[floppydisk]

Naw, it was just strange leaving a sentence hanging like that.

[SimeSublime]

Not that anybody seems to care, but I meant to say "why not try something not completely controversial?"

[Slade]

Heh. I was wondering why you said "Rockstar, try something controversial."

And I like the second quote much better. Being a bully in school: I had enough on the receiving end for me not to enjoy that. However, being the underdog vigilante and taking out bullys does appeal. The question is, will this raise the amount of school shootings and sentator outcries for banning video games, or lower them?

[Zatoichi]

Well, if those bullied stand up for themselves better, or band together with others there might actually be improvements in society. Of course, then gangs will have been formed and there will be another thing to blame videogames for.

[barend]

you know... i think i am just about at the end of my teather with these moral-in-public-where-people-can-here-them types...

Why don't they just go and get solidly fucked once and for all...

Ms Carnell told the BBC News website: "Bullying is not a suitable theme for a game. It diminishes the suffering of victims. And such games give the impression that these types of experiences are normal. We are very concerned that they have an effect on young people."

well Ms Carnell is a stupid cow.

i went four different schools, so i think i speak with a bit of authority here...

but rockstars computer game's contribution to bullying if there is any at all would be quite insignificant to the globally uniform proceedure of schooling institutions habit of looking the other way while bullies do their thing.

honestly... no teacher in history has ever fended of bullies from their victims.

it is school policy to not get involved...

and the parents of bullies are even worse...

i mean say what you like about kids gone bad in shootings and robberies but it without a doubt in my overabundant experience on the matter that teachers and parents turn a blind eye EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN TIME!!!

school bullies are by far the least punished or even acknowleged criminal group in operation and have been forever...
...and a video game that just came out is the key?

I seriously think not!!!

and any educated person who even suggests it should be stripped of thier college credentials immediatley and forced to work in burger king because they have no more right teaching kids then junkie does looking after electronic goods!!!

utter insanity!!!

Last week youth group Peaceaholics staged a protest outside the company's headquarters there in protest at plans to release Bully.

oohhhh... even better...

a youth group of peaceaholics....

maybe they should be gathered around the front of the school....
or around the bullies home.

ah, god bless the people.

when there's a fire in the kitchen, their the first to throw a pale of water in the bedroom of the house down the street.

This post has been edited by barend: 22 August 2005 - 12:43 AM

[Slade]

Somebody from Rockstar should come outside and give them all wedgies.

Yeah, this is just another case of shifting blame from society and groupthink to an inanimate object that calls it to attention.

The faculty doesn't get involved, and the students nearby are either wusses (that is, afraid to lose face to defend someone bullied), don't care, or enjoy watching an asshole torment someone. Or they join in.

[floppydisk]

If I had a development company and protestors gathered outside my work, I'd open a window and yell through a magaphone "Attention! You. Are. Gay. Get a fucking life."

[barend]

They should beat them up.

but i like floppy's response.


honestly this really pisses me off...

again art that immitates life is accuse of instigating it.



perhaps if schools had the balls to expell bullies, there wouldn't be a problem.

[SithAvenger]

I agree. Bullies never get punished and that's why they continue to bully kids. As simple as that. But it's easier to blame other guy instead of you so teachers and parents blame the game.

Just like in that South Park episode when parents don't want to teach sex to the kids and they blame the school for it.

[Otal Nimrodi]

Heh. I was wondering why you said "Rockstar, try something controversial."

Because I was tired.

[Zatoichi]

Maybe if today's society didn't suck so badly. The parents obviously don't discipline their children well enough, or they don't spend enough time with them to instill good morals. As for teachers, there is not too much that they can do. All there is is yelling and right ups, and maybe expulsion. Heaven forbid a little real disciplinary action when those methods fail. Examples are labor and pain. Don't you just wish?

[barend]

I love to have the job of travelling from town to town to administer savage beatings to bullies...

[Slade]

Thanks for completely missing the wedgie thing. Yeah, the problem is that bullies take advantage of the system because they won't be disciplined/don't care about getting in trouble, and they prey on the people who aren't utter smack tards, and therefore respect the rules. If I went back in time with the intent of changing my former self (which would completely fuck up my present state, and so I wouldn't), I'd tell him to kick some more ass. A little detention is better than psychological trauma.

Sith: Red rocket!

Otal: I was responding to Simewise...

[barend]

if i quantum leaped into my junior self back in early highschool i'd probably arrange some fatal 'accidents'

[Slade]

Does quantum leaping not fuck up your own space-time continuum? (I haven't seen the show.)