Because of course, Venezuela has no other more pressing problems to deal with than those evil, evil videogames. The Bill for the Prohibition of Video Games and Toy Weapons seeks to ban the sale of violent videogames in the country, and has already earned swift approval by politicians after the first debate.
The contrived reasoning for this bill is made up of two awful excuses: The first justification is of course the children, whose minds are pure and never entertain thoughts of violence until games pollute their souls. The second, slightly more bizarre reason, is that toy weapons and (somehow) videogames can be used to commit real crimes.
Yeah. Let's ban thins because of what they might be used for. You know, cars would make excellent getaway vehicles after a bank robbery, let's ban those. Oh, and someone could stick a banana under his coat and pretend it's a gun. Let's ban bananas! Let's ban oxygen, since serial killers use it to breathe!
This is just because Chavez is butthurt over Mercenaries 2, isn't it?
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4:00 PM on 08.26.2009
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Answer: Yes.
At this rhythym, we will never be considered as an important market... DAMN CHAVEZ! DAMN YOU!
If anything this will just increase the rate of piracy in the country. The few people who do buy legal copies buy it here because of the insane markup.
Also @Booda: I know dozens of people in Venezuela with Blackberries and they are widely used, so unless you have incorrect information it's not too hard to obtain one.
*awaits Sexual Chocolate's defense of Chavez*
Maybe, i'd say it's yet another smoke screen to divert attention from Uribe at the OEA meeting. That has him scared shitless.
things*, no?
As Michael Moore showed us on Bowling for columbine, it aint videogames what makes a society violent, it's sumthim else beyond.
let us play !
It saddens me greatly to see how my country becomes a communist dictatorship and the regular shit-for brains Venezuelan are O.K with it. In Caracas there's 130 crime related deads for every 100.000 habitants and ten years ago those 130 were 9, the same ten years that Chavez has been in the power, great.
I have to walk the streets with extreme caution because i might get killed for my i-pod or have to bury my dad next week because he DARED to kick out someone who break in to our back yard to steel mangos, but is o.k, video games are banned, so that should keep things safe.
It's a loot more easy than, i don't know, trying to fight the corruption and impunity in the police force, or allow the organization to keep track of violent crimes statistics so a plan can be made or the simple acknowledgment form part of the government that this things happen and not ignore them like they always do. Instead they try to cut freedom of speech in any way possible so that people don't find about this and make them think they live in this wonderful Utopia.
I'd love to come back in a few months to this very post to leave a comment rectifying my self wen this "law" turns out to bee a regional rating system or something like that, i'd really do.
P.S: Booda, Backberries in this country are like a fusion mutation of AIDS, flu, AH1N1 and solaris (a virus that turns you in to a zombie according to The Zombie survival guide).
It saddens me greatly to see how my country becomes a communist dictatorship and the regular shit-for brains Venezuelan are O.K with it. In Caracas there's 130 crime related deads for every 100.000 habitants and ten years ago those 130 were 9, the same ten years that Chavez has been in the power, great.
I have to walk the streets with extreme caution because i might get killed for my i-pod or have to bury my dad next week because he DARED to kick out someone who break in to our back yard to steel mangos, but is o.k, video games are banned, so that should keep things safe.
It's a loot more easy than, i don't know, trying to fight the corruption and impunity in the police force, or allow the organization to keep track of violent crimes statistics so a plan can be made or the simple acknowledgment form part of the government that this things happen and not ignore them like they always do. Instead they try to cut freedom of speech in any way possible so that people don't find about this and make them think they live in this wonderful Utopia.
I'd love to come back in a few months to this very post to leave a comment rectifying my self wen this "law" turns out to bee a regional rating system or something like that, i'd really do.
P.S: Booda, Backberries in this country are like a fusion mutation of AIDS, flu, AH1N1 and solaris (a virus that turns you in to a zombie according to The Zombie survival guide).
"Video games are bad for you?
That's what they said about rock and roll"
-Shigeru Miyamoto-
That's what they said about rock and roll"
-Shigeru Miyamoto-
This.
Oh how I love thee...
He is far from perfect, like this law for example (he didn't propose it, legislatures did), but he must be doing something right if he is popular. Meanwhile, the opposition is not very popular. All they are as anti-Chavez, they do not have an agenda other than that.
FACT: things have gotten so desperate in Venezuela regarding gang-related killings, that Venezuelans are turning to worshiping idols based on gang-leaders/members to try and stop it.
I mean, people worshiping the equivalent of chavs in this country? O_O'
It makes me shiver.
I thought I read in an article awhile back ago that Hugo got rid of the Blackberry service and then came up with a state controlled service using a phallic sounding mobile device called the "Vergatorio".
Jeje, yes, el vergatario's meaning it's as phallic as it sounds, it cost roughly like 25 dollars and it has a camera and MP3 reproducer, and i don't know how shitty it is yet but the Blackberry service wasn't prohibited in any way, as a mater of fact, i think it actually raised the Blackberry sales.
If you know Spanish i recommend you read this funny little story: http://slavetothepc.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/una-historia-de-sacrificio-teson-y-perseverancia/
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