I actually saw one of the atheist buses a few days ago. And I mean one. There really weren't many of them used, which is interesting considering the HUNDREDS OF COMPLAINTS

I also saw George Orwell's house. Kickass. Also went to the antique market and they were selling gasmasks. My mum asked me why I would want one. :/

Anyway, we were watching The 51st State/Formula 51 and there's a few scenes where the protagonists are fighting neo-Nazis. My mum said something about 'fucking skinheads, they're all white supremists (sic)' I replied 'Mum, not all skinheads are racists'. But of course she was like 'NO, that's what they're like darling'. Fuck. I've long stopped bothering to correct her countless mistakes, but it's just stupid now. She's also of the belief that children in Germany aren't taught about the Holocaust and that they believe it was justified, what the fuck?

Anyway, saying that all skinheads are white supremacists is like saying that all metalheads are Satanists. With some differences. Although a long time ago many skinheads were indeed 'white nationalists' (neo-Nazis will never call themselves racists or neo-Nazis. They'll always say 'white nationalists' or 'National Socialists') especially after the war, there were, even then a large proportion of the skin culture opposed to them. 'Skin' has nothing to do with political leanings, it's a whole culture, much like, say, goth. It has a style of dress, which you'd probably know of, and usually skins listen to punk or rock. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I feel sorry for the 'real' skinheads, because the racists give the rest of them a bad name.

There was a poll on MSNBC the other day along the lines of 'Should Wikipedia ban users from edited or creating pages?' What? That's the entire point of a wiki!

more stuff later

Holiday Update

I'm posting now from the house I'm staying in in London for a quick update. The Emirates were fantastic, and I hope to make a detailed post soon. I was also thinking of starting up another blog for holiday posts, but this will do for now.

Regarding London, first impressions were terrible. The airport staff were unfriendly and glum. The airport itself wasn't flash, and was really quite drab. We flew over on Emirates so we had a brilliant flight, though. However, apart from the bobbies at the airport, most people are actually quite nice in this country. The architecture is fantastic, and although the weather is quite cold, you'll be fine wearing a few extra layers of clothing and covering up. We visited good old Doc Martens, and there was an actual, real life British skinhead in there. I feel kinda sorry for the genuine skinheads because they have to put up with the stupid neo-Nazis giving them a bad name. This guy was pretty cool until he opened his mouth, after which he seemed a bit drunk. Might have just been the Cockney accent though. He talked to the shopkeep for a bit before vanishing just as quickly as he had arrived. Really weird.

I kinda have to post regarding the PC and CCTV everyone talks about in this country. It's true that CCTV is everywhere. There are notices around, especially on the Underground, about reporting suspicious activity, the police are watching to make the city a better place, bla bla. Cameras are quite sinister, especially since many of them in the Underground, and Overground, as well as a few rooftops, loudspeakers and etc. are covered in barbed wire for some reason. I originally figured it was to stop folks pulling them down, but I really have no idea now.

Two days in the UK and I'm already talking like one! :/

Well, at least they aren't calling it 'propaganda' anymore.

Update on the atheist buses campaign. Yep, it's been banned.

I was going to type out the whole article from the newspaper until I discovered the entire thing had been plagiarised from The Telegraph, without credit given. So here's the link.

Okay, I still wonder why these are "offensive and broach standards on taste and decency". They even had to put in the word 'probably' to pass guidelines! Why is it that flat-out proselytising is allowed, but the mere suggestion of secularism is enough to be considered a hate crime?

He said: "If you're going to put out what appears to be a factual statement then you have to be able to back it up. They've got to substantiate this proposition that in all probability, God doesn't exist."

There is plenty of goddamn proof to explain things that religion did before. There's no need to PROVE the existence of something that there's no evidence for the existence of. Stupid religious nuts are always going to argue for existence even though it can never be proven, and never be completely disproven. I thought Britain was pretty fine with atheism, but it appears not.

Members of the public donated £140,000 to the Atheist Bus Campaign after its founder, the writer Ariane Sherine, suggested there should be an antidote to religious posters on public transport that "threaten eternal damnation" to non-believers.

