Violent Kid Games
by Steve Gibson, May 24, 2000 5:55am PDTIt looks like gaming violence has reached another level entirely. According to this BBC News story a government 'backed booklet' says that the childrens game musical chairs encourages aggression. Here is the reasoning: (Thanks Zif268on)
Towards a Non-Violent Society, the booklet produced by the Forum on Children and Violence, argues that musical chairs only rewards the "strongest and fastest".
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The British have become a bunch of 'nancy boys' with NO balls.
btw- according to this logic, shouldnt all sports in all schools be banned everywhere in England? Dont sports like rugby, crickett, lacross, ect teach the same 'bad' things?
This is what happens when government goes bad. Nepostism and cronyism runs rampant, and you get a bunch of fucko's, that dont know shit, running off at the mouth and forcing their fucked up nerrosis and paranoia on others.
I've seen this freakshow before, it's called the Clinton Administration.
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i've been thinking a lot about how i treat my 4 year old son as i've been reading all these posts.
first, i have to say that he is one of the most well-adjusted kids i can imagine.
i view myself as a good parent. but there are a lot of times that i treat him like a 4 year-old instead of a real person. any of you parents would probably understand where i'm coming from. sometimes it just comes down to, "i don't care what you think, you have to do what i say."
i really regret saying things like that after the fact, but kids are one of the most frustrating things ever invented.
i'd like you all to know that i'm going to start seriously re-evaluating how i interact with him, especially when i get frustrated. we get along great, play soccer together, and even play half-life together (he calls it the game with the fan, as in big laser thing that blows up at the beginning). but when things get rough, i feel like i'm too short with him. i don't want to be like that. i want him to know that i really care about him and what he has to say, even when i'm angry. the same goes for my daughter, but she's not even crawling yet, so i have some time to get it right.
sometimes parenting can get to feel like a job, and i don't want that for my kids.
i don't want them to grow up and leave home and feel like they never really mattered to me.
pup (wannabe good father)
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Not enough 'Woo-like' stuff, but it rocked nonetheless.
It was REAAAAALLLLY trying to be like the Matrix (or maybe the Matrix was trying to be like the Woo).
Anyway, I dug it. The chick in there gave me wood. No nudity. Bah. However, my ONLY gripe about this movie is that the GOOD SHIT DOESNT START UNTIL 70 MINUTES INTO THE FUCKING MOVIE!!!! It was good and did not drag but it needed a bit more excitement during the first hour.
I came in my pants during one scene. Cruise tosses a small pipe bomb over by a door. Thats all I will tell you. The next cinamatic sequence with he and the bad guy is totally killer. It only happens for about 10 seconds. Dont miss it.
Cruise is a good lookin fella. I cannot for the life of me figure out why he hooked up with that pasty white Nicole Kidman. If I looked like him, daaaaaamn i'd be gettin some SERIOUS pooSAY !
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murder \Mur"der\, n. [OE. morder, morther, AS. moeth]or, fr. moeth] murder; akin to D. moord, OS. moeth], G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. moeth], Goth. ma['u]r[thorn, OSlav. m=e]ti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. m[.r] to die, m[.r]ta death. [root]105. Cf. Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.] The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. ``Mordre will out.'' --Chaucer.]i
If you are arguing that it's murder, you are arguing that a fetus is a human being.
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Reviews late tonight. I bet it aint no Matrix baby ;)
be = me.
i must be on crack.
See what these kids have done to be!
I was way off.
Anyhow, I enjoy reading your posts, as well as Saegers and pupismyname just cracks my ass up. Great sense of humor.
I used to have the same exact opinion on this as you do. Until I had some of the little bastages. Now I think abortion is bad, however, sometimes I would like to kill the little fucks right now. Like when one of them put my contact lens case in the VCR last week and fugged it up, or when one of them opened my guitar case behind me and I stepped back and broke the next of the guitar, or just the other day when satanboy kicked open the door on my new car and jammed the damn thing into the brick wall. ah kids. all this shit happened in the last 2-3 weeks. oh and there is more but i wont bore you. however, i wouldnt change a thing about it. they are great. my wife however is a big pain in the ass, but the kids are great ;)
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Hey girls, its FUCKING HOT here in my shithole !
Can you say 110 degrees? I knew ya could! Fook.
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I'll bet little Billy never forgot how we dangled him from his ankles out the fourth story classroom window after he was left standing when the music stopped. What did we know? We were just kids, hopped up on that mood-altering game. The more the music played, and the more we circled those chairs...the more we needed...a victim. Billy was weak: an albino whose pulpy blue veins stood out like they were drawn on with a highlighting marker. He had hair like a baby duck, and no evidence of a chin. He lacked our speed, our brute strength, our total determination to be seated. How could he hope to compete in this furniture-based reenactment of Natural Selection? And I also remember that after we were done, and still panting, somebody said: "This musical chairs thing is good. Ver-r-r-y good. I see us growing up and organizing society along the same principles."
Today, of course, we would celebrate Billy's uniqueness. We would play vein-identification games that would reward his natural gifts. We'd all move together toward a Non-Violent Society, instead of the ruthless, predatorial barbarism of the era of musical chairs.
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Moo.
THEN WHY THE FUCK DON'T THEY I[VOTE???!??]i
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Anyway, if you're not aware of self then you're just an eating, sleeping, shitting, fucking machine with pain receptors. That, or you're a human blob of flesh with an unbaked brain in the womb.
This is why we have no problems killing and eating animals (besides the taste... mmm), because a cow can't say, "My name is Billy. Please don't end my existance." Instead they just go, "Mooooooooarrrghhh!!!" because all animals instinctively flee from pain to survive. This is also why it's easier to kill a spider than a dolphin, whale, or monkey. A "special" brain.
(Does a newborn recognize himself in a mirror?)
(erm... I shouldn't click Post... I really shouldn't.... bleh.. *click*)
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i bought a new speaker get up last night for my computer. they are sweet.
pup (fatboy slim sounds even better now)
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The dilophosaurs shoot what now?
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[Shakes head]
Isn't 'sperm' the plural of 'spermatozoa'?
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Me: Vantage, I really don't want to argue right now exactly when an embryo becomes a child
Vantage: #168, Actually, my argument/stance completely disregards that particular issue as irrelevent. ;)
Vantage: Killing a sperm (is there a singular term for "a sperm"?) is "well, I guess I coulda created life with that little guy there".
Killing a fetus is "well, That little guy there was life, and I just ended it".
If I used the wrong words (embryo instead of fetus) , you knew what I meant.
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There are a lot of factors that can screw a kid up. I can envision a parent not being there (working a lot to support the kid) as one of them. I can see adoption hurting kids, and the parents.
Abortion, however, never lets that happen. I do find 3rd trimester abortions wrong, but early abortions I am fine with. I consider a kid "alive" once it has been born. While in the womb, there are brainwaves, blood is moving through arteries/veins, and the kid is moving. But, you have to remember, these are trial runs conducted by the body. They are actions the baby has no control over, and they are the result of the body getting things ready. They don't even BREATHE while in the womb.
The bottom line: all routes have nothing much to offer. The lesson of this piece, girls and boys, is to never get in that situation in the first place. I know if I did, I wouldn't have a problem with abortion. Next would be adoption, and I would really frown on keeping the baby (remembering the situation mentioned above).
I hope that made sense. I wrote things down as they came into my head. But, that is my take on things.
/me moves to Nevada
2. Assumption: If it were not murder, it would be legal.
3. It is legal.
4. Therefore, it is not murder.
Woo hoo!
Just my opinion, but I'm not a woman, so it doesn't matter.