Re: Cool Game Idea - Anyone want to help?
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From: "Everett Williams" <rett at GVTC.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Cool Game Idea - Anyone want to help?
> simulat wrote:
>
> >Ralf said:
> >snip
> >> So yes, you quite right .. but really, is this a bad thing ? and if so,
> >> would banning games ever do any good or are the more the painkiller,
the
> >> temporary solution of the real problem ?
> >I agree - the games and the outlet aren't a bad thing. People shouldn't
have
> >to account for their fantasies to anyone, and cyberspace is a really
> >harmless place to indulge in fantasies.
> >
> For those old enough to choose, I agree with you. Censorship is largely
> self-defeating with the best of intentions. As control becomes the
motivation,
> censorship is completely absurd. However, as an adult given the
> responsibility of raising young children, I believe a bit of the old
sixties and
> seventies mantra..."you are what you eat". I would not feed my children
> a constant diet of violence and/or sado-masochism. Those are not issues
> that should be avoided, but I don't believe that using them in the context
of
> fun can be beneficial to young minds or any other minds for that matter. I
> am uncomfortable with constant images of violence and degradation vamping
> as entertainment.
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.
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).
And *anything* can prevent the humans from minimizing the pain/suffering of
the Pokemons. This is all done to save the world, gain "power" for the human
with the most pokemons in pokeballs (caged), and put the most amount of
Pokemons into training (slavery).
It makes me sick that society permits this thinly veiled marketing scheme to
exist, let alone be pushed at kids. I vote for Norway's (right country?)
laws that prohibit all tv marketing aimed at kids. Kids are demonstrably not
sentient, 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.
Btw, i am against buying dogs for protection too. That's slavery, taking
advantage of the dog's herd instinct, and anyone with a gun will just shoot
the dog and then proceed. Smells like Pokemon, train the dog, keep it tied
up or caged in a yard, play with it when you are bored otherwise ignore it,
and if you can make money off it then breed them. Sigh. Videogames meets
real life.
And in Michigan today, a first grader shot another first grader in the neck,
killed him, no thoughts against it, it was like in a video game. The event
was not without warning, but the warnings were ignored by the adults. We
have enough people on the planet, how about some gene pool filtering video
games now?
Kat
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