Senator Yee Wants You to Send Him a Kinect Instead

[The Journey]

I can only assume these broken controllers must represent the broken promises of the video game industry to parents," Adam Keigwin, the Senator's chief of staff, told GamePolitics.

Fuck you, you smarmy asshole. Pull your head out of your ass.


-m

edit: Sorry, I shouldn't be so angry, but that comment really gets under my skin. What a fucking douche.

I'm with you mate, if he was an Australian politician I'd be of a good mind to send him a scathing letter. As is I'll settle for posting my emotional response here.

"You sir, are in it for whatever you can get out of it. Those awards for free speech are only yours because they enhanced your reputation, not because you actually cared about it. If you did, you wouldn't be drowning an entire medium because of some accused 'witchery'.

That is, unless you're one of these absolute morons that believe modern gaming is akin to playing snakes and ladders, or Cluedo, or even ruddy Tetris.

In closing, go take a short walk off of a long drop."

 

[boholikeu]

"I can only assume these broken controllers must represent the broken promises of the video game industry to parents," Adam Keigwin, the Senator's chief of staff, told GamePolitics [http://gamepolitics.com/2010/10/08/yee-vgvn-initiative-send-us-kinect-instead].

I know everyone is quoting this, but I don't think anyone has brought up the point yet that out of all popular entertainment media, the game industry is probably the best at keeping its promises to parents. Year after year the ESRB ratings are shown to be much more strictly enforced than either music or film ratings. If he's going to complain about "broken promises" why doesn't his law go after those industries as well?

Oh yeah, I forgot it's because games are a much easier target. If he had tried to apply his bill to violent movies it would've been dead in the water a long time ago.

 

[TilMorrow]

Alright its time to send in the big guns. Send him a box with an envelope saying 'you thief!'

Then everyone just Leeroy Jenkins! his office and take everything not nailed down.

 

[MGlBlaze]

I can only assume these broken controllers must represent the broken promises of the video game industry to parents," Adam Keigwin, the Senator's chief of staff, told GamePolitics.

Fuck you, you smarmy asshole. Pull your head out of your ass.


-m

edit: Sorry, I shouldn't be so angry, but that comment really gets under my skin. What a fucking douche.

I share this sentiment, to be honest. How exactly did they extrapolate that meaning when;
1) I wasn't aware that the videogames industry made any such promise to anyone, and;
2) I thoughts the 'you can't control us' message was made abundantly clear.

Also, the fact that he is apparently the recipient of a number of free speech awards means that his opposition to games makes him nothing other than a hypocrite.

 

[Mortons4ck]

Can we send Leland Yee back to Red China where he belongs? He'd fit right in with the politburo in Beijing.

Wow that's an ignorant comment if I've ever seen one.

To be fair, he was born in China. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 3.

 

[AgentBJ09]

I can only assume these broken controllers must represent the broken promises of the video game industry to parents," Adam Keigwin, the Senator's chief of staff, told GamePolitics.

Fuck you, you smarmy asshole. Pull your head out of your ass.


-m

edit: Sorry, I shouldn't be so angry, but that comment really gets under my skin. What a fucking idiot.

You are fully forgiven, but only because I was basically about to say the same thing.

We try to say that you cannot control our medium, our entertainment. An entire GROUP of people have stood up to send you these controllers and shove our opinions and our voice in your face, and you tell us that we're trying to back you, to protest promises of the videogame companies?

As Matt so wonderfully put it: FUCK YOU!

That and the fact remains that the Kinect comes out on Nov. 4th, two days after election day. Unless Lee has a time traveling device somewhere in his office, he's out of luck.

That said, I wouldn't send him a Kinect peripheral. That thing's 150 dollars. Keep sending him the busted controllers because his sense of taste and respect for us is clearly long gone.

Better yet, send him a busted controller with the phrase: "Explain to us why we should even consider that when you are violating the free speech of the video game community with this law. You shouldn't even be in office because of what you're doing."

 

[poiuppx]

I can only assume these broken controllers must represent the broken promises of the video game industry to parents," Adam Keigwin, the Senator's chief of staff, told GamePolitics.

Fuck you, you smarmy asshole. Pull your head out of your ass.


-m

edit: Sorry, I shouldn't be so angry, but that comment really gets under my skin. What a fucking douche.

Damn. He beat me to my exact response to this line of verbal toxic waste. Here's hoping the senator is buried in old game controllers and copies of Fester's Quest and Aquaman. Buried so hard he knows what it feels like to be an Atari 2600 E.T. cartridge.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Is Arny on our side? If not who is? I forget.

We're on our side.

The common gamer must unite to stop this, because justice and things.

OT: this is just stupid. The parents buy them the games, they are the only ones who can. Further than that, the games industry can do nothing.

Who bets that DNF's going to rile up some fresh controversy on this subject?

