I was browsing gamepolitics.com when I came across this article. Apparently some moron in the inept Texas crime punishment system is blaming violent games and music for crime. What kind of music? Not heavy metal this time, thank god, but rap, which he hits the nail on the head on, to his credit. He is right about that. But then he goes down to try to say that playing violent games will make you more likely to commit crime and then attacks various popular games (thank god none of them are actually good games)... I quote:
“As the body becomes physiologically accustomed to a little lift from a
gateway drug, the person graduates to harder drugs,” Williams said, “I
see video games as something where once the thrill of playing a video
game is gone, what’s the next step?”
He's basically saying that crime is directly caused by playing violent games. Which is BS, because in the last few years when games were really violent and popular, crime has been dropping. He is trying to say that gamers become criminals after they get bored of a game. It's preposterous, stupid, and just a plain fucking lie. There is no way violent games will make you want to commit crime after you get bored of them. I have gotten 'bored' of the crappy games I played to death like the ones he mentions, and not once did I want to steal cars for real like I did when I was playing the shitty excuse for a series GTA is. And I don't know where he gets this info. He has no hard evidence to back up his claim whatsoever here, NONE. And here is proof:
"It should be noted that Williams did not cite a single case he had
been involved in over the last 28 years where there was a correlation
between playing video games and a crime being committed by a juvenile
offender."
This is proof that he is pulling BS out of his ass. Like this said there hasn't been a single cited case where he mentions how a juvenile offender played violent games and then committed a crime. He just says there is but can't back it up because he's an anti-gamer asshole.
"Williams also took the time to list the games "kids are playing
today" including Mortal Kombat, Call of Duty, Postal 2, Postal 3, and
Grand Theft Auto V. At least he mentioned two games that teens might
actually be playing..."
He then tries to claim kids are playing these games (GTA, Postal 2/3, Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat). Call of duty he is right about. But the others, not so much. The average age of a gamer today as found out by the ESA is 30. 30! Not a kid. The whole idea that kids play violent games and only kids play them is nonsense that I have debunked on a blog post somewhere in a myths post. It's nonsense.
Notice how he singles out those 5 games and tries to claim all violent games lead to crime? Well I did and this is total bullshit. Games like that are a small percentage of violent games. There are tons of idiots in newspaper articles singling out Postal 2 as an example of what "most violent games are like" to attack the EMA vs Brown Decision. This is no different. It's blatant stereotyping. There are many shooters/RPG's/other games that are violent and do NOT push the envelope like GTA or Mortal Kombat does. GTA and it's ilk make up less than 10% of total violent games ever made. He is simply using his position, like cops do to try to demean the gaming industry by making it look like these 5 crappy games are good examples of "realistic" violent games (when they are not), and then saying all games cause crime. It's Bullshit, Don't believe it. And he's an ass.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Columbine Doom hoax search results and Fake Doom BS
Today, after reading the articles I posted on the Doom Hoaxes, where Doom was blamed for columbine using fake evidence, fabricated in 1999, I decided to write another article about video game related nonsense and how my efforts to debunk such hoaxes have really helped to show how idiotic the doom moral panic was.
The first such hoax "Doom will become reality", supposedly was said on Eric Harris's website but several sites proved that it was fake at the time. But their proof did not get far, because many more sites said this was proof that Doom did in fact cause columbine, all attacking violent video games at the same time. At the time, any and all search results for the phrase lead to sites attacking violent games. My debunking it helped to change that however. Go search for "Doom Will become reality" on google.com and you get this:
My blogs and videos debunking this nonsense are now at the top of the results. Surprise! Saying that the Doom will become reality hoax is just that, over and over again can do wonders to the search results. My stuff has seriously trumped all the anti-gamer nonsense BS sites saying Doom was the cause for the massacre.
But this thing doesn't end here.
Another much more complex hoax involved 3 articles from 3 newspaper saying a modified version of doom was found on Eric Harris's website/or computer. (it differs per source, weirdly). The modified version of doom had begging students saying a certain phrase and many features doom could not do in 1999. At the time searching for some phrase in the articles themselves led to tons of sites all citing the claims like they were a fact. That is still true. But if you google "modified version of doom columbine" you get the most popular article and my debunkings right below it. Not as successful as the last debunking, but close.
