Germany is going to jail people for video game violence. Will they also send them off to reeducation camps?

Expect some loony legislator to attempt to do the same thing here.

What do you mean, "some" loony legislator? You weren't following McCain's activities.

I guess they finally ran out of things to blame on Beavis and Butthead...

If they pass a law like this in the US and make it retroactive, I will still be in prison when the sun expands to a red giant.

What?

And break their concentration?

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And break their concentration?

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And break their concentration?

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And break their concentration?

If fictional characters have rights, then Steven King is in deep organic fertilizer.

Some great images about the technological advancement of video games.

Virtual video game violence? Verboten!

Real soccer hooligan violence? Sehr gut!

Silly EUnuchs...

but actual cannibalism is only a misdemeanor

I remember this same thing when Dungeons & Dragons was at its peak. Some moron jumps off a building and he was "trying to cast a fly spell that he learned in the game." These individuals were unbalanced BEFORE they played games. Desensitivity because of violent video games isn't a complete pile of BS, like Global Warming. However, the extent to which people blame things on games is ridiculous. Probably Bush's fault anyway....

At first I was confused, I thought this was about making it a crime to commit unwarranted violence against a character in an internet based multiplayer game. Which may or may not have merit, by the way--people invest an incredible amount of time and money in these things these days, as hard as that is to believe. Should it be a crime to vandalize a football field, or would you say it's "just a game" and therefore not important? Sooner or later we'll have at least some legislation on such things.

But I see this is not such a story, it's just a return of the old "video games make people violent" nonsense. It comes in phases I guess, every half-dozen years or so there's a new push on that...

What kind of video games do you suppose Hitler played?

That is ridiculous Dean. There is absolutely no merit to the argument that violent video game behavior should ever be punished with real jail time. If another player can make me lose hundreds of hours of labor, they can only do so because the game was designed that way intentionally.

If any sort of fraud or hacking is involved, then you can argue that you were deprived unlawfully. Otherwise, the problem can be resolved inside the game itself. To borrow your metaphor, you don't arrest football players for going offsides, you penalize them in the context of the damn game.

What Stro said. The correct analogy would be if footballs fields were designed with special vandalization equipment, which was the only way the field could possibly be vandalized, with usage instructions in the official rule books, and then people were jailed for using it. Inter-character violence is not a default ability, it is something that is only present due to explicit design and implementation effort.

Annoying old guy.

Would you please further explain what you've just said. For since you said it a whole lot of brains have been mis-firing here about the question, "what the hell was that?"

Maybe 'Stro' can translate - from the original BS?

I do have a question though, "are you really a male under 18?".