Violent Games Tax

well nobody is gonna read this but I'll still post it.
The tax increase only applies to violent games in "playing halls".
You know... those slot machine things ... u put money in an u can shoot...
It does not apply to sale of computer games (like RTCW) nor internet cafes where q3 is played.

OMG This is probably the biggest load of horsecrap ive ever heard in my life. I guess all the brainwashed morons are still believeing that games are the source of violence in children...NO...stupidity is. We have so many uneducated idiots in this world who are neither book smart nor logically smart. They have no common sense and no brain to soak in the concept, hmmm, lets bundle up all the idiots in the world and drop a bomb on em *grins*.....OR maybe we could just get rid of drugs which do nothing but making the dumber dumber and the smart dumb. I'm just getting sick of all this crap about video game violence and how we need to do stuff to stop it, when will these people LEARN and stop blaming every other god damn thing for their own moronic mistakes and actions. If some kid shoots up a school, its HIS fault for being dumb enough to do such a thing, and his PARENTS fault for not teaching him the god damn common sense to not SHOOT PEOPLE, hell maybe the parents could taught him to pay attention in school too...HEY THERES AN IDEA. WTF are these parents doing, WHEN are we not teaching children how SHOOTING another human being and ENDING their life...IS BAD. *sigh* I guess out society is just filled with either the elderly who think all the "youngens" are warping their minds with "them violent games" and the dumb parents who blame video games when their kid shoots up a school. What has the world come to.....*sigh*.

Violent Media Tax? Sure, there's a violent media tax. It's hidden, though. Look to your insurance bills to see the shit in action.

What I'm sayin is that IF violent media begets real world violence, then we ALL pay the price in increased insurance bills (and other related costs). We know we have violent media. We know there's a ton of real-world violence. We know Insurance is high as shit. So the circumstantial evidence is there.

It's just down to that big 'IF' from earlier: So tell me, does violent media beget real-world violence? No easy answers.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone *tried* at some point to make such a law, but it was probably shot down early in the planning phases by someone with more common sense. Lawyers and politicians are scoundrels by nature, remember?

I find it funny how we make generalizations about each other countries and then get angry when we are generalized ourselves.

I dont think germans are evil, I dont think americans are stupid, I only think individual people have issues.

Let's not forget it was the Germans who have the smaller penis's compared to the rest of the world (can't find the link on the shack anyone have it?).

Thanks!

-Lex

Eurogamer fucked up (as well as the judges in Karlsruhe - Germany's prime court)
This seems to be the source:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010518/od/games_dc_1.html

It's only about those huge coin-up arcade thingies that stand in public places (pubs for example) NOT for computer or video games which you buy for yourself in a shop. The pub owner (example) has to pay that shit.
That was Eurogamers' fuck up. Besides Epic did that German UT, but it was never sold here. We still have the usual English UT in the shops and children of every age can buy them as our rating system is just a suggestion.

Now the judge's fuck up: "A higher entertainment tax would help control addiction and reduce the number of warlike games, the court said. This would do much to stem the increasing brutalization of society."
How long do they want to blame increasing violence on video games? But those people will never die anywhere. That the judges are all "very expierenced" people (read: old farts, who know shit about videogames) doesn't help either.
Somehow I think it's more plausible that our "you gotta be beautiful, rich, successful, popular,
etc."-society has more cause to the increasing violence.

I think the bottom line here is, "If you live in Germany, move." Or certianly leave that town.

there are err, laws against this happening in the US, so don't worry. much like the internet pornography laws, certain restrictions can not be put on "adult" material just to protect children that would interefere with adults purchasing the product. so, for example, they can't unfairly tax a product for the sole purpose of keeping kids away from it. at least, thats what i understand the law to be...

well i am from Germany and I like those vioelent shooting games...
do i have to pay 700 % Tax on everything now ?
maybe i'll be a "threat to the public good" ...

@ the_fro asshole,morons like yu should be shot into space

for the record I think it's a 700% tax increase NOT a 700% tax.

i.e. if 6% sales tax was increased 700% it would be 42%


that's still a ton, but not the same thing.

Couldn't publishers get away with releasing the game at a lower price, to cancel the tax out.

sorry


Finn..

700%????

HOLY SHIT
thats insane I mean really.
I wonder if they charge that kind of tax on those freaky porn movies they produce over there

Its not America or anything but its a strange message they are sending.

"You can do anything bad as long as you can afford it."

In some ways it good.

If they feel the games are so harmful, they should ban them instead of figuring out a way for the government to profit from them.

thats so odd...in a country known for its excellent civil rights...

another reason why Germans are morons... heh

The german governor must control the games piracy mafia... other than that, I have absolutely no idea of what they are into... sniffing grass??

Goettingen Who cares about Goettingen ?! Believe me:
It's a shitty town, with shitty people...