*Sigh* Connecticut representative asking for taxes/warnings on M-Rated video games. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=R.M.T.B.;44714852]Bullshit I'll played Team Fortress 2 since MIDDLE SCHOOL and I've rarely injured someone on purpose[/QUOTE] erm... are you really THAT bad of a player?

[QUOTE=R.M.T.B.;44714852]Bullshit I'll played Team Fortress 2 since MIDDLE SCHOOL and I've rarely injured someone on purpose[/QUOTE] Agreed. I have over 300 hours played of TF2 and I've only beaten a few people to death with my entrenching tool. I really don't see what the big deal is.

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;44714185]Remember, we'll demonize the weapons, the games, the movies, the hobbies, everything this person did, rather than just say "wow this guy was fucked up" BECAUSE GOD FORBID WE HOLD THE PERSON ACCOUNTABLE, it has to be the video games he played, or the movies he watched, or the hobbies he enjoyed, not the fact that [B]he was fucked up from the get go..[/B] no sir, can't be that.[/QUOTE] your favourite hobbies aside, it's pretty unlikely that a person is "fucked up from the get go"

[QUOTE=The golden;44714570]"Countless studies" I would like to see these studies, Hovey.[/QUOTE] The countless news articles about people with mental disabilities doing something bad, and it being found out that they played GTA or CoD or whatever.

Sometimes my state is great, other times not so much. This being the not so much part.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;44713628][QUOTE]Connecticut State Representative DebraLee Hovey says "countless studies" have proven that violent video games provoke aggressive and violent behavior, particularly among children and teenagers. Last year, in the wake of the mass murder at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, State Representative DebraLee Hovey proposed a new tax on all M-rated video games. The surcharge, a whopping ten percent, would go to the state's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, "to educate families on the warning signs of video game addiction and antisocial behavior." The proposed law was not passed, but Hovey isn't giving up. In a recently-penned opinion piece posted on the Connecticut House Republicans website, she wrote that making it harder to buy guns and high-capacity magazines won't change the "endemic culture of violence" in the U.S., and said that mandating warning labels on M-rated games and applying extra taxes to them is the "obvious" way to protect society from violence. "Countless studies, including a recent 2014 piece out of Iowa State University, have attributed the playing of violent video games with noticeable increases - in both frequency and severity - of aggressive behavior. This is true particularly among children and teens. According to that same study, more than 90% of video games rated E10+ or higher contain violent content, which is often justified and portrayed as 'fun'," she wrote. "Moreover, it is now common knowledge that Adam Lanza was known to play these violent video games for hours a day. If we can educate consumers about mature video games as violent behavior triggers, and put more resources into researching contributing factors of violent behavior, why wouldn't we?" Source.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Wasn't there a thread about frustrating game mechanics lead to more violence than violent video games?

[quote]The surcharge, a whopping ten percent, would go to the state's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, "to educate families on the warning signs of video game addiction and antisocial behavior."[/quote] Honestly it doesn't seem that awful. I do not doubt for a second that video games can 'enable' certain behaviours in people with certain kinds of mental illnesses, and from what we've seen from the news it seems that mental disability care is rather lacklustre in the United States. But saying that, this is only more red tape, funding for those services can be raised from general revenue, and most people won't be negatively affected by violent video games. [editline]4th May 2014[/editline] But also, I think that in the way this can speak for another issue: So many games today are violent in one way or another. Pretty much every first-person shooter, minus the Portal series (but even that involves things that can kill you), involves killing people or creatures. RTS games are typically about sending soldiers to their death to fight other soldiers and adventure games involve killing even lowly creatures to gain XP and improve your character. Even arcade games that involve blowing stuff up. I'm not against these games - I enjoy many of them. But most games feature violence in one way or another and I really would like to see more developers trying mechanics other than violence.

[QUOTE=bdd458;44716275]Sometimes my state is great, other times not so much. This being the not so much part.[/QUOTE] oh no an extra 5 dollars that goes straight to my state to help support one of the only financially stable state gov'ts in the country im gonna die [editline]3rd May 2014[/editline] we live in ct man fucking everything is taxed there's no reason to get mad now that things that we like to use are getting taxed lol

i honestly dont mind making it a law to not sell M rated games to minors. we do it to movies and music, why not games?

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;44714078]Honestly, knowing how this state spends money (There's a bathroom at Hammonasset State Park that cost upwards of $1,000,000) it's a giant red flag when this woman is saying that violent videogames should be taxed extra. Just makes me think they're looking for more money and videogames are a convenient scapegoat to do so.[/QUOTE] where are you getting this information because i am desparately trying to find some validation for that but i can't find anything it wouldn't surprise me because CT has been upgrading it's infrastructure for the past decade as part of a revitalization project that encompasses pretty much all of it's state facilities and universities but i can't find a "1,000,000 dollar bathroom" fucking anywhere on the net soooooo

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;44716990]where are you getting this information because i am desparately trying to find some validation for that but i can't find anything it wouldn't surprise me because CT has been upgrading it's infrastructure for the past decade as part of a revitalization project that encompasses pretty much all of it's state facilities and universities but i can't find a "1,000,000 dollar bathroom" fucking anywhere on the net soooooo[/QUOTE] It was a few years ago. Perhaps I was misinformed on that one but I'll see if I can find a source. I could swear I saw it in a local newspaper.

Dark souls made me kill a bear also GTA 5 made me kill 15 prostitudes

[QUOTE=meppers;44716971]i honestly dont mind making it a law to not sell M rated games to minors. we do it to movies and music, why not games?[/QUOTE] Why should movies or music be restricted for minors?