I hate it when they bring up stupid crap like this...
The ESRB ratings are fine as they are, its the parents fault if they dont preview a "M" game before they give it to their kids...even if they look at screenshots fotr this game they will know its violent...its then thier decision to buy the game or not...

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People like Hillary Clinton and Jack Thompson throw everything that involves video games out of propertions, they claim that video games cause people to act violently when in fact it suppresses their violent intentions, I find their campaign against video games absurd because it is simply a form of entertainment, if they see it violent then they should have a campaign against TV, but I am not suggesting that they should campaign against any media.

We certainly can expect a parent to know even better than the child what video games are acceptable. They may not know how to play them, but to suggest that a parent can't make an informed decision about the appropriateness of a video game without the ESRB's help is absurd. Sit down and play it with them! LEARN THE GAME! Family time, all that stuff that has been lost to the age of entertainment and micro-wave meals. If family was more common, then these problems would be less and less.

Also, playing a violent video game is not going to help you cope more. It's not the violent aspect that makes it help, it's the fact that you think it's fun. I think golfing is fun and that relaxes me and eases tension of the day. There's nothing violent (for the most part) about golf, it just helps you to forget when you're doing something you enjoy.

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"Hold on ma'am, the abortion is almost complete. I just have to count and make sure I got all the finger's and toes out of there."

RAPE is not a good reason to MURDER an innocent being.

Attacking video games is just a way for politicians to try to get "on the parents' side" without doing too much thinking.

This kind of thing won't last long though as our video game generation grows up. It just gets our grandparents generation all up in a tizzy because they don't know anything about video games (for the most part) and have no interest in learning. There has, as far as studies show, not been any link between video games and real life violence (other than tricking 18 year old boys into joining the military by letting them play free online FPSs where they shoot the bad guys and respawn when they die... just like in real life!). So it's just a quick way for politicians to try to get the parents' vote. That's all.

And yes... Manhunt2 is a fucked up game.

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Hillary Clinton is wondering why she isn't getting ahead of Obama is because the video game voters have a hatred towards Hillary, I just hope she won't get elected because she will probably pass bills that will ban video games that are violent.

Even if she did manage to get that to work it wouldn't last long. My generation has grown up on video games and as we get older we would throw that isht out.

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Hillary's problems have nothing to do with video games. As far as I can tell she has not even brought the issue up upon starting her campaign. I she did though it would hurt her, but probably not by that much. Either way getting elected would not necessarily mean she would pass such a law. That would lead to disaster I can only imagine it.

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