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Wouldn’t you love to be an American gamer? You don’t get those frustrating black borders on American games, you get the games cheaper and earlier and you can get huge wide screen TV’s dead cheap. Broadband is literally everywhere in America and so the entire concept of online gaming is much improved with the X-box and PS2 and there are event ‘Broadband only’ games. But naturally you wouldn’t want to live in America, they are preparing for war as we speak, terrorist attacks such as September 11th and the Anthrax scare is still in the forefront of our minds and not to mention the Washington Sniper.
But it isn’t the fear of death that is the only negative reason for a gamer to live in America… its what Americans blame it on. Lets ignore the fact that guns are about as easy to get hold of as free newspapers and think what really could be to blame… why video games of course. No it isn’t the millions of TV channels avalible in America and the slack age restriction laws… it is video games. Many fail to realize the full extent of the violence in America, not content on having terrorists crash planes into popular monuments killing thousands, Americans love nothing better than to commit crimes and bring down their own country… but its not our fault so we should blame err…. Iraq. Security guards of normal high street shops carry what was described to me as ‘normal pistols’. Normal Pistols! Our security guards wield the almighty walkie-talkie! My American friends father carries a gun that could kill 10 people in seconds… now I’d hate to get on the wrong side of him. So whilst America fail to realize their own sins they much rather blame Iraq and errr Video games.
Enough with the anti-American racket though, despite popular belief Americans aren’t all stupid, considering the continent is littered with crime it is hardly surprising that the so many wield a weapon of some sort. Who remembers South Park the movie? With the Mothers Against Canada who ran around with large placards screaming “Ban Terrance and Phillip!”. Those people exist… not Terrance and Phillip but the angry parents who don’t like the media. Being a gamer I can understand how Eminem feels about the massive hate groups that surround him, how the hell can games be responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks? Why of course those terrorists learnt to fly planes on them there computer things, probably Microsoft flight simulator or something similar… well they didn’t fly them very well then did they. And did you know the Washington Sniper was a simple average Joe who learnt his skills by playing various sniper games such as SEGA’s critically acclaimed Silent Scope… well so some idiotic woman on CNN. Really love? Are you sure it isn’t some ex-military guy living in his car bearing a grudge against the country that undoubtedly screwed him? Nope it has to be some kid who learnt to be the outstanding marksman on errr Silent Scope after all the sniper rifle used in that game as well as the game cobra strike is very similar to the one the police showed looking for information. It’s a sodding sniper rifle of course it will look similar! The same stupid woman brought forth the first note the sniper wrote, ‘Dear Policeman, I am god’… can you guess how this has anything to do with computer games? Why ‘God mode’ of course. The woman said that god mode “is a state people enter when they play these games and they’re doing really well, s ‘I AM GOD’ is something these people say quite often.” Speak for yourself love… how many people here honestly yell “I AM GOD” at your TV screen when you’re doing well? And what makes me so different to any normal person… wow I play games so I can now be deemed ‘these people’ how nice.
Well as it turned out it was some ex-military guy who bore a grudge living in his car… so video games are in the clear once again despite getting needlessly dragged through the mud again. Some analysts do suggest American gamers are obsessed with the more violent game such as Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto as opposed to the Japanese gamers that prefer to play games involving the ability to date school girls and driving simulators. But opposition can suggest that Europeans are just as keen on these games and the level of violence isn’t even on the same scale. Can certain Americans place the blame of Americans crime problems on computer games or should that start looking at themselves.
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
But it isn’t the fear of death that is the only negative reason for a gamer to live in America… its what Americans blame it on. Lets ignore the fact that guns are about as easy to get hold of as free newspapers and think what really could be to blame… why video games of course. No it isn’t the millions of TV channels avalible in America and the slack age restriction laws… it is video games. Many fail to realize the full extent of the violence in America, not content on having terrorists crash planes into popular monuments killing thousands, Americans love nothing better than to commit crimes and bring down their own country… but its not our fault so we should blame err…. Iraq. Security guards of normal high street shops carry what was described to me as ‘normal pistols’. Normal Pistols! Our security guards wield the almighty walkie-talkie! My American friends father carries a gun that could kill 10 people in seconds… now I’d hate to get on the wrong side of him. So whilst America fail to realize their own sins they much rather blame Iraq and errr Video games.
