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>>22362218

:)~

I hope his administration is ready to get to work, then. The last thing parents want to do these days is actually raise their children themselves.

>>22362132
>>"I would call upon the video game industry to give parents better information about programs and video games by improving the voluntary rating system we currently have. Broadcasters and video game producers should take it upon themselves to improve this system to include easier to find and easier to understand descriptions of exactly what kind of content is included. But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would." - Jack Thompson
Looking at it that way, I don't like the sound of it....

he has a valid point but to be honest, with only a little effort any parent could easily check what is in a game and if it is suitable for their kids, parents who buy their young kids games like GTA should not have kids in the first place

Valid point but how unclear can M- VIOLENCE GORE LANGUAGE NUDITY ALCOHOL be?

>>22362276
His administration will be too busy justifying shipping our young men to Afghanistan, the Iraq war of this presidential term.

The parent should be monitoring what the hell they're playing anyway, the same way that they should be actively monitoring what they're watching, reading, so on and so forth.

Canada

But the underage b& will still come to 4chan, and that's worse than any video game could do to them.

I agree with Barack.

It's not that parents don't care it's just a lot of them still look at video games as toys (think nintendo and mario) and don't really have a idea of how brutal some of these games really are.

Then again some don't care and will just buy the game to shut their kid up so they don't have to actually involve themselves in their life.

A game about ending life (violence) = T

A game about creating life (sex) = M

Wat?

>>22362370
naw, tour of duty 4 was rated E

So by threatening and not actually doing hes just pseudo-libfag.

Ingenious.

Uh...

I don't know about you, but I imagine that the parents that buy M-rated games for their 12 year old offspring at least peek into their kid's rooms while they're playing shit like GTA4 and get a good look at what they're letting their kids play. The ESRB and the government can't fix bad parenting.

>be a actual parent and monitor what you do

About damn time.

It's a sad day when the government has to take action just to make parents act like parents.

Yup, that's America for you.

Blame Christianity

"I was just catching the news this morning about Grand Theft Auto, this video game, which is going to break all records, make goo-gobs of money for whoever designed it," he said. "Now this isn't intended for kids, I understand -- although I promise you there will be kids who are playing it. But those video games are raising our kids."

As a gamer I want to argue with him.
But as a logical thinker I have to agree with him.

Also... GOO-GOBS.

too bad parents do not give a fuck, i am sick of little timmy screaming over the mic that everyone is a "nube tube faggot"

>>22362132

NIGGER

ESRB ratings are shit and broken, SOMEONE needs to fix them.

Vidya games are the last thing in my mind, and probably his right now. He's got bigger fish to fry

Parents don't look at the ratings. They just buy whatever to please their kids.

The ratings are very descriptive. Like >>22362335 said, it's clear enough. There are even huge signs in game stores saying to check the ratings of each game, and provides descriptions for each rating.

>>22362478
i met a 12 year old on diablo 2 and he said whenever he hears his mom coming he closes the laptop and pretends that hes watching tv, because hes not allowed to play it for having too much gore. its not hard for a kid to avoid shit like that.

>>22362132

OH, IT'S ON NOW MR. OBAMA. NOBODY messes with my vidya rights.

>>22362644
yeah? how would you improve them? M for DON'T LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IT DIPSHIT

>>22362132

>she might have to be a actual parent and monitor what you do!

Thank God.

>>22362350
We were in Afghanistan before Iraq, you fool. So what changes?

>>22362710
underage

>>22362664

Was shooting Nazis allowed?

A few years ago, I heard a 10-13 year old boy crying in a GameStop because he wanted Halo 2 because all his friends had it. From what I saw, his mother didn't cave in and buy it for him yet

>>22362773
what?

>>22362710
Uh, if you're over 17, you shouldn't worry about this. He isn't taking your rights away.

Unless you're under that age. You are over 17, aren't you?

>>22362132
>But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would.

Good luck not getting your bullshit struck down by the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds you fucking coon

And this is why i love being a 17 year old douche bag who can buy his own Rated M games. Obama can go suck a cock. No wait..he's probably already doing that rite naow.

What I don't get about the ESRB is how they rated Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask E, but suddenly decided to give Twilight Princess a T.

PEGI wasn't introduced until 2003, but they've rated Ocarina of Time for it's release on Virtual Console and it has gotten the same rating as TP, 12+.

>>22362707

But that's just that kid.

There are kids out there who don't have the luxary of knowing when their parents are gonna drop by and see what their little snookums is doing. They're not gonna be able to hide playing God of War so easily as that kid you talked about.

I was sixteen when GTA3 came out and my mom was somewhat apprehensive about buying it for me but I went on to explain to her I have a pretty good grasp on fiction and reality and she caved in.

Thinking back on it now she probably still shouldn't of bought it for me but oh god am I happy she did. When I took out all the mafias? Oh god, pure joy.

