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Offline Kosh

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Pacman is 62% violent
on: August 24, 2006, 09:05:11 pm
http://nintendo.about.com/library/thompsonresponse/blrespondthompson.htm

Yes, Pacman is the most violent thing ever........ ::)
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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #1 on: August 24, 2006, 09:14:02 pm
What is with people named "Thompson" and them being asshats? :wtf:
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Offline Janos

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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #2 on: August 25, 2006, 01:37:21 am
Quote from: Taristin on August 24, 2006, 09:14:02 pm
What is with people named "Thompson" and them being asshats? :wtf:

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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #3 on: August 25, 2006, 03:03:14 am
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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #4 on: August 25, 2006, 05:45:59 am
Quote from: Kosh on August 24, 2006, 09:05:11 pm
Yes, Pacman is the most violent thing ever........ ::)

No it's 62% violent. I'm not being picky here but it's an important distinction. I believe most media is violent to some degree and Pacman is no exception. If it were me I wouldn't try to measure such things as an exact percentage, but if I were forced to do it then the quoted figure sounds about right for Pacman.
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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #5 on: August 25, 2006, 05:53:43 am
Violent? Yep, I can see the horrible, horrible incidents that would follow a game of Pacman.

In other news, a middle-school child, after consuming a jumbo-sized marshmallow, proceeded to bite four classmates. When questioned, the child simply answered "wakka wakka wakka."
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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #6 on: August 25, 2006, 05:58:02 am
Quote from: nuclear1 on August 25, 2006, 05:53:43 am
Violent? Yep, I can see the horrible, horrible incidents that would follow a game of Pacman.

In other news, a middle-school child, after consuming a jumbo-sized marshmallow, proceeded to bite four classmates. When questioned, the child simply answered "wakka wakka wakka."


ROFL!!!! :wakka::wakka::wakka:

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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #7 on: August 25, 2006, 06:03:00 am
 :lol:. I can see where you're coming from but it's what the game represents. Bullying and aggression. Remember it's only 62% violent. If Pacman were a real child who took ecstacy pills and ate other kids who were chasing him leaving only a pair of bloody eyeballs I think we'd be looking at something nearer the 100 mark.
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Reply #8 on: August 25, 2006, 10:17:37 am
 

Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #9 on: August 25, 2006, 01:21:15 pm
:wakka:


Very hilarious.  :yes:



The funny thing is: Pacman was created on the premise of being very non-violent, and to appeal to certain markets  who didn't like the Space Invader style shooters that were big at the time.
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #10 on: August 25, 2006, 04:45:29 pm
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #11 on: August 25, 2006, 06:43:21 pm
Pacman makes me want to eat little dots and chase around ghosts after eating big dots!  I swear I'll do it!!!!!
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Re: Pacman is 62% violentr
Reply #12 on: August 25, 2006, 08:38:09 pm
Quote from: IPAndrews on August 25, 2006, 06:03:00 am
:lol:. I can see where you're coming from but it's what the game represents. Bullying and aggression. Remember it's only 62% violent. If Pacman were a real child who took ecstacy pills and ate other kids who were chasing him leaving only a pair of bloody eyeballs I think we'd be looking at something nearer the 100 mark.

Actually if you looked at the study's methodology, that would be the exact same rating.
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #13 on: August 25, 2006, 11:28:41 pm
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Reply #14 on: August 26, 2006, 11:29:15 am
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #15 on: August 26, 2006, 12:00:42 pm
my recent ex-co-worker is a 21yr old pot head and used to run around screaming "Wakka Wakka Wakka..."

I don't blame the game, I blame the drugs...

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Incidently I always found the tv series to be, disturbing, maybe because I got a bad feeling everytime I saw Baby Pac Man eating what looked like pills, the so called "power pellets"... yeah, you just KNOW it had to be speed or something. What infant can keep up with adults at a run, never mind floatign ghosts?
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #16 on: August 26, 2006, 12:46:26 pm
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #17 on: August 27, 2006, 04:59:16 pm
Quote from: Janos on August 25, 2006, 01:37:21 am
Quote from: Taristin on August 24, 2006, 09:14:02 pm
What is with people named "Thompson" and them being asshats? :wtf:

Hunter S. Thompson would like to have a word with you

I kinda doubt he'd have much to say, tho, seeing as the last conscious action he did was performing a brain transplant on himself with a firearm.
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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #18 on: August 27, 2006, 05:09:06 pm
Quote from: kode on August 27, 2006, 04:59:16 pm
Quote from: Janos on August 25, 2006, 01:37:21 am
Quote from: Taristin on August 24, 2006, 09:14:02 pm
What is with people named "Thompson" and them being asshats? :wtf:

Hunter S. Thompson would like to have a word with you

I kinda doubt he'd have much to say, tho, seeing as the last conscious action he did was performing a brain transplant on himself with a firearm.

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Re: Pacman is 62% violent
Reply #19 on: August 27, 2006, 07:16:25 pm
Quote from: Charismatic on August 26, 2006, 11:29:15 am
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