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A Dutch gay activist is fighting to outlaw the import of a U.S. computer game in which the player can shoot homosexuals, junkies, dogs and cats...
Bye.
DKRR
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Guys,
Here's a non-common info...
Source and full story hereQuote:
A Dutch gay activist is fighting to outlaw the import of a U.S. computer game in which the player can shoot homosexuals, junkies, dogs and cats...
Bye.
DKRR
.... and we wonder why the world is in the state its in now.
At least we here in Oz are spared this trash with it being banned from import.
A decent cause, I suppose. My question, though, is this: How do you know you're shooting homosexuals in games, unless they are flaming homosexuals, and therefore, mostly, offensive? (I hate political correctness. Its a load of ****..I mean...I have a rather awful distaste for it...its a load of ****.)
No, i believe the game was designed for them to shoot politicians. but the government disagreed and thus made it into homosexuals. either way the game would have been banned. lets all blame things on the politicians, they are the ones behind all the worlds evil.
In case you dont understand, only part of this is a joke, the other part is true, i wonder if you can guess which part :D
Here's a link a coworker of mine found while being bored at work.
It's called Ass Hunter
You're a hunter who hunts (naked) homosexuals.
You lose by becoming their "victim".
No matter how much censorship is conducted, people will get the products they want. Either by eBay, Internet shops or black market.
Hopefully, it's the people that can know better....
why so? do you hate being pc because you cant do it or because you are a bigot? i can understand the former, but the latter can be changed. there is completely nothing wrong with using language in a manner that doesnt offend an entire group of people. whats sick is the people that use the language, that oppress the people all over the world. Especially people that are GLBT. (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transexual)Quote:
Originally posted here by ^Mobius^
A decent cause, I suppose. My question, though, is this: How do you know you're shooting homosexuals in games, unless they are flaming homosexuals, and therefore, mostly, offensive? (I hate political correctness. Its a load of ****..I mean...I have a rather awful distaste for it...its a load of ****.)
Basically, i see being non-pc and non-accepting as an inferiority complex, where you cant help but try to take out someone with enough pride to be different. or as a need to compensate for something that person doesnt have. its disheartening.
My first thought here is that if this were a game that you shot straight white men because they were straight white men....oh wait, a game like that would never be made, would it? Now, if this were a game where your victims were black men, it would already be off the market. If this were a game where you chased naked women around and shot them it would already be off the market. Why are gays any different? It's disgusting trash IMO and should be banned. Free Speech was never meant to cover something like this.
Deb :rolleyes:
i really don't see the issue with any of these "offensive" games. It's a video game; it's pixels on a television screen, who cares if they are shooting at gay people or black people or white people, its just a game.
that game represents hatred. Sure lets all make a game where you are a Ku Klux Klan member and get to kill certain races, sounds like 'just a game" to me... hrm.. doesnt represent bigotry or suppremecy in any fashion does it.. </sarcasm> those games make people believe that its ok to do certain things subconsciously. not so much as killing, but the way the games are laid out in a form allowing for outside the game hatred. its just sickening. its not just a game, its a statement of ignorance and ineptness.
You know, it's actually a sad commentary on our society as whole when you consider how much violence passes as entertainment. I can't help but wonder why violence would be considered acceptable as long as it's politically correct? For that matter, can violence even BE politically correct?
Guy’s/Gals wait a minute. This activist and, including us are giving the game distributors a free publicity. Imagine why they choose such a controversial topic of design for their game. Just like the US/UK Government giving Bin Ladin’s terror tactics free publicity and at the same time boosting their popularity, which gives the means to exploit everybody’s freedom.
These game producers have only one thing in mind – money.
This world is a lovely place to live with lots of nice people who are willing to help others.Lets not project the greed and hate of the few on many.
Lets not be used and exploited by them.