Some supporters of the movement, which has now paid for 800 bendy-buses across Britain to carry the posters for a month as well as placing 1,000 adverts on Tube trains, had wanted a stronger slogan that denied God's existence categorically. But the word "probably" was included in order to meet ASA rules.

See, these people supported it, but now they're trying to ban it because a few people complained.
Apparently hundreds of religious groups complained in the US, which is sorta understandable. We're never going to get equal rights, ever.


Related link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/4159715/Atheist-bus-Sleep-in-on-Sunday-morning-adverts-banned.html

More stupid legislation from Amerikkka

I was going to make a post about Metropolis, which I saw the day before yesterday and absolutely adored, but something has come up and I believe it's my duty to complain about it. I might even put up a video on YouTube to reach a bigger audience, because the public need to know.

The press release in question is here. A discussion is currently on /v/ so folks may want to go there to catch up, it is a great discussion.

So once again the folks in the US have no idea what they are doing, and blame everything on new media. People have said this about books, videos, music, and whatever the newest thing to come out is. Vidya have been persecuted unfairly for some time, and it's absolute bullshit.

Firstly, someone on /v/ said that it's mainly because vidya are interactive, in which case we should ban drama classes.

I don't even need to bother saying why this is stupid.

Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:20 No.25615342

Rock Band is rated T...

Why don't we have health warnings on DVD's, before our TV shows, on books, etc.?

>> Dudeman, Ruiner of Jokes !/Y6ILVBPgs 01/12/09(Mon)18:24 No.25615453

>>25615342
Oh look, a fool that didn't do his research...

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:28 No.25615597

>>25615342
>Why don't we have health warnings on DVD's, before our TV shows, on books, etc.?

You just might be the stupidest human being on this board at the moment.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:31 No.25615693

rep. BAKA

xD;

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:33 No.25615783

>>25615597
>stupidest

irony

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:33 No.25615790

HOLY SHIT BEING EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE DESENSITIZES ME TO VIOLENCE!?!!?

STOP THE PRESSES!!

Oh wait, any fucking rational human being can differentiate between a game/book/movie and real life.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:34 No.25615815

>baka

XD

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:39 No.25616021

>>25615783

Video games are interactive. Books and movies are not.

Sage because samefag is going to try to create a shitstorm when no one really gives a shit.

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)18:40 No.25616050

>>25615790
>rational human being

America's not exactly filled with.. Rational types.

Personally, Violent Videogames make me feel good on the inside.
They keep down those little urges.
You know the urges you get when you hear that whining kid at the movies.
When the soon to be mother in law wont shut the fuck up...?
When you see that bastard holding up the line because he can't fucking read?
You know, the urge to reach into your pocket , pull out your pocket knife and grab the idiot by his hair. Throw him down to the ground, sit on his chest and play connect the dots with his face?

But no, if I do that I have to accept responsibility.

Videogames don't need warning labels.
PEOPLE NEED WARNING LABELS FOR THEIR OWN SAKE
It's called RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN FUCKING ACTIONS.

People LOVE to blame OTHER people for their own faults and videogames have never been any exception.

If parents these days actually , you know did PARENTING rather than letting a digital device raise their kids this kind of shit would'nt be as widespread.

Oh it would still exist, it will always exist.
/rage

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:40 No.25616079

LOLZ REP CHIRST FAGS ARE PUTTING JESUS INTO CONGRESS lulz atheis is bests

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:41 No.25616121

If you think this will actually get through the legislative branch AND get approved by the attorney general, you're a moron.


>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:43 No.25616197

>>25616079
He's a Democrat.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:44 No.25616225

>>25616050
>
You know, the urge to reach into your pocket , pull out your pocket knife and grab the idiot by his hair. Throw him down to the ground, sit on his chest and play connect the dots with his face?


this happened on a daily basis before videogames, right?

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:46 No.25616302

Let's just start a revolution by abolishing the two party system,Beheading the Religious nuts and the soccer moms,blow up the fcc,esrb,riaa,and the churches,and then declare independence from western civilization?