Now if you googled the phrase "Doom caused columbine" before I mentioned the phrase over and over again with various articles here, you would get tons of sites saying that Doom did in fact cause columbine. Now this is what you get:
After the wikipedia article, my debunking is right below! I never expected the debunking to get so high in the search results. I expected that some people would read it and then stow it away, and at best I would get mentioned on some gaming forum. I wasn't expecting my results on the Doom will become reality hoax to include my articles first. With all the sites (100's) saying that this hoax is proof doom did cause columbine, you'd expect my post to be much lower, but no.
But before we go, I want to do another Fake Doom BS debunking right here. Not quite as popular in the game attacking sites as the 2 last ones but still mentioned from time to time is the following long paragraph written by Harris himself:
"everyone should be put to a test. an ULTIMATE DOOM test, see who can survive in an environment using only smarts and military skills. put them in a doom world. no authority, no refuge, no BS copout excuses. If you cant figure out the area of a triangle or what "cation" means, you die! if you cant take down a demon w/ a chainsaw or kill a hell prince w/ a shotgun, you die! fucking snotty rich fuckheads [Censored by J.C.Sheriff Office] who rely on others or on sympathy or $ to get them through life should be put to this challenge. plus it would get rid of all the fat, retarded, crippled, stupid, dumb, ignorant, worthless people of this world. no one is worthy of this planet only me and who ever I choose. there is just no respect for anything higher than your fucking boss or parent. everyone should be shot out into space and only the people I saw should be left behind. 4/12/98"
This phrase is clearly talking about doom multi player, not actually putting people in a school shooting situation. Any gamer can see that. But the people who never played video games would see it a different way, because of the way the articles using this against doom quoted it. The "ultimate doom challenge" is clearly just multi player. Not a school shooting. After that he goes into a total psychotic attack against people who are rich and says they should be killed. But this is used to blame doom constantly. How do we debunk this?
We look for other references to doom in his writings. In most of them Doom is mentioned with other things such as war, with no context to what they are actually describing, such as "this will be like doom, ww2, the korean war rolled into one". What is he talking about. You can't tell. There is no way to know, so how to the anti-gamers know this is about the massacre? They don't. They just want others to believe it is. In all of his writings there is plenty of evidence that Doom was NOT influencing him to commit the massacre.. this following quote proves it:
"someones bound to say "what were they thinking?" when we go NBK or when we were planning it, so this what I am thinking. "I have a goal to destroy as much as possible so I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that, so I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from Doom like FH or FS or demons, so It's either me or them. I have to turn off my feelings." keep this is mind, I want to burn the world, I want to kill everyone except about 5 people, who I will name later, so If you are reading this you are lucky you escaped my rampage because I wanted to kill you. It will be very tricky getting all of our supplies, explosives, weaponry, ammo, and then hiding it all and then actually planting it all so we can achieve our goal. but if we get busted any time, we start killing then and there, just like Wilks from the AlIENS books, I aint going out without a fight."
Notice how he said he would have to "force himself to believe all students are doom monsters" to turn off his feelings during the massacre? No way is this something doom did. Look for more references to Doom in the writings I linked and you get one reference to WW2, and one to the doom shotgun, the ultimate doom test and this. That's it.
Speaking of ww2. Why is the obvious fact and motive that Harris was a Nazi fuckhead completely looked over? Do I have to quote the exact quote where he worships hitler/Nazi's. now. But search for it and you will find more info on his obssession with Nazi's. Why was this totally ignored by all the groups that attacked doom? It's all over his writings, Racial Slurs, references to Nazi's, swastika's, plane as day to see. Yet this was totally ignored and Doom was blamed instead? WTF!
