German gov't considers jail time for gamers

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:28 pm

Since back in the 80's when I was involved with the piracy scene - the discussion about computer voilence have been a constant discussion in the media. The ones who are against computer games are almost ALWAYS people who don't like computer games and/or have no idea what kind of people play games.

OohhoO · Post by **OohhoO** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:53 pm

Xest wrote: the problem is people who need something to latch onto because they have nothing else in their lives, whatever you ban they'll find something else - just help people out of this situation in the first place.

& how do you suggest our modern societies achieve that?

<votes for Xest as president & settles back to enjoy the presidential speech>

Satyn · Post by **Satyn** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:11 pm

Dunno about you guys but imo Daoc teached me a lot about ppl. I can smell the assholes from a mile away now

And thats a good thing, games dont only teach the mentally unstable how to kill ppl it can actually do a lot of good aswell. And that goes for everything. There's a good and a bad side to everything.

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:48 pm

Satyn wrote: I can smell the assholes from a mile away now

Thats because your mouth is too close to your nose Ellen! ]/Ankh[/B]

Post by **Lairiodd** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:55 pm

OohhoO wrote:iirc he had a sawn-off shotgun, a semi-automatic, several pistols + various other weapons ... or some similarly unlikely combination of weapons

They probably wouldn't have associated it so directly with violent computer games if it wasn't for the fact that he built a CounterStrike level of his school to practise the massacre in, & announced the massacre on a games forum in advance.

Well, at least there is *some* basis in fact for the law, it is not pure knee-jerk.

There was a similar case somewhere where the victim was the one who played the game and yet the game was blamed for the killing by the media.

Post by **Xest** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:15 pm

OohhoO wrote:& how do you suggest our modern societies achieve that?

<votes for Xest as president & settles back to enjoy the presidential speech>

I'd say banning computer games, films, music is only going to increase the pool of people suffering from boredom and potentially depression.

Frankly I don't think there's a lot you can do, there's always going to be those who slip through the net.

Post by **Lieva** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:19 pm

Satyn wrote:Dunno about you guys but imo Daoc teached me a lot about ppl.

yea daoc taught me a few things also

Gandelf · Post by **Gandelf** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:18 pm

Depends how "human" or "human looking" is defined.

How many humans do you know of who are two-dimensional? I know that you can rotate a character on-screen, but you're still only looking at a flat image, so maybe you could argue on that grounds that it isn't even "human looking" because no human is two-dimensional. Dunno.

Post by **Lieva** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:12 am

tbh their being racist

why is it ok to shoot non-human things but not humans?

all or nothing imo

that or they could just give an iq test to these people when they buy it.
if they actually think cs is real they are too dumb to play the game...

Arcsalin · Post by **Arcsalin** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:12 am

Damn, i played my led zeppelin records backwards too much and now i serve satyn upps i mean the devil

I am gonna sue!