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Moving post to Videogames Talk - requested by dag.

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That was freaking sweet. I've always wanted to run into some of these people... lucky bastard

Turns out that, from the results of a search of his dorm room, Cho, in fact, did not own any video games in college.

Fuck 'em.

Dude! There were some of those people on campus a few weeks ago! I remember the stupid cheney/videogames poster... I ignored them though, as I do to most protesters when I am at school and too damn busy to worry/care about whatever random view they are spouted or wanted to argue about...

I think if they come back I will at least pick up some literature, I'd like to see them 'prove' that Cheney plays videogames, and which games he plays. Personally, I think he'd be big into Guitar Hero, I can just see him powering through some face-melting solos... "... and You're Lost On Your Own... LIKE A RAAAIN-BOW IN THE DARK!"

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I despise Manhunt for the same reason people hate Guitar Hero - why can't these idiots learn to kill REAL people?? Me, I'm too busy to play Manhunt, what with all the killing I've been doing.

/creepy

I just found this article - http://www.larouchepub.com/lym/2007/3431videowars_future.html - online and it all makes sense. They were Laroucheites. I should have recognized that particular brand of gullible college student a mile away.

Does anyone know what the deal is with LaRouche? Is he a kook, a spook, a performance artist or what? I'm always shocked by the stupidity of his followers.

Ah LaRouche! I thought there was something essentially familiar about the presentation of the material... not to mention the outlandishness of the claims. My vote is for cult leader, I can in no other way explain his followers.

They are going to Ban my favorite Violent Video Games?! PSSH! Not if my 50 dollars has anything to say about it!

TF2 4 Life!

Future serial killers of America, unite! There are those who wish to rob you of your quality relationships and time disposal masturbation.....

I had stop playing videogames because of a rare form of OCD where I would act out in real life what was portrayed in the game. For weeks on end I walked around the house eating a trail of marshmallows looking for cherries and running from ghosts.

Let's not forget Cheney shot someone in the face

I bet if he played videogames he'd know the difference between a person and a deer.

I bet if he played videogames he'd know the difference between a person and a deer.

Or maybe at least checked to see if friendly fire was enabled...

1. Violent video games always cause violence. This is fact. Everyone who has ever played Doom has wanted to indiscriminatley kill housecats. I seen that on Dateline or something, so it is fact.

B. Jack Thompson plays Halo 3 online under the gamertag "p0l1tIc1An", he and I go way back, I seen him on tv the other day. Good guy.

D. Dick Cheney's gun jammed, and his hunting partner didn't seen him and jumped in front of the birdshot, it wasn't Dick's fault. He's a good guy.

Yeah just look at what happened in the 1980's movie.. I mean documentary, Wargames. I mean Matthew Broderick practically started WW 3! And he was just playing a videogame. Thank goodness he decided to help out and terminate the program. Because hundreds of nuclear and computer specialists couldn't stop it. The kid was a maniac. I don't think they showed the part where Sam Fisher had to 'neutralize' him.

"This is what's wrong with this country." No, not violent video games, but people who think they have the right to tell others what they can and can't do. Now I'm not saying anyone should be able to do anything they want, but certainly anyone should be able to do anything that doesn't harm anyone else.

This basic premise is behind my opposition to nearly everything that I oppose, both big and small: drug laws, religious dogma, intermingling of church and state, censorship, etc.

If I want to sit on my couch and hack aliens to pieces with a chainsaw until I pass out from hunger in a puddle of my own drool, that's my business. If I want to cornhole one of my buddies, that's between he and I. If I want to speak about, read about, write about or listen to how the Jews* are destroying the country, that's my right and privilege. Stay out of it.

*Note that this statement in no way indicates my true feelings or beliefs and is just for illustrative purposes. Some of my best friends are Jews... not to mention my boss.

Interesting read, Dystopian. A good laugh too. What I would give to randomly bump into these people; playing a very dangerous "game" themselves.

OMFG these people are retarded. I only get violent at the computer when wrestling with SMTP settings that refuse to cooperate.

"Now I'm not saying anyone should be able to do anything they want, but certainly anyone should be able to do anything that doesn't harm anyone else.

This basic premise is behind my opposition to nearly everything that I oppose, both big and small: drug laws, religious dogma, intermingling of church and state, censorship, etc." -- xxovercastxx

Agreed. That's the central thesis of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. As he put it:
" The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

Way late to the party, but totally *quality

dystopianfuturetoday has already been awarded a star point for this post - ignoring quality request by uhohzombies.

Oh, lol, oops. I could've sworn I read every comment.

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