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A "Low Violence" option has appeared for Saint's Row IV on the Steam registry apparently. Gee I wonder what that's for
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:28:35 UTC from web-
@coffeecream Oh yeah, doesn't AUS have some stupid Video game laws?
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:30:19 UTC from web-
@rarity But you see, they are protecting children by banning adult games from being bought by adults
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:32:32 UTC from web-
@coffeecream Either that or they are trying to protect themselves from becoming the next Netherlands or Japan where the average game sales are VERY HIGH, and there is a very clear pattern visible in virtual crime and virtual violence and crime and murder IRL. America has been warning about that for YEARS, and they only play one tenth the amount of video games they do in the Netherlands... Immagine what kind of criminality we have here
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:36:26 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I'd be interested to see the statistics underlying your proposed link between sales of violent games and violent crime, if you have them to hand.
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:37:41 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Jon Steward did a special on that a few months ago. Ofcourse he was joking around it it ( as usual ) and so was I ( as usual ). I am not quite sure about the exact episode/air-date but it resolved around some senator in the USA who was attacking video games because it made people violent. And then Jon put up a chart showing us that people in the Netherlands buy over 10 times the amount of video games ( and Japan was 2nd on that chart )... And then he held up the crime and violence charts...
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:46:39 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Thanks for that. I'll see what I can dig up.
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:47:17 UTC from web
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@rarity I thought the issue was that they /didn't/ have videogame laws, so end up classifying them according to the old rules about R rated movies and such
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:33:33 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I don't know the details, just that bad things happen.
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:35:06 UTC from web-
@rarity Sounds like life in general.
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:35:38 UTC from web
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@coffeecream ... Perhaps the removal of the giant purple mangoes... Or perhaps because over half of the video game is the main caracter in a video game whilst playing a video game... it no longer counts as violence.... *shrug*
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:32:19 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Well the original game itself was banned because of a similar weapon (sexual violence without context or something like that?) and because there is a reward for drug use (the narcotic which gives you super powers in the game).
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:35:01 UTC from web-
@coffeecream Yes it was indeed "sexual violence without context" and the other thing was called "saint's flow"
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 09:37:02 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I'm talking about the next Saint's Row game, not The Third
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 10:09:19 UTC from web-
@coffeecream Mass speculation proves me right on the Saints Flow return in SR4 . And the Sexual contextless thing is something that came dripping down again recently ( after the anouncement of SR4 ) ... yes I am also talking about SR4
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 10:11:50 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker OK, just making sure
Tuesday, 02-Jul-13 10:46:20 UTC from web
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