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Now Anne Diamond added to the debate, my opinion has been swayed, & I have already burnt my entire games collection. I'm truly disgusted with myself for ever getting involved with this sick filth..... Down with this sort of thing. |
Anne Diamond in Daily Mail ban these sick games shocker! • Page 3
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Restart 5,060 posts
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Duffking 16,964 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFrom VG247:
Byron, to the knee jerker press game hate brigade:
“stop panicking, get a grip, move on in the debate and just be sensible about who plays what at what age, and what’s appropriate.”
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Official-Capcom-Guy 425 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI skimmed the parts of the Byron report that were most relevant to me, and she actually talks a lot of sense.
She's big on the idea that you can't remove all elements of risk from children's lives, as it's part of growing up. Some parents won't even let their kids go outside these days, it's as though gangs of kidnappers and murders lurk on every street corner.
She's also recommending a campaign to make parents more aware of age ratings, which I completely agree with. I don't like the part where it looks like the games industry will have to pay, but if it stops the Daily Mail brigade thinking I should be locked up or burned at the stake because it was me that obtained the 18 rating for Dead Rising, I'm all for it.
If I remember correctly she's also recommending the BBFC rate everything down to 12+. That's... going to be annoying.
For a start it means I'll need to get footage of every cutscene in the game for just about every damn game we release. Irksome! On the plus side, maybe I can leverage the increased workload to get some staff.gif)
I'd have liked to have seen them giving more consideration to beefing up the PEGI system and putting some legal weight behind it in this country. In its current state PEGI is a damn good try at making a rating system for all of Europe, which when you think about the differing cultures and mores of the 20-odd countries that are signed up to it is pretty impressive.
All told, it seems like some fairly sensible suggestions and a pointing-out that parents and older people should try to understand games and age ratings, rather than burning them in big piles at some kind of Daily Mail rally.
Oh, and Ann Diamond knows nothing and should probably not be given a national stage to spout her uninformed opinions. RE4 is a 15 game, it's not made for kids, the BBFC think it's for young adults and grown ups.
Maybe we should have a special rating symbol - "not for vapid breakfast telly presenters"? -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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/Starts petition for the "Daily Mail" to be renamed "Fear of the Unknown" -
Official-Capcom-Guy 425 posts
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Registered 17 years agoRetroid wrote:
/Starts petition for the "Daily Mail" to be renamed "Fear of the Unknown, and hatred of the known but a bit different"
Fixed -
A punchy subtitle; I like it! -
President_Weasel 12,355 posts
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Registered 17 years agoRetroid wrote:
A punchy subtitle; I like it!
It's like they've combined two xenophobic haterags into one.
"Also featuring the Daily Political Correctness Gone Mad" -
Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt's funny. When a film such as equilibrium (brilliant film btw) is released, you don't hear anybody. Yet the lead character kills over 200 people.
When it's a game however, it's shockingly violent. Parents/press being hypocrites? Nah. -
Not really; it's always with the proviso 'but in games YOU murder people rather than watching them'.
Still silly, just a little less so. -
They just read a couple of these posts on The Wright Stuff, talking about "The Internet: A Bully's Playground."
I laughed. -
Stickman 29,986 posts
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Registered 17 years agoShut up laughing or I'll smack you. -
TheSaint wrote:
I propose Anne Diamond should be banned from eating crisps and cake.
What a pig.
This was the post that was read out. They mentioned Fozzie_Bear too. -
ModishNouns 4,986 posts
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Registered 12 years agoStickman wrote:
KrazyKev29 wrote:
Shut up laughing or I'll smack you.
They just read a couple of these posts on The Wright Stuff, talking about "The Internet: A Bully's Playground."
I laughed.
I'll watch the corridor, you kick his head in. -
I assume they didn't see the humour in the post and took it quite literally? -
Craig0702 2,178 posts
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Registered 13 years agoKrazyKev29 wrote:
They just read a couple of these posts on The Wright Stuff, talking about "The Internet: A Bully's Playground."
I laughed.
Seriously? You watch The Wright Stuff?!
Actually, seriously, let's shiv them. -
Wait... They read some posts from EG? -
andywilkie35 5,327 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThis is superb! Should we direct them to the Diana Vickers thread, see what they make of that
Oi Matthew Wright, go to the Diana Vickers thread -
LionheartDJH 20,303 posts
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Registered 12 years agoDDevil wrote:
Wait... They read some posts from EG?
Regretting posting that confession about that guy you killed now DDevil? -
DDevil wrote:
Wait... They read some posts from EG?
Just the one, I think. He said that he googled Anne Diamond as she was on the show, and mentioned that this was in response to her comments on violent computer games. He didn't mention Eurogamer but I heard him say Fozzie_bear so I came on here to check. -
LionheartDJH 20,303 posts
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Registered 12 years agoShame he didn't mention Pedo Bear. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agoLionheartDJH wrote:
Shame he didn't mention Pedo Bear.
Pedo Bear is untouchable. How ironic is that? -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agonickthegun wrote:
If making fun of Anne Diamond is wrong, I dont want to be right.
Sorry National TV Audiences and Ms. Diamonds lawyers. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThey really shouldn't let TV(?) presenters on the internet until they've taken a course in black humour. -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoKrazyKev29 wrote:
He didn't mention Eurogamer but I heard him say Fozzie_bear so I came on here to check.
If he didnt add 'wakka wakka' to the end of it, I hope the estate of Jim Henson sues the tits off him. -
Craig0702 2,178 posts
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Registered 13 years agoFozzie_bear wrote:
The thing Anne fails to understand is that most people are able to exert some level of self control and not get obsessed by games or anything else.
Unlike her when confronted with a cake, the fat bitch.
I'd presume this was the post. Amazing \o/ -
Stickman 29,986 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThat's her watching someone throw a tray of eclairs in the bin. -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI don't remember that post at all. In hindsight the what a pig comments seems a bit harsh. -
andywilkie35 wrote:
This is superb! Should we direct them to the Diana Vickers thread, see what they make of that
Oi Matthew Wright, go to the Diana Vickers thread
Did someone mention Diana?
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