@chrisagain:

How is a japanese game where you kill white-westerns not racist? they hate us .. I feel completely ofended.

They are just making it up for the nukes we throw at them.

@Lider:
Quite simply put: Because they have no power.

Most of the stuff they rule really doesn't matter at all... regarding a lot of things.

They don't want to rule the hard things and fight for ideals like, having longer imprisionment times (We had like .. 5 years for murderers .. it was ridiculous but changed recently.) So to show work they keep doing this silly, nobody cares .. laws.

@Ludwig: @Ludwig:

Btw, it repeats a lot of things that are common sense in the gamer circle .. but that's because she's going to distribute it to other lawyers in the region.

I was fully translating an article writen by a gamer female lawyer from the south region (where the game is being banned.)... but it's not going to be taken with proper seriousness anyway .. so I stopped mid-through it... posting just so I don't waste it.

I will continue to play Bully and I pity of those who knock at my door to forbhid me.

Once again I'm perplexed with the lack of enlightment (Culture?) of certain law-enforcers when I read the news regarding the proibition to import, distribute and comercialize the game Bully.

Banning the comercialization of games because of too much violence or any other reasion is the last straw of the absurdity and a proof of stupidity and cultural backwardness.

I'll explain myself better so I don't raise polemic and to not offend anyone.

Eletronic Games (as the original article named Bully.) are both fun and culture forms as books and movies are.

Yes, culture, because there are games that are compared to masterpieces of art, Okami as an example (Game based on a japanese legend that was entirely developed as a painting in movement.) and won countless prizes on the face of this planet (which maybe isn't the same planet this ministerium agent and the judge live in.)

Console or computer games (online or offline, I repeat, as books and movies are CULTURE disseminators and to better illustrate I name Call of Duty and Medal Of Honor, World War II games, but that are above all excelent history lessons.

It can't be left out of this article the wonderful Shadow of the Colossus, which brings an very interessting phylosophical discussion and God of War, an incredible lesson on Greek Mythology.

Bully isn't meant for kids under 16 years old and therefore, shouldn't be sold to under 16 kids, but I have 26 years old want to have the right to continue buying this kind of game, better, any kind of entreteniment (because games are also entreteniment.) I'll certainly keep my 4 year old son from playing bully as much as I don't let him watch Globo or SBT (Brazilian Public TV Channels.) But what I don't accept in any way is someone imposing what I should or shouldn't let MY son to watch. I want my constitucional right to choose what is better to myself, regarding culture and entreteniment to me and my son.

This is keeping people from having access to information, because there's a clear message in this game regarding the dangers of real bulling, that which happens in schools or even in offices.

The ones that should choose what is better for the kids are their own parents and it's outrageous the way that the judiciary has been interfeering in this family relation when they ban games.

Therefore, as I said before, Bully isn't indicated for childrens under 16 and if after 16 someone play this game and walk around mimicing it's behavior, then we should reform the constituition so 16 year olds can't vote for absolute lack of brain development.

I'm terrified from the movie named "Saw", extremelly violent and for me, without any goal other than showing that anyone can play God while judging other people's sins. I admire the fact that they tried to ban Bully but not this movie, if it was a game, would it be banned?

Do in Brazil the idea that games are unlike movies still persists? To the ones that still think like this, I warn you: The videogame industry is quickly becoming as powerful as the movie industry.

Gentleman, we are living in a information society where the new cultural paradigmas vigorate. It's an set back to not admit that virtual reality technologies are here to stay and aren't just children's toys, but a mean to propagate ideas and business which is set to grow more and more.

the rest is here,
[forum.jogos.uol.com.br] .. lol

@Roto13:
Brazil never tried to build a nuke, it does research with nuclear energy... US was just pissy cos our labs didn`t wanted to fully give up the trade secrecy in order to them inspect (steal.) them. (In the end, brazil asked for inspection by other allied countries and got to keep the technologies .. (One being the process to recycle nuclear waste until it`s completely harmless.)

There was this crazy, Dr.Willy looking politician that wanted to make a nuke tho, he was hilarious.

