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rich8606
02/20/09

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So, there's too much money in selling games to people under 18 after all eh?
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nipsen
02/20/09

@rich8606:

Yep - Microsoft is on your side as a customer.

And as a side- note, the rating system just ceased to be a tool for helping the moral outrage brigade to compensate for their own lack of common sense. Which is good.
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LedRush
02/20/09

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Yet more proof that Californians are crazy.
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Ben Nadler
02/20/09

@LedRush: You should be worried, considering that 1 out of 8 Americans are from California. We are this country, man.
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d20Dark1
02/20/09

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I guess I'll be the 'moron' and say I think they had it right. Personally, I think selling violent or otherwise immoral games to minors SHOULD be illegal. I'm well over 18 and I have a nephew that, despite my input, grew up playing violent and really M rated games (my brother is an idiot when it comes to that stuff- as I said, despite my input) and my nephew- brainy as he was when he was a kid, is a fuck-up now. He literally grew up playing GTA and COD games. He sat through the more horrific scenes as if it were a baby sitter. Then he went on to and started living the life of Saint's Row. His words, not mine. He dresses like a wigger, acts like a wigger and is very casual about drugs. He talks about Saint's Row like it's his life. And whenever those school shootings happened (all of them) he doesn't blink an eye. He asks what guns were used and I even saw him laugh about shit like that. And he was an 'A' student all the way up until 7th grade- then he started the games and living through them... and now he's someone I find unbearable (he's 17 now). I really do believe that him growing up playing shit that was WAY beyond his years had an effect on his mental outlook. So... yea. I think that it's completely constitutional for the Government to say 'this M rated game isn't for kids. If adults are clueless about what M means- we'll enforce it for them. That way- if you want your 12 year old kid playing video games like Saint's Row... YOU buy it for him.'

That's it.
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nago
02/20/09

@d20Dark1: I will agree with you here. Minors should not be buying adult content. Seems pretty simple to me.

If kids can't buy their way into adult movies, why should games be any different?

You guys, can't argue about GAMES ARE ART AND JUST AS IMPORTANT AS MOVIES AND MUSIC

and then expect the same rules not to apply to the medium. Gosh.
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nago
02/23/09

@nago: I'm a little late in replying to this thread, bu
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nago
02/23/09

@nago: God damnit. Kotaku ate my response. I wish there was an edit or delete button. I'm too aggravated to type it back out, so...
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denki
02/20/09

In reply to U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Schwarzenegger's Game Law Unconstitutional
The California law passed in 2005 that would have restricted the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18 has been ruled unconstitutional in a U.S. Court of Appeals.

I'm no Emgrish major, but if you restrict the sale of violent videogames to anyone under the age of 18 (minors), does that not actually mean that only minors can buy violent videogames? Why, yes, it does. The law probably would have restricted violent videogame sales from minors, but hey, maybe the backwards logic of only giving minors violent videogames does work.
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tzaketh
02/20/09

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Arnold Schwarzenegger could be a Holocaust denier who supports forcing our kids to go to Muslim Schools and who wants to execute the homeless en masse, and I'd still vote for him, because he's Arnold Schwarzenegger.

How does THAT make you feel about Democracy, huh?
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Bialia
02/20/09

@tzaketh: Perhaps the better question is "How does that make you feel about yourself?" ;)
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tzaketh
02/20/09

@Bialia:

Eh, it might have made me feel bad, but then I remembered Terminator, Terminator 2, Total Recall, Commando, Predator, Kindergarten Cop...

Yeah, he's only the most awesome man on the planet.
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@tzaketh: What about terminator 3? <:'-(
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nipsen
02/20/09

@tzaketh:

"How does THAT make you feel about Democracy, huh?"

Doesn't change my impression in any way, in case you wondered.
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Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
02/20/09

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I can't wait until the day when he's out.
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@Gorilla Snow is hot for Snorlax: That'll be the day when skynet buys the internets.
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RawSteelUT
02/20/09

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In other news, the sun rose in the morning.
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Paradox me
02/20/09

@RawSteelUT:

Not if Arnold Schwarzenegger has anything to do with it.
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