Re: Cool Game Idea - Anyone want to help?
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Mar 01, 2000
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> I've decided to take these comments off the Listserv, as i'm a gungho crackbaby > about posting my own opinions to many people, as it happens to get flamed upon > all the time. I'd rather get it from one person than many :) Let's just stick to the points, rather than have any flame any one Kat wrote: > > Then you prolly *luv* the Pokemon craze. With each word carefully chosen to > > maximize sales, they appeal to greed and ego. Buy more and save the world. No, i live in Holland .. don't notice much of the Pokemon craze actually. Honestly, I don't even have a clue what it is about precizely .. I did hear about it .. i did see it .. but no explenaiton as of yet. But my opinions about marketing were always pretty negative. > Unfortunatly, Pokemon started out in Japan, so it's no fault of our own > country's (Nintendo exempt) people that made the Pokemon fad become the way it > is. Japan ? Hmm .. japan is a weird country as well .. hard to understand ? Anyway ever seen a japanse game show ? In my opinion they are the most sick and insulting game shows ever. But maybe they watch it like we watch a good thriller. > > Be a Trainer (master) and help (enslave) pokemon (who can take care of > > themselves just fine). When you are tired of them, keep them in Pokeballs > > (cages), otherwise you train them (somehow force them to fight each other). > > Good euphemism (Jeez, I _think_ that's the right word) to it. Yet, again, this > behavior hasn't come out of the unreality reality of the Pokemon world. The > behavior hasn't come to the real world. Well, train and have them fight has been in many societies a sport for many of decades. Come on .. people used to play these games for real. > > I vote for Norway's (right country?) laws that prohibit all tv marketing aimed > > at kids. Kids are demonstrably notsentient, but they are programmable > > (brainwashable) to a degree. Lets not > > aim towards a future like that portrayed in Robocop or the violent videogames > > kids buy. Unfortunately most youth is used to commercials, and can see right through them .. maybe even better than all the grannies, i'm afraid. > I like how many said it... "Video games don't make people kill people, TV > doesn't make people kill people, Music, or media (I hold my tongue on that last > one), or much of anything else. People kill people." No its not true. People don't kill people. People kill people back. People treat each other as they are taught by the world. Proof: Person A rejects person B. In return person B rejects person A. What if, in your experience, the world rejects you ? Lets not have these people control nuclear bombs, ok ? > I just wish people would stop relying on statistical studies to prove crap. It's > all on a individual basis. Statistics indicate some sort of relation. Maybe even prove a relation between figures. You should ask yourself ... why wasn't TV so violent before ? was the choice made on a different way ? If violence sells good, and it is only sold *nowadays* .. then it would be pretty obvious that the videogames, tv, music, etc. are NOT the cause of all the violence. They too are the result of something else. (of an more and more violent society, death penaly, zero-tolerance policy, have-havenots, etc. censhorship .. a NOTHING-GOES society.) > Example: Littleton shooting. Many claimed that the shooters played FPS's, > particularly Doom/Quake. They listened to Metal (Many references of Marilyn > Manson, Rammstein, and KoRn were made), and they found all their ideas on the > internet. All of this is much more popular in Europe than it is in the US. We don't have high-school shootings. > This is humanity... intelligent creatures doing shit to less-so creatures. There > is nothing anyone can do about it but not do it yourself. (Which you do. I > praise you for doing so :) Lets STOP teaching the youth this, ok ? If you take care of them, be tolerant, be patient and stimulate their OWN development than they will follow your example as well and treat you and each other in the very same way. > And you can thank the parents for not teaching them what happens when you hurt > or kill other beings. No. The parents could have helped their children .. if they knew what to do .... But, for the constant comparaision with a dog .. if you have dog .. that is beaten every day .. you can treat it all you like .. it will be hard to keep the dog a nice dog. Most likely it will turn into a pretty mean dog. Why would young humans be any different ? > I'll tell you why I haven't killed anyone. I was taught, back before I can As being a youngster myself, we get so much information .. we're pretty skeptical .. we filter and check if it's true .. more than you (ever needed) to in your youth. We are taught to suspect any information .. everybody and everything is always lying .. from the TV commercials to the politics. How can a society claim that violence is wrong while guns are to bought everywhere ? Do you really think that my generation takes that crap ? Come on .. we can see it. We see the guns. We see how the politicians try to 'kill' each other .. we hear how our fathers are fighting for a better position. Your generation made this society .. and this society is making my generation. Ralf N. The Netherlands. nieuwen at xs4all.nl