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.
Zero Punctuation: Video Game Voters Network
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XD besides all the crap in my beloved Latinamerica
THANK GOD POLITICS HERE STILL DON´T KNOW WHAT A VIDEOGAME IS... sad but true
Are there any sites that want to do the same but world wide???
THANK GOD POLITICS HERE STILL DON´T KNOW WHAT A VIDEOGAME IS... sad but true
Are there any sites that want to do the same but world wide???
The US has a lot more influence on what games get both made and sold the world over than the UK or Australia do. If games with mature content face legalized sale restrictions then less places will sell them (particularly the big guns like WalMart), and if less places sell them then less games with mature content will be created. And, of course, based on the approach being used in this law, exactly what constitutes "mature content" is not likely to just stop at obvious blood gore and sex. Gamers everywhere should be watching this issue closely and offering whatever support they can.albino boo said:
Nobody has said that it will automatically lead to the downfall of society. What it very well could lead to is the downfall of art. Imagine if during the Renaissance the pope just declared that paintings turned people into the devil. That's an entire section of western culture and art wiped out because a grumpy old man said so.albino boo said:
Hopefully this will expand into an international voters bloc, the same way say environmentalism has broadly speaking a unified political view.
Otherwise this'll just be another abbreviation group in America that did something and has no impact in the media or politics of other English speaking countries (never mind the one's that don't speach Yahtzeetongue). In Ireland this stuff doesn't get picked up in the newspapers or the 6 o clock news (further proof of underrepesentation perhaps?)
I hope the groups ambition does entend that way. If it happens I want to be told. As it is, all I can do is support the local branch of the Pirate Party in the EU, but their platform is solely intellectual property reform, which is at most tangental to the prevention of demonising of computer game playing voters.
The gamers I have most in common with politically don't necessarily live in my constituency; hell just look at the list of "best wishes but I don't live in the US" posts above and below mine. And even then I've no doubt my views on the pirate party aren't shared with all my friends; but if the VGVN is serious about making an impact it needs to find or establish its equivalents abroad.
They could do a lot worse than the email the student unions of universities and colleges with courses that teach both politics and programming courses.
Otherwise this'll just be another abbreviation group in America that did something and has no impact in the media or politics of other English speaking countries (never mind the one's that don't speach Yahtzeetongue). In Ireland this stuff doesn't get picked up in the newspapers or the 6 o clock news (further proof of underrepesentation perhaps?)
I hope the groups ambition does entend that way. If it happens I want to be told. As it is, all I can do is support the local branch of the Pirate Party in the EU, but their platform is solely intellectual property reform, which is at most tangental to the prevention of demonising of computer game playing voters.
The gamers I have most in common with politically don't necessarily live in my constituency; hell just look at the list of "best wishes but I don't live in the US" posts above and below mine. And even then I've no doubt my views on the pirate party aren't shared with all my friends; but if the VGVN is serious about making an impact it needs to find or establish its equivalents abroad.
They could do a lot worse than the email the student unions of universities and colleges with courses that teach both politics and programming courses.