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| Undead Fred 1170th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):'Killographic' Video Games"
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Beware of "killographic," defined as the "graphic depiction of brutal violence."
"Clever phrase," Doug Lowenstein, head of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents computer and video game software publishers, replied when asked about "killographic."
Um....
Man, I give up. These retarded soccer moms are going to insist that all video games and cartoons are meant stictly for children and that the content is supposed to be automatically neutered in every respect so their kids won't have Tommy Vercetti over their shoulders telling them to kill their classmates. There's no changing their minds; all we can do is keep buying games before they get banned.
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He also pointed out that the industry rates its games on age appropriateness, and that Walsh's institute found most parents are not aware of a game's content. "The message is that parents in many cases aren't doing their job," Lowenstein said.
Very very true, but they won't listen. The video game industry has done all it needs to to keep people informed on the games' content, but the parents aren't doing their jobs as parents. But this is an old issue with a new scapegoat. "TV is making my kids bad. Movies are making my kids bad. Music is making my kids bad. Games are making my kids bad." Bleh.
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Issuing its eighth annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card, the institute listed games parents should avoid for their children, led by "Manhunt."
NO SHIT. A game with a big bloody hockey mask with an M rating on the front is... is not for children? I can't look at the back of the game and read the description... that would require me to read more than just the title.... Oh, well. I'll go ahead and buy it for my children anyway because I left my logic at home. And then I'll buy them a copy of Girls Gone Wild because I was somehow fooled into thinking that that was meant for children, too.
Manhunt shouldn't be a big deal for families that take their kids to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre (yes, I saw quite a few kids in the theater when I went to see Chainsaw a few months ago), but otherwise, these dipshits shouldn't have to tell people that Manhunt isn't for kids. It's not like it requires hours of intensive research or anything. You just look at the box. That's all. It's an even better system than the movie rating system- they tell you the age groups recommended AND they even tell you what soccer moms might be offended by in the game. It can't be any simpler. But they'll still complain anyway. As long as they don't have any luck getting anything banned, I'll be okay.
THAT'S DANNY. His hometown is New Orleans.
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| Dr Baghead 2655th Post
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| "Re(1):'Killographic' Video Games" , posted Tue 9 Dec 10:33
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Beware of "killographic," defined as the "graphic depiction of brutal violence."
I... wow... after reading the article I'm impressed someone could saw something that stupid and mean it.
They should have researched their new pharse a bit more... I mean pornographic is called "sexographic" like wise killographic should have a real greek/latin term if they want it taken seriously.
What this new term makes me think of:
-That Anthology of Interest when Zoidberg said he was had degrees in Murderology and Murderonomy
-Some sort of gimicy movie gimic "Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Vs Terminator Vs Predator Vs Aliens will be shown tonight with terrifying KILLOGRAPHICS!!!"
-A child with an adorable speach inpediment trying to discribe how a game looks "Mawio 64 has killo graphics! It wooks weal!"
I'd like to see the world these groups think they're helping.
One in which videogame merchants only care about money and will sell a child anything they want for sweet, sweet cash. Sure there are ratings, but they're largely symbolic to shut up watch groups in this world.
Or maybe a parent is buying a Chirstmas and their child wants Manhunt, since videogames are obviously meant exclusively for children there's no need to check the box, just purchase and wrap.
And what makes matters worse is this game is targeted at children as young as 6 months... no 6 days old!!! The ads clearly say at the end "Rated M for Mature" which is slang for "If you don't buy this you're dumb!" and the ads are shown on channels that don't catter to a child's demographic, so they're not only selling violent games, they're encouraging children to watch porn, violent movies, or the VGA's as well!