>>22362843
>coon

derp

>>22362707

He's going to grow up more mature than his friends and peers whose parents try to shield their little babies from all the bad things in the world so they remain mental infants by the time they're 18.

>>22362843
Why wouldn't you want this to pass? Are you fucking retarded?

>>22362872
reported

>>22362872
Underage B&; 4chan = 18+, nigger

>>22362707
Diablo 2 has gore, what?

>>22362843

He's not going to violate the right you fucking idiot. He's saying he would intervene and provide a government ran program to rate games and what not instead of the ESRB which is a public company.

Which really is how it should be.

>she might have to be an actual parent
f year
>...and monitor what you do!
uh, well, you should be able to take care of yourself to some degree even as a small kid

>>22362843
Are you fucking retarded? He's trying to restrict underaged kids accessing adult content.

easier to find?
easier to understand?

You mean the giant M on the fucking box is too complicated for you?

ITT we now discuss illiteracy.

>>22362451
HE'S NOT EVEN PRESIDENT YET YOU COCKWAD.

>>22362875
TP isn't as colorful as OoT.

>>22362956
looks like a lot of people riding obama's political cock are getting offended at trolls. I lol hard everytime i see a fool who trusts in any political figure excessively.

>>22363001
Apparently parents are fucking blind.

>>22362132
nooo how elz am i goign 2 ply left 4 ded?!!!!>?!?!!?

Now that he's officially elected hopefully he'll just tell the lazy parents straight out that its their fault and they should be more vigilant in their kid's life. He couldn't say that during the campaign because then the lazy useless parents would get butthurt and raise hell about it.

The only rule with my parents had was that I couldn't play any games where you went around shooting humans in a realistic setting. They didn't really care about violence as long as I was only tearing apart dinosaurs and demons. Seems like a pretty good rule to me.

Even up until I was about 15, I barely got away with MGS, and only after explaining that it had people with superpowers and giant robots and shit.

Pff, I've played violent games since I was 6. I even watched my father's porno flicks back then and I'm a healthy, stable individual with only very rare urges to murder a person violently and very liberal views about child pornography and pedophilia.

>>22362927
I guess that everyone should start drinking hard liquor when they turn 8 then. They'll be way more "mature" than their peers.

>>22363045

LOL I TROL YOU

>>22362478
It's not always "bad" parenting. I knew a a mom who works her ass off to make a living and hardly has any time for anything else. She loves and spends time with her son whenever she can, but the babysitter lets the kid run lose with her own kid to go play games like Leisure Suit Larry and watch Drawn Together.

>>22363045

You can't really blame people for liking the guy. He is generally likeable and for the first time (in my life atleast) he is a politician who seems to sincerely fucking care.

Just because you're a cynical and have no faith doesn't mean we shouldn't faggot.

>>22362843

I don't think this would make it to the supreme court, honestly... they handle like, a few cases a year.

>>22363045
Because someone is underagedb& on a 18+ website? Thats riding Obamas cock?

No, just get the fuck out.

>>22362967
>He's not going to violate the right you fucking idiot. He's saying he would intervene and provide a government ran program to rate games and what not instead of the ESRB which is a public company.

>Which really is how it should be.

But the Constitution does not enumerate that role to government. How can they make a bur... oh yeah I forgot, politicians don't care about the Constitution. Carry on.

Also, Australia

"We need to give parents the tools and information they need to make choices about what programs their children are watching or what video games they are playing. As we move towards a digital environment, there is a golden opportunity for the industry to do this on their own—to use the latest in technology to give parents more information and more choice. For example, this technology could make it possible for parents to create their own family tier just by programming their television to block certain channels, block certain genres of programming like dramas, or block television at certain times of the day. The same can be said of video games, especially as we’re moving into an era when they can be downloaded as easily as today’s movies and television shows."

The guy atleast knows a lot about technology which is more than can be said about most.

Someone post the new dumbfuckinstan map.

It took me a strangely long time to get my mother to let me rent any violent game from Blockbuster.

This is the same mother that let me watch Terminator before I had entered elementary school. But that's cool, I think I turned out okay.

developers will now make their games even more kid friendly aka diablo 3 T rating

>>22363117
Faith? Cynical? You dont get it do you? Just because he looks pretty and loving doesnt make him jesus or whatever you worship. Appearances are obviously meaningless, actions are usually meaningless too when theyre blurred so much by opinions and politics. You dont understand how our government works and thus you must not have any idea how our government has impacted the world, so i'll leave you to saddle up and ride the cock of politics.
CHANGE is a campaign word, that is it.
dont be a faggot, faggot.

When I was a teenager I pirated GTA, Doom, Duke Nukem, anything I could get my hands on. I organized lan parties, I downloaded tons of pron on a 14.4 modem, chatted with skezie guys pretending to be a gurl, and generally made an ass of myself online.