In any ordinary mind this would be much more likely motive than being "brainwashed by doom". But people in Colorado started blaming doom right and left till it was mass hysteria. It got so out of control that even I was threatened by some dickhead on a forum over it (long story). This is just more proof that the people blaming doom, skipping over his hatred of people/love for Nazi's, are complete idiots. His multiplayer "Ultimate Doom test" was used like the "Doom will become reality hoax" to demonize Doom constantly in various attack sites, even to this day. It's rediculous.
At least I can try to stop this nonsense, and I think I have been relatively sucessful.
Damian Ichabod 1 Idiots 0!
The first such hoax "Doom will become reality", supposedly was said on Eric Harris's website but several sites proved that it was fake at the time. But their proof did not get far, because many more sites said this was proof that Doom did in fact cause columbine, all attacking violent video games at the same time. At the time, any and all search results for the phrase lead to sites attacking violent games. My debunking it helped to change that however. Go search for "Doom Will become reality" on google.com and you get this:
My blogs and videos debunking this nonsense are now at the top of the results. Surprise! Saying that the Doom will become reality hoax is just that, over and over again can do wonders to the search results. My stuff has seriously trumped all the anti-gamer nonsense BS sites saying Doom was the cause for the massacre.
But this thing doesn't end here.
Another much more complex hoax involved 3 articles from 3 newspaper saying a modified version of doom was found on Eric Harris's website/or computer. (it differs per source, weirdly). The modified version of doom had begging students saying a certain phrase and many features doom could not do in 1999. At the time searching for some phrase in the articles themselves led to tons of sites all citing the claims like they were a fact. That is still true. But if you google "modified version of doom columbine" you get the most popular article and my debunkings right below it. Not as successful as the last debunking, but close.
Now if you googled the phrase "Doom caused columbine" before I mentioned the phrase over and over again with various articles here, you would get tons of sites saying that Doom did in fact cause columbine. Now this is what you get:
After the wikipedia article, my debunking is right below! I never expected the debunking to get so high in the search results. I expected that some people would read it and then stow it away, and at best I would get mentioned on some gaming forum. I wasn't expecting my results on the Doom will become reality hoax to include my articles first. With all the sites (100's) saying that this hoax is proof doom did cause columbine, you'd expect my post to be much lower, but no.
But before we go, I want to do another Fake Doom BS debunking right here. Not quite as popular in the game attacking sites as the 2 last ones but still mentioned from time to time is the following long paragraph written by Harris himself:
"everyone should be put to a test. an ULTIMATE DOOM test, see who can survive in an environment using only smarts and military skills. put them in a doom world. no authority, no refuge, no BS copout excuses. If you cant figure out the area of a triangle or what "cation" means, you die! if you cant take down a demon w/ a chainsaw or kill a hell prince w/ a shotgun, you die! fucking snotty rich fuckheads [Censored by J.C.Sheriff Office] who rely on others or on sympathy or $ to get them through life should be put to this challenge. plus it would get rid of all the fat, retarded, crippled, stupid, dumb, ignorant, worthless people of this world. no one is worthy of this planet only me and who ever I choose. there is just no respect for anything higher than your fucking boss or parent. everyone should be shot out into space and only the people I saw should be left behind. 4/12/98"
This phrase is clearly talking about doom multi player, not actually putting people in a school shooting situation. Any gamer can see that. But the people who never played video games would see it a different way, because of the way the articles using this against doom quoted it. The "ultimate doom challenge" is clearly just multi player. Not a school shooting. After that he goes into a total psychotic attack against people who are rich and says they should be killed. But this is used to blame doom constantly. How do we debunk this?
We look for other references to doom in his writings. In most of them Doom is mentioned with other things such as war, with no context to what they are actually describing, such as "this will be like doom, ww2, the korean war rolled into one". What is he talking about. You can't tell. There is no way to know, so how to the anti-gamers know this is about the massacre? They don't. They just want others to believe it is. In all of his writings there is plenty of evidence that Doom was NOT influencing him to commit the massacre.. this following quote proves it:
"someones bound to say "what were they thinking?" when we go NBK or when we were planning it, so this what I am thinking. "I have a goal to destroy as much as possible so I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that, so I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from Doom like FH or FS or demons, so It's either me or them. I have to turn off my feelings." keep this is mind, I want to burn the world, I want to kill everyone except about 5 people, who I will name later, so If you are reading this you are lucky you escaped my rampage because I wanted to kill you. It will be very tricky getting all of our supplies, explosives, weaponry, ammo, and then hiding it all and then actually planting it all so we can achieve our goal. but if we get busted any time, we start killing then and there, just like Wilks from the AlIENS books, I aint going out without a fight."
