3,942 Forum Posts by "D2Kvirus"
Brief check, should the UK be celebrating being the highest-placed non-superpower in the medals table?
And fuck Phelps, Usain Bolt should be Supreme Overlord of the Earth.
At 8/24/08 09:01 PM, TheMason wrote: 1) Neither the Constitution nor the Second Amendment was written 300 years ago.
It was merely written three centuries ago. Either way, how is it relevant to life in 2008?
Come on, in the 18th Century, it was illegal to swear in England under the Profane Swearing Act of 1694, followed by the Profane Oaths Act of 1745, punishible with a fine. Are these still clung to with the paranoid vigour we see from the pro-gun lobby? Of course not. Why? Because that mentality belongs in the 18th century, along with many other outdated notions.
At 8/23/08 03:26 PM, Jon-86 wrote: You can argue that now parental controls have been built into the next gen consoles. Politicians would fall flat on heir face with this argument about games. Now parents have no excuse, they now have the lazy option of setting an age limit and any games above this limit the console wont play
The other age-old argument is that the age rating isn't clear. OK, is that why there's a BBFC 18-rating on the likes of GTA, Manhunt, Silent Hill 4, the Hitman games, Yakuza (or a BBFC 15-rating on Resident Evil 1-4, Canis Canem Edit/Bully, Silent Hill 1-3) - are we supposed to believe that those are marks out of ten?!? Let's face it, a parent wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) be buying their kids films with those ratings, but they are aware of them - albeit there was a time where the 12 -certificate didn't apply to home release, so some films became PG and the likes of Batman became 15, which fudged that issue whilst telling us all we need to know about those who dictate ratings.
Of course, Bully is the yardstick for ignorance from politicians - the game had to change its name to Canis Canem Edit after it was widely condemned as soon as the game was announced as either a bullying simulator, or even a Columbine simulator in the Daily Mail, despite the game being almost a year from release. And, this year when it came to the 360 with the title reverted to Bully, they repeated the stories even though they surely knew they were wildly innacurate by this point.
The other issue is the attitude of sales staff. I know for a fact that Blockbuster cannot issue membership cards until the 18th birthday of their customers, and get the sack if they do so. I know that a lot of stores ask for ID when it comes to DVDs - not all of them, as stores like CE are lax in this respect, but then again they receive stolen mobile phones at a rate of knots - but when it comes to games they slack off. Certainly GAME (the UK wing of EB Games) staff are as clueless as the politicians, or at least as responsible as the most negligent parent. If they don't sell the game outright, they certainly don't pick up on kids badgering people to buy the games for them - in Virgin or HMV, the staff would be sacked and facing potential prosecution for this.
Yes, you can blame parenting as it seem to break down into two main categories, at least the ones that I notice, around here: completely ignore your kid even if it's wreaking havoc, or to bellow abuse at it for the mildest infraction to the parents' supposed absolute authority. So, whilst the former type of parenting may get the blame for the reliance on video games, the latter is more likely to be the breedingground for ASBOs or potential serial killers.
Of course, perhaps if Rockstar weren't so keen to push the buttons of the reactionary media there might be a bit more breathing space, but then again as we learned from Street Fighter II/Moartal Kombat, Doom or whichever other game is on top and happens to be a tad violent, it'll get fitted up as a potential society destroyer.
It's an easy bandwagon.
As I mentioned in another topic, some politician was kicking off about MadWORLD on the Wii saying it was a travesty that it would be coming out on the family-friendly Wii (home to Resident Evil 4 and Manhunt 2 already), and that the console should have parental controls (which it does).
The problem is, they always prove their ignorance about the subject, or say that all-negating phrase: "It sounds distasteful." Or, to put it another way, they're proving they're easily led by fearmongering in the press and media, and have no first-hand knowledge of the subject yet are using their influence to score some cheap and easy points with the cheap and easily pleased members of the electorate.
