Because the world needs another overly conservative activist group moaning about videogames and using harmful vernacular because they don't know what they're talking about! The latest gang of pussies to bitch about videogames is the Eagle Forum, which is whining to the Supreme Court about a "predatory" game industry that is poisoining America's children. Fun stuff!
Seemingly angered by the ruling that California's violent videogame law was struck down as unconsistutional, the Eagle Forum has demanded that something be done to bring games to justice.
"The First Amendment does not render our nation’s youth defenseless against the predatory, billion-dollar videogame industry that churns out increasingly graphic blood and gore for impressionable minds to imbibe," says the group in a statement. "The corruption of our nation’s youth with increasingly deviant video games is a matter of national importance. Our nation’s youth is in crisis, by any measure. A calamitous 30% of our nation’s youth fail to graduate from public high school, and only 32% of those who attend public high school are ever qualified to attend a four-year college ...
"Violent video games hurt children in two ways. Their increasingly realistic and disturbing images burn into children’s impressionable minds much as pornography does, and the role-playing inherent in a video game causes the child to buy into the rampages of murder and other heinous crimes that he is acting out."
Sounds like a bunch of people who seriously need to get laid to me, but what do I know? I've imbibed a load of graphic blood and gore and videogames made me drop out of school, so I clearly have no clue about anything. Hit the jump for the full, hilarious statement, where they even try and blame videogames for causing heart attacks!
The First Amendment does not render our nation’s youth defenseless against the predatory, billion-dollar video game industry that churns out increasingly graphic blood and gore for impressionable minds to imbibe...
The corruption of our nation’s youth with increasingly deviant video games is a matter of national importance. Our nation’s youth is in crisis, by any measure. A calamitous 30% of our nation’s youth fail to graduate from public high school, and only 32% of those who attend public high school are ever qualified to attend a four-year college...
A substantial percentage of teenagers are hooked on these disturbing video games, and spend many hours each week playing them. Moreover, mass killings perpetrated by youngsters are frequently linked to addiction to violent video games...
The First Amendment does not forbid state legislatures from keeping this harmful material from children. The California legislature, not known to be conservative, protected its youth against the predatory video game industry. It was an error with national implications for the Ninth Circuit to invalidate the California statute...
Violent video games hurt children in two ways. Their increasingly realistic and disturbing images burn into children’s impressionable minds much as pornography does, and the role-playing inherent in a video game causes the child to buy into the rampages of murder and other heinous crimes that he is acting out...
The early market leader in video games was Nintendo, which adopted a policy against “excessive blood and violence,” but it was trounced in sales by a 3 to 1 margin by more gory material produced by Sega, and Nintendo learned the message that “violence sells video games to children...”
Numerous studies confirm the obvious: violent video games do cause addiction and harm... There has never been a full First Amendment right to flash highly objectionable and disturbing images specifically at children, or to entice them to participate in destructive role-playing behavior...
Displaying a shocking image to a child is conceptually identical to the utterance of “fighting words” to an adult, which this Court famously held to be out-side of First Amendment protection...
The stress attributed to violent video games can even be physically harmful. Eighteen-year-old Peter Burkowski, an avid video gamer, collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing games in an arcade...
Children who play violent video games have difficulty obeying authorities, treating peers properly, and succeeding in school...
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3:40 PM on 06.26.2009
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I can't stand that there are people this ignorant.
It's the new Double Post, with double the power!
It's like adding double on double!
Jokes aside, I await the day we get someone truly insane in the White House as president.
Then people will know what to fear and what not to fear.
Funny, I've always done great in school.
VIDJEOGAMES MAKE CHILLUNS KILL FER KICKS CAWS IT ATES DURR BRAINS
And they don't do their kids any favors by letting their kids do whatever they want, or play whatever games they want, either.
Do some fucking parenting.
Nintendo learned that lesson? Did they really?