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| DarkZero 529th Post
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| "Re(2):'Killographic' Video Games" , posted Tue 9 Dec 13:35
There's one point that I think both the idiotic media groups and some supposedly intelligent gamers seem to have missed in this discussion. If so many kids own M-rated games and their parents bought them for them, perhaps the parents aren't uneducated, but instead simply disagree with the media groups. When I was growing up, Mortal Kombat was a big deal. And amazingly (to some people), not only did ALL of the parents in my neighborhood know that Mortal Kombat was not a fun happy Cute-Little-Rabbit-Teaches-Math-And-Phonics game, but they also knew the ESRB ratings and used them accordingly. However, when we grew out of the age of 9 or 10 when Mortal Kombat was banned in our homes and more toward 12 or 13, all of us were allowed to play Mortal Kombat 2 and 3. We were deemed old enough for that then, along with more R-rated movies than the standard sci-fi or corny action movie fare like Terminator 2 or Under Siege. They didn't make an idiotic decision to let us have a game that would warp our brains, but rather waited until they felt we were mature instead of waiting like real idiots until a media "watchdog" group told them that we had reached an appropriate age for this decade's Sensationalist Media Horror Du Jour.
Instead of being stupid, uneducated soccer moms that just buy their kids whatever they want, perhaps many of these parents simply disagree with the left wing political activist group ideal of how children should be raised. Where many people see the sales numbers for games like Grand Theft Auto revealing a nation of idiotic parents, especially as multiple surveys claim that large numbers of young teenagers have played the games, I see parents that are just as intelligent or educated as any of us and make the same decision to buy the game.
Remember, despite the incessant blathering of these media groups, these games still sell extremely well and Joe Lieberman, the man that every gamer has wanted to strangle since the day they first gripped a controller, is barely even IN the pack, let alone ahead of it. This isn't the '50s and the video game industry is not being slaughtered by Congress, the media, and enraged parents like the comic book industry. The cries for video game censorship get louder every year, but they also become more desperate. M-rated games are more popular than ever, there are no serious plans for anti-game legislation in Congress, and local anti-game laws are having a tough fight in the courts. As targets of sensationalist media fury go, the game industry is faring better than any of their predecessors. And perhaps for all the right reasons.
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| Radish 1944th Post
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| "Re(3):'Killographic' Video Games" , posted Tue 9 Dec 13:45
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There's one point that I think both the idiotic media groups and some supposedly intelligent gamers seem to have missed in this discussion. If so many kids own M-rated games and their parents bought them for them, perhaps the parents aren't uneducated, but instead simply disagree with the media groups. When I was growing up, Mortal Kombat was a big deal. And amazingly (to some people), not only did ALL of the parents in my neighborhood know that Mortal Kombat was not a fun happy Cute-Little-Rabbit-Teaches-Math-And-Phonics game, but they also knew the ESRB ratings and used them accordingly. However, when we grew out of the age of 9 or 10 when Mortal Kombat was banned in our homes and more toward 12 or 13, all of us were allowed to play Mortal Kombat 2 and 3. We were deemed old enough for that then, along with more R-rated movies than the standard sci-fi or corny action movie fare like Terminator 2 or Under Siege. They didn't make an idiotic decision to let us have a game that would warp our brains, but rather waited until they felt we were mature instead of waiting like real idiots until a media "watchdog" group told them that we had reached an appropriate age for this decade's Sensationalist Media Horror Du Jour.
Instead of being stupid, uneducated soccer moms that just buy their kids whatever they want, perhaps many of these parents simply disagree with the left wing political activist group ideal of how children should be raised. Where many people see the sales numbers for games like Grand Theft Auto revealing a nation of idiotic parents, especially as multiple surveys claim that large numbers of young teenagers have played the games, I see parents that are just as intelligent or educated as any of us and make the same decision to buy the game.
Remember, despite the incessant blathering of these media groups, these games still sell extremely well and Joe Lieberman, the man that every gamer has wanted to strangle since the day they first gripped a controller, is barely even IN the pack, let alone ahead of it. This isn't the '50s and the video game industry is not being slaughtered by Congress, the media, and enraged parents like the comic book industry. The cries for video game censorship get louder every year, but they also become more desperate. M-rated games are more popular than ever, there are no serious plans for anti-game legislation in Congress, and local anti-game laws are having a tough fight in the courts. As targets of sensationalist media fury go, the game industry is faring better than any of their predecessors. And perhaps for all the right reasons.
Based on pretty much everything I've heard parents talk about videogames, I'm pretty sure that most have no idea what exactly is in the games they are playing.
Of course you have idiots taking their 5 year olds to the Matrix so maybe they are just stupid.
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