The congressman told Wright that he initially became aware of video game content issues while watching an unspecified documentary on the Grand Theft Auto series.
Something tells me that's the fullest extent of his research into the subject.
I'm looking for something. This isn't the total answer, but something to help bridge the tide, if you will, or at least create another hurdle in terms of younger children being exposed to this material without their parental knowledge.
Seeings how parents are usually the ones exposing their kids to inappropriate material, and the rest can bypass this bogus bill, this isn't a hurdle to anything.
There is an open issue here about whether (the game industry's) ratings are appropriate. This is sort of the fox in the henhouse. The industry gets to set the ratings for their own material.
The film and record industries are the same way. And their ratings are not always accurate. Where's the objection to that?
I hope that we've framed it in a way where we've addressed some of the constitutional
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h'es basing this law onhilaryduffgtaJanuary 8 2006, 17:59:09 UTC
"The congressman told Wright that he initially became aware of video game content issues while watching an unspecified documentary on the Grand Theft Auto series"
ahhh so since he saw it on Tv he figures it Must be a issue to tackle.Just curious has anyone ever seen a documentary on the gta series?? Im wondering if this "documentary" was more like he was watching his son play the game and figured to make a law out of it.
Re: h'es basing this law onkurokorinJanuary 8 2006, 18:15:34 UTC
It was probrably on G4. Although I would've liked the guy actually PLAYING THE GAME, I am a game-regulation supporter.
You all make regulation sound like a bad thing. However bad it may hurt the industry, the game was never intended for kids in the first place as evident by the "M" rating. GTA may be satiristic to the point where it is comical (Unlike the cheap knock-offs), but do you think some 8-year old kid
And furthermore, parents can't be watching their kids 24-7. I believe they need a safety-net until the issue is out there.
There is something so painfully wrongskemodanJanuary 8 2006, 18:11:51 UTC
with allowing politicians and beaurocrats to take the major stand in these issues without having the slightest idea what they are talking about. Seeing a documentary on GTA is no grounds as a basis for a law. GTA always seems to come up in these debates and it would seem like these laws would be better suited to simply ban GTA instead of limiting the sale of video games. This man has no idea what he's talking about, probably never even picked up a game controller, and neither has Jack Thompson. These morons go to great lengths to fight something they don't know. I thought the Cold War was over. I thought we were done fighting an invisible enemy. Sooner or later you're going to see another witch hunt seeking out the "pornographers" of the video game industry. This is getting to be ridiculous. Ask these grown men to play GTA or Doom or any game they keep bitching about and see, first off, if they can figure out how to play it, and secondly, if afterwards they feel like killing something.
Re: There is something so painfully wronghilaryduffgtaJanuary 8 2006, 18:18:45 UTC
Actully This Hit Ridiculous quite a while ago.Given Yes All of us gamers and People with commen sense Understand that Grand Theft Auto is Just a Video game and it cant train you to kill or Teach You to Murder People.These Politicians Dont see that though.To them they see a extremly Violent Video game That kids are buying and of course Only Kids (apparently this "video games are for children" Crap aint gonna go away) Hey Let them Bring On another Witch Hunt and then we can listen to how insane the next thing will be that they will Bitch and moan about.as for these Dipshits sitting down and spending 5 minutes on Gta yea that would be good since im sure it would take them prolly a good half hour to a hour just to figure out how to turn on a ps2 or x box.
Maybe if someone handed these people a ps2 and Gta san andreas after a long hard day of work and were stressed out and wanting to go off on someone that once they Played the game for 10 or 20 minutes and then realized what a great stress reliever Gta is maybe that would change their
Re: There is something so painfully wrongskemodanJanuary 8 2006, 18:56:37 UTC
I remember that too. What happened with that? I'll bet it was the movies. No one can say that game was harmful after seeing what a terrible movie it made. Maybe that's all we need, a GTA movie. Not that there isn't one already, it just needs the name GTA on it.
This news post is kind of redundant of what has been happening, but would like to restate my opinion since I'm in the mood. Meh.
I think game bans are ridiculous. One of the reasons for me playing games is the fact that you can do things that wouldn't be possible in real life. whether it be battling aliens or committing felonies. IMHO people who played video games and kill were nuts to begin with and would have done the same thing. Well, that's just my 2¥.
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Something tells me that's the fullest extent of his research into the subject.
I'm looking for something. This isn't the total answer, but something to help bridge the tide, if you will, or at least create another hurdle in terms of younger children being exposed to this material without their parental knowledge.
Seeings how parents are usually the ones exposing their kids to inappropriate material, and the rest can bypass this bogus bill, this isn't a hurdle to anything.
There is an open issue here about whether (the game industry's) ratings are appropriate. This is sort of the fox in the henhouse. The industry gets to set the ratings for their own material.
The film and record industries are the same way. And their ratings are not always accurate. Where's the objection to that?
I hope that we've framed it in a way where we've addressed some of the constitutional ( ... )
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ahhh so since he saw it on Tv he figures it Must be a issue to tackle.Just curious has anyone ever seen a documentary on the gta series?? Im wondering if this "documentary" was more like he was watching his son play the game and figured to make a law out of it.
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You all make regulation sound like a bad thing. However bad it may hurt the industry, the game was never intended for kids in the first place as evident by the "M" rating. GTA may be satiristic to the point where it is comical (Unlike the cheap knock-offs), but do you think some 8-year old kid
And furthermore, parents can't be watching their kids 24-7. I believe they need a safety-net until the issue is out there.
Thats just my two cents, anyways. . .
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However bad it may hurt the industry, the game was never intended for kids in the first place as evident by the "M" rating.
R-rated movies clearly aren't intended for kids, and there's more kids watching them then there are playing GTA. Where's the regulation to stop that?
And furthermore, parents can't be watching their kids 24-7.
No, they can't. But they're the ones buying the games most of the time.
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Maybe if someone handed these people a ps2 and Gta san andreas after a long hard day of work and were stressed out and wanting to go off on someone that once they Played the game for 10 or 20 minutes and then realized what a great stress reliever Gta is maybe that would change their
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I think game bans are ridiculous. One of the reasons for me playing games is the fact that you can do things that wouldn't be possible in real life. whether it be battling aliens or committing felonies. IMHO people who played video games and kill were nuts to begin with and would have done the same thing. Well, that's just my 2¥.
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Because everyone who is over 35 is an oppresive A-hole who wants "the good old days" to remain frozen in time.
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