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10/05/09
Thank you Chavez, you lovable, teddy-bear of communist facism!
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The only reason his doing this is to mark his territory, to take even more rights off the society, to control every little detail of the venezuelan's life. This maniac is just a megalomaniac with a communist vision.
Videogames are definitely NOT the problem here. It is the monkey president himself.
10/05/09
anyways, this law won't have any effect whatsoever. I'm pretty sure they can't possibly enforce this law. Given the problems with violence, I find it unlikley that they'll put police officers at lan houses. Oh wait no I was wrong, the law will change things. It'll give crooked cops an excuse to blackmail lan houses. Way to go!
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Basically, when it comes to this issue, Brasil and Venezula have a very similar situation, given the coincidence of elements we share.
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(Imagine one of those hilarious upside down exclamation points at the beginning too.)
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He and his sycophants are just trying to divert attention from their crumbling house of cards. With oil production dropping because of mismanagement, combined with drastically lower crude prices. Chavez's social programs designed to placate the populace are breaking the bank. In addition his anti-yankee rhetoric really isn't resonating without Bush in office anymore; so he's left creating new boogie men out of whole cloth. Banning games is like you said, just another link in this man's chains strangling whatever freedoms the Venezuelan people have left. Eventually it'll turn into a whole sale slide into tyranny, we've seen this movie before. Which sucks, the Venezuelans are good people, they deserve better.
10/05/09
"Heck, everyone else is shooting real people, why not I?"
And of course this will lead to more pirated games...
- In Prison
"Hey man, what you in for?"
"I killed a guy, what about you?"
"...I played a video game."
I just wonder what they'll ban next...alcohol? death metal? It just ceases to amaze.
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But that doesn't mean we would go out and commit violent crimes.
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I don't think it has any effect on the crime rate. I think if people are out there, stealing and killing, they have a lot more to worry about then leveling their SOCOM navy SEAL, or honing their headshot in Counter-Strike.
Gimme a break.
10/05/09
And they're absolutely right. Them thinking that banning video games will automatically mean much lower crime rates is as idiotic as people thinking back in the early 1900s that banning alcohol was going to end crime, prostitution, lack of productivity, etc.
You can't blame the problems of an entire society on a single thing. Every time someone does it makes them look like ignorant tools.
10/05/09
I got mugged by two guys with a gun coming out of school at 9 AM, I was wearing my uniform and I was only 14 years old going home after an early release day.
This is just Chavez's way of masking the country's real problems and blame them on "outside" influences.
Castro has been doing this with Cuba since the early 60s, everything is America's fault. There's a draught? America's fault. There's a hurricane? America's fault.
This is just one more dictatorship trick Chavez has picked up from Castro, and one more way to censor any type of outside media.
10/05/09
@fdisk: But the Americans DO have weather control devices, comrade! See how they ravage our Soviet brothers!
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Not sure where they are getting the idea that games are the cause of all their problems.
10/05/09
When I watched Scarface, the first thing I did was slice a scar across my face and tell my mom I want what's coming to me. When she asked what that was, I said "I Want What's Coming to me... the World, Chico, and Everything in It."
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Im guessing you would tell the Venezuelan government:
"Why don't yo stick yo head up yo ass? See if it fits."
10/05/09
Wow, your ignorance is simply astounding. It is people like you that are the reason people try to censor everything from books, music, movies and even video games. If you don't want your kid being exposed to this stuff then don't let him play the games or listen to the music or whatever. But don't fucking enforce your OPINION on me and tell me what I think is morally right and wrong isn't correct. Who says that video games teach kids it's okay to kill?
If your kid believes that's true based off of a video game then you are a horrible parent and need take responsibility for YOUR actions and faults. Teach your children what is right and what is wrong and what the difference between reality and fiction is. When parents start taking responsibility for their own mistakes and admitting that they messed up by using video games as a baby sitter while they were busy with work or to keep their kids occupied so they wouldn't be bothered at home the sooner this mess will clear up. Until then, you will have ignorant people using everything else as a scapegoat for their own mistakes.
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maybe next time kiddo.
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@Naikou: Yes, America has already implemented it into our national anthem.
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