Game Control

There’s another hype from the USA heading our way, something I didn’t think possible in our little country. But seeing the fascist and Bush-like direction this place has taken since a couple of years now, I’m not surprised. I’ll never laugh at America again… this place is turning into USA junior.

The biggest party in Belgium, “het Vlaams Blok” or Flemish Block, has discovered videogames and decided to give their opinion. They want to restrict access to violent games for younger and unstable people, and in some cases, ban some games completely. They want shops to do a check on the person buying the game before handing it over, so you can expect doing a little psychological test next time you head out to your local gameshop.

One example that always comes up in these discussions is the game Postal, on which De Winter says that pissing on gays is not a nice thing to do. Pissing on Jewish graves (which is a sport Vlaams Blok members are quite good at, and “pissing” is meant literally here) however, is A-OK.

I guess this is part of their new plan getting even more voters, as there are many “parents” that will completely agree with this. Knowing this anti-violent games opinion is coming from the most aggressive, violent and unstable party in this region is quite funny. But restricting unstable people from playing these games might not be a bad thing, since a couple of months ago a VB member shot a couple of people, one beated his wife and last week a member attacked someone with a bottle and broke it on his head.

Better not buy those evil videogames anymore, or they’ll piss on you too and set you on fire. Welcome to the midevil times! This country is going to hell :(

3 Comments

  1. Darkwolf said:

    Damn it … Let’s just hope Half Life 2 gets out before the VB takes the power …

  2. uninvited said:

    just rang my good old buddy dewinter, its all good.. he’ll make an exception for half life 2. “just for you homie” he said. but when i remarked that only black people use the word “homies” he hang up.. maybe he had something important to do.

    anyhow.. on topic, banning ‘violent’ games like manhunt, postal and many others just isn’t the answer to the problems they try to resolve.

    imho a solution would be found in proper education, good childhood, environment, educative parents, etc.. you can discuss so many factors here, but i just won’t go there. this thread would take forever, certainly with sickb0y around ;)

  3. sickb0y said:

    we should just stop making children. problem solved! :D

    still, odd that this country thinks of these things, although the children here aren’t really the aggressive “I’ll shoot you in the head because i did so in doom” type. As Bowling for Columbine pointed out, fear is one of the main reasons for people snapping. tv and politicians are to blame. it hasn’t become any more dangerous than before. terrorist attacks to give an example, are at a lesser rate than before, but they get more media attention now.

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