Ninja Power Rangers = Kill

FlikFlik Join Date: 2003-09-28 Member: 21286Members
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What a weird place we live in.

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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    People like that, and Soccer Mom's suck.
  • ThoraXThoraX Join Date: 2003-06-19 Member: 17519Members
    what the hell... transformers is on the list?
    yeah, real dangerous when animated robots shoot each other with laser guns, cuz you know, robots and lazers are easy for a child to come by.
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    Wait, your parents never bought you a giant robot so you could destroy the neighborhood? Man, some people are deprived.
  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    edited November 2003
    People who do these sort of things need to be executed or sent to mars to form their own colony. The only problem is if they eventually destroy the Earth with 0-grav missiles.
  • JavertJavert Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15954Members
    Utterly ridiculous and reminding me of those moms who sued the makers of GTA3, Doom, or Mortal Kombat calling them: killer-creators.

    Heck, I played with all those toys, and yet have I killed anyone? No, not yet.
  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    edited November 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"We're worried about violence being marketed to children as fun and entertaining,"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats nice crazy lady. I don't know about you, but I don't consider M rated games and R rated movies ever to be marketed towards children. KTHXBYE.
    Oh.. and I love how Manhunt is on there.. It hasn't even been out an entire week and of course it such a well known game in that entire one week. I'm sure all the 5 year olds have it.
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    I haven't killed anybody yet either, and I was born and raised in the 80's, lots of violent cartoons then!! I still wonder why when I order something it doesn't get delivered right away though...

    [rant] The eighties officially ended for me with the death of quality, violent saturday morning cartoons on the major broadcast networks (NBC, CBS, ABC). When cartoons started getting preachy and moral infested, then a part of me died. Especially with NBC, when they started showing "Saved by the Bell" and continued the trend of "Saturday Morning Live Action Shows with Morals", that is the true day the eighties died for me.[/rant]
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><b>MUST.

    CRUSH.

    SOCCERMUMS.</b></span></span>
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Abusing the upload feature because I can't use uploadit
  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->This game features a "sniper mode" and allows players to "ride shotgun, shooting from passenger's seat," it said<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    lets hope they don't see halo


    I think the "Thats nice crazy lady" sums it up best
  • NecroticNecrotic Big Girl&#39;s Blouse Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 53Members, NS1 Playtester
    Its just the same argument all over again, parents who don't want or don't know how to control there own children (ie not stopping them acquiring an 18 cert/M cert game when they're only 10) try to make the companies and government responsible. The incompetency (Is that even a word?) of modern parents is highlighted to me on a daily basis in my place of work when I see kids asking for stuff and the parent just can't say <i>no</i>
  • FrikkFrikk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3164Members, Constellation
    Are the ESRB guidelines actually inforced? I mean, if you sell a kid GTA3 are you going to get fined? I've only been carded for a game once, but that was when I was 19. If they are being inforced WHY ARE THEY ****? It's no different then trying to get into an R rated movie as a kid.
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    WOOOOTTTTTTT

    scaned through the list real fast.
    Last product from each of those groups is "********** video game"

    WERE ALL GONA BURN IN HELLL!!!!!!!!!

    (then againg I already knew I was cuss I read Flem comics <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)

    My fav one is that people often mistake me for the nerdy quite type/prepy(buton down shirts + chinos <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->). So when ever one of these discusions comes up I have fun pointing out that I play playvideo games/PnP RPGs/Was Gona have a black trench coat(no$$)/watch anime <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Freaks em all out (they expect some psycho killer (quesca se?) not me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)
  • JefeJefe Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15734Members, Constellation
    I remember Infinitum telling me of an interview with a teacher at a boys' military school.

    "You're outfitting them to be killers!"
    "They have a lot of training before they even touch a rifle, and they are highly supervised."
    "But you're outfitting them to be killers!"
    "Well, you're outfitted to be a prostitute. I don't see you doing that."

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <img src='http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/24/news/companies/violent_toy/transformer.03.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Ahh ! Look at it ! It may look innocent but watch as it destroys our children's youth with it's turning into a robot and such !


    On a more serious note, radicals are destroying America.
  • DeronokDeronok Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14613Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ThoraX+Nov 25 2003, 12:49 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ThoraX @ Nov 25 2003, 12:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> what the hell... transformers is on the list?
    yeah, real dangerous when animated robots shoot each other with laser guns, cuz you know, robots and lazers are easy for a child to come by. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's pretty screwed up, as I remember , not many people in transformers actually died. Except Prime *Sniff*
  • FrikkFrikk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3164Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Sirus+Nov 25 2003, 03:58 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sirus @ Nov 25 2003, 03:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <img src='http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/24/news/companies/violent_toy/transformer.03.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Ahh ! Look at it ! It may look innocent but watch as it destroys our children's youth with it's turning into a robot and such !


    On a more serious note, radicals are destroying America. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Dude, I think I had that one. It was by far the most frustrating to transform, you basically had to get out a pair of plyers to get the arms to come out. Come to think of it, it may have actually driven me to violence before. <i>Whoa</i>
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    that's shootin real high on my "stupidest things i've ever read" list.

    whee.
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Jefe+Nov 25 2003, 04:52 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jefe @ Nov 25 2003, 04:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I remember Infinitum telling me of an interview with a teacher at a boys' military school.

    "You're outfitting them to be killers!"
    "They have a lot of training before they even touch a rifle, and they are highly supervised."
    "But you're outfitting them to be killers!"
    "Well, you're outfitted to be a prostitute. I don't see you doing that."

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ive seen said interview plenty of times...

    ya know.. they get all this exposure from pulling stupid **** like this.. maybe we should complain that theyre stupid **** distracts us from gaming and leads to us getting owned by noobs and then it affetcs our pride and we get depressive...
  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    guys, before you jump on these people...

    keep in mind what they are doing. They're not asking for these games/toys to be banned! They're only listing the ones they feel are the most violent (of course they might be a little confused). What do we usually say when people try to ban violent games? It is the parents' responsibility to monitor their childrens access to violent content as they see fit. This group trying to help parents know in advance how to monitor incoming media and things.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    but windelkron..

    at the same time that they might have the kids' "best" at heart..


    they're f***ing hilarious.

    this one made me rawfle =]
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Deronok+Nov 25 2003, 09:17 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Deronok @ Nov 25 2003, 09:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--ThoraX+Nov 25 2003, 12:49 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ThoraX @ Nov 25 2003, 12:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> what the hell... transformers is on the list?
    yeah, real dangerous when animated robots shoot each other with laser guns, cuz you know, robots and lazers are easy for a child to come by. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's pretty screwed up, as I remember , not many people in transformers actually died. Except Prime *Sniff* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I was under the impression that he never died, and was always brought back to life?
  • docchimpydocchimpy Join Date: 2003-07-19 Member: 18266Members
    I love sites like this.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->This hearing is intended to consider the need for a universal ratings system... Let’s start with the alphabet soup that parents are now required to memorize.  For the movies, we have G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17.  For television, we have: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV14, and TV-MA.  For video games, we have 'E' for Everyone, 'T' for Teen, 'M' for Mature, 'RP' for Rating Pending and “AO” for Adult Only.  The music industry has a one-size-fits-all 'Parental Advisory.'"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    OMG! thats to hard for me to memorize@! help[!!!o1j!

    [/sarcasm]

    Deus help us all.
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