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Originally posted by MrMisterCaucasian doesn't mean white. Technically Indians are Caucasian, but they have brown skin.
Originally posted by DarrellitoYou know what i really hate? Emos. They act like they got the worlds problems all on there god damn shoulders, when really all they got is who are they gonna take to prom or some insignifigant **** like that. I hate there high pitched girly music that they all sing, like they're trying to relate to teens. I mean like the guys in My Chemical Romance and Deathcab for Cutie and all those other gay emo bands are like twenty-something and are trying to 'touch' our nation's youth. Seriously, all those manic depressives out there need to say yes to suicide.
Originally posted by Archem2Well, I feel the same way (about the japan-wannabees). But what's worse is the people who TRY to be like that, and FAIL. I'm talking about the people who only talk about the Cartoon Network adopted animes and buying into th recent wave of Hot Topic-carried anime-themed clothing. These people need to get a ****ing life![rant]I truly hate the recent anti-video game movement that politicians and lawyers have been campaigning. There is no proof showing any increase in violence of violent tendancies that stem from playing video games. Quite the opposite, in fact. If these **** HEADS would look into this they'd know that the trend of violent acts has significantly DECREASED over the past thirty years. Not all video games are bad, either. These crusades suggest that every game has a negative impact on society, but as any gamer would know, this is untrue. A majority of games are either nonviolent or have lower levels of violent acts than those found in more voilent games.A lot of bullshit "facts" are slung around as well. One of the more common ones is that you are forced to kill characters or objects that reflect virtuous or important things or people in real life. More often than not, htis is untrue, as there are alternatives, and you are often punished, not rewarded for these acts. Most of the time, these options are added for increased freedom, not as a cynical reward system."Violence in games is training our kids to recreate these kind of things in real life." This is easily disproven, and no facts exist to found it. Most people who play games claim to play violent ones for the same reason as nonviolent ones, which is, for fun. And even those who do play based on some real-life phenomenon play in a fantasy world do their acts there so that no people are actually harmed. It's equally effective at reducing stress and burning off steam than taking a gun to a preson's head. And the idea of LOSING TOUCH WITH WHAT'S REAL AND WHAT'S A VIDEO GAME is rediculous! There are many and many a difference between what is and what is not, and there are few similarities held universally among games of violent origin.It has been said that DOOM was used to train the students who staged the Columbine shooting, but let's think rationally: DOOM would be very useless in such a situation because no student or teacher would be firing rockets or plasma rifle fire at the attackers, and an empty map would be the same as blueprints or pictures in the plannig stages of the attack. And the thought of making a 3D world is possible in many ways with many programs, most of which are much more advanced and much easier to aquire today than in the past. Most of these kind of programs don't even have anything to DO with violence!Violence is not sent into the thought process of a person by playing a video game, it's ingrained into our minds by instinct! Take any and all conflicts in the middle east, for example. Do any of those extensive violent acts have anything to do with video games? No! Let's predate video games: Where did the idea of extreme violence come from during World War II? The Vietnam Conflict? The FRENCH ****ing REBELLION?!! And what about music, books, and movies? These days, all those have violence involved, at least to some level. It's the same as any video game, that they're divided by content and levels of graphic content. Most voilence tied to a form of media is related to movies, not games! But let's not single out movies now, let's expand to books. In such timeless classics as Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, the main character murders the generous old man who shelters him, and for no reason other than his interesting eye! Or John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George kills Lenny, but only because Lenny kills another character. Surely the circumstances of these murders are quite different and emotional, but the idea of violence is still held strong.Video games, like most other violence-containing media, is rated and given warnings about its content if it is objectable. In the United States, there is a LAW that states that video games that have aquired an M rating can only be bought by individuals of the age 17 or more, and MUST show a form of identification. At this point, violence commited by the user is unavoidable, because if the user is of a young age, then the parent is at fault for introducing such a violent work into the hands of the impressionable and moldable minds of children. If the user is above the age requirement, then it is the user's fault for unreasonably attempting fictional actions in real life, but then again, at that age, the violence is still unavoidable because the user would have to be mentally unstable or previously criminally inclined to try out such an act anyways.Violence doesn't exist solely in video games, and violence doesn't stem exclusively from video games. But given the recent news coverage due to their reenactable and sometimes coincidental, unfamiliar, and (as a natural result of instinct) untrusted stand-point, they are singled out ans made a scapegoat. And I am against that, and I can see the truth.[/rant]EDIT: Lordy, but there were quite a many new posts since the start of writing this post. Minor touch-ups were neccessary to make parts of this post relevant.
Originally posted by ZeroKirbyXWow ehero. Razor was right about you and shovels.My names Silas, m'kay? I have a rather large dimple in the center of my chin. I am a descendant from a redneck family. They can say ANYTHING about my name, appearance, or ideals. It doesn't make their names any less funny.Think of it this way though. Every advancement Japan is famous for is originally based off an American/European invention. Computers? Us. Cars? Europe. Electicity? Us and Europe. You know WHY Japan has no nukes? Because we kicked their *** so hard in WWII that we were damn near close to making Japan an American colony, because we pwnd them so hard. Trust me, even if the American people or even it's government are behind Japan, our military sure as hell isn't. The US military was using computers AT LEAST 20 years before they were even HEARD OF.Japan is full of pussies, look at their little queers they call rockers. 'Nuff said.
Hmm I have nothing else to say. If I offended anyone I don't give a **** because I was hurt and offended more times in my life than you or anyone can imagine. I can't care about everyone anymore I am spent. I try to be nice and get stepped on? No more. No more.