At 8/22/08 08:55 AM, Kasualty wrote: I think if all the former English colonies joined into one giant country we could control the world.
Not really, considering it'd be a pain in the ass to try and manage India, Jamaica and Australia at the same time. For a start, try divvying up resources and materials to supply all of them.
At 8/17/08 12:20 PM, bobomajo wrote:At 8/17/08 10:18 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: My local library banned NG, so...blame Tricky the Clown.Its hypocritical of me, but I can see some justification as to why they would. Since everyone can use it, they would not want people wasting their time on public recourses when someone else could be using the computer more productively. Also its a public place so any kid could see what your accessing, so its reasonable to block out some things. If its a public place where your not discriminating any age group then you need to try keep things "family friendly" so to speak.
The thing is, their censorship is so bizarre.
For example, for a long time Livejournal was blocked off, but Myspace and Facebook weren't. Dailymotion is blocked off, but Youtube isn't. Heck, a lot of adult dating sites aren't blocked off, and they're bordering on pornography. Other sites are randomly classified as pornography or betting sites when they aren't - albeit you can go on the Ladbrooks site and waste your money freely.
At 8/17/08 12:53 AM, freddorfman wrote: russia is not digging a hole its blowing a crater in georgia
What he said.
At 8/16/08 01:56 PM, zoolrule wrote: It's because the 2nd result in the search is the site JewWatch, yes we are in the 21th century.
You know, JeWatch is a catchier name.
And am I alone in expecting it to be a site listing numerous pro-Zionist rhetoric from Capitol Hill or the news media?
My local library banned NG, so...blame Tricky the Clown.
One story you won't have seen on Fox News: after winning gold in the 400m breaststroke, Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima stated what helped him get into the right frame of mind for competing was...Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on the Wii. And, no, he didn't believe his rivals were a giant ape, a dinosaur, or a walking toadstool.
What we got, meanwhile, were some MPs whinging about MadWORLD being unsuitable for the family friendly Wii (already home to Resident Evil 4 and Manhunt 2), and saying there should be things like an easy to follow ratings system (there is one) or the Wii should have a parental lock (it does).
You dread to think what they'll come up with when they have to debate actual issues...
You can't say "corrupt" on the BBC message boards - that sort of makes things a tad difficult when it comes to describing the average Premiership referee in a Man Utd match...
At 8/10/08 12:18 PM, ForkRobotik wrote:At 8/10/08 08:46 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: Paris Hilton: the human embodiment of why America is so hated around the world. Discuss.Well i'm not american and i don't feel that way whatsoever, nor does anyone i know. Why would americans believe this? If you said bush or rumsfeld or cheney or something, it would make alot more sense.
Bush, Rumsfeld anbd Cheney at least do something - Paris is famous for being famous, and never has to work a day in her life yet does so because she wants more fame, mor emoney and more attention.
Sounds like a terrorist recruitment leaflet right there.
I correlate it with teams flooding events. China has over 600, the US has almost 600, Russia, Australia and Germany have over 400, Japan, Britain, France and Italy have over 300 - it's no wonder they rank higher in the medals table as they can enter numerous competitors in each event (not counting team events, be it relay, football, basketball or whatever).
With that under consideration, Argentina, Canada and the Ukraine are woefully underperforming, whilst South Korea are punching above their weight.
Another way to look at it would be to note Spain and Sweden, who should have a few more medals, are floating around the low teens to mid 20s, whilst Azerbaijan are 14th overall - and are majorly punching above their weight as their team is dwarfed by either of the aforementioned ones. Georgia, too, are punching above their weight as their team is 10% the size of Britains, but lies in 10th - ahead of Britain right now.
Catching this morning's road race, they really needed umbrellas because it was absolutly pissing with rain...
