I blame video games for the problems with today's society. I regret ever picking up Super Mario for Nintendo when I was six.
It has turned me into a ruthless, sociapathic lunatic, because it portrays death and killing as something fun and exciting.
If you don't see the sarcasm here... well, you're dumb :[
You think thats bad, Think of what Pong and Pac-man did to me.....Originally Posted by Genma
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LMFAO nice one, but jeeze the people who blame video games because their children are becoming violent. Well think about it, its the F****** surrounding and environment that changes them. DAMNIT!!!!!!!!! I blame the KKK for their christianity
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I repeat not being racist!!! they actually talk about christianity lol.
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No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you when he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher."
-Mazer Rackham
*sighs*...
at least i don't live in Oklahoma. And besides, kids will skate around this thing, just like they do to sneak into R rated movies and to buy booze. The conservatives can try to put off kids seeing material like this for as long as they want to, but if it's there it will be bought, played, viewed, whatever.
I just can't believe they're going to use people's tax dollars on this...
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
well, 1 thing is for sure, more young people from Oklahoma will start downloading they games, and after that they tell us to stop pirating games... why don't they start by not doing stupid laws like this one
i can see it now, instead of giving those game characters swords or guns, it'll be replaced with carrots and sling shots. yeah, the gaming world is going to start looking better and better.
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haha, thats funny, I live in OK. Stupid Brad Henry.
anybody have any further follow-up news on this subject?
or is Oklahoma just as slow at addressing/passing these laws as everywhere else in the union?
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
I haven't heard any hype about it at all here. Nothing on the news either. I probably wouldn't have even known if Fighter_Fei hadn't posted the news.
I haven't heard anything else about it myself. But on an unrelated note, I had a little faith in our justice system renewed today when they overturned the proposition to ban flag-burning.
"There are certain things in this world that you're happier not knowing.
Even lies and deceptions can become the truth for some people of the earth.
... Particularly those not knowing the true nature of things, or how these systems of things works." - Bishop Stone "Xenogears"
Lol, by one vote too, and anyway that was the legislative system, the justice system said that it was unconstitutional to take away that right...so they tried to change the constitution. Those Checks and Balances sure are working well...constitutional amendments are supposed to be things that fundamentally alter out society for the better by establishing or widening the parameters of our republic.
I would have been outraged to see either a ban on gay marriage or an amendment that said it was okay to criminalize burning the flag next to the amendment that banned slavery or gave women the right to vote. The only other amendment that took something away from the people was prohibition, and we all know how that worked out. (well if you don't, it was repealed...the only amendment to ever be repealed) anyway here's a site with several other failed amendments some are quite interesting.
Hmm... Reading that produced a spark of interest in me, and I did a little research, and found out that in Finland you can in theory be fined for that (not burning the US flag but ours). There's a law that says: "anyone damaging the flag, treating it disrespectfully, removing it from its proper place without permission or selling Finnish flags with incorrect colours or dimensions, can be punished with a fine."
Well, on the other hand it hardly matters because there really aren't people with any reason to do it... It's a different thing than with the flag of the only superpower.
Support for a flag-burning amendment is quite a telling barometer on the public's evaluation of free speech versus its sense of patriotism.
Anyone who's fought for the country (and there's a lot of people who have, the US has been in a lot of conflicts since world war 2) would eagerly stand up and punch you in the face for desecrating the symbol of the nation they've put their life on the line for. But exactly the same people would sit right back down, knowing that your ability to so flagrantly object to the nation's behavior and projected values is precisely what they fought to protect.
I, too, am proud that our legislature has once again done the right thing, by continuing to protect the values that make our nation great -- even if it was by a frighteningly slim margin.
However, I'm very worried that the balance has tipped so far. We're on a cusp, where people are placing less value in their more philosophical liberties and more on luxuries. After all, If you've got an SUV parked in the driveway and four feet of high-def plasma hanging on your wall, you don't want to lay your life on the line for stupid useless little things like freedom of speech, or the fostering of democracy. You want to watch TV, and enjoy your comfortable ride to work, and feel good about living the very life that God wants you to lead and you have more of the same waiting for you in the afterlife, only with better programming and lower gas prices.
*points to sig, as a final thought*
Wait, new development in this story. I was watching the news last night, and apparently two companies are sueing the state. They called it violating the Constitution. I can't find an article, but I'm sure its up somewhere.
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