Enough with the anti-American racket though, despite popular belief Americans aren’t all stupid, considering the continent is littered with crime it is hardly surprising that the so many wield a weapon of some sort. Who remembers South Park the movie? With the Mothers Against Canada who ran around with large placards screaming “Ban Terrance and Phillip!”. Those people exist… not Terrance and Phillip but the angry parents who don’t like the media. Being a gamer I can understand how Eminem feels about the massive hate groups that surround him, how the hell can games be responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks? Why of course those terrorists learnt to fly planes on them there computer things, probably Microsoft flight simulator or something similar… well they didn’t fly them very well then did they. And did you know the Washington Sniper was a simple average Joe who learnt his skills by playing various sniper games such as SEGA’s critically acclaimed Silent Scope… well so some idiotic woman on CNN. Really love? Are you sure it isn’t some ex-military guy living in his car bearing a grudge against the country that undoubtedly screwed him? Nope it has to be some kid who learnt to be the outstanding marksman on errr Silent Scope after all the sniper rifle used in that game as well as the game cobra strike is very similar to the one the police showed looking for information. It’s a sodding sniper rifle of course it will look similar! The same stupid woman brought forth the first note the sniper wrote, ‘Dear Policeman, I am god’… can you guess how this has anything to do with computer games? Why ‘God mode’ of course. The woman said that god mode “is a state people enter when they play these games and they’re doing really well, s ‘I AM GOD’ is something these people say quite often.” Speak for yourself love… how many people here honestly yell “I AM GOD” at your TV screen when you’re doing well? And what makes me so different to any normal person… wow I play games so I can now be deemed ‘these people’ how nice.
Well as it turned out it was some ex-military guy who bore a grudge living in his car… so video games are in the clear once again despite getting needlessly dragged through the mud again. Some analysts do suggest American gamers are obsessed with the more violent game such as Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto as opposed to the Japanese gamers that prefer to play games involving the ability to date school girls and driving simulators. But opposition can suggest that Europeans are just as keen on these games and the level of violence isn’t even on the same scale. Can certain Americans place the blame of Americans crime problems on computer games or should that start looking at themselves.
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
"Sega's critically acclaimed Silent Scope..."
Shows what they know about games.
you only have to look at the arcade cabnet to know that Konami made it.
I think they have got a fair point though.
People never used to snipe, or shoot guns, or kill by other means, or use any form of violence at all before computer games came around...
No wait...
Shows what they know about games.
you only have to look at the arcade cabnet to know that Konami made it.
I think they have got a fair point though.
People never used to snipe, or shoot guns, or kill by other means, or use any form of violence at all before computer games came around...
No wait...
Wouldn’t you love to be an American gamer? You don’t get those frustrating black borders on American games, you get the games cheaper and earlier and you can get huge wide screen TV’s dead cheap. Broadband is literally everywhere in America and so the entire concept of online gaming is much improved with the X-box and PS2 and there are event ‘Broadband only’ games. But naturally you wouldn’t want to live in America, they are preparing for war as we speak, terrorist attacks such as September 11th and the Anthrax scare is still in the forefront of our minds and not to mention the Washington Sniper.
But it isn’t the fear of death that is the only negative reason for a gamer to live in America… its what Americans blame it on. Lets ignore the fact that guns are about as easy to get hold of as free newspapers and think what really could be to blame… why video games of course. No it isn’t the millions of TV channels avalible in America and the slack age restriction laws… it is video games. Many fail to realize the full extent of the violence in America, not content on having terrorists crash planes into popular monuments killing thousands, Americans love nothing better than to commit crimes and bring down their own country… but its not our fault so we should blame err…. Iraq. Security guards of normal high street shops carry what was described to me as ‘normal pistols’. Normal Pistols! Our security guards wield the almighty walkie-talkie! My American friends father carries a gun that could kill 10 people in seconds… now I’d hate to get on the wrong side of him. So whilst America fail to realize their own sins they much rather blame Iraq and errr Video games.
