Florida judge won't ban "Bully" video game

[azathoth777]

A Florida state judge won't ban a forthcoming video game called "Bully" after all.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Friedman has reviewed a copy of the game, as we previously reported, but did not agree with lawyer and anti-video game activist Jack Thompson that it should be outlawed. "Bully" is set in a fictional high school called Bullsworth Academy and is being published by Take-Two Interactive Software.

"There's a lot of violence," Friedman said, according to the BBC. "A whole lot. Less than we see on television every night."

Of course, a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings makes the level of violence irrelevant. The legal doctrine's called prior restraint: even if someone finds a book, magazine, movie, or video game offensive, that doesn't mean they can stop its publication.
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:mad: Take that you violence hating bastard! :mad:

[Vodstok]

HAHA!

Screw those mccarthiest jackasses! Teehee!


Score one for the home team.

[Vodstok]

I am listening to Jim Norton's lines from this game.... Holy shit... I have to get this.....

[azathoth777]

Indeed, it looks real fun. Now I can be the bully! WEEEEEE!!!! No one is safe!!

[Kemal]

I heard the game actually has the player fighting back against bullies and protecting weaker kids.

[scaryminda15]

I think it will be kind of dumb but who knows until you play the game what will they come up with next.

Poor hamster. :(

[urgeok]

i know we cant protect society from itself all the time, but the concept is still pretty disturbing .. and yes it will have a negative impact on certain kids.

not everyone matures at the same rate - if ever - and there are a ton of idiot impressionable kids that will ape anything they see .. a game like this gives credibility - green lights - re-enforces their already fucked up impulses.

emotionally mature people can tell right from wrong and will just think the game is funny ... where the emotionally undeveloped - damaged goods will think it's cool in a very unsavory way.

its a slippery slope .

[Vodstok]

It will be rated MA without a doubt, and that places the responsibility on the parent's shoulders.

Ironically, the most immature entertainment is targetted at a "mature" audience.

[urgeok]

It will be rated MA without a doubt, and that places the responsibility on the parent's shoulders.

Ironically, the most immature entertainment is targetted at a "mature" audience.


thank god !! it'll never end up in the hands of a kid !

whew - thank goodness for that ! :rolleyes:

[Vodstok]

I know, I know, BUT, if we freak out about games, then there are tv, movies, alchohol, drugs, cigarettes, guns, knives, pipes, horses, pitbulls, angry cats, paper (it can cut).... etc...

"Social Responsibility" is kind of a myth. Sports figures and celebrities get shit all the time because the are looked up to by kids as role models, so if their behavior is bad, then kids will emulate it. True, but they have every right to be as screwed up and irresponsible as the rest of us.

I understand your concern, especially since everyone is now afraid that their kid is going to get mowed down in a hail of lead because some kid got his asskicked every day from 4th grade on, but the games have shit to do with it. As it has been said before, thousands of times, if the game is going to influence the kid, the kid wasnt wired right to begin with.

Hey, Ted Bundy tried to say porn caused him to murder women. Never mind he was maybe 5 or 6 when he snuck into his sister's room with a 10 inch knife and just stood there grinning at her until she woke up and started screaming. I'm sure that had everythign to do with him looking at penthouse 20 years later.

[azathoth777]

i know we cant protect society from itself all the time, but the concept is still pretty disturbing .. and yes it will have a negative impact on certain kids.

not everyone matures at the same rate - if ever - and there are a ton of idiot impressionable kids that will ape anything they see .. a game like this gives credibility - green lights - re-enforces their already fucked up impulses.

emotionally mature people can tell right from wrong and will just think the game is funny ... where the emotionally undeveloped - damaged goods will think it's cool in a very unsavory way.

its a slippery slope .

But banning things is also a slippery slop. First it's this, then violence on TV, then violence in movies. Where will it end? Unfortunatly violence in some form or another is a part of life.
And should eveyone suffer because of a few bad apples?