>> SPEED OF SOUND !nlpEz43Gh2 01/12/09(Mon)18:46 No.25616308

it's just a label

jesus christ, chill people

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:48 No.25616369

Maybe this will cause less 12 year olds to be fucking up online on some games, if even 1 mother goes "oh, this sounds bad, I won't buy this for my underage son" there is one less 12 year old annoying everyone online.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:48 No.25616385

>>25615597
No, I think you take the cake.
OP has a point, if the problem is massive amounts of violence (or at least they think it is) in entertainment, why don't books carry the same label?
Chapter 5-Winter of Yukio Mishima's "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea" describes a more violent act than I've ever seen in a vidya game. And I was fucked up beyond belief after reading it back then (young kid, and my parents made me read literature).
Classic literature and school curriculum books are more violent than most video games, but as kids we are forced to read them. Ironically, if we were to write anything vaguely similar, no matter how good it was, we would have been sent to the counseling office and suspended.
inb4 LOL U R CHRISTFAG TRYING TO BAN BOOKS.
I just don't like the double standard.

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)18:48 No.25616401

>>25616225

Yes. It's called shopping at the smallest Gamestop ever built with 3 people breathing down your neck and some fucker who can't seem to read a promotional flyer or understand anything the cashier says holding up a line that was already 40 minutes long.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:49 No.25616431

>>25615342

Because video games are a new media. The old fossils in Congress have never played them, and know that the majority of the constituents (the elderly) have never played games, and so they're a convenient excuse for violence in society when the real culprits are the sad state of the economy being left to the current generations by the boomers, and the refusal of the boomer generation to retire and allow the younger generations to take over well paid positions. Leaving millions of americans trapped in low paying purposeless jobs with no prospect of any sort of advancement.

>> Dudeman, Ruiner of Jokes !/Y6ILVBPgs 01/12/09(Mon)18:49 No.25616456

>>25616308
It's not the action, it's the idea behind the action that provides most of the effect.

>> Mean Bob !DYeHsbL3jU 01/12/09(Mon)18:50 No.25616471

I don't really care, what worries me is our lawmakers do

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:50 No.25616477

>>25616302
what do you think?

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:50 No.25616503

Video games are just a scape goat for shitty parenting. 'BAWWW IT'S NOT LIKE MOVIES AND BOOKS BECAUSE YOU'RE TAKING PART IN IT'. Fine, cunts, lets ban paint balling and drama lessons in school as well then. OH WAIT.

I'm seriously shocked by how many people (including my friends) feed off this bullshit from the media. Their stupidity is almost sickening. One of my friends who's strongly opposed to video games because of violence was once suspended from school for beating up a child, meanwhile I've gone through life playing them and I refuse to even hurt a fly.

>> Imrinfected !!toD3+hC9ws/ 01/12/09(Mon)18:55 No.25616694

Why can't they just leave video games alone?

It's like this country is run by bat shit evangelical Republican Christians. OH WAIT, IT IS!

I hope Obama will save us. :/

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)18:57 No.25616781

One more thing.

Slapping a NO KIDS ALLOWED sticker on anything is just inviting Kids to want it more.

I forgot what it's called, but it's a theory that sounds like
"The more you a tell a person they can't have it, the more they want it."


Now , imagine current gaming under this rule.

Think too may little kids are in your games now?

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:57 No.25616798

We're in a recession BUT FUCK IT LETS CLOG LEGISLATION WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AGAINST DEM GAWT DANG VIDYA GEAMS

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:57 No.25616822

>>25616781
>I forgot what it's called

Forbidden Fruit.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:58 No.25616826

>>25616694
Both parties are to blame. Hillary Clinton anyone?

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)18:59 No.25616902

>It's like this country is run by bat shit evangelical Republican Christians. OH WAIT, IT IS!

I believe someone pointed out that this guy is a Democrat (from California, no less). Plus, Hill-dawg and her Democrat friends.

>I hope Obama will save us. :/

Have fun waiting around for the HYPOSTATIC UNION.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:00 No.25616930

>>25616781
It's true. Reverse psychology does work.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:00 No.25616940

>>25616401
You don't seem to get what I was trying to say.