I know I just wondered who Schwarzenegger supports in all this.

 

[Optimystic]

*<-------the point*

*his head*

No, wait, sorry, More like;

*<-------basic cultural decency*

*his heart*

He would need a heart first...

To be fair, he was born in China. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 3.

Was there a point there somewhere?

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Send him an Atari 5600.

 

[DrunkWithPower]

Can we send Leland Yee back to Red China where he belongs? He'd fit right in with the politburo in Beijing.

Tried it, got a letter asking for a Kinect instead.

 

[nickpy]

I still say I do not see a problem with this particular law - it would not revert Games to children's toys, unless you had a wholly stupid ratings system (read: Australia), as we've gotten on just fine in Britain. Although I think that in many cases, an 18-rated game is perfectly fine for young persons (heck, I had an 18-rated game when I was 10) the difference is that it forces it to be the parent's choice; I couldn't sneak out and buy it myself on the sly. Of course, I suppose, why these restrictions have to be in law when the industry manages to self-regulate is anyone's guess.

However, I do understand the desire to prevent erosion of a constitutional right. You're quite lucky in that you have constitutional rights that are paramount above all. We don't... we just have laws restricting what we can do; i suppose we have the Human Rights Act now, but that's caused more problems than it's solved. Bloody EU.

 

[ENKC]

That article seemed all very sensible and well written until I got to the end. I can't stop laughing at the idea of "Schwarzenegger vs" anything. Surely that's not going to end well for whoever is on the other side of that "vs".

 

[Mortons4ck]

To be fair, he was born in China. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 3.

Was there a point there somewhere?

There is.

Simulord points out that Senator Yee really likes censorship, so he should go to a to a country famous for their love censorship, in this instance, Red China, referring to the current system of government of the Chinese mainland.

Akalabeth attempts to turn this into a race argument where none exists. Presumably, s/he believes (incorrectly I might add) that Simulord is either implying that Senator Yee, as an Asian-American, (who may or may not be Chinese) should move to China because of common genetic ancestry, ignoring the fact that Simulord was opposed to shared ideological beliefs.

I point out that not only is Akalabeth incorrect in his/her assumption, but that Senator Yee is in fact a Chinese-American who was in fact born in China. So saying Senator Yee being originally from China, should move back to China if he loves censorship so much, is a political statement rather than a statement on race. Much akin to comparing and associating Governor Schwarzenegger with the Nazis.

It avoids the politically-incorrectness of geographic inaccuracies (if Senator Yee was a British born Korean-American and was told to move back to China, that would be a statement of ignorance since he would neither be Chinese, nor have been born in China).

If Senator Yee were a white British-American who was born in the UK, and the UK had a huge hard on for censorship. No one would give a damn if the statement read, "Senator Yee should go back to the UK, they really like censorship over there." But apparently, Akalabeth believes that Asian-Americans are above such censure.

If Senator Yee wants to avoid comparison to the politburo, he should stop acting like he's from the politburo and stop trampling on the First Amendment. Simulord's statement is not ignorant. Akalabeth is a flagrant, Sharpton-esque race-baiter and a bad one at that.

 

[Optimystic]

There is.

Simulord points out that Senator Yee really likes censorship, so he should go to a to a country famous for their love censorship, in this instance, Red China, referring to the current system of government of the Chinese mainland.

What the government loves is not necessarily what the people love. Advocating sending a demonstrated asshole into an already bad situation is simply not a productive line of discussion, however much Yee might appear to "fit in" there.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I can't help but think companies like Blizzard,EA, Microsoft, Sony, and Valve should pool some money, and make a sensible ad to get word out to the regular joes who watch TV. The ad should go on in the middle of sports games, and soap operas and the like, to hit as many parents and non gamers as possible too, we're not trying to educate gamers, gamers have a clue.

Hi, do your children play videogames? Then we want to make sure you buy the right kinds of games for them, and for yourselves. Simply check the box for the rating, usually in the lower right corner, also on the spine and the reverse. *then a quick rundown of the ratings*

As producers of entertainment like the TV and movie industries, we want to make sure we make products suitable for all, so when we do create games for a more mature audience, we'll make sure it's clearly labelled on the case for you to make an informed decision. However, at present, the government wants to change our legal standing, saying we're not a valid medium like movies. Would you prefer the Sopranos had never been screened, no Shawshank Redemption, no Sex and the City, purely because a child may see it? Of course not, you check the ratings and make an informed decision as a parent. Please give gaming the same respect.'

No hyperbole, just one of those wanky ads that seems like crap but that people actually do seem to take in. We somehow need to inform the masses that we're no more of a threat than the TV or the library.

Remember, any kid can take a Stephen King book out and read wonderful descriptions of violent gory death and obscene sexual acts. No ratings, yet, as a book it's fine. I should say I love books and reading and wouldn't WANT more limits on them, but it's a valid point.