Connecticut Lawmakers Seek to Regulate Video Games - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Hidole555;39821856][URL="http://www.ctmirror.org/story/19297/despite-inconclusive-research-lawmakers-scrutinize-violent-video-games"]Read more here.[/URL] There's going to be an open forum on the topic at a local college in about 3 weeks. I'm going to attend and speak in defense of video games. If anyone cam help me find information to help my case, I'd appreciate it. ARM ME WITH KNOWLEDGE, FACEPUNCH![/QUOTE] Would showing up help the cause? I'm a central CT resident.

Honestly, i'm an evil bastard in games like GTA4, ill run over innocent people like it's nothing. But that's the thing though, they are literally pixels on a screen, and killing them causes no consequences, at least in the real world. A person who is sane, will recognize that you can't get away with the shit in games that happens. If you kill 20 people in GTA4, police will hunt you for a while, then just automatically give up after so long. In the real world, if i were to kill 20 people, i would be hunted for many weeks, or months, and if they never found me, i'd never be capable of returning to the entire country ever again, unless a drastic change in identity occurs. Even then, if i left the country, i could still be taken down by the foreign police in whatever country i ran to. A sane person can tell that games are fantasy, an insane person can sometimes have problems dividing the real world, and the game world, but cases of that are extremely rare. What's worse, is knee jerk reactions to things that are excruciatingly rare, and try to clamp down on it ever happening again. in the end, the result is a lot of really pissed off people that the laws passed to protect other people, wind up affecting them in serious ways. Leave games alone, it'd be like censoring films in theaters, or outright limiting who can watch them.

[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;39823875]TECHNICALLY, video games do generally cause an aggressive mindset. However, that goes for anything with a competitive atmosphere. And that mindset isn't anything long-term.[/QUOTE] Excactly. I watched a documentary where a person's brain was being monitored while he was playing Halo or something. Then a person's brain was monitored while he was playing chess. Both brains showed a relatively equal amount of aggressiveness, whereas the parts of the brain associated with competiveness were lit up like a bulb.

seriously when the fuck are these stupid wholly fucking cunts going to realize pressing a button is absolutely nothing similar to actually firing a gun

[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;39823309]Don't count on it.[/QUOTE] Supreme Court already ruled that video games are protected under the 1st amendment just like all other forms of media.

[QUOTE=Hidole555;39821856]There's going to be an open forum on the topic at a local college in about 3 weeks. I'm going to attend and speak in defense of video games. If anyone cam help me find information to help my case, I'd appreciate it. ARM ME WITH KNOWLEDGE, FACEPUNCH![/QUOTE] All you need is this video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaF9nbLo8as[/media]

By the way, wasn't there a federal bill that would effectively ban all non-ESRB games?

[QUOTE=DJ999;39825037]By the way, wasn't there a federal bill that would effectively ban all non-ESRB games?[/QUOTE] The ESRB is a crock of shit by itself. Decapitation is rated T because it's "cartoony", but heaven forbid you see a woman's tits for single frame, or you get an M rating.

[QUOTE=Ogopogo;39822421] [IMG]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/12/video-game-chart-no-trendline.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] The Australian video game spending per capita would probably be around 30 if our games were priced like everyone else

[QUOTE=prooboo;39822244][url]http://www.amazon.com/Banned-Video-Games-ebook/dp/B00BL9FRSE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362600427&sr=8-1&keywords=banned+video+games[/url] This book has some good statistics from the secret service and the surgeon general involving studies about violent videogames having a negligible effect on violence in children in the 1990s following columbine.[/QUOTE] Book needs some updating, games can be rated R18+ now in Australia

Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?

[QUOTE=Don Knotts;39829463]Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?[/QUOTE] Because it was all their dream, they like to read word up magazine, salt and pepper heavy D up in the limousine.

[QUOTE=Don Knotts;39829463]Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?[/QUOTE] Because they're used to it and know it doesn't hurt. But they have no experience in games and it's history so they make up their own conclusions that is full of shit. They make descision by random simple opinions instead of facts and logic.

[QUOTE=Don Knotts;39829463]Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?[/QUOTE] More like why people can't blame themselves.

[QUOTE=Don Knotts;39829463]Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment]Oh, they did[/url]. Before rap music, it was comic books. Video games are just the new moral panic.

[QUOTE=Kuro.;39824932]Supreme Court already ruled that video games are protected under the 1st amendment just like all other forms of media.[/QUOTE] Sure, you can't outright ban or directly restrict video games. But that doesn't stop anyone from taxing it to oblivion. [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=SteelReal;39824263]Would showing up help the cause? I'm a central CT resident.[/QUOTE] Well, it's an open forum so yes, it would help. It will happen at 7PM on March 27 (a Wednesday) at Middlesex Community College in Room 808D, which is on the second floor of Chapman Hall. Call me optimistic but I would imagine the ultimate goal should be to convince some people to not only change their views about video games, but to contact their legislators to oppose the bills. Who knows? Might get lucky and there'll be a reporter there.

[QUOTE=Don Knotts;39829463]Why don't old people ever blame violent movies or rap music?[/QUOTE] People have blamed everything, iirc D&D was also the subject of quite a bit of hate a while back. Also... [url]http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp[/url] What?

[QUOTE=Hidole555;39883222]Sure, you can't outright ban or directly restrict video games. But that doesn't stop anyone from taxing it to oblivion. [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] Well, it's an open forum so yes, it would help. It will happen at 7PM on March 27 (a Wednesday) at Middlesex Community College in Room 808D, which is on the second floor of Chapman Hall. Call me optimistic but I would imagine the ultimate goal should be to convince some people to not only change their views about video games, but to contact their legislators to oppose the bills. Who knows? Might get lucky and there'll be a [b]reporter[/b] there.[/QUOTE] BREAKING: HOMER SIMPSON ENTERS VIOLENT VIDEO GAME DEBATE WITH AXE, ARRESTED Fox News wouldn't report this

[QUOTE=Nystical;39883484]BREAKING: HOMER SIMPSON ENTERS VIOLENT VIDEO GAME DEBATE WITH AXE, ARRESTED Fox News wouldn't report this[/QUOTE] Heh. I was thinking more along the lines of a local newspaper reporter, nothing big like a TV News Crew.

I don't get this shit. How can they say playing video games causes violent behavior? It's such a blanket argument. This is just a ballpark estimate, but I'd say somewhere between 60-75% of kids play video games on a regular basis. And how often do we have these shootings? A couple every few years (this year had a few, but statistically, they'd be spread out). What about all those other hundreds of thousands of kids who play violent games and don't have any aggressive tendencies? Are they somehow exempt from these statistics or whatever they try to base this shit out on?