I think we've pretty well proven that politicians in the US are lazy clueless individuals who are wasting taxpayer money on the atni-videogames crusade by enacting laws that are years behind the industry. Why should we expect politicians in other counties to be any different, especially when some countries have a questionable affiliation with democracy.



I don't know much about politics in Thailand, but I'm pretty sure a politician is a politician no matter where you go.

This kind of things happens in every big business. People that gets good jobs usually do it by making it seems like they are working hard.



This guy in Thailand probably show a project where he spent 4 weeks of research on behavior vs violence in games. He said he pulled this list with all the result he got.



He started with good intentions, and his boss accepted the project. Now on day 1 he stumbled on the list doing his search on violent games. Now someone did all the work for him, and he is on the other side of the world. No chance that he comes and say that he has done the work.



The guy pulled the list and browse the internet for 4 weeks, at the end he gave the result. His boss think he did some serious research for him to be so sure that his list is the thing to take in concideration. Now they publish it and they look like complete dumbasses. Someone should write to them to let them know, the only one who probably is aware of this is the one who pulled the list out of the internet, while the others all believe that it's the result of intense research and hard work.

is on my list for countries I least want to visit... isnt' that where that American kid had to face getting a "caning" for something inconsequential .



but yes I totally agree... Politicians are pretty scummy.

Actually that was Singapore.



No picnic over there either if you break "the rules"

dunno why you'd say that. I could think of several countries I wouldn't want to be in.



I was just in Thailand last week in fact on vacation. Really nice. The scenery is beautiful, and the locals are all much nicer than back here. Of course though security, especially at airports, is much tighter.

The teenager who killed the taxi driver was simply using GTA as a coverup.

I know, right! What if they said Soul Calibur 4 was too violent cause some kid dressed up as one of the characters and started attacking people? Why is it that it becomes banned AFTER some incident occurs?



Your right about asian's buying original games though. And ecspecially Thailand. I didn't know ppl could afford consoles there?

Just because someone who obviously can't be trusted on a basic level with knowing right from wrong blames something like a vidgame, a movie, a band, or another; why do people lend creedence to this. Responsibilty lies with the person chosing to do the crime, yet it seems to me the "media" wants to shift the blame where it shouldn't be for publicity sake. I'm sure the defense attorney's love this conundrum as well... very very messed up... but no fix in sight. /weep

Jack Thompson must have had an orgasm when that guy got killed.

Moar liek top 10 list of games to play amirite?



Oh wait, 300 game is in there. Ah well, never mind then.