At noon on February 14 near the high school building. Marjori Stoneman in Parkland, Florida, a taxi stopped. A young man with a large black bag came out of him and headed to the entrance to school. Entering the building, he put on a gas mask, threw several smoke grenades to work fire alarm, and then took out the semi-automatic Rifle AR-15 and opened fire on students and teachers.
17 people were killed on the spot or died in the hospital. The same amount was injured. Later on the same day, the shooter was detained. It turned out to be a certain Nicholas Cruz (Nikolas Cruz), 19-year-old former student of this very school. Which was kicked out of her for bad behavior.
But okay it would be an isolated case. So no, mass shootings in America have recently flooded the rampart in general. From January 2017 alone, ten cases were registered in the United States in which 139 people were killed and another 474 people were injured. On October 1, 2017, the most bloody shooting in the history of the country occurred in Las Vegas, when 59 people were killed and 422 were injured. Of course, the Americans fell into shock from such statistics and urgently began to look for guilty.
The choice fell on video games. To blame them is always a tribute. There would be a reason. And the reason was found – the Parckland shooter, this very Nicholas Cruz, video games, and especially all sorts of militarized shooters, very much respected. The fact that he suffered from mental disorders and was registered with a psychiatrist, but was able to completely legally buy a rifle – this is, of course, nonsense. The fact that video games can at least somehow be associated with only one of the last dozen executions-but who cares! The main thing is that you can.
The accusations rained down like a thousand dollars with a trifle from a holey pocket. "The weapon is not to blame, we have a cultural problem in America – the so -called video games. They hold us by the throat, hiding behind freedom of speech. This is complete shit", – the Governor of the state of Kentukki torn Matt Bevin (Matt Bevin). "Who is the main nasaders of violence? – echoed him a congressman from the state of Florida Brian Mast (Brian Mast). – This, of course, Hollywood films. And this, of course, video games!"
The boss of one of the private schools in Miami arranged a widely fused anti -video -player in the institution entrusted to her by the institution. Every schoolboy could come to her office and throw out a vile video game into the garbage basket next to her desktop. And parents – right there, on the table, to roll a written obligation that they from now prohibit their children to play cruel games.
But okay, governors and school principals – the president of the country took up video games for the first time in history. Donald Trump (Donald Trump) said that “he hears more and more often from people how violent video games form the way of thoughts of American youth”. And promised personally with the problem to understand. Last Thursday (there was already Friday in Moscow) the showdown began.
Some of you may have heard the news about the meeting in the White House, where supporters and opponents of the fight against video players were invited on behalf of the president: parliamentarians, political activists, representatives of video game companies and other interested audience. Although ordinary players there, of course, did not call.
For the seeding, the audience was given a video with virtual violence scenes. And then the "Exchange of opinions" went. They say he walked "very civilized". Although it is simultaneously claimed that "the discussion was acute". It is impossible to confirm or refute this, since the press was not allowed, and the transcript is carried out, then exclusively for the owner of the White House.
But among those who did not participate in the meeting, the intensity of passions was boiling serious. The illustrious developer Warren Spector (Warren Spector), although he expressed confidence that video game violence was in no way connected, but at the same time he branded by the disgrace of the developers of those games, the cuts of which were included in the "presidential video". "Each frame in it is an example of a tremendous terrible taste, and everyone who is involved in these games should be ashamed".
I Donmet Believe Games Cause Violent Behavior. Not for One Second. However, The Videogame Reel Shown at the White House on Thursday is Simply Disgusting. EVERY SHOT IS in Colossally Bad Taste and EVERYONE ASSOCIATED with THOSE GAMES SHOULD BE ASHAMED of TheMSELves. They Hurt Us.
– Warren Spector (@warren_Spector) March 9, 2018.
However, the creators of the games did https://ukcryptocasinos.co.uk/review/lucki-casino/ not want to be ashamed. One of the designer Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 Linsi Graham (Lynsey Graham) stated, for example, what was proud of her work. And the boss Gearbox Randy Pitchford (Randy Pitchford) indicated Spector, that his own games can also be represented as samples of violence. And in general, violence is sometimes necessary if art is going to be useful to people. As examples, he cited Shakespeare and "Bible".
Your Own Games Can Be Cut with Such a Mindset -pressed Into the Same Service of Highlighting Depictions of Violence to Undermine Art and Expression. SUCH DEPICTIONS ARE SOMETIMES NECESSYARYAT IS Going to Be UsEFUL to OUR Species. Have you not read shakespeare? The Bible?
– Randy Pitchford (@duvalmagic) March 9, 2018.
In his games, Warren, and another debator, recalling the violence in his games Deus Ex In general, you can kill children. Spector I agreed with a claim, but expressed the hope that the players did not do this (yeah, right now!). Nevertheless, now he is ashamed of that decision, and now he would have done everything differently.
Good Points. But I Hope Players Were Repulsed by the Killing of Children. And, Easy for ME to Say, But True: I’M ASHAMED of the KID-Killing Possibility and Wouldn’t It Again. Canomet Promise, But I Donmet Think I’ll Ever Make Another Game Were Can Kill Virtual People At All.
– Warren Spector (@warren_Spector) March 9, 2018.