At 8/9/08 08:48 PM, stafffighter wrote:
So what are everyone's Olympic bets? My money is on BVelgium in fencing. I don't know if they still fence. I don't know if Belgium has a fencing team. But I want the Belgiun fencer to win
Nobody to realise that, by saying that China are politicising the Olympics no matter how many times they deny it, the rest of the world are those politicising the Olympics.
Also, after having a boxer sent home for being too fat, the next British athlete sent home will be because he either kept farting on the starting blocks, or because they were listening to their iPod whilst loudly chewing gum and missed the starter pistol.
Still, who woulda thunk that the first athlete sent home for failing a drugs test would be Greek?
Paris Hilton: the human embodiment of why America is so hated around the world. Discuss.
At 8/9/08 02:15 PM, Snayke wrote: It's not political only if you are an ally of the US. Like no city who hosts the Olympics tries to impress the world.
I remember Atlanta, and they awere sure trying to prove otherwise...
Jack Thompson - filling the void left when Bob Dornan retired from politics.
Anyone else tired of these accusations that the Chinese are politicising the Olympics? Surely by constant accusations of this, it's actually being politicised by everyone else.
Anyway, highlights thus far:
* Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea getting cheered during the parade of the athletes, with Dubyuh sat right there.
* Brunei Darasalam being disqualified as they didn't get the paperwork submitted in time for their two athletes. So much for the Olympic spirit, eh?
* The Marshall Islands' clothing during the aforementioned parade - dude, headhunters!!!
* The Czech Republic winninhg the first Gold medal. Hey, that instantly unpoliticises things just a tad.
* The first athlete sent home for failing a drugs test being Greek. A bit of an embarassment.
* British humiliation starting earlier than expected, and being that bit more pathetic: Frankie Gavin was sent home for not making weight for the 60kg boxing (or, to put it another way, being a fat bastard). This is the same Frankie Gavin who stated he'd made weight before leaving for Beijing, so he was either lying or deluded.
At 8/8/08 09:33 PM, AapoJoki wrote: Oh, can't you see how obvious it is? USA has never simply done anything wrong, ever. There are no actual facts that could possibly show USA in a negative light, none whatsoever.
The existence of Paris Hilton - although I'm starting to believe she's actually an al-Qu'eda operative following instructions to make America even more hated. It makes sense...
At 8/6/08 11:32 AM, BennyBaller wrote: every time you watch a page on newground some black/asian kid in canada or the usa kills a school
Luckily, nobody in it.
Anyway, update on GTA Thailand - it turns out the kid didn't even have the game. I'd love to hear Jackie Boy Thompson try and spin it so not owning or playing GTA IV makes you a potential murderer...
At 8/6/08 12:34 AM, Chavic wrote:
1st Claim: French food is superior to your american fatty foods.
Sorry buddy, but you frenchies suck down McDonald's just like everyone else. Overly ornate and foul tasting food from france just sucks. I prefer an 18oz Prime Rib made from 100% USDA beef.
You haven't disproven that American food is superior to French food, only noted that French people eat McDonalds.
2nd Claim: Unlike France, you've never won the FIFA World Cup! Our players aren't drugged athletes like Lance Armstrong.
I like how you chose one of the least popular sports in America to compare you country to. Let's take a wider view, such as the 2004 Olympics. America led the way, winning 102 medals, 36 of which were GOLD. france won only 33 medals total.
Moving on to Lance Armstrong. The Tour de France tests the blood of all participants so none can use performance enhancing drugs. Lance won a record-breaking SEVEN times in a row because he was just better than his french competitors.
Football is, to all intents and purposes, the world's premier sport.
As for the Tour de France, why are you making it USA vs. France - the premier cyclists are most often Spanish (the last three winners being Carlos Sastre, Alberto Contador and Oscar Pereiro). But, if you do want to make it USA vs. France, here's the statistics:
USA: 10 wins (Lance Armstrong 7, Greg LeMord 3)
France: 36 wins.
The US are fourth overall, behind France, Belgium and Spain. One word for you: Belgium.