I now have a career in IT thanks to my underachieving youth.

Barack, fuck off and let parents decide what to do with their kids, they don't need your help.

>>22363143
Who cares, he's trying to make it harder for kids to access games that are out of their age range. Stop being a faggot.

>>22363143

It would only be unconstitutional if it was mandatory. The ESRB is a voluntary ratings system, as would be a government one. The only thing that makes it seem mandatory is most major retailers wouldn't stock a game that wasn't rated (Or is rated AO for that matter), so anyone that actually wants to make money has to submit their game for approval.

>>22363221

Cynical.

>>22363166
> possible for parents to create their own family tier

inb4 family tier

>>22362350
I'm going to assume you're not one of those "young men", you cockwad.

>>22363173

North Carolina and Missouri still haven't been called yet.

>>22363143

It's a rating system, not censorship.

>>22363260
Who gives a fuck how it effected YOU, this is about everyone around the 10 year old faggots that have to put up with them.

Why the fuck are there people here saying this shit is stupid.
What are you underageb&?

>>22363221
i will now disregard anything you said, for using the word "faggot"

>>22363290
Box turtles.

>>22363260
>I now have a career

>>22363414
Thats why I'm starting to RAGE a bit.

I don't know who's trolling who anymore.

>>22363117
>faggot.

>>22363448
irony and pseudo-intellectuals ftw

All video games are for children

>>22363448
You're not really a "v-tard", you don't belong here, Gtfo.

>>22363448
i will now disregard anything you said, for having a tripcode(and /v/tard at that, what the fuck is wrong with you)

You know what I want to happen? No more banning or forcing games to censor themselves. If it requires a somehow higher rating than M, (not AO, that's stupid) do it.

>>22363479

I don't think anyone here is trolling. People here are just legitimately stupid.

My state already prevents kids under 18 from buying M-rated games.

I saw a middle-school kid direct his mom to the counter so he could complete his purchase.

"Blood'n'Guts 4?"
"Yup."
"Okay."

And that was that.

JESUS FUCK /v/

STOP CRYING ABOUT THIS SHIT. WHEN YOU HAVE KIDS YOU CAN BUY THEM WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU FEEL LIKE. IT'S JUST A FUCKING RATING SYSTEM GOD DAMN.

SHIT.

>>22363532

FUCK IT. NO RULES.
LET THE KIDS SHOOT SMACK.

The only thing that bothers me about this is that the vidya will be a lot more harsh on its ratings then other forms of media.
[spoilers] But I don't care, I can buy M rated games [/spoilers]

I honestly don't give a fuck.

But if this leads to more censorship I will be upset.

>>22362415
It's pretty simple. America is so overpopulated that supporting the killing of lives has a more positive, lasting effect than creating it.

>>22362415
WELCOME TO AMERICA

>>22363517

>You're not really a "v-tard", you don't belong here, Gtfo.
>v-tard

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHH

SUCH TERRIBLE TROLLING HURTS MINE EYES

As long as it doesn't involve censorship of content, then I'm fine with it.

How can you make it any easier? It's pretty obvious you shouldn't be buying your 10 year old a game rated M for MATURE HARDCORE GAEMERS SUCH AS MY SON CAN HANDLE IT and then blame violence or the stupid spoiled little fuck running away from home on the vidya.

>>22363517
i am using /v/-tard as a parody of what /v/ has become, basically /b/ without the gore and porn, and a little bit of /e/ mixed in, but that part is fine

OP here. I regret every making this post.

Good god what have I done.

It's not like video games do any harm to children, anyway.

>>22363602
If you're 18 then you have nothing to worry about.

HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE A STRICTER RATING SYSTEM SO PARENTS WON'T BUY THEIR 10 YEAR OLD CHILD GTA4 OR GEARS OF WAR 2

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? LESS KIDS ONLINE

THIS IS GOOD IF YOU'RE NOT AN UNDERAGEDB&

GODDAMN

>>22363576
At the expense of the pleasure others gain from the games? I think not; we need personal ion cannons for people like you.

>>22363627
I only used the phrase "v-tard" because that's what he called himself

>>22363672
Just delete this shit. It's like a car wreck, I can't look away.

ITT: Older gamers Vs Underage b&

/v/-tard#ObviousTroll

here is the tripcode if anyone wants it, i step down from it and add another name

>>22363712
I don't think you can read.

At all.

>>22363672
Make it again after midnight. Late night /v/ is the only good /v/ anymore. Nice intelligent discussions.

But yeah, just delete it. It was good until the little kiddos came in and whined.

He'll just check the polls and realize that those who voted for him are younger. Just the type of people who play games most, hence prompting him not to mess with video games.

I don't understand the concept of censorship in this country. You may stop a junior from purchasing a game, but then he can go home and turn on MTV and watch a show about a whore and frat boys getting wasted. These are his role models.

