US 'games as porn' law creates panic

[Athrun888]

Or the developers could, oh I don't know, maybe not make the violence so over-the-top as it currently is?
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[Richyrich316]

California's ban - which was originally signed by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What a judas Arnie is he never complained when his mush was on the cover of numerous violent games tied to his violent movies like Terminator etc,

He seems to sing a different tune when there is no royalties for him at stake.
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[bazzatuk]

Now the kids are going to have to get their video games from the x-rated porn shop as well? That's just unreasonable.

[churchy]

On reading the headline:

"Errr...what?!"

[PENGALENG]

Schwarzenegger u nazi c**t, its ok for him to prance about stark bollock naked in terminator and make s**t films like conon the barberian that should be x rated coz you will wast more of your life watching that than playing in the garden with a swing ball kit u know on the pack theres a whole fukin happy family with the fattest grins on, well i tell you what its not like that at my house when we had 1 there was no happy dad coz hes not live with us, there was me my bro my mum burnin s**t on the bbq and my great nan the only time we smiled was wen we pulled the pole out the ground and smash it round our great nans chops for buying us that s**t, theres only 1 way to play games and thats on a pc or console the dirty slut.

Any way back to arniecuntzernega, there was also that film spin off of conon the barbarian called colon the butcher were he fuked silvester stalon bearback pro (just like on modern warfare 2) then forced him to suk his own s**t off his dik, and he complains about us just sticking some mug in a game.

[ClockworkMonkey]

I bet Disney are the most worried of all.. Their games are shocking.

[Focker420]

[SavageEvil]

This is ridiculous, how can you give movies a free pass? Like I said, its the blame game. Parents blame game developers for making the games that somehow make your children violent. Yet society has been violent for centuries and videogames are relatively new medium. Possibly these same individuals get into debt and claim that it was the credit card company's fault for approving you and causing you to spend money your ass didn't have. This nation is going down the tubes, blame everyone but yourself.

[JammyJames]

Have they got nothing else better to do than to whine about f**king video games. Fighting crime perhaps, yeah, that sounds a bit more sensible.

[chunkyboymania]

Woah, woah, woah what's the big f**king deal here.

"The US Supreme Court agreed in April to review a motion prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors."

That sounds reasonable enough to me. I was under the impression this was already the case anyway.

I'm assuming that your all American minors by your knee jerk reactions.
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[Sleepaphobic]

[pherik]

I've scanned that story several times and I keep expecting to find the name 'Jack Thompson' in there somewhere.. but sadly could not.

It's an absurd proposition, particularly coming from the USA. So what they are saying is that it's ok to carry a real gun, but not to play a video game where you pretend to be a soldier with a gun?

[Bryanee1983]

There is nothing wrong with this. We have the same damn thing. You cannot buy a rated game unless your old enough. They just want the same thing stateside. The problem is the rating system itself in the states, it needs to be updated for both movies and games.
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[JablesKage]

LMAO if this does indeed go national in the US then us Brits will probably feel the pain too cuz we always seem to take inspiration from those dumb asses?

[Bryanee1983]

We already have a rating system that stops minors from buying games they are not supposed to. Feck sake how hard is to understand that?
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[Lloyd12]

If it has an M on it, don't sell it to the kids. That's really all there is to know. But, of course, everyone has to make it a hundred times more complicated than it ought to be.

My feeling is that devs and publishers are worried about sales dollars....essentially meaning that they really are dependent on selling M games to minors. Which is bad.

[themozabeast]

can you imagine what might happen after this?
the video games industry will be pushed to the underground and youll have to buy fallout 3 from "the Don."
stupid americans.
american congress go crazy, dancing and running around in cirlces shouting "OH NO!" every time something bad happens in US youth.
if that doesnt get on the best comments of the week, i dont know what will.

[Lloyd12]

To the Mommies of America, Australia and Britain:

Feck your kids. I am sick of having to worry about them. YOU worry about them and leave me and my video games alone. Above all, SHUT UP. If you are too stupid and lazy to look at a rating that is clearly denoted on a box before buying or allowing your kid to play a game, then they deserve to be screwed up and you deserve to have screwed up loser children. On top of that, if you are unwilling to abide by the ratings system, YOU HAVE ZERO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN. Your kids ARE NOT the most important thing in the world. I DO NOT CARE what happens to your kids. You act like everyone else is supposed to look out for YOUR kids and I'm sorry, but I'm not your babysitter. TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR FAMILY and LEAVE ME ALONE. IT'S NOT MY JOB and I refuse to compensate for your incompetence any longer.

[chunkyboymania]

[Focker420]

I personally don't understand it. They aren't allowed to sell Mature rated games to minors anyway. Making it illegal won't do anything. I have to show my I.D. every single time I buy a Mature game. Now if they want to prevent it from minors buying then change Mature rating to 18 instead of the 17 that its at now. Same with R rated films. Then only Adults will have the ability the buy them. No big deal. Making it illegal won't change a damn thing. I will still have to show my I.D. just like I've always had to.

[mastiffchild]

What's the big worry here? In the UK it's already law not to sell mayture rated games to minors. Isn,t that what this is actually about and after happening in the States?

If so, it's hardly the end of the world and won't result in anything much happening except stores stopping selling 18 rated games to kids. I get that Arnie is a tool(met him and he;s the single most boring, dull and dim sounding man I ever came across)and pathetically wants his legacy but the industry will prolly win and if they don't I cannot see this being a big deal anyway.

Apologies if I'm missing something but what's so bad about the ages on the boxes actually being policed a bit?

[CrispyJawas]

I hope it eventually eliminates swearing, nudity and all the blood, gore and dismemberment in video games. People that feed off this rubbish should have to get it from their home town porn-o store.
My state has all porn outlawed so don't bring your dirty mitts here