Comment Discussions like this... (Score 1) 507
Discussions like this make me very glad that guns are still legal in the US. Censor yourselves all you want, leave everyone else out of it (ie no legislation making your opinion law).
Here's a concept: many people, myself included, buy violent games in order to not commit violent acts. When work pisses me off, instead of flying off the handle and killing all my co-workers in a murderous rage, I go home and fire up a video game. This way, I can run around a virtual area that looks suspiciously like my workplace, blowing away people that look suspiciously like my co-workers, and nobody actually has to die. I tell you, there's nothing that takes the edge off a bad day at work like holding a smoking shotgun in your hands and watching your boss's severed, mangled head roll across the floor in glorious 32 bit color. The more realistic, the better. This is how I like to express my rage, and it's a helluva lot safer than keeping a pistol in my briefcase.
If, however, one of you brainwashed censor-zombies manages to make it law that I can no longer mangle people in the virtual world, that might also piss me off, only then I wouldn't have the luxury of limiting my violence to the virtual world. And, as we say around the office, if you can't have video games, real life is the next best thing. So come get my games. Please.
Same goes for movies and music. The more violent, the more graphic, the more realistic, the better. Let people vent on those things instead of on real people. Censorship is mind control, there's no two ways about it.
Here's a concept: many people, myself included, buy violent games in order to not commit violent acts. When work pisses me off, instead of flying off the handle and killing all my co-workers in a murderous rage, I go home and fire up a video game. This way, I can run around a virtual area that looks suspiciously like my workplace, blowing away people that look suspiciously like my co-workers, and nobody actually has to die. I tell you, there's nothing that takes the edge off a bad day at work like holding a smoking shotgun in your hands and watching your boss's severed, mangled head roll across the floor in glorious 32 bit color. The more realistic, the better. This is how I like to express my rage, and it's a helluva lot safer than keeping a pistol in my briefcase.
If, however, one of you brainwashed censor-zombies manages to make it law that I can no longer mangle people in the virtual world, that might also piss me off, only then I wouldn't have the luxury of limiting my violence to the virtual world. And, as we say around the office, if you can't have video games, real life is the next best thing. So come get my games. Please.
Same goes for movies and music. The more violent, the more graphic, the more realistic, the better. Let people vent on those things instead of on real people. Censorship is mind control, there's no two ways about it.
