If universal game discs were made, they could be used by Sony, Nintendo, and MS to try and block out new comers into the gaming market. On the flip side, it could be seen as an attempt to monopolize the market. If Sony, and Nintendo did this before MS entered the market there might not be an Xbox, or it might not be as popular as it is now.
Well... I went there like a little more than a year ago and it was really fun. My brother went back again after that and said it was good too. When I was there, everything was in working order so I can't share some of your distate for the place. All in all I loved it!
PS. The rollercoaster was awesome, but made me feel sick.
I've been to joypolis in odaiba... it is very similar to sega world in london (which i've also been to). This place is pretty cool... has the newest arcade games, and a roller coaster inside. It's pretty huge and has some cool attractions but the entrance price is steep if i remember correctly. Unfortunately, I went to this place a few years ago so it could be totally different. I'd say the Bandai museum is a million times cooler and much more worth the enterance than this place is. Go there when you're in tokyo.
Since when do human beings lose their free will and become animals when a piece of violent stimulus crosses their path? Even if anyone wanted to mimic something they saw in a movie or a video game, there is always a motive behind why they do it. Beyond that they always make a choice whether to do it or not. At Columbine there was something, and in Montreal there probrably was too; and they made the choice to carry out the actions they did. Those who have absolutely no motive for their actions other than "I copied what I saw in a video game, for no reason" are demented. There is something fundamentally wrong with their personality that should have been apparent to their parents, family members, or friends lightyears before any type of volatile situation could occur.
There is preventative action that can be taken against people like this, and that's getting them psychological help, and keeping them from any and all types of influential material. If your kid has a violent personality, don't let him play violent games. If your kid has a social disorder, don't feed his weakness. It's that simple.
There shouldn't even be dialogue as to whether violent games, movies, or books should be illegal. Not only is there absolutely no correlation between them and violent crime, but even if there were it'd be such a small anomaly that we'd have to discuss banning cars, and planes first. Games like Super Columbine Massacre RPG offer more to people than "let's kill people in school lol", and what the author of the game says about it being art is totally true.
Just because people are uncomfortable, or afraid to open a dialogue about certain topics is no excuse to delete them from existence. Society needs to open up and understand what place these kinds of games hold in society (The GTAs and Bullys included) and respect the authors right to create them.
If you don't like what certain media portrays, don't buy it for yourself or your kids. Things that are made for adults are expected to be played by adults, and there is only one governmental body that should be expected to uphold that: Parents.
We need to hover back down to earth and stop acting like our kids aren't our own, and don't live under our supervision.
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Sep 19th 2006 6:56PM (Joystiq)PS. The rollercoaster was awesome, but made me feel sick.
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Sep 18th 2006 2:28PM (Joystiq)There is preventative action that can be taken against people like this, and that's getting them psychological help, and keeping them from any and all types of influential material. If your kid has a violent personality, don't let him play violent games. If your kid has a social disorder, don't feed his weakness. It's that simple.
There shouldn't even be dialogue as to whether violent games, movies, or books should be illegal. Not only is there absolutely no correlation between them and violent crime, but even if there were it'd be such a small anomaly that we'd have to discuss banning cars, and planes first. Games like Super Columbine Massacre RPG offer more to people than "let's kill people in school lol", and what the author of the game says about it being art is totally true.
Just because people are uncomfortable, or afraid to open a dialogue about certain topics is no excuse to delete them from existence. Society needs to open up and understand what place these kinds of games hold in society (The GTAs and Bullys included) and respect the authors right to create them.
If you don't like what certain media portrays, don't buy it for yourself or your kids. Things that are made for adults are expected to be played by adults, and there is only one governmental body that should be expected to uphold that: Parents.
We need to hover back down to earth and stop acting like our kids aren't our own, and don't live under our supervision.