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New bill in Congress to put games with bestiality, suicide, sodomy, etc. under lock and key; US$ 1000 fine for violators |
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Ah yes. It's another one of those nasty bills being tossed around in Congress. This new one from New York is taking the few recent bills into a whole new level.Remember when assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright (quite possibly, no affinity to Phoenix Wright) proposed to have kids protected from racist games and its ilk. And before that, representative Joe Baca introduced another bill which wanted those obtrusive warning labels on video game boxes.
Via GamePolitics, we now hear that assemblyman Brian Kolb steps into the scene, this time with a new bill, A2837. The objective of this bill is pretty much the same: to protect minors from mature titles. But more specifically, that these games should come with a warning label that has the following:
18+ WARNING, SALE OR RENTAL TO ADULTS ONLY. MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT DEPICTIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF OR ADVOCATING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
- COMMISSION OF A VIOLENT CRIME
- SUICIDE
- SODOMY
- RAPE
- INCEST
- BESTIALITY
- VIOLENT RACISM
- RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE
- SADO-MASOCHISM
- SEXUAL ASSAULT
- SEXUAL ACTIVITY
- MURDER
- MORBID VIOLENCE
- ILLEGAL USE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL
PARENTAL ADVISORY.
That's very specific. And a huge list too! What's to become of box artists - are they to be laid off now? And that's not the end of it either.
Kolb's bill also proposes that these types of games are to be kept under surveillance in an "inaccessible by the general public" and seemignly under lock and key, "in a sealed and locked container." Any violators of this new rule (once it gets approved) may be subject to a fine of around US$ 1000, and may be put on the record for civil and criminal offenses.
So. Does Viva Pinata count under bestiality? Does Persona 3 count for suicide?
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I understand that children should be protected from such things.
An argument has always been "it's on the parents" but often times the child begs for the game and will show sadness without it. And parents usually just want their child to be happy.
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Yeah it looks like the ratings are a little vague sometimes but maybe only in the US (ESRB), however in the EU the PEGI rating system is more specific, on the game boxes you have the age and icons that specify the content of the game and it covers some of the items on that list, as for the CERO in Japan i don't know much about it but i think it is the most flexible of the rating systems (I'm not really sure about this one).
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Personally, when a game comes out, which I'll know beforehand since I'd be waiting for it, I check if it's good online, check Wikipedia for its overall reception, check youtube gameplay vids, then buy it.
This only affects window shoppers really, and are they going to even notice?
True its dumb, but why do we care, we know what we're buying anyways.
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specific warnings for stuff like that is fine, but I think the general "violence/extreme violence, gore, drug/alcohol use" suffices for
# COMMISSION OF A VIOLENT CRIME
# SUICIDE
# VIOLENT RACISM
# RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE
# SADO-MASOCHISM
# SEXUAL ASSAULT
# SEXUAL ACTIVITY
# MURDER
# MORBID VIOLENCE
# ILLEGAL USE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL
No need for all of that
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it's never going to happen and times have changed since then.
this is the dumbest racist comment i've ever read.
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They should also only list what the game has in it, otherwise these stickers will become a false alarm and quickly turn into Homer's "Everything is OK alarm" ie it only turns off when there's a problem.
If they just went well this game could have any of the following in it from stealing candy from a baby to dropping an a bomb on hiroshima, no one is going to pay any attention to the warning.
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no need to go and add more warnings to the cover. doing so would only make more work for the industry, and it wouldn't accomplish anything...
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Guess I'll have to wait a few more months then I can buy them myself...
This is so stupid. It'll probably be turned down like the rest of them.
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* SUICIDE
* SODOMY
* RAPE
* INCEST
* BESTIALITY
* VIOLENT RACISM
* RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE
* SADO-MASOCHISM
* SEXUAL ASSAULT
* SEXUAL ACTIVITY
* MURDER
* MORBID VIOLENCE
* ILLEGAL USE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL
Or as we like to call it "Another day in NY"...
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i am also not aware of any game with rape/sodomy scenes but if someone does make one i would like a warning, because i dont want to see it
i have seen the clips of manhunt 2, all the extremely violent scenes (watched them to see what the hubbub was about), and its just downright creepy. any game that violent, with the violence passing thru the realm of "fun" and into the realm of psychopathic and way too real, should have descriptors on the box
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Some of the funniest people in the world.
Do you by chance read The Sun?
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Theres no other alternative, its not like you can prosecute parent for making their kids fat, or buying them pron.
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That would put things as mild as the computerized version of Milton Bradley's family board game "Clue" in a locked box behind the counter. It would crash the video games industry. Congress isn't that stupid.
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Ahh im so happy my parents beat me, wasnt somethign id say when i was small but you udnerstand when you get older. sad thing im only 19
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Obviously not, so don't say something is relevant to something else when it has no relevancy whatsoever.
Also: Kids SHOULD be protected, but a locked box away from the public? A little overboard I think.
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