"Violence Day" Protest

[Spottswoode]

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[one_Two]

I'm not American but I can't realistically see anything happening to games ,ie censorship. People can blame what they like at the end of the day.

[TerminusEst13]

I'd not mind following something like this, but...

My first idea is to make videos of the most horrifically violent video game content and mail email links to them to congressmen and President Obama with the header "Don't freak out. It's not real. Nobody died and nobody is going to as a result of my playing this game. I am in control of myself and do not need the government playing nanny for me. Kindly fuck off my video games until you can tell what is real and what is not."
My second idea is to make models of the congressmen and the President and shoot them in game with the same header, although this may not be legal. I'm inquiring about that at the FBI and various law enforcement bureaus.

...nothing like this.

[Ænima]

LIEBERMAN DOOM v2


DO IT

[-Jes-]

Joe Biden knows the difference between aggressive behavior and violent behavior, between correlation and causation.

So yeah, videogames are safe.

[Ijon Tichy]

Yeah I can safely say that video games do not desensitise people, with me as an example. Sure, I mow down horde upon horde of hellspawn any time I damned well please, but the sight of even minor violence in real life/live action puts me off; something to the scale of actually shooting someone downright horrifies me. There is absolutely no way in hell I'm pointing a gun at someone else, bashing their face in, or other such inhumanities. That shit haunts me. It'll probably end up being the reason I stop playing FPS' in general.

Video games do not make people violent. They just give already violent people an excuse to be violent. For everyone else, it's an outlet for frustration, or an unintentional source of it. Hell, the more grotesque games may even act as pacifiers for those on the fence; who in their right mind would think that realistic torture is fun?

Also, your protest - keeping in mind it's likely completely unnecessary - will also only hurt any cause that purports that video games are not instigators of violence.

[one_Two]

I dunno about giving people an excuse to be violent, seeing violence in games or on film can put the idea of violence into a deranged persons thoughts. Everyone is different though and you shouldn't alter things for the minority. I'm completely against irl violence but was annoyed when they censored manhunt 2 so I dunno really :/

[Ijon Tichy]

Well if you don't give a fuck, don't ruin it for the rest of us who do. There is no way in hell the media won't drum this up as a way to get people to hate violent video games even more, as well as stirring up more fear for Anonymous.

[Ænima]

Howbout we all play nothing but Chex Quest 3 for a day to prove that not all FPS players favor violence?

[one_Two]

Howbout we all play nothing but Chex Quest 3 for a day to prove that not all FPS players favor violence?

I'm sure the Flemoids would disagree :)

[President People]

Howbout we all play nothing but Chex Quest 3 for a day to prove that not all FPS players favor violence?

Sounds like a plan to me!

[TerminusEst13]

Howbout we all play nothing but Chex Quest 3 for a day to prove that not all FPS players favor violence?

A much better solution! I'm all in favor of this.

[Ijon Tichy]

is it cheating if I play chex quest with doomguy :V

[HexaDoken]

Yes, it is. Guns are inhuman.(plus Chex is a clone of doomguy so you don't lose anything at all really)

I would actually participate in the protest, but seeing as it is directed at the US government, I am not exactly sure how a voiceless russian fellow would be able to help.

I am not sure how exactly would Spottswoode's ideas do any good though.

[TerminusEst13]

Take a lesson from Westboro: generating controversy helps get your point across. Only a very few people would even begin to understand the point behind it and those people are the ones who need to be reached. Everyone else will be painted their true colors in their conglomerate voice of disapproval. It is not requesting a change. it is revealing an existing condition that we wish to keep.

The problem is all you're doing is exactly what the stereotypical representation of a gamer is doing--a blood-hungry thug who'll throw death threats (yeah recording and sending a video of murdering them is technically a death threat) at anyone who dares criticize their medium. You keep talking about how this is "proving" they "are out of touch with reality", but uh all you'll be doing is giving them exactly what they've been saying and "proving" exactly what they're saying.
How about, instead of perpetuating the stereotype, you break out of the mold?

Better idea. A giant, bloody fragfest. Nashgore, or BD Lite, lots of people in a giant FFA fragfest, not dissimilar to FNF, but with blood and guts everywhere.
And then we take it for good--for every frag the top three/five/everyone/whatever dudes have after a set time limit, a dollar is donated to a charity for victims of violence or gun violence prevention campaign*?
It firmly sets a distinction between a love of in-game violence and a distaste for real life violence, instead of trying to blur the line between the two by getting real life figures involved in in-game violence.
Or, hell, a giant Chex Quest fragnight as Aenima suggested before--putting away the guns and the blood in order to show you can still have fun without revelling in the hemo.

Call it something like We Are Not Killers. And we can have a WANK Night.

*: For those with political leanings, it's bi-partisan and does not call for gun banning.