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Comment Re:The "enhanced" procedures are useless (Score 4, Funny) 609

Another of the obvious plots: shoot up (or toss bombs, or suicide-bomb, or carbomb, or...well, you get the point) a Black Friday opening line or three on the east coast at a big box store.

That's not effective terrorism. No one will know if it was a terrorist attack or someone just wanted to thin the line to get to the linens department before the good stuff was picked over.

Comment Re:I don't have a problem with this (Score 1) 306

You heard it here, folks: the military doesn't tolerate ethics. Their protocols override ethics. After all, they're the good guys and what they do is right because they're doing it.

Ughh, as the years go on, I'm more convinced the military isn't responsible enough to have national secrets in the first place.

Comment Re:So what? Learn (Score 1) 426

It's not *that* difficult to learn right-handedness, at least for video games.

I agree, it's not hard to learn to get a basic level of coordination down. It's also hardly frustrating when it's something you're doing voluntarily as a trick.

But it is incredibly difficult to master. And it stops being fun when time after time, you're put in a situation where your learning curve for a given activity is much higher because the native dexterity just isn't there in the wrongly assumed hand.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is all the yelling the lefties are doing in the comments of this post isn't actually about this game and this game only. The actual fuel to the aggravation you're seeing is from all the other times they've been put in a situation that says "you are not worth considering as a use-case scenario".

Comment Re:Reminds me of something George Carlin said (Score 1) 478

How many households have real guns? Now, how many households have a computer or gaming console? Yeah, I thought so. The target is where it should be.

Those questions don't paint a picture nearly as impressive as you think it does. According to http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp 40-45% of households have a gun. So even if we assume just about everyone has computer or game console, every other person also has a gun in their home. Half is hardly a fringe situation.

Besides, asking for simple parental involvement (which any good parent would have NO issues doing so)[...]

I smell a no true scottsman in that statement. You can't know what you put in the parenthetical simply because everyone's interpretation of good parent is different.

[...]is hardly stepping on any Constitutional Rights, which do come into play when you start talking about real guns.

It's not that hard to make a 1st amendment issue out of this. Why does the medium matter; why not books? After all, what good parent wouldn't shield their child from violence of every medium. Could you imagine how horrible a parent would have to be, not only to not be concerned, but encouraging their child to read about mass genocide by drowning and billing it as a good thing? (Gilgamesh and some derivative hack work comes to mind... on an unrelated topic, can I mod myself flamebait? :D )

Censorship

72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors 478

SpuriousLogic writes with an excerpt from GameSpot: "The US Supreme Court won't start hearing arguments over California's law banning game sales to minors until November 2. However, the ruling in the court of popular opinion is already in, according to a new poll. This week, parent watchdog group Common Sense Media released the results of a survey it commissioned on children's access to violent games. Conducted by polling firm Zogby International, the survey asked 2,100 adults whether they would support a law that 'prohibits minors from purchasing ultra-violent or sexually violent video games without parental consent.' Of those surveyed, some 72 percent said they would approve such a law. Common Sense Media CEO and founder James Steyer, whose nonprofit organization is lobbying for game-restriction legislation in many states, hailed the poll's findings. 'We hope the [state] attorneys general will take a look at these poll results and that they'll side with families over protecting the profits of the video game industry.'"

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