So there I was, derping around on the interwebs at work (what military intelligence actually does), not looking for any trouble, when suddenly:
State Sen. Leland Yee, who authored the 2005 California bill to ban sales of ultra-violent video games only to have the Supreme Court rule it unconstitutional, still vehemently believes the issue is a “public health matter.”
“Gamers have got to just quiet down,” Yee, D-San Francisco, said in an interview Tuesday. “Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry’s lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest.”
OOOKAY.
Now I can tolerate a good many different opinions. I can put up with people thinking differently than me, as long as I can see that they have some decent reason for thinking whatever stupid thing they think. I’m normally a nice guy, really. But when some clown from San Francisco has a stupid idea that threatens my ability to murder aliens by the cruiser-load, I get angry.
I get really angry.
You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
This clown THEN thought it would be a good idea to use the Newtown shooting to get funding from the feds (the people full of great ideas like Drone Strike An American Day) to attempt to link violence to depictions of violence in media. Ten million bucks.
Bro, are you high? We spend ten million bucks a second, do we really need to study this?
Let me spell it out for ya. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold roughly 100 million copies – I think you’ll agree that is a sufficient sample size to be significant, even if you can’t math so good. So far, Adam Lanza is the only avid MW3 player to have gone postal. This means that 99.999999 percent of people who play MW3 DON’T KILL PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. This leads me to a particular reaction:
Are you f***ing kidding me?
Gamers shooting people in real life is more rare than Nancy Pelosi finding a gun control law she doesn’t want to pass. But hey, if you want to find a group of people that do a lot of shooting each other, I hear the President’s hometown of Chicago (where handguns are banned entirely) has a . . . minor irritation with regard to handgun-related violence. The murder rate with guns alone in that city is higher than when Al Capone and Crew were running around with fully automatic Thompson machine guns.
I don’t want to bring back Al Capone, but Winston Churchill with a Tommy gun? AWWW YEAH.
Let me narrow this down for ya even further. More people are killed every year by sharks than are killed by gamers. More people are struck by lightning than are killed by gamers. More people win the lottery than are killed by gamers. And when asked for evidence of a link between games and violence, here’s what this douchenozzle said:
“Well, that’s one of the reasons why we are going into court to argue that particular point. But we believe that we will prevail.”
. . . you’re going to court to get evidence? Isn’t that supposed to work the other way ’round?
Finally, getting back to the original moronic quote: Nobody tells me to be quiet. My right to free speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, which also protects violent video games. I have no lust for violence – I have a lust to play great games that tell great stories. I want to build empires and destroy civilizations, to impose my will on aliens (no, not the Hispanic kind, the Flood or Covenant kind. The Hispanic kind is gonna be my fellow American soon anyway, and I don’t want to kill them, with drones or anything else).
And no well-groomed nancy-pants douche from California is going to tell me I can’t. Now if you’ll excuse me, I paused my game of Hitman to write this. I gotta go make a ridiculous sniper shot.
Meanwhile, whenever a Democrat assaults video games sites like Kotaku and others make sure to hide it’s a liberal doing such things but when a Republican does it they GO HOG WILD and shout things like “HEY LOOK AT WHAT THIS REPUBLICAN IS DOING!”
pretty sure the guy who posted above me jerks it to a children’s cartoon
yay another one of the herd.
Don’t you just love how some people who never fired a gun or played video games wants to tell me that I am an evil killer for shooting a gun and playing games? This must be the liberal and Republican Rhinos idea of how to eat away at free speech. Think about it if they can say that video games are a health issue and not a free speech issue they can say that about any free speech.
vending machines kill more people then gamers
Approximately 10 per year. Eh, I’d say gamers kill more.
It’s the ignorance that gets me the most. Games are just like any other media. We encourage kids to read, but I doubt 50 Shades of Grey is appearing on any elementary school’s reading list. My parents didn’t have a problem with me watching DuckTales when I was a kid but there’s no way they would have let me watch half of what’s on MTV these days. Different titles are intended for different audiences.
And yet you don’t let out a peep when LaPierre basically says the same thing.
Fat, Dumb and Hypocritical is no way to go through life.
Okay, well let me narrow it down for ya, a bit:
Wayne LaPierre, when he says the same thing, is a numbnuts twit.
The difference is, LaPierre made an offhand comment. Yee is making this his life’s work and ACTUAL LEGISLATION. If you can’t tell the difference, you’re dumber than you think LaPierre is.
Which, judging by your last line, is probably accurate.
And just to finish off your mental stereotype of me, I am 6’4″ tall, 185 pounds, bench my body weight (and getting stronger — gonna go for 205 next week). I run 1.5 miles in under ten minutes. I have 12% body fat. I eat clean-burning carbs, protein, and constantly strive to find new levels of personal fitness.
Fat is something I’ve never been. Hypocritical is something I am not, at least any time that I have it pointed out to me. And dumb…jeeze dude, if you thought that a poorly one-liner was gonna scare anybody on the internet, “dumb” is a fantastically ironic thing for you to call anybody else.
http://www.troll.me/images/yao-ming/bitch-please.jpg
Number of trolls who would say any of this noise to our face?: 0
Say what to your face? That you are an unemployed pussy who still lives with his mother? Ok, Brandon. You are.
“the Mav” on the other hand? That’s a name that is truly frightening! 12% body fat…oh my! Only a dunce would call the NRA
leaders comments “offhand ” but be so scared of a state senator! Good thing you can run a 7 minute mile. Wow!
Next time, if you’re going to invent an Internet tough guy, you might want to make him tough.
The id has escaped the dark closet and is furiously typing its savage revenge via the intarwebs.
And apparently, it has compiled imaginary personal files on all of us with the help of the ego.
Sorry I’m late.
I got caught up in that ‘Shootin’ Dirty Hippies” game.
It’s like a classic zombie shooter, but the targets aren’t as bright or attractive.
oh no the big buff neocon is having a rage stroke
That was meant for the mav guy, not you dw. I don’t think you even know what a video game is.
People that blame violence in video games are dumb, full stop. But let me say this, and I say this as someone who plays video games all the time, I HATE “gamer” culture. There’s a certain stench of misogyny, rape apology, racism and other gross stuff than fills the air all over video game websites, xbox live, you name it. I think games are great, but I feel “gamers” could do a better job presenting their hobby to masses. They’re only hurting theirselves.
Clearly, the trolls have everyone completely figured out in much the same manner as they do with all real world problems.
I do 3D modeling for a living, tard.
Number of trolls who would say any of this noise to your face?:At least 1
I find it interesting how the left holds up enema-nozzles like Larry Flynt as the font of the First Ammendment, yet everything else is no-no and must be outlawed. So it’s ok to have perversion, simulated beastiality, but blast a zombie’s head and GO TO JAIL!
WWBD? What Would Breitbart Do?