Sam_Lowry and Roto13.. watch it.
Just watching the new-full-interview .. THERE IS A WHITE BALD DUDE THERE! end of discussion! (LMAO).
Continued...

It's not a crime writing/filming/making games about ofensive subjects, even if they are completely fictional.

And games as much as any art form should value the content more than ofending people.

I'm not going to argue capcom's justification to ofend people in their story, just the right to do so.

Just to outline.

- He didn't said (or wanted to.) that capcom is racist, or RE5 is racist.. the location/reasons are correct.

- His point is that capcom is guilt of racial insensibility, that RE5 is going to offend people (and not discriminate.) by their lack of respect for certain people's sensibilities.

I get that and I agree it's true but I disagree completely that capcom should have done any dif or should do anything to correct it.

Read an history book and you will be just as ofended, it's the real scenario .. may have fiction it it .. but it the real side is portrayed with no add-ed racism .. nor removed.. then it's what is.

Not racism.

Basically, Croal is saying Capcom should LIE to everyone, insert a FALSE sense of equality and DISTORT the setting for the sake of moral "status-quo" ..

Great, just make the zombies with trendy clothes, expensive watches and Segways.. and add a bunch of happy families in a distant warzone because we all know they should be there instead of excluded people.

Croal's story is contradictory, his title implies that the game itself is racist.. as in "no black people worked on it."

But what the article actually states is "why some people will percieve it as racist based on their own culture." and not really by any racist intentions/lack of black people working on the game.

So the title should be read as how the lack of someone with such perspective in the team lead the game to be missread as racist.

Or at least what we know of the game.

Now, I fail to see how capcom should do anything about it, in any game where you get in a country you will kill a certain race with no discrimination and someone with a local culture may find it racist to some extent, jewish and black cultures are just more sensible to it.

Nuff said.

Actually the only way to describe the image of the village at first was a "peaceful colorful village" O_o.. people talking .. nobody was hidden .. an active market with coloful decorations..very familiar.

I think someone is racist and it's not capcom.

I smell the fear, I see the damage control... I see unlucky PS3 owners getting less help than they should because of fear.

Insert one more dolar to get another prediction.

Nothing to see here, just another judge/politician trying to score some sex with some soccer moms. Or votes, whichever comes first.
I bet Uwe Boll is doing little hops and saying "Yay, even bay fell for my marketing ploy! Postal is a sure hit now."
@svexo:
I'm kidding, tarantino is good at what he does (his movies.) I don't like what he talks and the "ideals" he spread.

And I'm by no means a Uwe Boll fan, like I said, the Uwe bashing is starting to hurt other movies.

[www.imdb.com]

Ratings got crushed by anti-uwe people for no reason. And Like I said, even Uwe's own work should be seen by a less biased view than angry gamers paying a tarantino style vendeta for their beloved games. (His game movies do suck, obviously.)

Just to make it clearer how I stand as a cinema fan, I'm an absolut fan of Chan-Wook Park, Luc Besson, Terry Gilliam, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Tony Scott and so on.

@svexo:
You know all this, but isn't quick enough to figure he was just trying to piss people off?.. it's obvious .. it's a 4th grade tactic. (Aka. He do know he is not better than all of these except Tarantino.)

Same for the "make one million signatures" deal.. he is outsmarting ALL of you guys with stupid tricks.. LMAO

While I agree he do makes shit movies, the anti-boll movement is going WAY too far, they are voting against movies before watching them, voting against any movie Boll touches even if in reality its a great movie and he didn't had anything to do with it. (They Wait, for example.)

And even Boll's own works are often overlooked, I absolutely enjoyed Heart of America( Home Room.) it was a good movie and it required a great deal of sensibility to be executed.

I'm going to watch Seed too, considering it's not a videogame movie / cash-in produtcion .. you all don't know how good or bad he is because he is not trying to do anything with the movies you guys are watching.

I find The Asylum MUCH worst than Uwe Boll, but they don't mess with videogames so gamers don't give a shit.

Considering his development perspective of "making all the content/possibilities possible" .. I can see how he should be worried, this kind of evolution rise costs and only costs.
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