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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/television/21vide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Who'd a figured, huh?
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Here's a quote that I feel stands out :)
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The opinion in the first major video game case was written in 2001 by Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In blocking an Indianapolis ordinance that would have regulated public game arcades, he wrote that exposure to imaginary violence — whether in “The Odyssey,” “War and Peace” or Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 — can play an important role in the development of a child’s moral, social and political outlook.

“Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low,” he wrote. “It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.”
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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 11:20:38 PM »
My personal opinion on this topic is that violence in video games is what will cause the monkeys to destroy the Statue of Liberty.

My other opinion is that who cares? It was made by the French anyway.

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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2007, 11:24:47 PM »
"for the record, I'm not some kind of psychotic provincialist." - Than (ed: Cit. required)
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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2007, 11:32:15 PM »
Not quite sure what it is exactly but there was always something strangely appealing about the first movie...

"for the record, I'm not some kind of psychotic provincialist." - Than (ed: Cit. required)
"I lost my game of NT: Garry's fault. Global warming: Garry's fault. End-of-the-Universe: Garry's fault. See it always fits. Anyway, what is Garry up to? No good I bet." - Laszlo
"As for your French, it's probably better than the average English-speaking Frenchman's Finnish! (Or something.)" - wa
"I'm back at Thunderfalls now and every minute thinking of poking a bandit in the eye with a fishhook." - Preyveil
"and yet still nothing has made it to BC's signature!"-KMD

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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2007, 11:54:43 PM »
God, I hope he means the chick. Otherwise, I quit.

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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2007, 12:14:39 AM »
=claps hands, opens with palms up=
Thats it. I'm out.
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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2007, 12:22:01 AM »
=claps hands, opens with palms up=
Thats it. I'm out.

It's OK.  You can still join the military.
"for the record, I'm not some kind of psychotic provincialist." - Than (ed: Cit. required)
"I lost my game of NT: Garry's fault. Global warming: Garry's fault. End-of-the-Universe: Garry's fault. See it always fits. Anyway, what is Garry up to? No good I bet." - Laszlo
"As for your French, it's probably better than the average English-speaking Frenchman's Finnish! (Or something.)" - wa
"I'm back at Thunderfalls now and every minute thinking of poking a bandit in the eye with a fishhook." - Preyveil
"and yet still nothing has made it to BC's signature!"-KMD

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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2007, 02:58:56 AM »
God, I hope he means the chick. Otherwise, I quit.

I actually think he was talking about Dr. Zaius.
All right, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down – with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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Re: Violent Games Being Denied To Children Claimed As "Unconstitutional"
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2007, 06:09:19 AM »
God, I hope he means the chick. Otherwise, I quit.

I hope he means the HUMAN when he mentions chick.


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