Let me rephrase that post.

"Yeah people regularly stabbed eachother over trivial things like kids being loud in movie theaters back in the 1950's before videogames existed, right?"

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:05 No.25617139

>>25616694
>Why can't they just leave video games alone?
>Why can't they just leave rock and roll alone?
>Why can't they just leave comic books alone?
>Why can't they just leave movies alone?
>Why can't they just leave witchcraft alone?

This has been repeating itself since the dawn of the United States. The generation in control is terrified of any new form of media that comes out and that media is condemned and villainized until the old generation moves out of the way and the younger generation takes over. New shit our parents did as kids were blamed for things, new shit we do are blamed for things by our parents, and if you think we won't do the exact same thing to whatever comes out during our kids' childhood then you're deluded.

The thing we should be ding is trying to educate those in power about our hobby, not say stupid shit like "OMG LETZ BLOW UP CONGRESS AND KILL DOSE DUM FUCKERZ DATLL SHOW EM LMAO!!" because they'll see that and stereotyp all of us into that drooling sect of idiots.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:05 No.25617143

>"Yeah people regularly stabbed eachother over trivial things like kids being loud in movie theaters back in the 1950's before videogames existed, right?"

Correlation does not imply causation.

By that logic, violent crimes have gone down since the 80s -- HEY VIDYA BECAME POPULAR STARTING THEN HURF DURF (cf. Freakonomics).

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)19:05 No.25617149

>>25616940
Back in the 1950s, we had racism.
Different times, different reasons and ways people handle things.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:08 No.25617270

>>25617143

Early 90s, as it turns out. Now that I think of it, Freakonomics was talking about homicides or something.

Point being, stupid argument.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:09 No.25617319

This is the kind of important legislation we can expect from our new Democratic overlords.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:10 No.25617346

The democrats have been trying to attract the evangelicals by attacking devil music and games for twenty years now. Unfortunately they also count on the feminist vote so they'll probably never get the evangelical block thanks to abortion.

>> Noblesse Oblige !w1OqvVniJE 01/12/09(Mon)19:12 No.25617457

>>25617149
Well, racism still exists. Not as widespread as it was, but it still exists.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:14 No.25617529
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>>25616694


>I hope Obama will save us

I hope someone will save us from Obama.
He going to magically create more jobs and money by using tactics that result in a tremendous loss of money and jobs.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:15 No.25617573

If a health warning is put on video game boxes, no one will be ever be able to effectively bitch about violent video games. Isn't that a good thing?

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:16 No.25617652

>>25617529

Sounds better than the other choice.

>> Dudeman, Ruiner of Jokes !/Y6ILVBPgs 01/12/09(Mon)19:18 No.25617711
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It's exactly like this, except it correlates inversely and this guy hasn't done his research.

Even if this isn't caused by violent games, there still should have been SOMETHING increasing those numbers if it was causing violent crimes instead of preventing them.

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)19:18 No.25617758

>>25617573
They put health warnings on cigarettes and people still bitch about them and they passed laws limiting where you can fucking smoke in NYC.
You can't smoke in the park.
You can't smoke in apartment buildings( upper area ones)
You can't smoke in bars.
You can't smoke in resturants.
Then they ran taxes up on them. It's also illegal (in this fucking state. Thanks Hillary. Thanks Bloomberg) to order them online and people caught smuggling them in suffer Tax Evasion charges.

Sounds like complete and utter bullshit to anybody who doesn't live in the City.

Now to shit bricks.
If they start doing this to videogames.

btw They're already proposing a "fat tax" in NYC for junk food and videogames.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:21 No.25617875

>>25617758

Cigarettes harm OTHER people too, genius.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:22 No.25617887

>>25617758
Cigarettes were banned in places because of the risk of people setting shit on fire with them, not because of their health effects.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:26 No.25618049

>>25617758
Cigs are like fucking 6 bucks a pack in Michigan...
and with our economy, that means a hell of a lot.

