Zero Punctuation: Video Game Voters Network

[jono793]

Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that Yahtzee is from the UK and and lives in Australia, both of which have laws that banning the sale mature rated videogames to children. Yet somehow both counties have managed to conduct free and fair elections and so no signs of becoming dictatorships. Odd that.

ONE of which has laws banning the sale of mature (by which you presumably mean '18 rated') games. Britian has, to my knowledge, banned two games in the last five years; Manhunt 2 and Rapelay. And Unlike the United States, British supermarkets will happily stock 18 rated games on their shelves without issue.

 

[vanguard_anon]

I have a youtube channel with about 90,000 subscribers. If you would be interested in me re-uploading this I'd be happy to do it.

--WoodysGamertag

 

[Valagetti]

I'm not American, I'm from New Zealand. Ooh well, our rating systems give access to lots of games that are banned and alted in other countries! And it won't be long before videogames become the norm just like all cultural mediums.

 

[OceanRunner]

I tried the site, but you need a zip code (I'm English). Is there a UK equivilant?

 

[duchaked]

=) nice, will get right to it

 

[Infernai]

Good Video Yahtzee

Unfortunately though, I'm not of voting age in my country, and I'm not American....so yeah, that pretty much knee-caps me before i can even try to do something.

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

Soeey, man, UK here. I voted Green last election, I guess their only quibble with videogames is how much power consoles on standby consume. I'd have voted Pirate Party UK, but alas, no candidate in my area.

 

[Bananahs]

I'd have voted Pirate Party UK, but alas, no candidate in my area.

*fistbump* same here bro.

Good work Mr Ben, November 2nd will be a very important date indeed.

 

[magicmonkeybars]

I for one welcome the censorship of vidseogames.
Today you'll censor videogames tomorrow all of the American culture, I as a none American am all for it.
Go ahead destroy the USA one videogame at a time, I welcome your cultural suicide.
Start with videogames then move on to porn, movies, music, magazines, books, free speech as a whole.
Embrace the snowball until you have no cultural expression at all.

"He who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself."

 

[Android2137]

Eheheh. I guess it was too much to ask for another video game review. I'm willing to do my part, but hopefully the more hotheaded people manage to control themselves and not run their mouths, giving the legislators even more reason to believe that we are all violent kids looking for some excuse to break out the guns.

 

[blankedboy]

Aw, he sold out! What a waste, now other companies will be bribing him to get their name in special episodes. I'm legitimately pissed off at Yahtzee for one of the first times yet. Shame on you.

 

[Blydden]

Aw, he sold out! What a waste, now other companies will be bribing him to get their name in special episodes. I'm legitimately pissed off at Yahtzee for one of the first times yet. Shame on you.

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Excuseywa, duble passe'?

I pray that is sarcasm, or else I am going to unload a massive wall of text on to you. ;3

 

[Ih8pkmn]

I WOULD sign up... BUT I CANT VOTE FOR ANOTHER THREE YEARS.

Still, looks like an awesome group.

 

[blankedboy]

Aw, he sold out! What a waste, now other companies will be bribing him to get their name in special episodes. I'm legitimately pissed off at Yahtzee for one of the first times yet. Shame on you.

O_O

Excuseywa, duble passe'?

I pray that is sarcasm, or else I am going to unload a massive wall of text on to you. ;3

Wall of text away, it's pretty damn hard to change my opinions.

 

[Jorias]

I wrote my Congressman on the problem via the website, god i hope video games don't go the way of being unconstitutional or anything stupid like that....

 

[Adzma]

Sorry fellas, just like we Australians have to fight our battle alone, you Americans are going to have to do the same.

Someone really should explain to me why restricting sales of adult games to children is a bad thing though. Coming from a country which already does such a thing, though with movies since we don't have an adult rating for games, everything works fine for us. I mean, doesn't your first amendment defence mean that it's OK for a 10 year old to buy pornography?

At any rate, I'm against any form of political repression of games, so you guys have my support in spirit.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Damn it. It sucks that I'm not eligable to vote,(Being under 18 and shit) but the word definately deserves to be spread.

OUR RIGHTS. OUR GAMES!!!

 

[Z3rg_killer]

Non-american but i'll try and do my part.

 

[EvilYoshi]

It's futile Yahtzee, our demographic is the least likely to get off our asses to go vote on something. The old gits, on the other hand, are the most likely to vote (they have nothing better to do anyways).

I watch all of your videos religiously and I already regard your opinion higher than any of the credible sources of consumer advice (haven't bought or played a video game since 2005, because everything since Psychonauts is shit). However, even I won't vote on whatever it was that you wanted me to vote on.

 

[Canadian Fodder]

Wish I could help. But I'm Canadian and if the US does change something related to video games, we probably will too...