I don't think he is going to follow in the foot steps of a in a zombie apocalypse, but he might take an example from someone he could meet in real life... and that person might be exactly what his parents dont want him to be.

>>22363822
PROTIP, UNDERAGE B& CAN'T VOTE YOU FUCKING IDIOT. LOL

>>22363672
are you going to delete this shit fest OP, i would give you something image based if you promise to delete it

>>22363877
Video games are just the newest scapegoat. Just like rock music and TV used to be.

>>22363894
PROTIP: In 4 years, the 14+ will be able to vote and trounce him for it.

>>22363944

Yeah, because his worst fear at the moment is not being able to be re-elected.

>>22363944
ITT baseless statements.

This thread would have been much more constructive if it had been made during school hours. Kids fuck everything up.

>>22363822
Did you even read the OP post? If they're under 17, then this law effects THEM.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 18+

I know you might live in fairy tale, "EVERYTHING IS GOOD IN VIDYA LAND DO NOT TOUCH" but its really not the case. Some things need to be changed in the vidya system.

There's already fucking labels on the god damn boxes that list the content parents might find objectionable! What the fuck else can the industry do Obama?!

>>22364037
>Some things need to be changed in the vidya system.

Yeah, like making genuinely good games.

You know I'm right.

>>22364017
Or if it was made later tonight. Like I said, late night /v/ and school hour /v/ are the only bearable /v/'s anymore.

>>22364073
read the thread before you post.

>>22364073
24 hour snipers in all electronics sections. If a child associates with an adult that buys an M rated game, both should be terminated immediately. That would end the problem pretty quickly, I'd say.

If the OP fails to delete this thread, then my administration would.

MAYBE OBAMA SHOULD LEAVE IT ALONE SO KIDS CAN GET TEH SUPER VIOLENT GAMES AND WHEN THEIR PARENTS WON'T ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THE VIDYA BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID SHITS THEY'LL RUN AWAY DURING A BLIZZARD WITH NOTHING BUT A BAG OF KETCHUP-FLAVORED CHIPS A JACKET AND A SHITTY VINYL TENT KINDA LIKE THAT 15-YEAR-OLD SHITEATER NAMED BRANDON CRISP FROM MILKBAGLAND THIS PLAN IS GENIOUS BECAUSE IT WILL KILL OFF ALL THE UNDERAGE B& AND IF YOU DISAGREE THEN UR A FAGET /CRUISE CUNTROLL

>>22364180
yay the thread is dead

>>22364444
safe

When I was 15 years old, my parents did not care if a game was M-rated. Now at the age of 20, the rating system does not affect me at all.

If Obama does replace the industry's rating system (which I would love to have him do because CARA and ESRB is broken and useless), they should model the new media rating system from the BBFC.

Just only ban film and video games that contains child porn and/or incitement to imminent lawless action as a whole and I'll have no problem with it.

>>22362985

That's not something that the government is allowed to do, unless they can prove that the content is a danger to minors (or unless it's pornography). The First Amendment prevents that.

Movie ratings and Parental Advisory stickers are adopted by the industries, but they aren't mandated or enforced by the government. Game ratings should be subject to the same rules.

>>22365400
I Oppose your Apposal.

i really don't see the problem, it's the exact same system the movie industry uses. the problem here is that parents don't give a shit, until they actually see the game in action.

>>22365400
~ABJECTION!~

>>22365372

>That's not something that the government is allowed to do, unless they can prove that the content is a danger to minors (or unless it's pornography). The First Amendment prevents that.

Not exactly... Google Freedman v. Maryland

The federal government can establish a rating system under the ruling.

PORNING PORNO: THE PORN GAME

RATED AO

"MOOOOOOOM, CAN I GET THIS GAME?"

"SHUT UP, I'M TRYING TO FIND YOU A NEW DADDY."

>>22365372
You sound like you're defending the underage b&s. I don't like it.

>>22362132
No underaged skid marks in my more graphic online games? This sounds delightful. I welcome the pruning of the idiots I have to interact with.

>>22363094

And look at you now. 21 years old, living with your mom, no job, no girlfriend and most off browsing 4chan.

Kudos to your mom.

Whats easier than an age rating?

>>22363260

>Barack, fuck off and let parents decide what to do with their kids, they don't need your help.

Hahaowow.jpg, someone grew up sheltered.

If you don't think 9 year olds playing halo (at the same time not knowing to replace an .exe file) is a good thing than you are an idort.

>>22363822

>voting age is 18+
>stricter ratings for kids under 18
>implied messing with games that don't even apply to their demographic

Laughingelfman.jpg

>>22365372
>content is a danger to minors
>pornography
i lol'd

>>22367534
Halo is basically Star Wars with bullet guns. I'm surprised no game in the series got a E rating.