[Flipside]

According to the wierdo of Miami.....

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/2924321.html

Seriously, this guy wouldn't be out of place at Finsbury Park Mosque in it's bad days.

[aldo_14]

Thompson said published reports that Neher told detectives he and Everette killed Gore because Gore would not let them borrow his car follows “the same scenario in (the video) ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ ”

Right, because GTA was made before carjackins ever existed....

[an0n]

When in GTA do you kill people for them refusing to reliquinsh their vehicle?

I either sniper them in the head and take the car, drag them out and take the car, or drag them out, have them jump up and drag me back out and they get away long before I can kill them.

[Flipside]

It gets better....


Thompson :

"All of the 'Grand Theft Auto' games are designed to be played on the PlayStation 2 with the 'dual shock' controller. This hand-held device gives you a pleasurable buzz back into your hands with each kill. This is operant conditioning, behavior modification right out of B.F. Skinner's laboratory."

Mweh?

And it looks like Thompson's 'evidence' on the case consisted of GTA and a bunch of non-commercial Flash games he got off the Internet which are nothing whatsoever to do with the gaming Industry. Seriously, why is he still allowed to practice law?

[Grug]

Seriously the dude needs a better hobby. =/

[Turnsky]

When in GTA do you kill people for them refusing to reliquinsh their vehicle?

I either sniper them in the head and take the car, drag them out and take the car, or drag them out, have them jump up and drag me back out and they get away long before I can kill them.

i just stole the car THEN run 'em over with it

[Ford Prefect]

I guess Dick Cheney must play video games. *batum-CHING*

[Kie99]

I drag them out of the car, then beat them to death when they're on the floor.

[karajorma]

I guess Dick Cheney must play video games. *batum-CHING*

Actually he probably qualified for the shooting people in the face thing as a hitman.

[aldo_14]

When in GTA do you kill people for them refusing to reliquinsh their vehicle?

I either sniper them in the head and take the car, drag them out and take the car, or drag them out, have them jump up and drag me back out and they get away long before I can kill them.

You can drag them out the car but not get in (I think you need to hold away at the same time as triangle or similar), beat the **** out of them with a giant rubber phallus, then steal the car.


And in the game.

[Kosh]

"All of the 'Grand Theft Auto' games are designed to be played on the PlayStation 2 with the 'dual shock' controller. This hand-held device gives you a pleasurable buzz back into your hands with each kill. This is operant conditioning, behavior modification right out of B.F. Skinner's laboratory."

What kind of reasoning is that?

[Mefustae]

What kind of reasoning is that?

Thompsonesque reasoning, to be sure.

...What? That is so a word! Look it up.

[Flipside]

Thing is, the Louisiana Senate buy this stuff wholesale, I don't think they've ever checked a fact in their lives. They are actually under the impression that there are commercial games on the shelf in the US which allow you to commit Rape on other characters.

I 'think' there is an MMO which allows people to carry out Fetish fantasies with consent, but, as far as I know, that is the only 'commercial' game outside of the Japanese mainland that allows anything along those lines, and it's never been through the ESRB and isn't based in the US.

Ignorance reigns supreme in Louisiana at the moment alas

[WMCoolmon]

If you believe that video games don't have an effect on behavior, why shouldn't a game based on rape be perfectly acceptable?

[Flipside]

It's not the content of the game, it is the image of gamers and the US gaming industry being projected to the general public. Personally, I shouldn't give a damn, I'm in the UK, these new laws don't affect me, but using blatant lies and defamation in order to try and put controls on only video games (the movie rating systems is voluntary, always has been) I begin to hear the word 'persectution' knocking around my head.

And I didn't say I don't think violent media has an effect, but it should be debated using little tools like facts, and should be applied to all the media that these studies mentioned, which is TV, Film and Video games, not just to what is politically expedient at the time.

[aldo_14]

If you believe that video games don't have an effect on behavior, why shouldn't a game based on rape be perfectly acceptable?

Why isn't porno shown at 11am on Saturday mornings?

[ilya]

Umm... because no-one is awake on Saturday before 12?

[karajorma]

If there was porn, people would get up early.

[aldo_14]

If there was porn, people would get up early.

[aceofspades]

If there was porn, people would get up early.

If there was porn, something else would get up early. *batum-CHING*

EDIT: Sorry, aldo beat me to it...