Originally posted by Bardock42It's more substantive than just making a claim 😐
Well, since you have a diagram.😐
Originally posted by lord xyzWhen did anyone say that they wanted to "get rid" of them? Clinton and Bayh and the like simply favor a stricter ratings system.
That makes me hate Bayh, if you wanna get rid of GTA games, comment about their unoriginality, not the violence.
Originally posted by fruits
I'm all for Richardson. I feel he has the most knowledge of international affairs, one of the things Obama lacks the knowledge in, so together they would make a pretty bombtastic duo.
Bombastic, did you say?
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I don't think Obama lacks knowledge in international affairs. I think that that's one of his strong points. His foreign policy is one of the things I agree on.
Originally posted by RocasAtollIt's all pointless anyway. Ratings for video games and movies are advisory only, I don't think they're binding at all.
Currently, the rating system of video games is stricter than movies. If they were actually concerned, they'd be going after movies instead of using a buzz issue.
Originally posted by RocasAtoll
Currently, the rating system of video games is stricter than movies. If they were actually concerned, they'd be going after movies instead of using a buzz issue.
There is a difference between "stricter" and "more controlled". As it is, there is less money invested in video games and the investor's bottom line than is the rate for movies. From what I've seen from my roomates video game choices there is far more gotten away with in video games than there is in movies, considering the self-imposed regulations that control the movie industry; movies produced by an industry that underwrites the very rating system that dictates it's own rating and standards. I don't know much about video games, other than what I see in the infrequent moments I actually stay on the couch long enough to see what happens in the opening moments. But I highy doubt there is as engrained a system for video games as there is for movies. In either case, I would rather there be no rating system for either. As I have long belevd;it isn't what you hear, it's how loudly you hear it. That has little to do with the parents and everything to do with the child. Violent video games are nothing but a scapegoat. As are violent movies.
just to throw it out there
in a study of major market retailers, researchers have found that games sales are the most strictly enforced form of media (between games movies and music) for ID checks and underage buyers are most often turned away. I think it was something like 30-40% (so not even that good anyways).
So games are most enforced, I feel the most likely reason being the politicization of games and retailers not wanting to be the one that has to defend selling GTA to a minor in court and on CNN.
Originally posted by inimalist
just to throw it out therein a study of major market retailers, researchers have found that games sales are the most strictly enforced form of media (between games movies and music) for ID checks and underage buyers are most often turned away. I think it was something like 30-40% (so not even that good anyways).
So games are most enforced, I feel the most likely reason being the politicization of games and retailers not wanting to be the one that has to defend selling GTA to a minor in court and on CNN.
And the middle aged ladies (cause it has ALWAYS been a middle aged lady who was doing it) believing in Jesus so hardcore doesn't help.
Originally posted by Strangelove
It's all pointless anyway. Ratings for video games and movies are advisory only, I don't think they're binding at all.
Originally posted by Devil King
There is a difference between "stricter" and "more controlled". As it is, there is less money invested in video games and the investor's bottom line than is the rate for movies. From what I've seen from my roomates video game choices there is far more gotten away with in video games than there is in movies, considering the self-imposed regulations that control the movie industry; movies produced by an industry that underwrites the very rating system that dictates it's own rating and standards. I don't know much about video games, other than what I see in the infrequent moments I actually stay on the couch long enough to see what happens in the opening moments. But I highy doubt there is as engrained a system for video games as there is for movies. In either case, I would rather there be no rating system for either. As I have long belevd;it isn't what you hear, it's how loudly you hear it. That has little to do with the parents and everything to do with the child. Violent video games are nothing but a scapegoat. As are violent movies.