How about we keep the video games and stop sending 18 year olds off to die?

# of people killed because of video games: 1*
# of people killed because of war: >1 billion*

*numbers are approximate

She has set off a storm of protest against Redwood City-based Electronic Arts and its "first-person shooter'' game, which allows players to pretend they're Taliban fighters killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Ummm, you know they can pretend that in their head if they really want to, right?

It's kind of farked up people can get so lost in their grief that they could come up with deranged missions to ban games in response, this makes MADD look sane.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: How about we keep the video games and stop sending 18 year olds off to die?

Thread over.

"And this country needs to have a conversation about the place of violent video games in our society, especially a game based on an ongoing war.''

Glad she's got her priorities straight.
That's some weapons-grade derp, right there.

GaryPDX: bighasbeen: GaryPDX: bighasbeen: GaryPDX: Those pilots of the aerial drones? All basement dwelling nerd gamers. They are the future of war, by remote control.



Has a thing or two to say about that...

Do you want to know more?

Ah, no matter that we disagree like 99% of the time, I can't hate you Gary.

You sound like my ex wife.:) Look, I play a part here, I'm part of the tapestry. Most of my prose is snarkasm. Semper Fi.

Farkasm?

How is this any different than a game involving Nazi's? Germany killed more of our soldiers than the Taliban and every other terrorist organization combined.

People don't seem to think much. It seems like most people just throw themselves into emotional reaction.

Maybe if the soldiers got to play this game they would understand the taliban and be able to defeat them using their one greatest weakness

LOVE

Barakku: # of people killed because of video games: 1*
# of people killed because of war: >1 billion*

*numbers are approximate

what about that lady who shot her kid's xbox and it ricocheted and killed somebody

or was that not real

seriously though xboxes have been at the center of some domestic violence/murder cases

itsdan: moothemagiccow: seriously though xboxes have been at the center of some domestic violence/murder cases

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest spousal abuse happens "around" whatever the person can pick a fight about. To suggest that a video game system can be held culpable for abuse is just silly.

So.. guns don't kill people, people kill people? Got it

If only her son had a game available where he could study enemy abilities and find a counter.

stonner: Can we also look forward to the removal of all racing games because some 16 year old crashed his Civic?

There is no connection between teenage car crashes and wartime propaganda. So no, we do not.

TFAMeredith and her fellow military moms don't buy it, saying that by allowing participants to assume the role of Taliban and kill American soldiers like her son, EA has crossed the line.

So assuming the role of an American soldier and killing others' adult "children" is cool with her.

When I played as an "insurgent" in modern Warfare or a "middle eastern coalition" in battlefield 2 or a "terrorist" in counterstrike where was the outrage? Are these not things that could easily be taliban.

eat a bag of dicks you coont

Wait why does someone whose son was killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq ban a game where you fight the Taliban? It's a different country they don't even speak the same language one they aren't even the same race.

log_jammin: Achievement unlocked: Hollow victory. You stopped US military personal from buying a video game, but your son is still dead.

HAHAHA

/not laughing at the death part obviously

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: How about we keep the video games and stop sending 18 year olds off to die kick the shiat out of the Taliban?

C'mon, give those "18 year-olds" some credit. I know too many of these guys coming back and the majority of them get a little sick of hearing about the death count on our side. They always tell me that if the media would just once in a while -just once in a while- reported the numbers of dead Al Quaeda and Taliban over there, people may get a better grip on this whole thing.

Tingle007: When I played as an "insurgent" in modern Warfare or a "middle eastern coalition" in battlefield 2 or a "terrorist" in counterstrike where was the outrage? Are these not things that could easily be taliban.

Wait. You are making sense. That is not allowed. So, FAIL!!!

/rock on

"...which allows players to pretend they're Taliban fighters killing American soldiers in Afghanistan"

That's worse than every other videogame ever made where the player can play the bad guy because?

Makes a degree of sense. Video games desensitize children to violence; quite sad, actually. Since my own brother is in the Air Force, I'm sad to think of him put in harm's way because of a farking video game. Our society is shiat.

-Bashy35

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: How about we keep the video games and stop sending 18 year olds off to die?

This made my week. If I could buy you a farking beer I would.

So now a soldier has to drive 2 minutes further to buy it.

Mission accomplished....I guess. As much as I am sorry for her loss, It's a volunteer military and indirectly pushing her pain on others is not going to change anything.

stonner: Can we also look forward to the removal of all racing games because some 16 year old crashed his Civic?

Or runs over a hooker?

Gee, why won't EA make a game that is a personal affront to me? I've got a few relatives that can stand some killing, if that's what it takes.

He died protection our freedom. Do the Ten Commandments say you can play the Taliban in a video game? No? Then under American law, you don't have the right to do it.

Freedom. That's how it works, biatches.

Combat games do come off as a bit unseemly, especially in times that there are those who are engaged in the real thing.

"Mother who lost a son in the Iraq war successfully gets military bases to ban the sales of the new 'Medal of Honor' video game"

..Lady you know the bases that are close to large cities the people are just going to leave the base to go pick it up at there local wal-mart or target.. you still lost :/

Uhhh... I'm not sure here, but... did he get killed by a crate of Medal of Honour games falling on him or something? I don't understand.

as soon as a peewee football league'er gets hit wrong and ends up in a coma, madden will be banned.

bostonowns: as soon as a peewee football league'er gets hit wrong and ends up in a coma, madden will be banned. we had one person in our local highschool die at a football game from being tackled wrong and madden wasnt pulled yet.. all the kid got was a scholarship fund made in his name at school :/

I'm sorry your son died in Iraq.

This doesn't give you the excuse to curbstomp my freedom to blow up pixelated representations of Taliban-style soldiers.

You know what they say....any press is good press.

I will now buy this game and wear one of my many marine t-shirts while playing the taliban in the game.

Or better yet, I'll buy as many copies as I can afford and give them away to active duty military members.

Go fark yourself lady. I'm old enough to make a decision to join the Marines and I'm certainly old enough to choose what farking video games I want to play. All she is doing is preventing service members getting them w/o having to pay sales taxes.