Originally reacted to the discussion of the Creator System Shock And BIOSHOCK Ken Levin (KEN LEVINE). Say, he is not ashamed of those video games with violence on which he worked. It is a pity that he cannot say the same about the hairstyle that he had in the time System Shock 2.
I Said Before i’m Not Ashmed of the Violent Video Games i’ve Worked On. I wish. Pic.Twitter.COM/XMDOQGXJ4H
– Ken Levine (@levine) March 10, 2018.
But no matter what developers chat – it will be Trump. You can expect anything from him. Although it will still be difficult for him to prohibit him-from the famous expression “money speaks” not to be brushed off even to the president. And the voice of tens of billions of video game dollars is very loud. But some restrictions are quite possible.
For example, something in the spirit of Rhizhiland proposed by a parliamentar Robert Nardolillo (Robert Nardolillo) special tax on cruel video games. It is planned to let the money proceeds from this to take care of the psychological health of the younger American generation.
If this happens, then the additional tax load will fall, of course, on the shoulders of the players-well, the company will not pay from their pocket, in fact. But the lutboxes and microtransactions will have another excuse.
In general, all this hysteria is surprising. Once we laughed merrily at the lawyer Jack Thompson (Jack Thompson), trying to prohibit video game violence. However, those times seemed to have passed. But no – video games are going to regulate again, now at the presidential level. As if there are no other problems in the world.
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“As for the constitution, let me draw your attention to the great advantages of prohibitions. Formulate and emphasize the prohibitions! Let your document be packed to failure by a transfer of things that the government is forbidden to do forever. No obligatory military service … of the slightest attempt to intervene in the freedom of print, freedom of speech, in freedom of movement … as well as religion, education, communications, professions … and no forced taxation. Comrades, if you are not lazy to spend five years on studying history and at the same time you will include more and more new things that the government undertakes to do never in the list of prohibitions, and then draw up a constitution that is entirely consisting of negative proposals, I will be calm for the future."
Robert Heinline, "Moon – Hare Mistress"
Taxes generally solve all problems, yes. Enter drug tax, rapid tax, tax on world problems. We will heal right away! I have long lost the thread, now for me a big policy looks like a competition "Who is a greater idiot". They gathered to arrest teachers there and teachers, well, I don’t foresee any problems at all, because teachers, well, under any circumstances, can not shoot at their students.
Someone take the tweeter from the spector, with each of his fakes it becomes stronger, I’m afraid I won’t stand it for a long time and break my head for a long time.
Yeah, Xerxes will stuff it into potatoes and seize power, and GG will fix it in a socket for implants, while she will sharply sharply.
Yes…
Sadly, that there was Wulf and Ivil in the cut ..
Apparently, some people represent the consciousness of a mentally unstable scientist-maniac (almost) and the Nazi regime with a kind of world of Piro from TF2 ..
Although, it would not be bad to make such a game where we sit flowers and water the ridges, and then pink glasses are removed from us =)
The usual method of PR for a number of American senators. We have Mizulin, Milonovs, they have these personalities so. And nothing serious behind these conversations, it seems to me,
Drug tax will actually help everything.
1. More money to the budget.
2. The drug standards will set drugs and they will become less dangerous in use.
3. Violence associated with cartels and gangs will leave T.Derpers of "dealers" will be able to solve in the courts and not on the streets.
4. There is a huge difference between consuming and abuse. So on the same taxes you can treat dependent and teach about the real effects of drugs and not propaganda that Nixon began in America in America. (I advise you to take an interest in real reasons Nixon declared a “war with drugs”, I think everyone will be interested)
Here, by the way.
We have many communists, capitalists, right-wing, left, someone for the purest capitalism with an unregulated market, someone for nationalization and state plan, someone, although there are such a minority for a mixed system, as in China, hospitalism … There are many opinions of opinions. I’m not talking about their correctness or irregularity, just a lot of them.
In America, there is practically no criticism of the system. Of course, there are an extremely small number of communists as the most famous alternative, but only. Of course, I did not conduct polls and I can judge exclusively by artistic works, but they, to some extent, reflect the situation in society. At least the recent Blade Runner, where the communist mood is right with these evil corporations, but they do not say a word. Although the word “revolution” is pronounced in the film, no prerequisites for the fact that it will be a revolution, and not a coup.
Corporations and state apparatus are not rarely exhibited in bad light, as in Prey, for example, but that specific corporations and specific people and no more.
Perhaps I am mistaken and have not seen any social dramas or all the boil of this kind is somehow poorly reflected in culture, but somehow it is weak to believe in it.
These idiots understand that instead of blaming video games, they should at the end make more stringent rules for buying weapons? yes, the right to get much more difficult than buying a barrel. Some comics are much chewing than many games. I recently watched the series here, called “Adam spoils everything” he told this from their age -related restriction system I would like to cry there. “Yes, shooting and murder, and there is no sex”, and now these half -shoes who probably do not play anything, have begun to blame our favorite art (which is not without sin) of all the problems of those guards who begin to shoot at public places, but no parents who do not want to educate their child, not a school who does not care about the schools (because of which they most often want to kill their classmates). We’ll shove for video games
