| RAPE GAMES AND YOU |
[02 Jul 2009|03:58am] |
Over the past few months, I've had a number of (sometimes heated) conversations where I felt compelled to defend criminals, messy roommates, etc., and it has led me to spend a lot of time thinking about exactly how far we should defend the rights of others in cases where it does not immediately seem to be in our best interests. Basically, I came to the conclusion that defending the rights of even the most heinous of people is important because you are basically defending your own rights as well. It might seem familiar if you read this: (link).
Right now, in Japan, there is some sort of movement in the game biz to drastically limit what can be put in porn games. Those who know me might also know why I might take issue with this sort of thing, but at the same time, it's easy to consider that a game where you rape a kid is truly AUGH-inducing and that Japan is silly because it's some CRAZY CULTURE in a far off land that may as well be on the moon and as such, neither of these things really affect us.
But to not care is lazy and irresponsible. One should make an effort to learn and consider about the far-reaching implications of laws, actions, and inactions anywhere in society. I used to not care about certain legal hot topics, like guns, abortion, gay rights, banking industry oversights, whatever, but when you start paying attention, you put the pieces together and figure out how these things affect you, hopefully without becoming the victim of a hate crime or losing your 401k.
Here are the bare facts, as I understand them:
- The mainstream Japanese media caught on to the fact that RapeLay exists.
- The game company and the EOCS (like ESRB/CERO for JPN PC games) all freak about and pull the game from shelves
- EOCS starts knee-jerk rewrite of all regulations and now only missionary position through a hole in the sheet between two married, consenting adults is allowed in games
- The Japanese government also cares, now
Here is why you should care about even the slightest chance of the bustling Japanese rape game industry of being shut down: lots of other games and nice things come from Japan and any one of them could be negatively affected. The new EOCS regulations are very disturbing in how vague and expansive they are. I don't think FF7 and GTA4 would pass them cleanly. Video games have versions on multiple platforms, including Japanese PCs, and also multiple regions, including where you live. Intellectual properties appear in games, movies, books, and everything. One small regulation can actually affect everything.
I'm going to urge you to start caring about this, and leave you with a quote from a popular, smart person:
If you accept -- and I do -- that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don't say or like or want said.
The Law is a huge blunt weapon that does not and will not make distinctions between what you find acceptable and what you don't. This is how the Law is made.
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[19 May 2009|10:51pm] |
i'm gay. this is how gay i am. click this shit so i can get a mountain dew themed pet in wow
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[01 Apr 2009|03:03am] |
Right now I work a job where I handle credit cards regularly. These are the best names I have seen on them so far:
Leif Erikson
Terri Bauer
Jello (something)
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| SPAM KENS AND RYUS ONLINE |
[18 Feb 2009|10:14pm] |
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I got SF4. It owns; as usual my network name is superty. You might also catch me on the xbox one if I'm playing my buddy's copy; SuperTy DX.
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| holy shit HD REMIXXXXXX |
[26 Nov 2008|04:37am] |
I just played my friend in Japan on SUPER TURBO HD MEGACOCK with like no real noticeable lag. I can't fuckin' play someone in the same city as me on SC4 with that little lag! Brilliant netcode saves the day!!
my ps3 network name is superty
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| steam owns |
[19 Nov 2008|06:48pm] |
Half Life for sale on steam for 98 cents.
Playing the hell out of TF2 and Left4Dead.
steam buddy list name: SuperTy
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| GOSH DARNIT, NOW WHO COULD THAT BE?? |
[05 Nov 2008|01:10am] |
Whew. What a night. I usually don't post about politics on the internet (except maybe ironically) but for the first election of my life, I volunteered, I donated, I campaigned, and it all paid off tonight in the form of a 350-electoral-vote m-m-m-m-m-monster kill. Even though good ol' redneck Montana never went blue for the president, it came close, and retained the dems for the senate and governorship by a hilariously huge margin. Go figure!
The best part of the entire election, for me, was when Biden namedropped Mansfield during the vp debates, somebody near and dear to me and someone I'm sure I, personally, owe a lot too.
Either that or "NAILIN PAYLIN"
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| hudda hudda hudda |
[01 Nov 2008|12:37am] |
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| CID |
[21 Sep 2008|09:10pm] |
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the cashier at walmart got mad because i wrote "I STOLE THIS CARD" on the signature space on the back of my debit card
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