"Hey Bowser you pussy ass retard, I'm gonna bust a cap in yo motherucking bitch stealing ass"
"If you don't reach your ideal wii-fit age you fat fuck, I'll send a bolt of electricity up yo ass through your balance board"
Or something like that
I wish these people would lay off the crack.
And anyway is it the companies that force parents to buy violent games for their kids? If it is I wish I was a kid now instead of the 80's/90's
And lastly, in other news, someone collapsed while at the gym of a suspected heart attack...we will be calling for the banning of all treadmills immediately.
I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later just to prove a point that all of us high school drop-out video gamers (lulz) aren't exactly retarded.
As for video gamers not listening to authority...That's bullshit. "PICK UP THAT CAN!", anyone? Clearly teaching us to obey anyone with a stun stick and a white gas mask.
Furthermore, this post made me realize how fucking retarded a lot of us Americans are getting. We're against EVERYTHING that makes us successful. Lets penalize EVERY big, successful industry that in-turn, makes our country successful. Yes, that is a good plan, you RETARDS.
Ten.
They were probably talking about MADWOLD which is a completely dumbass point considering they admitted that Nintendo wasn't actually the developper.
@Dexter345
Not cool man. The dude just died a couple of hours ago )=
If they were, that makes it even fucking worse...It's like saying it's a CD players fault that there is explicit lyrics being played on it. And again it goes back to the parenting thing, when will it end :(
That doesn't change the fact that I find it 100% disgusting that any human being thinks they have the right to tell the video game industry that they are INTENDED for children- and that because children might obtain the objectionable material in video games that the artist is not allowed to include that material.
It's a load of horse shit. While the videogame industry is going towards a very stupid place due to games like Halo and Gears of War- it doesn't change the fact that violence can be used in an important and artistic way. Half-Life? Deus Ex? Shadow of the Colossus?
Angry, irresponsible mothers are the most useless human beings on the face of the planet.
PS:Videogames turned Michael Jackson in a white creepy pedofile and later gave him a heart attack. Damn games!
PPS:Michael Jackson is dead, Baby Jesus is in danger.
Sorry again Lord Vader! =>
Now if they were arguing that video games are gerating lots of whinney internet geeks with horrific manners....*shrug*
A little ranty but I can't stand people who have kids and then can't take the time out of their oh so busy lives to raise them.
That dude who died also liked to diddle kiddies. Fuck him in the ear.
All blood must be either 1) Not red or 2) Made of flowers.
MAKE IT SO, CHRISTIAN FUNDIES!
I saw this shit first hand this week. My nephew who will be 1 next month was having a hard time breathing Tuesday night. His mom, my sister, was going to take him to urgent care to get looked at. So why did I get a phone call? Because her husband couldn't be bothered to go...reason....he had to work the next day at 11 fucking 30. She didn't want to go alone, who would, so she came over and I drove them. Good thing she did take him because he has a virus, got treated, and was released later that night. So I'm there, which I don't mind at all helping my sis and nephew, and I'm thinking to myself, as I hold a screaming kids arms during a vapor treatment, why did that asshole not go? I'm totally going to get an answer one way or another sometime soon and then it hit me, he is like one of these assholes here, who would rather have someone else raise their kids because they are to fucking lazy to do it themselves.
The problem is parents nowadays wanna be friends with there kids and not a parent (yes I am a parent as well). Today it seems parents are more concerned if there kids think there cool or not and not be a guiding hand in there development as they get older, so with that you get these kids who don't know how to hold there tongue and think its cool to be ignorant and arrogant.
So with this groups complaints are the same as Jack Thompsons (or very close too), most courts will probably just throw out anything they bring.
Lol.
Well, that sucks! Y'know what would be great? If people tried to help educate kids instead of whining about harmless entertainment products. Y'know what would be even BETTER? If we could use videogames to do it for us and turn all these whiners into giant hypocrites!
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The misuse of power and influence that groups such as these engage in cause more anger and ill will than a billion video game (boom) headshots will ever do.
Plus, my dad works for Microsoft and said they were training kids to fight in wars.