Another Idiot Anti-Gaming Activist

[SteveThaiBinh]

I want to start a suit against Civ III when I take over a nation and begin advocating genocide of our enemies.

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There are a group of UK Members of Parliament trying to impeach Tony Blair at the moment. Maybe I should put them on to Sid Meier? However, it's a big problem in global warfare - the dead can't sue.

[Llyranor]

You guys are sending him real emails?

 

I guess I shouldn't have.... sent.... that... virus..... :">

[alanschu]

I wonder what type of response you'd get if you messaged him with something supporting his cause.

[Reveilled]

EDIT:  My most recent e-mail however, was a serious one, asking why go for video games when there is plenty of sex in the movies, as well as internet sites that provide porn movies for free, with no way to kid from downloading it.

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Don't go giving him ideas! It would be a horrible world indeed if fourteen year olds like I once was couldn't easily access pornography online.

[alanschu]

LOL!

 

I'm just curious what his response will be. Something Dogmatic no doubt.

 

 

EDIT: I should say, that if you do email the chap, to resist the "Fark you and die" type messages, because he uses that stuff to further justify his actions.

[Ohma]

LOL!

 

I'm just curious what his response will be.  Something Dogmatic no doubt.

 

 

EDIT: I should say, that if you do email the chap, to resist the "Fark you and die" type messages, because he uses that stuff to further justify his actions.

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What if I wrote that but then added on a color tag to make the text the same color as the background? Or hid it all through the text? Or made an anagram for it?

[Calax]

how can you possibly sue somthing as innocent as the sim's where people dont' talk? It's just WRONG!

[Ohma]

how can you possibly sue somthing as innocent as the sim's where people dont' talk? It's just WRONG!

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Bekuz it has h07 n3kk1d 53xx0rz!!!!

 

(...if you download a mod and mess with the game...hmm...now why dose that sound familiar?)

[Calax]

Do you want some coffee?

[Ohma]

Do you want some coffee?

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No i've got some right...here...NOOOOOO!!!! DARN YOU WORTHAM!!!

 

(he always takes my coffee :D )

[Calax]

actually i was reffering to the GTA:SA mod thats got so much controversy...

Has this guy ever heard of Singles? (the lawyer)

[Ohma]

actually i was reffering to the GTA:SA mod thats got so much controversy...

Has this guy ever heard of Singles? (the lawyer)

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I know, I was making a "joke" about how this whole OMFG V1D30 G43MZ 4R3 73H 3V1L "controversy" is remenescent of the controversy over comics which was spearheaded by a man named Fredrick Wortham (darn him).

 

As for the lawer and the Singles? I don't know.

 

Here's an odd thing though: yesterday I was down at the mall, and I decided to stop in at my local GameStop (err Spot or whatever, either way they only have a few shelves for PC games so...). I noticed that GTA:SA was no longer on display (which left some very noticeable gaps in their PC selection) , but the Singles and the Guy Game were both VERY promenently displayed. Odd eh?

[cewekeds]

You guys are sending him real emails?

 

I guess I shouldn't have.... sent.... that... virus.....  :">

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Is really a good idea to attack hackers?

 

I thought the supreme court decided digital images of kids where legal because no child was actaully hurt. If people need to get there kicks off kids I'd rather those kids be fake.

 

I can't believe somebody worries about the sims being bad. I also find it sad that so many people hate the naked human body and turn it into something dirty.

 

I just thought of the reason for going after a game like the sims. If he can win againest the sims he will have a cake walk with other games.

[Darkside]

I'm not going to bother. Anyone who thinks the Sims is evil and responds to serious emails with the word "duh" doesn't deserve my time.

 

I just had an idea! All these lawyers and politicians are starting campaigns of anti-games and anti-violence. Let's start the Anti-Idiot Campaign!

[jodo kast 5]

You guys are sending him real emails?

 

I guess I shouldn't have.... sent.... that... virus.....  :">

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oh s**t.......

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I expect these lawyers will want a full English translation of all Simlish in The Sims 2, so they can check for bad words.

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Don't forget subversive themes, like the communal living of the Sims ... sounds like Communism!111eleven!!!1!

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I honestly didn't know how to respond to 'duh'.   As far as I'm concerned, it's not a word that someone who wishes to be taken seriously would use in formal correspondence.

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Steve, did you put this post scriptum in? it might have had more impact then everything else you wrote!

 

Another factor, he is obviously an ambulance chaser, not a constituional specialist, so

[GhostofAnakin]

Are you guys joking around, or is his entire basis for response "duh"?

 

Exactly where did he get his law degree if his vocabulary when responding to serious emails has the word "duh" in it.

[Reveilled]

Don't go giving him ideas!  It would be a horrible world indeed if fourteen year olds like I once was couldn't easily access pornography online.

