Sometimes I hope the Mayans are Right

Yewluze · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:13 am

Aestu wrote:

Grimmgor wrote:

SHITS GOING DOWN IN AUSTRALIA MY STOMACH IS RUMBLING WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND EARTHQUAKES. IT'S NOT THE CHILI I SWEAR, IT'S ANCIENT ALIENS AWAKENING INSIDE ME.

You don't have to participate in a discussion above your level any more than you have to bring it down to your own, and if you don't like the selection of threads you are free to start your own.

If you had one at all, at what age did you lose your sense of humour?

What would you be doing with the time you spend on FuBu, if say, you were banned?

Do you own a gun?

I enjoyed that picture, to the utmost.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:36 am

Yewluze wrote:

If you had one at all, at what age did you lose your sense of humour?

I never had one - I'm American.

Yewluze wrote:

What would you be doing with the time you spend on FuBu, if say, you were banned?

Everything else I do - read, write, play video games, thrift shop, make marginal and abortive efforts towards life progression.

Yewluze wrote:

Do you own a gun?

No. Do you own a book?

Yewluze wrote:

I enjoyed that picture, to the utmost.

You need to develop a sense of humor. Things that are funny are witty or ironic. The whole business of running through a social gathering trying to make as much noise as possible in the hopes of bothering the adults talking about things you don't understand gets old at about the age of six.

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:02 am

Aestu wrote:

And yet when you got one you had nothing to offer.

What makes you think anything you have to offer is any less silly than the DERP DERP to which I'm referring? It's not like you could set up an objective standard...this isn't a court of law, you know.

Aestu wrote:

You need to develop a sense of humor. Things that are funny are witty or ironic. The whole business of running through a social gathering trying to make as much noise as possible in the hopes of bothering the adults talking about things you don't understand gets old at about the age of six.

Yet here you are making as much noise as possible...physician, heal thyself.

Your Pal,
Jubber

Azelma · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:40 am

Hahahahahahaha oh the NRA:

http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-pres ... ng-2012-12

Quote:

"Another little dirty secret the media tries to conceal," LaPierre says, is "a callous corrupt and disgusting shadow industry...vicious violent video games." He calls violent films "the filthiest form of pornography."

Quote:

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

LaPierre questioned what would have happened if there was armed security at the school:

"What if, when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, he was confronted by qualified armed security? ... 26 innocent lives might have been spared that day."

LaPierre also blamed lack of government funding.

"With all the foreign aid … with all the money in federal budget … can't we afford to put a police officer in every school?"

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-pres ... z2FhnD7Oeh

To recap: we don't have enough "good guys" with guns.
It's the Media's fault
It's Video Game's fault
it's Movie's fault

It's not the NRAs fault.

Battletard · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:54 am

TL;DR: Conservative with 92% NRA rating gets it right. Suck it.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:50 pm

I think that violent video games should be illegal. I think that the urge for guns stems from the same cultural problems that drive gun mania. Fixing our culture won't make guns safe, but it will remove the entire reason for the debate over whether they should be legal, which is that contemporary Americans have a perverse fascination with violence.

Usdk · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:55 pm

In that case we should get rid of violent movies and music as well.

Not to mention literature.

EDIT: Sports too, while we're at it.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:07 pm

Movies? Yes, we should. Literature? Doesn't apply. Watching or re-enacting someone suffer horribly is not comparable to reading about it. Sports? Gladiatorial battles have been illegal for centuries (and even many Roman writers at the time said it should have been done earlier for exactly that reason).

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:17 pm

It's so funny that the 'rule' "doesn't apply" when it involves a medium to which you're attached. If you think a literary description of something terrible doesn't reach the same level of emotional/visceral involvement as a game or a movie, you're obviously reading some terrible authors.

Your Pal,
Jubber

Battletard · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:17 pm

Some people would call WoW a violent game (myself included) and some wouldn't. Some would call CoD a violent game, others would say no, CoD is nothing compared to Silent Hill. Some would say Mario Party or SSB is violent.

I think there's too much emphasis placed on violent media In general.

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:19 pm

...and not enough emphasis on the fact that, as a society, we now reward reprehensible behavior and mock virtuous behavior.

Your Pal,
Jubber

Azelma · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:45 pm

Aestu that IS a curious argument...I mean...WoW itself has guns, knives, "death" etc.

No there's no blood and gore, but there's plenty of "violence" in WoW. Where do you draw the line?

Yuratuhl · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:04 pm

Been to Undercity? There's blood and gore everywhere, it's just cartoon blood and gore.

And Grimm's picture, while unrelated to the discussion, does have something to do with the title of this thread.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:08 pm

Jubbergun wrote:

It's so funny that the 'rule' "doesn't apply" when it involves a medium to which you're attached. If you think a literary description of something terrible doesn't reach the same level of emotional/visceral involvement as a game or a movie, you're obviously reading some terrible authors.

I also play Fallout, because they have great gameplay. And you're in no position to talk.

Jubbergun wrote:

...and not enough emphasis on the fact that, as a society, we now reward reprehensible behavior and mock virtuous behavior.

...and you refuse to see that is the inevitable result of capitalism - and that laws and governments exist to prevent such behavior. It has always been so.

Azelma wrote:

No there's no blood and gore, but there's plenty of "violence" in WoW. Where do you draw the line?

Realistic depiction of human violence, and also thuggish behavior. We should return to the Filmmakers' Code, which existed for the very reason that the media decided to regulate itself because they knew if they didn't, the government would have to do it for them. (Obviously, the overtly racist elements of the code are obsolete).

Kayllaira · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:03 pm

On the topic of the shooting, what do you all think of the really suspicious inconsistencies? I listened to all 2 hours of the police scanner during and after the shooting. There were some crazy inconsistencies. Talks of 2-3 shooters, a suspect being "proned out" in front of the school while another was apprehended in the woods, both handcuffed, with witnesses corroborating. They found the rifle in the trunk of the guy's car, but the medical examiner said the rifle was used on all of the victims. List goes on. I am not sure what type of site this is as I don't really care, but it goes into depth of a lot of the inconsistencies (most of which I personally noticed throughout the day during the shooting last week)

http://www.sott.net/article/254873-Sand ... of-control

And the parents of the kids being interviewed all seem like actors. I am trying to assume the best and just figure that the parents are not up to speaking, and give actors something to say for the cameras, but it's really weird. @_@

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