https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=%22Armed+Guards%22+%22Schools%22Dark Knifer said:Wait whatRacecarlock said:While at the same time we're putting armed guards in schools because Second Amendment.![]()
https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=%22Armed+Guards%22+%22Schools%22Dark Knifer said:Wait whatRacecarlock said:While at the same time we're putting armed guards in schools because Second Amendment.![]()
Here's an NYT article on the practice. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/business/real-and-virtual-firearms-nurture-marketing-link.html?pagewanted=1&hp&_r=0] I'm sure it happens quite a bit, actually, but then I tend to be a marketing cynic. I mean, if you've got a product you want to sell, licence its likeness for use in a million different entertainment IPs. That's what the car-makers do; it'd be a little naive, IMO, to think that gun-makers aren't all up in that pie, as well.Andy Chalk said:From the Speaker's page:
A report published in June by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and The Gun Truth Project detailed how deals between video game companies and weapons manufacturers often lead to promotional campaigns enticing players to purchase weapons featured in the games they have just played.
I'm not sure how "often" it actually happens; I'm only aware of the deal EA signed with McMillan and Magpul that it canned last year. But that's obviously the nail the Speaker has chosen to hammer.
This kinda deserves a repost cause there's a good point there.Reeve said:That's right kids: Publishers have to pay to licenses to be allowed to depict real world guns in games. That money goes to the arms industry. Which means that every time you buy a game that depicts real world guns in it: Some of your money is spent on making real weapons. You help the arms industry! (And some of you, whilst doing that unwittingly, will be on the Internet demanding gun control. lol cosmic irony!)
iniudan said:I do... thank you for completely ruining everything...WanderingFool said:You do know that a hot desert can get freezing at night, has there is nothing to hold the heat from going elsewhere and some are cold climate, like Gobi Desert for example.erttheking said:Thats roughly the same as giving a person a sweater so they dont get cold... in the desert...
Can the Frank Zappa Gun instead just shoot his magnificent mustache with the gun sounds replaced with lyrics? I would pay good money for that in many, many games.NameIsRobertPaulson said:I cannot agree more with that statement. A gun that shoots Paul Hogan at enemies, a gun that shoots Frank Zappa at enemies, a gun that shoots bombs at enemies that create Neil Patrick Harris shaped explosions. I would play the hell out of that.
Whoa...Mind Blown.Lunar Templar said:This kinda deserves a repost cause there's a good point there.Reeve said:That's right kids: Publishers have to pay to licenses to be allowed to depict real world guns in games. That money goes to the arms industry. Which means that every time you buy a game that depicts real world guns in it: Some of your money is spent on making real weapons. You help the arms industry! (And some of you, whilst doing that unwittingly, will be on the Internet demanding gun control. lol cosmic irony!)
So less money going to the arms industry = less guns being made (in theory) = less people getting shoot = a good thing.
course, it'd help if I knew how much money these gun company's where pulling for these licenses.
Not a chance. This was just the politicians doing some nice PR. EA had to do this, in order to look good. All of them are giving money to the arms industry, so they can have the guns. If game companies stop paying, the industry will do it for free or even pay for such broad marketing.Longstreet said:I actually hope this will work.
WanderingFool said:See the good side. Get a fedora and a whip, and do some archeology.iniudan said:I do... thank you for completely ruining everything...WanderingFool said:You do know that a hot desert can get freezing at night, has there is nothing to hold the heat from going elsewhere and some are cold climate, like Gobi Desert for example.erttheking said:Thats roughly the same as giving a person a sweater so they dont get cold... in the desert...
Yeah, fuck those 200 year old laws. Freedom of Speech, petitioning the government? Who needs that? Right to not incriminate yourself? So long. Freedom of Religion? Idiotic. Not being required to house soldiers on your property? You should be glad to do such a service! Requiring a warrant to search someone's house? Gets in the way of "security" and that's important. Right to a trial? Please, we already know who is guilty. The media tells us that stuff, duh. Jury trials for large monetary claims? Last year. Protection from cruel and unusual punishment? Burn it. Placing all other powers with the states or people themselves? What sort of nonsense is this?RicoADF said:Sorry did you say no more licensed guns in our games? We thought you meant LOTS more licensed guns! - that should be the reply of the industry. I'm sick of these morons, they live in a country where people are killed every day because they wont restrict guns due to an old and outdated 200 year 'law' that America treats like its some religious text. Fix your backwards country then come for violant media if it doesn't improve.