I like Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!, that Showtime series that cracks open anything and everything you'd be curious/passionate about and makes it look silly/stupid/trivial. Their next focus is on video games, and a new clip from the upcoming show features an anti-violent video game activist (pictured above) that we can laugh at.
Check out his "fire chart" on games and violence. Classic. One of his triangle's sides is "mass-killing simulators," or what we'd call first-person shooters. Here we go. Wait until you get a load of his idea for FPS games.
This will be part of the seventh season of P&T:B!, so be sure to check it out, Showtime subscribers. We hear that Jack Thompson will be making an appearance in this episode. Oh, goody.
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11:00 PM on 07.07.2009
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Whoever gets that reference I will love forever.
According to Jack Thompson during his SGC Q&A, he "won't do well," in that episode of Bullshit.
...Apparently this guy never played trauma center.
Also, I've never missed a P&T episode yet (it's the only TV I watch), and for this episode, I'm going to have so mush fun yelling at the set I'll probably be arrested for a domestic disturbance.
There are plenty of other ways to watch it if you know what I mean.
I live in England and have seen all the episodes of this series so far.
Can't wait to see Penn and Tellers take on this, should be hilarious.
As for the article: Hell yes, I can't wait to see this episode. This' gonna be hilarious.
Well at least its fun :D
@Brolsen: As funny as Bill O'Reilly.
"...what about when he has one of those days when anger descends on him like a cloud. Armed with a knife, Yeah, he might take a life, but with a gun no tellin how many he'd take down...
...I guess that's the lesson not all people are aggressive, Some people just shoot cans for the thrill,
But people always snappin you can't say what would happen
When you make it too easy to kill"
Too bad there's a signifigantly higher percentage of gun-crimes/armed murders in Britian than in a country like the USA (which has almost non-exsistant gun laws):
Compare that to:
It's pretty much statistically proven that the more guns circulated and freely available in a society, the safer the society is. This is due to a mixture of deterrence (criminals knowing other people have weapons), people being more relaxed around guns, having a more responsible point of view with them, and they open up hobbies options such as range-shooting sporting events/organizations which are big advocates for responsible fire-arm use.
600 to every 1000 is =~ to about 6 mill in this graph. It's not "600 x 1000" because that would be about 6 billion which is almost the population of the earth.
The point is "violent crime" and incidents involving firearms is on the decline in the US and has been for quite some time while countries like the UK have had the incidents and crimes involving gun use either not change depending on the year or rise.
Banning guns doesn't actually get rid of guns from criminals (black market prevails over all else). Much like how game DRM doesn't actually get rid of pirates.
However what it does get rid of is guns in citizen circulation which makes self-defense mostly void against 99% of criminals (who now have black market guns), doesn't encourage responsibility and sportsmanship with firearms, etc.
Of course the only way to get a gun legally in the US is through a license. Yes this means criminals can get guns too but they would already be able to do so even with a ban.
Playing mass-killing simulators... well they are an outlet and a substitute to the real thing. Do I want to perform real mass-killings? Not really, because I understand the context of real living beings versus virtual living beings. However, the simulation still allows me to explore scenarios, reflect on them, and develop emotional responses to them... without real life consequences. I think when in the correct state of mind, this is perfectly healthy stuff.
What's interesting is this guy's chart is not off base at all, it's just too specific. It consists of three elements, two of which are irrelevant. "Guns", "FPS games", and "Troubled Kid". It shouldn't take someone winning "parent of the universe" award to realize that Guns and FPS games are not a problem, they are natural elements (just like oxygen, and heat). However, the Troubled Kid element is the important one (just like the fuel). The focus should be on the kid, fix the kid! Fix his parents, fix his environment, fix his childhood! Don't fix oxygen, or heat... who the hell do you think you are to even think you are capable of doing that anyway?
Honestly it doesn't matter what you combing "Troubled Kid" with, it's always going to be bad! Troubled Kid + Drugs + Guns = Bad... + Hookers + Guns = Bad... + Bible + Guns = Bad... + Cars + Drugs = Bad... + TV/Movies + Drugs + Guns + Cars = Bad... + Money (get anything with it) = Bad...
The Point is Troubled Kid = Bad, leave the other shit alone. Maybe we can ban Troubled Kids?