3rd Claim: France is the oldest nation on earth. america is like 250 years old! RESPECT YOUR ELDERS DAMMIT!
France is much older and yet it GDP is comparable to the US state of California. Why doesn't your head start help you out there? Your 6th place in GDP rankings, while the United States is (surprise) #1
How does GDP compare to age? France has a lot more history, and you can't argue with that.
4th Claim: France invented perfume
Wrong again. Perfume has been used as far back as the Egyptian Empire and probably before.
Even so, the Americans were not involved in the further refinement of perfume, which the French were.
5th Claim: america claims to be the home of liberty, yet who gave you the freaking Statue of Liberty?!
Yeah, a french artist gave us the Statue of Liberty. And America Liberated France from German occupation in WW1 and WW2. There some Liberty for you.
I belive your answer should read "Yes, the French gave us the Statue of Liberty." And who fought alongside the Americans in the War of Independence? You needed the French then, didn't you?
6th Claim: Let's see how much the Almighty God, in who you "trust in" so much, likes you! You get tornadoes, tropical storms, hurricanes, Tom Cruise, volcanoes, and earthquakes, etc.
America is more than 14 times the size of France and so is exposed to more natural disasters. The God we Trust sure backed us when we saved France on several occasions (see above), which apparently has gone unappreciated. Good luck when you need you next rescue!
Greece and Japan are both much smaller than the US, yet are equally (if not moreso) exposed to earthquakes.
7th Claim: Let's compare your medicare to our medicare! Hey wait a minute!! YOU PRETTY MUCH DON'T HAVE ANY!
france does have one of the best health care systems around, but... france, as all EU countries, is under an EU directive to reduce sewage discharge to sensitive areas. As of 2006, france is only 40% in compliance with this directive, placing it as one of the lowest achieving countries within the EU with regard to this wastewater treatment standard.
Economically or Militarily you don't even begin to compare.
What does military have to do with healthcare?
And, sorry, you mean to say that France has better healthcare than the US. Sewage has nothing to do with that either, as that's sanitation. Different government departments.
8th Claim: america sucks, you have to wait until 21 to be able to buy a freaking beer...
This claim doesn't really make sense. So its good that little kids can buy cigarettes and alcohol? Before there at an age where they can make informed and reasonable decisions. Actually that sounds terrible.
Kids can buy cigarettes and firearms before they can buy beer. That is apparently not a completely fucked rationality: discuss.
18 is an age where you can make informed and rational opinions, is it not? Afterall, you can be tried for murder in France and the US at that age, so therefore what will 3 extra years really teach you?
9th Claim: This.
Yet again you are wrong. The Myth of Thin French Women
As someone who was in Cannes this year can attest, there was one place to find fat women: walk away from the French accent, and towards the British one.
10th Claim: This was unreadable BS so I have replaced it. As you can see America is better. My claim is backed by fact and not a desperate rant. Sorry, but I win.
You had no response, you say?
Thank God you're American, there's a large body of water between me and you (at the very least).
Due to starting off with "he's a faggot", I now propose that only Tongolese should contribute to this topic, as they have a much clearer view than you evidently have.
GTA IV has been banned in Thailand after a kid caught a cab, then shot the driver.
The police say that it's the game's fault, as they did thorough checks and he doesn't show any mental problems. That the kid said he "wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game" implies that he's probably not all there, actuellment.
Am I alone in seeing a potential black market of adoption going on here? For example, whilst some countries have 2.0 or 2.1 avergaes, like SPain, India and the UK, the US is 2.59 whilst Thailand and Guatemala ar ecloser to 3.
So, how long before children are shipped off to families that can't conceive for a tidy profit or, equally possible, places like Bangladesh or Singapore where the average is below 1.5 start to have a lot of children dumped there in order to massage the figures?
At 7/27/08 12:37 PM, CousinIt wrote: The guy who said he wanted to kill someone was a fucking maniac,the game did not make him this way.