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There is no way to control the internet. Not even the most meglomaniacal can achieve the impossible (King Canute and the tide springs to mind as an example).

 

Not even China, Singapore, Iraq under Saddam, nor Iran can stop it.

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True, I guess. Where there's a willy there's a way.

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist saying it. :D

[Diogo Ribeiro]

But some aspects of the internet can be more or less regulated, though. Restricting access or encrypting information comes to mind.

[Petay]

Are you guys joking around, or is his entire basis for response "duh"? 

 

Exactly where did he get his law degree if his vocabulary when responding to serious emails has the word "duh" in it.

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I thought exactly that too.

 

Either he actually hasn't got a law degree, or this is just some fake doing it for attention. :angry:

[alanschu]

Wow, all I basically did was ask him why the millions of other owners of GTA haven't gone on murderous killing sprees, and pointed out that violent crime was on the decline according to the Department of Justice, and he sent me this:

 

 

Allow me to make this very clear to all in the so-called "gaming community"

who continue to email me for the purpose not of sharing information or

engaging in civil conversation but for the sole purpose of harassing me,

with garbage like the below email:

 

In Florida we have a cyber-stalking law.  There are federal statutes as well

that prohibit what many of you are doing to me.  Some of you have emailed me

and threatened to kill me.  How interesting that you claim that I have

infringed on YOUR First Amendment rights.  Your lack of courtesy and your

utter lack of reflection prove my and others' points about the corrosive

effects of the games.

 

I am warning all of you whom I have not invited to communicate with me after

an initial contact by you that I shall consider any further emails from you

as violative of my rights and violative of the aforementioned criminal

statutes.

 

There is nothing more hypocritical than a bunch of gamer thugs who harass me

and threaten me all in the name of "freedom of expression."

 

I have a constitutional right to talk, at the Senator's request, to the

staff of Senator Clinton.  I did that.  I have a right to point out that

Electronic Arts is engaged in a knowing conspiracy with the "mod community"

(what's next, "a pedophile community"?) to distribute porn to children.  Any

of you who don't think that is what EA is doing need to get a law degree and

practice for 30 years, as I have.  Then I'll be interested in your

"opinions" about The Sims 2 scandal.

 

If you videogaming thugs don't like what I do, then get off your rear ends

and talk to the media, talk to your representatives, and write articles for

your Internet game news sites.  Don't flood my email inbox with your

petulant tirades which are neither welcome nor productive.

 

All they do is encourage me in my knowledge that normal people who have a

right to stop predatory video game companies' practices are going to succeed

in protecting children from those practices.  Honestly, some of you email me

and threaten me because you say "You want to ban all video games."  That is

reflective, by and large, of the perspicacity of the typical threatening

emails I get.  Such people don't want facts.  They want an argument.  They

want to treat me as if I were some punching bag prostitute in GTA.  I've had

it with this.  I am going to stop it.

 

We won the "Hot Coffee mod" battle, and we shall win other battles.  If any

of you clowns are still dumb enough to threaten me and harass me after

receiving this email, then contact your lawyers.  You're going to need them.

 

For the record, I have never threatened his life nor is First Amendment Rights.

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But some aspects of the internet can be more or less regulated, though. Restricting access or encrypting information comes to mind.

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Information WANTS to be FREE!

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Allow me to make this very clear to all in the so-called "gaming community"

who continue to email me for the purpose not of sharing information or

engaging in civil conversation but for the sole purpose of harassing me,

with garbage like the below email:

 

In Florida we have a cyber-stalking law.  There are federal statutes as well

that prohibit what many of you are doing to me.  ...

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Um, I don't give a tinker's cuss about Floridian law, because it is irrelevant to those of us who do not live within Florida, or indeed even the U.S.

 

Sounds like he sent you email in part of a mass-mail-out; I wonder if that falls foul of the spam laws?

[GhostofAnakin]

Wow, all I basically did was ask him why the millions of other owners of GTA haven't gone on murderous killing sprees, and pointed out that violent crime was on the decline according to the Department of Justice, and he sent me this:

 

[big dumb lawyer snippet]

 

For the record, I have never threatened his life nor is First Amendment Rights.

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It's funny how when they're backed into a corner they resort to that kind of response, yet when they're on the attack they don't give a crap about what other people's views or rights are.

 

What an idiot.

[alanschu]

Hahahaha.

 

I sent him a reply stating that I am trying to have a civil discussion about information that is inconsistent between his sources and my sources.

 

I love how he said I should go out an talk to the media and whatnot, like it's easy for an average joe that's not on a crusade and doesn't make his living by his crusader to go out and spend all his time talking to the media.

 

Ironically, his crusade has made me have more violent urges than any video game has ever done. Fortunately I have played these murder simulators which have taught me that stabbing someone will kill them. Otherwise I'd be at a complete loss as to what to do.