Poll: So Escapist, are you a rapist?
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That's a pretty good explanation.Arqus_Zed said:
This might all be over quicker than we think too, with more and more older people being drawn to games they're becoming much more familiar to the general public. When more people know more about games they won't have their opinions crafted by dodgy news stories.
I think they blame games because you do questionable things in them. For Example: Modern Warfare 2's mission in the airport.
Too many people are too stupid to believe that some people are capable of such actions. So they blame outside stimuli. First it was metal/rock(a.k.a. the devils work), then movies came up, and finally now it's video games just because it's the latest trend and you control the actions of the main character(unlike movies).
Sure people played games before, but now it's so wide spread and far more violent. But even after playing Gears, GTA IV, MW 2... etc. I have not felt the urge or desire nor have I gone out and chainsawed someone into bits, drove my car down a heavily occupied sidewalk, or for that matter walked into an airport with light machine gun and started shooting up the place. In fact most people that do shit like this have not played games, and dare I say? even heard of them. Just ask Jack The Ripper, I'm sure games did not existed during his era. Or Jeffrey Dahmer, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't(and didn't) blame games or that there isn't a single game where you get to cannibalize another person.
The media just needs an outlet to blame someone for horrendous crimes because apparently it never happened until music, movies, and games came out. So out of fear and ignorance they blame games.
Overall I'm not at all concerned because the government will never ban it. They get too much tax money from it, think about it millions of copies of one game sold(here in Canada the tax is 13% and games are $59.99). Just as well companies with enough money and influence, will always sway the law in their favor and us consumers. I mean look at tobacco and alcohol, both are known to be bad and eventually kill you. Alcohol causes people to react without thinking, wife beaters or hell even rapists for an example(not my opinion, but most everyone accepts this as fact). Yet no one has banned it. Wait scratch that. America did ban alcohol, but we've all seen how well that went. Also people like that psychiatrist are a dying breed. Soon everyone(with access to games that is) will have at least played a game... If not own one.
Now taking a chance to look back at all I have written, all I can say is this: FUCK!!! I talk too much. But intellectual debates always did interest me. Well those that have a merit in fact anyway...
Too many people are too stupid to believe that some people are capable of such actions. So they blame outside stimuli. First it was metal/rock(a.k.a. the devils work), then movies came up, and finally now it's video games just because it's the latest trend and you control the actions of the main character(unlike movies).
Sure people played games before, but now it's so wide spread and far more violent. But even after playing Gears, GTA IV, MW 2... etc. I have not felt the urge or desire nor have I gone out and chainsawed someone into bits, drove my car down a heavily occupied sidewalk, or for that matter walked into an airport with light machine gun and started shooting up the place. In fact most people that do shit like this have not played games, and dare I say? even heard of them. Just ask Jack The Ripper, I'm sure games did not existed during his era. Or Jeffrey Dahmer, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't(and didn't) blame games or that there isn't a single game where you get to cannibalize another person.
The media just needs an outlet to blame someone for horrendous crimes because apparently it never happened until music, movies, and games came out. So out of fear and ignorance they blame games.
Overall I'm not at all concerned because the government will never ban it. They get too much tax money from it, think about it millions of copies of one game sold(here in Canada the tax is 13% and games are $59.99). Just as well companies with enough money and influence, will always sway the law in their favor and us consumers. I mean look at tobacco and alcohol, both are known to be bad and eventually kill you. Alcohol causes people to react without thinking, wife beaters or hell even rapists for an example(not my opinion, but most everyone accepts this as fact). Yet no one has banned it. Wait scratch that. America did ban alcohol, but we've all seen how well that went. Also people like that psychiatrist are a dying breed. Soon everyone(with access to games that is) will have at least played a game... If not own one.
Now taking a chance to look back at all I have written, all I can say is this: FUCK!!! I talk too much. But intellectual debates always did interest me. Well those that have a merit in fact anyway...
Let's see. I've played a lot of Grand Theft Auto, supposedly the most rape-a-licious game ever made if Jack Thompson's to be believed. I play Fallout 3 and New Vegas which means practically every day I'm shooting off guns and laughing when people die.
And yet...*checks criminal record OH WAIT I DON'T HAVE ONE*...
So yeah.