The news anchor saying she wad "disturbed" by it.
Yeah,thats fucking bullshit,she is a liar...she is only saying that because people would think less of her if she was in favour of the game.
I'm always amused by the way they try and make out there's a sliding scale of corruption - the classic one being that Person A watched Film X ten times before going on a killing spree (for example, Nathan Martinez/Natural Born Killers, and Cho Seung-hui/Oldboy).
So, to use this logic in the logical manner, Martinez was perfectly sane before watching NBK, got progressivly madder as he watched it more times...and, by the way, at which viewing did he decid eto buy a gun?
And, if after viewing seven or eight he decided to buy a gun, is this because the NRA have subliminal messages embedded in all videotapes that are only accessible once you watch the film end-to-end seven times, encouraging the viewer to purchase a firearm at the next opportunity?
If you don't want your children to see and play these games,then DON'T let them!
Newgrounds has a rating system and everything,be a responsible fucking parent and monitor what they are doing online,don't fucking bitch and cry when they find something you don't like either.
The amount of kids asking people to buy them GTA IV is both scary and irritating - mainly as there's always somebody who'll do it. I had that in work before when some guy was the fence for a couple of 12-13 year old kids and a copy of San Andreas (made annoyinger still by the fact the kids he bought the game for were both barred from our premeses), and gave the guy a verbal ear bashing for both of these, as well as fined him on the spot (or, to put it another way, gave myself an Unofficial Pay Raise). I've also had the kids downloading cheats for The Warriors and Vice City, another couple of 18-rated games, on previous occasions (and using the logic that cheats make games fun - fucking idiots). Then again, I've also had them telling my colleague to "fuck off" for kicking them out for being obnoxious little shits who thought it was funny to log every PC onto sluts.com - sort of showing thr level of maturity and assholishness of the type of people who want to play 18-rated games despite being far too young to do so.
At 7/27/08 08:54 AM, LammeCholo wrote:At 7/27/08 08:38 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: You mean to tell me that, by murdering Madeleine and hiding the body before making up a story they still can't get straight, the McCanns are saving the world?That's just a stupid comment.
If you don't have anything usefull to say than don't.
How? They had three kids, now they have two. Perhaps they can stop with the unconvincing victim act and move on to being forward-thinking saviours of the world.
At 7/1/08 07:16 PM, TheMason wrote:
In France the Army is going around shooting French civilians. Proving once again the first rule of French warfare: the French only win when they fight the French.
With the obvious exceptions being: The Romans, the Alamanni, the Visigoths, the Muslims, general barbarians, the Anglo-Saxons, the Seljuk Turks, the Fatimids, Saladin, the Germans (be it Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia or the Nazis), the English, the Flemish, the Venitians, the Swiss, the Spanish, the Austrians, the Mamelukes, the Egyptians, the Turks, the Russians, Algeria, the Chinese, Syria, Italy, Iraq and the Ivorians. Oh, and George Washington thought they could fight a bit, too, so asked for their help in the War of Independence.
That's a fine display of willful ignorance on your part.
At 7/27/08 02:42 AM, Villhelm47 wrote: Regardless of my opinion, every major, current source of gaming entertainment has some form of child prevention whether it is the consoles' parental controls or the many programs available for content-blocking on computers.
No they don't, Fox News says so. Instead, they emit psychosis rays that make your children become robotic murdering machines that could go off at any moment, and find it impossible to tell the real world from the one they play in.
For example, did you know one person played Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 then murdered their wife and child? No, wait, they didn't play it, they were in the game - surprising even low blow merchant Jack Thompson missed that one.
Can somebody PLEASE invent a new entertainment medium soon so gamers get a little peace and quiet? Comics, cinema, rock n' roll, VHS and the internet have basically been let off the hook because games are the current fad and, therefore, the current bandwagon to jump on, and they need a break!
