The german branch of the "Pirate Party" has hosted a counter event that probably had much more visitors.YurdleTheTurtle said:
And not because many gamers showed up there, they just chose a better position for their event within a much more frequented pedestrian area.
So the people of the "Anti-Anti-Gamer" Thing probably spent most of thier time explaining that they are doing that because there were these other guys trying to dump games ^^.
Guns simply react to the pulling of a trigger to tap the back of a bullet. A bullet simply has a chemical reaction to impact and launches a projectile. They are just objects. It is a person who aims and pulls the trigger.HentMas said:
Well, I don't think it's exactly shocking that not many people turned up. It's old hysteria ... I wouldn't go as far as say 'news' because ... well .. stories like this don't make the splash that they used to.
Fact of the matter is that shooting parts in games tends to boil down to the very simple equation of firing bullets = press a button, press another button to reload and repeat.
Firing a real weapon requires a little bit of practice and premeditation ... and the warning signs are there to begin with. Parents of children-turned-murderers find it easier to blame games and try to disregard all the other questions such as "Why didn't you notice you child becoming increasingly antisocial? How did YOUR child procure YOUR firearm? How did you miss all the warning signs that your child was contemplating murder-suicide?"
Why don't they toss bad parents into the bin?
Stop blaming games, and start blaming parents and idiot children.
Fact of the matter is that shooting parts in games tends to boil down to the very simple equation of firing bullets = press a button, press another button to reload and repeat.
Firing a real weapon requires a little bit of practice and premeditation ... and the warning signs are there to begin with. Parents of children-turned-murderers find it easier to blame games and try to disregard all the other questions such as "Why didn't you notice you child becoming increasingly antisocial? How did YOUR child procure YOUR firearm? How did you miss all the warning signs that your child was contemplating murder-suicide?"
Why don't they toss bad parents into the bin?
Stop blaming games, and start blaming parents and idiot children.
Germany didn't want to set the world on fire.
They just wanted to start a flame in your heart.
They just wanted to start a flame in your heart.
Yes, bullets are deadly because they move so quickly as to cause puncturing and blunt trauma when they strike an object, transferring their kinetic force. Also some of them have explosives in them, but mostly it's the speed.HentMas said:
I can guarantee you, there wasn't much of a fire as you would expect. The fact that they heat up things so nicely here on TV only ends up depressing the population and ending up in a collective, subconcious agreement 'Yes, there must be something done. I sure think they will manage well without me.' And that goes for about 99% of the entire population here in this rotten country.CantFaketheFunk said:
Yes, politicians ban, parents cry, adults just shrug and the rest of the younger demographics will just not notice it or laugh about it or mock it on local facebook-clone-pages with a "lol, that was a fail" kinda message.
The only ones that do actually give a damn about it all are, funny enough, the journalists and employees of the gaming industry and magazines here, which try to lighten things up with sensible articles for the most part. But their efforts are mostly in vain anyway since only the politicians even bother with the actual law sets, which then sadly often comes through because no one protests against this either.
It's all a state of sad passiveness and as such sh!t keeps crawling slowly but steadily.
Right there with ya. To be honest I was kind of worried when this shit was announced, but seeing how it turned out makes me think that all is not lost yet.Skeleon said:
I'd rather call it 'Germans trying to burn books but failing miserably because nearly all their countrymen see the idea for the huge pile if tripe it is'.LegendaryMan said: