Media Expert Worries About Game Burning "Distraction"
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They can burn our physical copies, but they'll never burn our digital downloads!!!
No but in all seriousness how exactly do they think this is going to help? if their case is valid and we are all slowly turning into mass murderers, making yourself look like a right-wing nut job is not going to help anybody.
No but in all seriousness how exactly do they think this is going to help? if their case is valid and we are all slowly turning into mass murderers, making yourself look like a right-wing nut job is not going to help anybody.
I wonder if I could stand next to them with a computer writing digital copies of CDs of the very software they're burning.Noswad said:
Or would that just be... adding more fuel to the fire?
Not to mention, no matter how religious you are, you can't deny that some fucked up-level violent shit goes down in the bible.Newtonyd said:
I'm more making the point these people are acting as the embodiment of banjo strumming, squeal like a piggy, uniformed hillbilly, southern, stereotype who sees the talking-picture box and assumes its witchcraft. I'm making fun of an exaggeration of a stereotype, one that was often seen in cartoons. I'd dig up the Hatfield and Mcoy Loony Toon's cartoon or the episode of Family Guy where they have to hide out in deep south, but I can't be bothered. It's called hyperbole folks. Look it up.Devoneaux said:You know, that is an incredibly sheltered view of America you have there. Analytic thinking and general intelligence is not entirely dependent upon where you live. Also, how is banjo music in any way relevant to one's ability to think rationally? Do I detect a slight hint of prejudice, or just a poorly informed view of that particular part of the country?Sylveria said:
Bare in mind, the person that this article is about works at a university in Texas.
Some of you southerners are acting awfully sensitive about what should obviously be taken as a hyperbole statement. Did I unintentionally strike a nerve, ya'll?
People have been doing things like this since early recorded history and probably before that. But video games have been around for less than 1% of that time.
Wait, so they don't really think games caused the shootings, but they're still burning them? How do they not see their own fallacy?
What he just said makes complete sense.
Which probably means the people who need to hear it most will not listen because it's not a knee-jerk reaction.
Which probably means the people who need to hear it most will not listen because it's not a knee-jerk reaction.
ya'll = You All. Not sure your using that word right way.Sylveria said:I'm more making the point these people are acting as the embodiment of banjo strumming, squeal like a piggy, uniformed hillbilly, southern, stereotype who sees the talking-picture box and assumes its witchcraft. I'm making fun of an exaggeration of a stereotype, one that was often seen in cartoons. I'd dig up the Hatfield and Mcoy Loony Toon's cartoon or the episode of Family Guy where they have to hide out in deep south, but I can't be bothered. It's called hyperbole folks. Look it up.Devoneaux said:You know, that is an incredibly sheltered view of America you have there. Analytic thinking and general intelligence is not entirely dependent upon where you live. Also, how is banjo music in any way relevant to one's ability to think rationally? Do I detect a slight hint of prejudice, or just a poorly informed view of that particular part of the country?Sylveria said:
Bare in mind, the person that this article is about works at a university in Texas.
Some of you southerners are acting awfully sensitive about what should obviously be taken as a hyperbole statement. Did I unintentionally strike a nerve, ya'll?
Now I support this man, I really do...
But whenever someone who says this kinda thing comes up, we praise him as a god, and say he's done the tests, he's cited science, he must be true...
But when someone from the other side says they've done a test, and found something different, we decry them as a maniac. It just seems a little bias, and god knows I would rather have games exist, but I know we're all going to be a little bias, but can we not react so feverishly?
Also, Book burning = Game burning.
Free speech. It's a thing. You're breaking it.
Good Job, Random overhyped town. -_-
But whenever someone who says this kinda thing comes up, we praise him as a god, and say he's done the tests, he's cited science, he must be true...
But when someone from the other side says they've done a test, and found something different, we decry them as a maniac. It just seems a little bias, and god knows I would rather have games exist, but I know we're all going to be a little bias, but can we not react so feverishly?
Also, Book burning = Game burning.
Free speech. It's a thing. You're breaking it.
Good Job, Random overhyped town. -_-
Noone goes to a book burning believing they're makings things better.
It's just the mass reaction of a group of ignorant and intolerant people, presumably spurred on by a person or persons.
You can hate anything at all for all I care, but when you decide to recreate the Bonfire of the Vanities, you've pretty much breached the basic human contract that says 'don't be an awful person'.
It's just the mass reaction of a group of ignorant and intolerant people, presumably spurred on by a person or persons.
You can hate anything at all for all I care, but when you decide to recreate the Bonfire of the Vanities, you've pretty much breached the basic human contract that says 'don't be an awful person'.
aren't they already here?DVS BSTrD said:
No but seriously, what is it with Americans and burning objectionable media?
Wow, games are like 60$ a pop retail talking about throwing money away. I guess they could delete steam accounts that would be more cost effective but less of spectacle. Oh yeah and that guy is absolute correct in everything he's saying just people looking for a scapegoat.