Thailand bans some games in wake of cabbie murder

But if you ask them to take you to the train station, they shout at you and kick you down a well...

I swear Killjebus, you and I need to have a cup of coffee/beers sometime. You and I see eye to eye all the time.

BEER!!!! It's whats for dinner, and lunch, and breakfast, and SECOND breakfast.

Where are you from anyhoo Jack?

Me? I am in the Burbs of Chicago

Wichita, Kansas buddy.

Make out already, why don't you.

DigtheDoug


Whats wrong with meeting people online and becomming friends?

Believe it or not, but all of the great friends I have now I met online on game blogs & during online game sessions.

Im real good friends with this guy (Johan) over in Europe. We are thousands of miles away & born in different countries yet we still feel as if we are brothers.

Videogames always make a nice scapegoat. :(

Also, regardless of the context, it's disheartening to see Killer7 grouped with those garbage games.

Well, Hitman was alright, I suppose. But it wasn't Killer7 quality.

Sex tourism brings in boatloads of money with all of the rich MOSTLY conservative westerners that come here to do the kinds of things to helpless children that they condemn in their home countries. Those pedophile assholes make me sick.

And yes, videogames are the scapegoat for all the world's problem it would seem.

Are you kidding, it's the PERFECT distraction. First, it plays up the moral issue. Second, it's a clear foreign influence. When things are going shitty, you can always count on the masses to jump on the morality/xenophobia bandwagon.

I mean, countries like saudi arabia, syria and other middle east countries. The vast majority of people live in squalor and poverty while the privileged few race around their streets in audis and ferraris and live in colossal sky scrappers. But the people are content, why? Because their leaders have sold them on the evils of the west.

Look at the United States, a disappearing manufacturing sector, all time high levels of national and personal debt, lower standards of living, diminishing personal wealth and diminishing national prestige... and the people want to talk about gay rights and abortion and illegal immigration.

Sure, those issues matter... they wouldn't be such great distractions if they didn't. But never underestimate the ability of people to latch on to the most unnecessary of things in order to keep from thinking about the truly important and pressing.

Eugene,

Awesome comment. Yes, the lemmings are too easily manipulated by the elite. And thats sad.

Look what the Republicans are doing with this election since the ridiculous selection of Palin.

Abortion and gay marriage. That is all they are talking about instead of the REAL problems facing this country. We are at a crossroads, it either gets better NOW or we will slide so far down the dark path that we will never come back.

ITT Pseudo intellectual circle jerk

Not like Democrats are going to do any better. High corporate taxes are the exact reason WHY the US manufacturing base is vanishing. Hard to compete with places like Ireland and its 10% corporate tax rate when yours is upwards of 40% of income plus payroll tax.

Eliminating the Republicans, Democrats and an income based taxation system will go a long way to fix our problems.

I could point out that there's usually a 7 year cycle of boom and bust, and this boom has lasted 14 years due to artificial means. Now everyone is surprised that everything is going to shit when the banks figured out that Billy-Bob wasn't going to be able to make his massive mortgage payments. It's never OUR fault though. It's always the OTHER GUYS fault.

Which fails to explain a 30 year trend of trade deficites and continual erosion of manufacturing capacity.

Help me out here. How can it be KYM, but not KYM? Don't try and give me that typographical error nonsense either.

You need specs. N != M