Notice how he said he would have to "force himself to believe all students are doom monsters" to turn off his feelings during the massacre? No way is this something doom did. Look for more references to Doom in the writings I linked and you get one reference to WW2, and one to the doom shotgun, the ultimate doom test and this. That's it.
Speaking of ww2. Why is the obvious fact and motive that Harris was a Nazi fuckhead completely looked over? Do I have to quote the exact quote where he worships hitler/Nazi's. now. But search for it and you will find more info on his obssession with Nazi's. Why was this totally ignored by all the groups that attacked doom? It's all over his writings, Racial Slurs, references to Nazi's, swastika's, plane as day to see. Yet this was totally ignored and Doom was blamed instead? WTF!
In any ordinary mind this would be much more likely motive than being "brainwashed by doom". But people in Colorado started blaming doom right and left till it was mass hysteria. It got so out of control that even I was threatened by some dickhead on a forum over it (long story). This is just more proof that the people blaming doom, skipping over his hatred of people/love for Nazi's, are complete idiots. His multiplayer "Ultimate Doom test" was used like the "Doom will become reality hoax" to demonize Doom constantly in various attack sites, even to this day. It's rediculous.
At least I can try to stop this nonsense, and I think I have been relatively sucessful.
Damian Ichabod 1 Idiots 0!
"Offensive Content" nonsense clauses in websites terms of service piss me off!
So for a few years I've been posting music to my soundcloud account,
mostly extreme metal I write for two solo artist of mine. As of late, a
theme has popped into my lyrics, a not-so-clean theme that I don't
normally write about, wanking. But since I am massively pro-wanking(tm) I
decided to write 2 songs about it. So I uploaded one, not realizing,
that soundcloud's terms of service say you can't do that, your content
cannot be sexually explicit.... WTF! Here is the exact text from the
terms and services section:
"Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to SoundCloud as follows:
(i) Your Content, and each and every part thereof, is an original work by you, or you have obtained all rights, licences, consents and permissions necessary in order to use, and (if and where relevant) to authorise SoundCloud to use, Your Content pursuant to these Terms of Use, including, without limitation, the right to upload, reproduce, store, transmit, distribute, share, publicly display, publicly perform, make available and otherwise communicate to the public Your Content, and each and every part thereof, on, through or via the Website, any and all Services and any Linked Services.
(ii) Your Content and the availability thereof on the Platform does not and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, any intellectual property rights, performers’ rights, rights of privacy or publicity, or rights in confidential information.
(iii) You have obtained any and all necessary consents, permissions and/or releases from any and all persons appearing in Your Content in order to include their name, voice, performance or likeness in Your Content and to publish the same on the Platform and via any Linked Services.
(iv) Your Content, including any comments that you may post on the Website, is not and will not be unlawful, offensive, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, will not promote violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, or incite hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
(v) Your Content does not and will not create any liability on the part of SoundCloud, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, and assigns, and their respective employees, agents, directors, officers and/or shareholders.
SoundCloud reserves the right to remove Your Content, suspend or terminate your access to the Platform and/or pursue all legal remedies if we believe that any of Your Content breaches any of the foregoing representations or warranties, or otherwise infringes another person's rights or violates any law, rule or regulation."
Look at part 4 above:
"Your Content, including any comments that you may post on the Website, is not and will not be unlawful, offensive, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, will not promote violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, or incite hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation."
So basically they are not allowing people to upload merely offensive content of any kind. Define offensive? Some lyrics I write might offend the idiots out there? In fact you can say that any content can be offensive, because there will always be someone who will find it offensive.
