The Gamer's Quarter

[dhex]

http://www.kotaku.com/

scroll on down to the video clip of jack thompson and his pro-game clone doing their impression of some shitty fox news / cnn yakety-yak. and a cooler head in the middle as well, at least until he blames hip hop and all that stuff. (no one's played the game, naturally)

motherfuckers need to take a page from the mclaughlin group. sure, there's yelling, but look at just how fucking genteel those fuckers get. even big tony shockley has been known to be semi-polite, and these dudes all kinda hate each other.

i have no interest in bully, but i do like the whole media thing around bully. a bully that beats up bullies is pretty standard fare.

also, i get the feeling that people like, never played football or whatever. swirlies and ass races were the least of peoples concerns.

and there is no british equivalent of the first amendment, so score one for shouty gamer dude.
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[Dracko]

[ryan]

football players at my highschool were the ones who played, and tried to spread, this game where they tried to shove their thumb or side of their hand up someone else's ass - call it koncho 2000 or koncho: catholic school edition. to those who weren't exposed to this constantly, it was horrifying. worry about this, tv people. worry about this.
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[dhex]

that's a little too homosocial even for high school.

i duct taped a kid into a box and kicked it down a flight of stairs once. but he was unhurt so it was ok.

anyway, i guess i'm sympathetic cause like, zero tolerance is bullshit, teaching kids to not fight back when someone attacks you is bullshit, and the contempt some people have for the very concept of self-defense is ridiculous.
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[Nana Komatsu]

I don't care who is beating up who in this game, that there's a game where children are beating up other children scares me greatly.

[SJ]

[Nana Komatsu]

I didn't say that either.

[SJ]

[GSL]

"How can you shoot women and children?!"

"Easy, you don't lead 'em so much."

[Nana Komatsu]

I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm worried showing children the images of other children being violent to each other will potentially lead to copycat behavior because when they're not playing Bully, they're still faced with other kids at school and such.

Images of violence against adults, grandmas, etc are all over the media and we can teach kids that "this is wrong, you don't do this" but showing kids scenes that could come out of their every day lives is much harder to distinguish as "don't do this".

[dhex]

like the old joke about the nytimes lead at the end of the world:

"apocalypse upon us: women, minorities hardest hit"

i wonder if it's a universal that the lives are men are held in less regard concerning loss of life and limb (rhetorically, if not in actuality) across all cultures (compared to women, the young and the elderly, etc)? i hafta go find me an anthropologist now. it makes sense, of course, but it is interesting.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

When I was being bullied once in fifth grade the response from my parents was "Punch him in the nose until he bleeds.".

So, uh, yeah. That's my experience with bullies.

[SJ]

[simplicio]

[OtakupunkX]

[dhex]

[Toto]

I was bullied. It makes you stronger, I swear it does.
This doesn't apply to "total bullying". Like total war, when all the bullies do is pick on you and beat you up and shit, and then you snap and find a shotgun or whatever and GO HARD.
Being picked occasionally stops you from thinking the world is a reasonable place, just like today, where I went to the North Shore and all the white people looked at me funny, just because of my skin colour. Reminds you people are kind of suck.

[Dracko]

I'm reminded of Fallout 2, back in the day where people complainedthere wasn't a child model, despite their being children in the game.

When I was back in school with the typical bully treatment, I simply assumed that I was justified in causing enough physical distress as necessary to deflect them. This worked with mix results, but generally made them leave me alone, so I suppose it was effective. I can't say I much cared for the school authorities' take on my attitude, considering kids, teenagers and anything in between are little shits.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[J.Goodwin]

I was bullied. It didn't make me stronger, it made me unbearably introverted. I've since had a lifetime of cyclical depression and massive problems forming close relationships.

Fuck bullies.
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Playing - Ninety-Nine Nights - Xbox 360

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[Mr. Mechanical]

[ryan]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[J.Goodwin]

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[J.Goodwin]

[J.Goodwin]

[Toto]

[dhex]

[ryan]

[DaleNixon]

I remember one of the black fraternaties here in Baton Rouge was in the papers because they whipped an initiate with a paddle so hard he had to get asssurgery.

[dhex]

there was that insane football camp case recently too. delaware?

young males beat the shit out of each other, as god intended.
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[J.Goodwin]

[dhex]

gnosticism is experiencing a resurgence of sorts.
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[J.Goodwin]

[dhex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
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[Shapermc]

I don't know if I was bullied or not, but I had a nemisis in Middle School. We use to fight about once a week, if not more, for a good year. I would win 80% of the time, but he almost always instigated the fight. It only happen once on school propertery and I busted his face open on a bench in the lunch room. I got an in-school suspension, he got an out of school suspension.

Also, once, I was like 8 or 10, and I was a crossing guard for first graders. This kid wanted to fight with me and announced when he was going to do it. I asked a frined of mine what I should do. He informed me to use the belt and buckle, that I was issued (the orange one) for being a crossing guard, as a whip, or like a helicopter. I nailed him once with the buckle of it in the face. He started to cry, then punched me in the stomach and threw me in the bushes... so yea.

I don't think I was really bullied, but I was picked on a bit at different points in my life, but who isn't?
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[DaleNixon]

Shaper you pick on me even now.

[Shapermc]

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