Dr_Evil
i think i could just ask, are the US laws on game violence too leniant to allow something like this to be pulished, let alone sold to people, obviosly the people who buy this game are bound to be homophobic or gay-haters / bashers
and bootieofdarkness, yes it may just be pixels on a screen, but these 'pixels on a screen' condone hatred towards LGBT people and / or groups, how this could have possibly got through the censorship laws in the US i have no idea, i know the thing about everything being politically correct is starting to get out of hand at the moment, but something like this is just going too far to be able to be justified as entertainment
im sure that plenty of straight people would feel the same way about this sort of hate propoganda as well im sure, imagine the uproar if a game was made where you play a LGBT person and went around shootin up str8 people???
On the contrary, the real test of your commitment to free speechQuote:
Free Speech was never meant to cover something like this.
is when you are the one who has been offended.
Now you know how a lot of other people feel, other ordinary
people who have felt grievously threatened by some aspect of popular
culture and have been crying out for years that their values
are trashed by the entertainment business.
Censorship is censorship.
:cool:
erok> There is a game by the KKK killing races. It's called Ethnic Cleansing. This game is banned, but it's available to purchase off their website. Worse yet, this game was released last year on Martin Luther King day! And to top that off, the game was made using Open Source....
Link
BTW, looking to the whole Postal 2 concept, it the same as Postal 1, you go around causing mayhem, not necessarily targeting a certain group. Homosexuals are not the only target in the game. Marching Bands, Grocery Shoppers, Cats, they're all victims in this game....
(not defending, just clairifying)
I might get neg'ed for this, but I don't think that the game should be banned. How many of us have played Grand Theft Auto 1/2/3/VC? It is basically the same thing. True, in GTA, you can complete some missions without killing people, but many missions require killing. The rampages are required to get 100% game completion, and they require you to slaughter as many innocent people as you can in some time frame. There are minorities in the game, as well. Some idiot could choose to only kill Hatians while playing the game.
On the web site for the game, it says that you can go through the situations without killing people. Additionally, there are white men, black men, white women, "gay" (how can you make a video game character gay?) men, etc. I think the article is misleading in that it tries to make the game sound like you are "supposed" to kill LGBT's. The name of the game is NOT "Fag Killer", and the point isn't to kill LGBT's exclusively. For that matter, the point doesn't seem to be to kill any specific group of people at all. The player has the choice to kill whomever he/she chooses, or no one at all. If some demented moron plays the game only killing LGBT's or blacks, isn't she/he the one with the problem?
Anyway, that's how I feel. It seems to me like the game is meant to be a catharsis, not a hate-breeding tool. If you choose to play the game, and you choose to only kill LGBT characters, then perhaps you need to seek help.
I agree totally 65_289, the first game that came to mind when I read the opening thread was Vice City. Just about every race and sexual orientation on the planet could complain about false misrepresentation, ethnical stereotyping, etc. Vice City is loaded with them. Haitians and Cubans living in ghettos, latin and blacks constituting 99.99% of the gangs, a red neck who lives in a trailor, has long hair, and is an alcoholic. While we're at it, let's call up any femanist self interest group and see what they think about the hookers. The list goes on and on.
How does a game like this make it into mainstream society?, a so called 'politically correct' society? a society where you can tune to any major political channel and watch cops getting blasted for racial profiling? People losing their jobs because they said something that 'may' have indicated some kind of sexual enuendo? I've even seen a legal battle over the word 'dynamic' used in a classified ad because it's 'male-oriented' or so they say.
So why can a game like Vice City be so successful? The answer is in the question. it's a game.
Does it justify Vice City and what it stereotypes? no. it's not supposed to, it's a game.
Does it justify killing people for no reason? no. it's a game.
so what does that mean? It's killing and stereotyping without consequence. It's taking taboo and making it possible to save it on an 8mg memory card.
In fact, what bothers me...is that there is so much controversy over the game, yet it sells.
I think the inherent attraction to violence is the root of all this. Whether we like it or not, we can make a thousand rules and amendments and civil liberties..yet underneath it all, this shroud we call civilized society, I think...we are still driven by age old instincts.(imo)