Enough with the anti-American racket though, despite popular belief Americans aren’t all stupid, considering the continent is littered with crime it is hardly surprising that the so many wield a weapon of some sort. Who remembers South Park the movie? With the Mothers Against Canada who ran around with large placards screaming “Ban Terrance and Phillip!”. Those people exist… not Terrance and Phillip but the angry parents who don’t like the media. Being a gamer I can understand how Eminem feels about the massive hate groups that surround him, how the hell can games be responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks? Why of course those terrorists learnt to fly planes on them there computer things, probably Microsoft flight simulator or something similar… well they didn’t fly them very well then did they. And did you know the Washington Sniper was a simple average Joe who learnt his skills by playing various sniper games such as SEGA’s critically acclaimed Silent Scope… well so some idiotic woman on CNN. Really love? Are you sure it isn’t some ex-military guy living in his car bearing a grudge against the country that undoubtedly screwed him? Nope it has to be some kid who learnt to be the outstanding marksman on errr Silent Scope after all the sniper rifle used in that game as well as the game cobra strike is very similar to the one the police showed looking for information. It’s a sodding sniper rifle of course it will look similar! The same stupid woman brought forth the first note the sniper wrote, ‘Dear Policeman, I am god’… can you guess how this has anything to do with computer games? Why ‘God mode’ of course. The woman said that god mode “is a state people enter when they play these games and they’re doing really well, s ‘I AM GOD’ is something these people say quite often.” Speak for yourself love… how many people here honestly yell “I AM GOD” at your TV screen when you’re doing well? And what makes me so different to any normal person… wow I play games so I can now be deemed ‘these people’ how nice.
Well as it turned out it was some ex-military guy who bore a grudge living in his car… so video games are in the clear once again despite getting needlessly dragged through the mud again. Some analysts do suggest American gamers are obsessed with the more violent game such as Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto as opposed to the Japanese gamers that prefer to play games involving the ability to date school girls and driving simulators. But opposition can suggest that Europeans are just as keen on these games and the level of violence isn’t even on the same scale. Can certain Americans place the blame of Americans crime problems on computer games or should that start looking at themselves.
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
But it isn’t the fear of death that is the only negative reason for a gamer to live in America… its what Americans blame it on. Lets ignore the fact that guns are about as easy to get hold of as free newspapers and think what really could be to blame… why video games of course. No it isn’t the millions of TV channels avalible in America and the slack age restriction laws… it is video games. Many fail to realize the full extent of the violence in America, not content on having terrorists crash planes into popular monuments killing thousands, Americans love nothing better than to commit crimes and bring down their own country… but its not our fault so we should blame err…. Iraq. Security guards of normal high street shops carry what was described to me as ‘normal pistols’. Normal Pistols! Our security guards wield the almighty walkie-talkie! My American friends father carries a gun that could kill 10 people in seconds… now I’d hate to get on the wrong side of him. So whilst America fail to realize their own sins they much rather blame Iraq and errr Video games.
Enough with the anti-American racket though, despite popular belief Americans aren’t all stupid, considering the continent is littered with crime it is hardly surprising that the so many wield a weapon of some sort. Who remembers South Park the movie? With the Mothers Against Canada who ran around with large placards screaming “Ban Terrance and Phillip!”. Those people exist… not Terrance and Phillip but the angry parents who don’t like the media. Being a gamer I can understand how Eminem feels about the massive hate groups that surround him, how the hell can games be responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks? Why of course those terrorists learnt to fly planes on them there computer things, probably Microsoft flight simulator or something similar… well they didn’t fly them very well then did they. And did you know the Washington Sniper was a simple average Joe who learnt his skills by playing various sniper games such as SEGA’s critically acclaimed Silent Scope… well so some idiotic woman on CNN. Really love? Are you sure it isn’t some ex-military guy living in his car bearing a grudge against the country that undoubtedly screwed him? Nope it has to be some kid who learnt to be the outstanding marksman on errr Silent Scope after all the sniper rifle used in that game as well as the game cobra strike is very similar to the one the police showed looking for information. It’s a sodding sniper rifle of course it will look similar! The same stupid woman brought forth the first note the sniper wrote, ‘Dear Policeman, I am god’… can you guess how this has anything to do with computer games? Why ‘God mode’ of course. The woman said that god mode “is a state people enter when they play these games and they’re doing really well, s ‘I AM GOD’ is something these people say quite often.” Speak for yourself love… how many people here honestly yell “I AM GOD” at your TV screen when you’re doing well? And what makes me so different to any normal person… wow I play games so I can now be deemed ‘these people’ how nice.
Well as it turned out it was some ex-military guy who bore a grudge living in his car… so video games are in the clear once again despite getting needlessly dragged through the mud again. Some analysts do suggest American gamers are obsessed with the more violent game such as Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto as opposed to the Japanese gamers that prefer to play games involving the ability to date school girls and driving simulators. But opposition can suggest that Europeans are just as keen on these games and the level of violence isn’t even on the same scale. Can certain Americans place the blame of Americans crime problems on computer games or should that start looking at themselves.
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.