A Half Dozen People Petition White House to Round Up All Copies of Skyrim, Outlaw and Burn Them - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A Tennessee man kicked off a White House petition on Thanksgiving urging the President of the United States to ban The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for "the safety of America's youths." So far he has five backers, and only 24,994 more digital signatures to go to meet his goal. Confused? Let me explain. The official website for the White House now includes the ability for anyone 13 or older who lives in the U.S. to start a petition about literally anything and try to garner the President's attention with it. The result has been... interesting? While there are legitimate petitions about legitimate issues on the site, there are also plenty of out-of-left field, and downright crazy ones. Maybe even some jokes. I'm not sure where this one falls, but I'm hoping it's just a joke. Heck, maybe it's linked to the christian satire article that Luke wrote about earlier today. Here's the full petition in all of its glory: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Immediately Ban the Deadly Videogame Known as "SkyRim" for The Safety of America's Youths. Whereas videogaming has proven to cause social, ethical and health problems in people of all ages, Whereas sexual perversion and homosexuality are threatening to destroy the Christian foundations on which this nation was built, Whereas a new video game has just been created that far exceeds any others in the psychological and spiritual damage it does to teens, We, the American people, today ask you, 1) To enact an immediate ban on the videogame known as "SkyRim" produced by Blizzard Entertainment. 2) To seize and destroy all copies already in public hands and erase its presence on the internet. 3) To prosecute the players of "SkyRim" to the fullest extent of the law. 4) To create a national database of videogame avatars and "screen names" so that teenagers can be better monitored. Update: Turns out the petition was indeed created by the Christwire folks[/QUOTE] Ok some clarification: 1) Skyrim is created by Bethesda. 2) It'll cost millions of dollars for the U.S. goverment to even try this. 3) It'll be impossible to prosecute millions of players playing this game. 4) Oh hell no. NOT GONNA HAPPEN! Whoever thought of this idea should shove this up their a**. Source: [url]http://kotaku.com/5862623/a-half-dozen-people-petition-white-house-to-round-up-all-copies-of-skyrim-outlaw-and-burn-them[/url]

"SkyRim" a+ petition

I guess I better do my part in destroying the Christian foundations this nation was built on by fucking my boyfriend.

I'm surprised that PETA hasn't bitch about the "dog meat" on Skyrim yet.

"Mr President the protesters want you to ban Skyrim.. Uh. Mr. President-" "Shut up Biden I'm fighting a dragon!"

I remember seeing something like this yesterday. It turned out to be satire.

The game turns people into psychopaths! :tinfoil: [video=youtube;gQTV43g-hAo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQTV43g-hAo[/video] I agree ban this game.

[quote]Update: Turns out the petition was indeed created by the Christwire folks[/quote] [highlight]No story here, time to go home.[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33443309][highlight]No story here, time to go home.[/highlight][/QUOTE] OP why did you even start the thread while quoting this

sounds like it's satire

since when is *obvious* satire news

oh, it's christwire. yeah it's satire

fuck doggy

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33443309][highlight]No story here, time to go home.[/highlight][/QUOTE] Hah, just spotted that. Good job OP :v

Definitely satire. 6 people agreeing to something doesn't make it news

a+ petition would vote again but god outlaws it

I guess someone takes the Christian Monitor a [B]TAD[/B] bit too seriously :v:

This won't happen ever. Especially not for a game so popular.

Hardly news. [editline]26th November 2011[/editline] Also, let's all sign it just to see what the response would be: [url]https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5[/url]