Anyone in Oklahoma: I feel sorry for you.

[BioAlien]

The story included a sidebar stating that the family of a murder victim had filed a $250 million lawsuit against Rockstar because two kids cited GTA as the reason they randomly shot a man. Of course, despite millions of copies of the game being sold, one random act proves that GTA kills people.

i bet those 2 little bastard were paid by jack thompson to say that.

Video Games don't kill people ! People kill people and then blame all that on video games.

i bet you 5$ that in less than 10 year, some fucking retarded kid will blame Pokemon for having killed many animal by hiting them with rocks to death (Park Safari in pokemon, you get to throw rocks/bait/pokeball at wild pokemon)
and then pokemon will become for 18+ ONLY

and if you realy want "free" Violance, go play the Postal games!
www.gopostal.com

[samsonlonghair]

I think that this recent article is very relevant to this discussion.

"Yet the critics of video games are not only conjuring up a threat where none exists; they're ignoring the positive moral lessons and cognitive benefits that many of today's sophisticated games offer."

[Kraco]

Although Ryllharu's post was far too long, I totally agree with him. All this fuss is nothing but stupid people trying to blame somebody else for their own mistakes. Games are an ideal target, since there still are a great deal of old people in positions of power who have little personal experience of them, and thus they can be made to believe any kind of lies and hollow statistics.

[ChaosK]

Oklahoma....that better not spread over here to NY. Keep it in Oklahoma.

[Lefty]

I doubt this shit will spread to far and if does tough shit foir kids under 18. Then, god forbid parents have to take resposiblty of chooseing to buy the game or not based on weather they think their child is old enough. In a way this law mkes paretns once again responsible for the kids. It's long over due.

[Cloud 9]

Sounds like the "anti-gaming" movement is starting to hit harder now. Hopefully that just stays in Oklahoma, otherwise more people all over will be using games as an excuse for killing people and get off easier than normal on murder / assault charges.

[dragonrage]

that is some messed up shit, talk about bring back memories of the 1980 well i was just a toddler at the time. But that is some really messed up stuff, see what happens when self righteous people run things, that fun is sucked outa life.