Ironic enemy of fantasy violence, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was warned that his attempts to label mature games as violent and make their sale to minors a felony went against the constitution, would be thrown out of court, and could end up costing his taxpayers a ridiculous amount of money. Mr. Commando, however, pressed ahead anyway and got exactly what he was promised. His unconstitutional law was thrown out and now it's been revealed that California taxpayers may have to stump up a collective $324,840 when the videogame industry sues to have its legal fees reimbursed. Should the ESA succeed in this, and it's highly likely, it will push the overall taxpayer costs for fighting these so-called violent games in the US over $1 million. This is what your American tax dollars are going towards, people -- a couple of arsecandles who don't like videogames.
The star of Predator, Terminator II: Back in the Habit and a myriad other violent movies has hypocritically had a bug up his backside over violent content in videogames and what they might do to the precious chilluns for a while now. I should point out that before the age of 11, I had watched a vast majority of Schwarzenegger's blood-soaked, bullet-riddled films and still remember the Terminator-based arcade game. I should just point that out. He and Senator Yee (professional jackass) worked together to fight the videogame industry, like other politicians before them, and like those very politicians, had their fight rejected. It's hardly surprising, since they seem to be involving themselves in a fight that doesn't even exist -- videogames are already rated and approved for sale to certain age groups -- we HAVE rules in place to protect children, and we all agree that a ten year old shouldn't be able to go and buy God of War, so outside of simply banning all videogames, I fail to see what more they feel should be done.
The very fact that these anti-videogame laws never get approved is proof positive that the battle makes no sense and is meritless. Nevertheless, Schwarzenegger and that idiot-boy Yee are still convinced of their righteousness and will continue the campaign even in defeat, which I'm sure will cost California even more money while increasing the collective cash that American people have had to sink into the anti-videogame war. I do hope that Californian people think about this when it comes time to vote.
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10:02 AM on 09.06.2007
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Somebody had to do it.
Somebody had to do it.
1. Spending that money on alerting parents to the rating system instead of depending on the industry to do it alone.
2. Spending the money to strongly suggest that private companies don't sell mature games to minors.
3. Spending the money on booze.
4. Spending the money to educate children on the difference between violence in movies and video games and violence in reality.
I realize most of this stuff is parenting but if your spending the cash anyways why not help the parents out. Raising kids isn't easy and in my opinion much like R rated movies, M rated games shouldn't be sold to minors. If parents want to allow their kids to play these games then they can, it is not the govs job to decide this.
1. Spending that money on alerting parents to the rating system instead of depending on the industry to do it alone.
2. Spending the money to strongly suggest that private companies don't sell mature games to minors.
3. Spending the money on booze.
4. Spending the money to educate children on the difference between violence in movies and video games and violence in reality.
I realize most of this stuff is parenting but if your spending the cash anyways why not help the parents out. Raising kids isn't easy and in my opinion much like R rated movies, M rated games shouldn't be sold to minors. If parents want to allow their kids to play these games then they can, it is not the govs job to decide this.
Apparently he tries to be an ass and curb the type of violent entertainment that got him where he is today (to a degree). Douche.
I actually have nothing interesting to say about Arnold Shwa- whatever. He's just... a cliché... a perfect cycle of hypocricy... You can't joke about that kinda thing. Erm... My dad worked with him once... does that count?
Unfortunantly, uninformed voters think that this is a moral crusade, and as such, stand by while we games yell at nothing.
"Keep da pen"
wow. almost all politicians are just ridiculously hypocritical.
There. Fixed that for you.
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Douche.