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On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 06:20 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote: |
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> > I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. |
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> > And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) |
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> > I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) |
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> > derived from that engine also has the option!? |
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> > Tom |
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> Ok, I'll clarify further: without "kill them!" :-) |
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Ok, here's the thing I don't understand: you don't want your son to |
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actually see that when you shoot a person (or animal) that it bleeds, |
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because, I presume, you tend to find something gory about that. But the |
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act of walking around rooms shooting everything that moves -- that's not |
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gory for some reason? |
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It seems to me that the act of bleeding (we all do it) is in fact |
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natural, and shouldn't be that disturbing compared to the acts of |
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violence committed in FPS to begin with. This is analogous to the |
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ratings board giving a "PG-13" rating to a movie with excessing drug use |
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but an "R" (or worse) rating to a film portraying sex, a natural act. |
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As if to say, "Yeah, shooting up is pretty bad but, hey, at least |
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they're not fucking!". |
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Anyway, if I'm ever unfortunate to find myself on the wrong end of a gun |
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I hope it's by someone who is aware that if/when he pulls the trigger I |
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will bleed as opposed to, say, a person who thinks I'll simply fall down |
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and, after a few seconds, disappear. |
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Note I'm not disputing the game, just the "logic". |
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-a |
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You can have your soap box back now. |
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