And yet...*checks criminal record OH WAIT I DON'T HAVE ONE*...
So yeah.
Were not rapists....Ive never played a game where i raped anyone...i shot and killed them and then beat animals to death and used there guts as armor...and to make money.......NEVER rape...how do you make money or get items raping someone....really...everyone who plays a video game knows 1 of 3 things
1. only KILLS give you exp...
2.Quests also..but they include killing
3. and The Escapist is where you go to learn things....its like our NYTimes.
In short...WHAT GAME DO YOU RAPE PEOPLE (excluding postal/postal 2 and the Japanese sim games that we only hear about and never see...)
1. only KILLS give you exp...
2.Quests also..but they include killing
3. and The Escapist is where you go to learn things....its like our NYTimes.
In short...WHAT GAME DO YOU RAPE PEOPLE (excluding postal/postal 2 and the Japanese sim games that we only hear about and never see...)
There once was a user on the Escapist
who made a thread asking if you were a rapist
then the mods came in
and sent his trollish topic to the bin
and all the users went away very pissed
...
I won't quit my day job.
who made a thread asking if you were a rapist
then the mods came in
and sent his trollish topic to the bin
and all the users went away very pissed
...
I won't quit my day job.
Games in the media are like dolphins, the surface is opposite of the reality, fox says games are the devil but have they even seen dolphins? Those things are evil horrible evil evil creatures in the D&D alignments dolphins would rank as the ultimate freaking evil. Games on the otherhand are depicted as evil in media but they are about as evil as a fluffy bunny with a unicorn sidekick in a movie about flowers and candy.
Games dont make you a dolphin, thank god.
Games dont make you a dolphin, thank god.
+ 1 point for rhyming your title for this thread. But there really needs to be more options to the poll.
Soon I will be. Those poor thugs in Bulletstorm, and those poor dragons in Dragon Age, they will totally be trying to give my description to the cops in the underworld after I had my way with them. I will probably have to get some of those rape-drugs beforehand, also some tonic to keep my stamina up, so that I can enjoy torturing them for hours and hours.
Mwahahahahahaha!
See, that article was right, just thinking of Bullestorm is turning me into a dangerous person!!!!!
Mwahahahahahaha!
See, that article was right, just thinking of Bullestorm is turning me into a dangerous person!!!!!
Every bit of entertaining that started off was attacked, rock and roll, metal, TV, Movies, now games are the hot thing so it's the target.
Fox really needs to be taken down a few pegs, I wish John Stewart did the same thing he did to CNN, that was amazing...
Fox really needs to be taken down a few pegs, I wish John Stewart did the same thing he did to CNN, that was amazing...
Fox News specifically design their stories to be sensationalist and dramatic. In a way, they're the ultimate trolls: they make thigs up to get a reaction and get paid for it.
I hate this joke so much... I don't find it offensive or stupid, it's just wrong! It makes no sense! GRAWRGHFLRBNArqus_Zed said:
Well the news has always been biased ever since it was started and gamers portayal in the news is especially biased and is usually always some dumbass thought made up by some ass who wants money. A la Ms stupid psychologist who can't back up her statements and trys to use the publicity to sell her sexist book.
Also your poll is major win for having only one option. Me and my friend had a laugh over it.
Also your poll is major win for having only one option. Me and my friend had a laugh over it.
At some point video games will become apart of main stream society in due time, just like the radio, elves hips, T.v., the internet, and books not having to do with large religions did. It's just taking slightly longer because in todays world were I can get up to date news on my phone, and said news is blowing something out of proportion. People then go on to talk about the game as if they met the developers, talked to gamers, played the game themselves, and talked to professionals, when in reality they probably only have read the title on yahoo and the two sentence description.
Note: These are just my thoughts.
Note: These are just my thoughts.
Well if anyone here likes to pwn teh n00bz to the point where they wait at their spawn points then they are spawn rapists. There is rape like that in online multiplayer all the time, so there are infact some gamers who are rapists (not me though, I dont play fps multiplayer), just not the kind you commonly think of 
In all seriousness, first us gamers were called psychotic killers, and now were getting called rapists; it seems the "psychological effects" of games on young people change every year.
In all seriousness, first us gamers were called psychotic killers, and now were getting called rapists; it seems the "psychological effects" of games on young people change every year.