Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Dirk Temporo on April 12, 2003, 03:14:40 PM
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Dirk Temporo on April 12, 2003, 03:14:40 PM
Ever notice the first three letters in this guy's last name? "Lie" He should just figure out that we only play these games for fun, suck it up, sit down, and shut his trap. Playing video games actually helps me release my anger when I'm pissed off. It's the brick wall which keeps me from killing someone. Why is the media, and government, intent on destroying video games?
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Joshums on April 12, 2003, 08:42:49 PM
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Mike Works on April 12, 2003, 09:49:00 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo Ever notice the first three letters in this guy's last name? "Lie"
The first 3 letters of my last name are "Orl". What are you implying?
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Joshums on April 12, 2003, 11:37:20 PM
The first four letters of my first name are Hard LOLOMGWTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Termin8Anakin on April 13, 2003, 01:23:52 AM
I actually agree, to some small degree, with that guy. I don't agree that games affect our lives to such a point that we want to imitate them, but what about all those kids that DO get affected by them? I think thats the point he's trying to make, and the study that he's proposing, whilst not so hot in our eyes, has been done countless times before, albeit in different forms. Why do I say this at all for fear of being beaten by the whole PGC forum community? I'm doing a course at uni about the media and such. And so far since the beginning of the semester, all we've been discussing is the effects of the media on the public, and some specific audiences. The media have been under study since the intro of TV, so games hasn't been much of a scapegoat until recently. The reason why it's been under heavy fire now is because it's interactive, and more realistic.
I think using GTA3 is a great example of this influence on society. Thing is though, it's not the physical effects, but the mental and social effects that we have to worry about.
Now with the Columbine shooters, I don't think that games actually influenced their actions, but I think games, in the past, have had an influence on the way they might think. That is what the senator is trying to get at. We say that games don't influence people to do crap like this, and so we blame the parents and how they raised the kids.
That is the one thing that i agree with him on. Everything else, just utter crap that we have to put up with.
So that's my two cents.
There is a lot more to say here, and I do agree that some points are sketchy, but thats everything from the top of my head that makes sense.
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Grey Ninja on April 13, 2003, 12:49:18 PM
So who wants to help me build a rocket booster big enough to lift his fat ass?
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Termin8Anakin on April 13, 2003, 02:47:38 PM
I would, but then I'd be going back on what I've been saying.
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Matt on April 13, 2003, 03:08:08 PM
In realility, Lieberman has gotten a bit smarter in the last week or so. He is still going too far and wasting time and money, but he is a bit more intelligent than in the past.
Title: Lieberman should be shot off the planet.
Post by: Joshums on April 13, 2003, 05:19:29 PM
Have y'all noticed the striking similarities between Lieberman and the evil emperor from Star Wars?
1. They look alike 2. They are both senators 3. They are both evil