>> B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)19:29 No.25618174

>>25618049
cheap cigs 7. 99 a pack here
decent ones 8.95


I stopped smoking when it started cutting into my game money more than gasoline and food.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:32 No.25618328
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WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.

Lol, this seems to imply that exposure to videogames can be linked to aggressive behavior, but this is simply not true!

>> Noblesse Oblige !w1OqvVniJE 01/12/09(Mon)19:35 No.25618452

>>25618174
Wow, fuck. Newports are less than 4 bucks a pack here, still.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:36 No.25618546

>>25616197
Conservatives really have no party affiliation. Look at Zell Miller.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:38 No.25618613

>>25618328
>In 1993,Nintendo released an enhanced SNES compilation titled Super Mario All-Stars.
>1993:1,100,100
Oh shi

>> Noblesse Oblige !w1OqvVniJE 01/12/09(Mon)19:41 No.25618760

I don't have a problem with the health label thing. But presenting it under false pretenses? Bastards.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)19:49 No.25619142
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SILLY BACA XD

At least this isn't as bad as the fucks in Germany trying to make virtual murder a crime on-par with real murder.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)20:06 No.25619971

Great news op then maybe we could use the money from higher taxes to buy everyone in congress a new boat!

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)20:22 No.25620642

>>25619142
Dude... wait what?
Virtual murder? How do you even commit "virtual murder"? The only thing I can think about is PKing someone in an MMO.
Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)20:23 No.25620708

I'm raging right now.
This kind of crap hasn't worked for nearly a decade, why would it start working now?
B. Demented !!AjYvQaW7p7z 01/12/09(Mon)20:32 No.25621042

>>25620642

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242008/news/worldnews/hacked_to_death_135045.htm
FROM A REAL
LEGITIMATE NEWSPAPER

I have the actual article hanging up at work.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)20:54 No.25621904

This is retarded, and anyone supporting this is equally as stupid.

>> Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)20:56 No.25621987

>Why don't we have health warnings on DVD's, before our TV shows, on books, etc.?

Because if they put this on books, 90% of the wars humanity has engaged in would be chalked up to mental illness caused by books. It'd be true
Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)21:06 No.25622433

This thread once again shows that the people running the government have no clue what they are doing.
Anonymous 01/12/09(Mon)21:50 No.25624535

Because the older generation is fucking retarded.

It was the same with the generation preceeding them; they thought rock music, hippies and tv were damaging. When we run the world I'm sure those damn kids will have something that we consider to be a menace to society, like some sort of orgasm software that is connected to internet chatrooms...

Actually that doesn't sound bad at all

I'M BACK

So, after a hiatus I've returned to wreak havoc on the internet with my blog of glorious glory and few readers.

Let's start with a news thingy. Although I heard this discussion on the radio, here's an appropriate link anyway.
A court in NSW wants to make topless sunbathing illegal - only for women. What the fuck?
Radio discussion said that a group (Australian Sex Party, lawl) was going to file for discrimination if the bill went through. More discussion was - why are women's breasts considered more offensive than men's? Everyone was against it. Apparently the government's interests are completely different to the public's, even though they think they know what the public wants, they really don't.

Last night I attended a cousin's 21st birthday party. Since the air-conditioning in the hall was freezing (we were booked for a public hall) we went outside for a while, where it was much warmer and most of the adults were hanging around smoking. This girl saunters over to us from the street with shittily-streaked hair all messy and shit, tonnes of makeup and scantily-clad. Clearly a druggie.
"hey guys do you have a spare cigarette I really need one like please I need a spare cigarette could you give me one please"
"Uh..."
"PLEASE"
"How old are you?"
"...17"
"That's underage you know, like..."
"please give me a cigarette"
So anyway the girl gets a cigarette and she's like '...thanks' and walks off, followed by some rapper wannabes who appeared out of nowhere and some yobbos driving past going 'yo, let's go!'


Fuck, that poor girl wasted her life. She's my age and already addicted to nicotine and who knows what else...


also at same birthday party I discovered and met my two German cousins who I didn't even know existed, what's the chance of that