Notice that it also outlaws "culturally offensive content". WTF! Define culturally offensive. That is a complete subjective statement. Someone can find a song's lyrics about zombies eating babies to be offensive or "culturally offensive". It's stupid, vague and idiotic that that, sexually explicit, obscene and indecent content are not allowed...... They are vague, subjective content definitions that all require the person 'offended' by them to find them offensive for it to be any of those..... Not objective. Is our country and our Internet such a nanny state now that offensive content has to be gotten rid of... For the children? WTF!
Also, what the fuck is the problem with sexually explicit content? Both youtube and Soundcloud block this stuff and it's completely normal and natural. Yet in this world it's horribly offensive to even mention any kind of sexual content in lyrics. It's like 'all mentions of sex = bad for a children's mind so we need to get rid of it'. It's stupid.
It's really lucky of me to upload the music lyrics I do which can fit into some of these categories and not be deleted yet. I have had some suspicious problems with my soundcloud accounts in the past so maybe. I wish soundcloud would get rid of the 'offensive','abusive','culturally offensive','obscene',and 'indecent' clauses. It isn't needed. People offended by lyrics can put them in categories like this to get them taken down and that is NOT the way the Internet should work.
I'm not happy about this. This crap should not be on the Internet at all. Subjective content restrictions need to be Gotten rid of, completely. They don't do anything positive. They just prevent people from being offended. It's like accidentally or purposely offending people is a crime now. It shouldn't be. Guess what folks.... you have the right to be offended. You have no right whatsoever to be shielded from offensive content because that's fucking stupid. End of story.
"Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to SoundCloud as follows:
(i) Your Content, and each and every part thereof, is an original work by you, or you have obtained all rights, licences, consents and permissions necessary in order to use, and (if and where relevant) to authorise SoundCloud to use, Your Content pursuant to these Terms of Use, including, without limitation, the right to upload, reproduce, store, transmit, distribute, share, publicly display, publicly perform, make available and otherwise communicate to the public Your Content, and each and every part thereof, on, through or via the Website, any and all Services and any Linked Services.
(ii) Your Content and the availability thereof on the Platform does not and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, any intellectual property rights, performers’ rights, rights of privacy or publicity, or rights in confidential information.
(iii) You have obtained any and all necessary consents, permissions and/or releases from any and all persons appearing in Your Content in order to include their name, voice, performance or likeness in Your Content and to publish the same on the Platform and via any Linked Services.
(iv) Your Content, including any comments that you may post on the Website, is not and will not be unlawful, offensive, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, will not promote violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, or incite hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
(v) Your Content does not and will not create any liability on the part of SoundCloud, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, and assigns, and their respective employees, agents, directors, officers and/or shareholders.
SoundCloud reserves the right to remove Your Content, suspend or terminate your access to the Platform and/or pursue all legal remedies if we believe that any of Your Content breaches any of the foregoing representations or warranties, or otherwise infringes another person's rights or violates any law, rule or regulation."
Look at part 4 above:
"Your Content, including any comments that you may post on the Website, is not and will not be unlawful, offensive, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, will not promote violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, or incite hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation."
So basically they are not allowing people to upload merely offensive content of any kind. Define offensive? Some lyrics I write might offend the idiots out there? In fact you can say that any content can be offensive, because there will always be someone who will find it offensive.
Notice that it also outlaws "culturally offensive content". WTF! Define culturally offensive. That is a complete subjective statement. Someone can find a song's lyrics about zombies eating babies to be offensive or "culturally offensive". It's stupid, vague and idiotic that that, sexually explicit, obscene and indecent content are not allowed...... They are vague, subjective content definitions that all require the person 'offended' by them to find them offensive for it to be any of those..... Not objective. Is our country and our Internet such a nanny state now that offensive content has to be gotten rid of... For the children? WTF!
Also, what the fuck is the problem with sexually explicit content? Both youtube and Soundcloud block this stuff and it's completely normal and natural. Yet in this world it's horribly offensive to even mention any kind of sexual content in lyrics. It's like 'all mentions of sex = bad for a children's mind so we need to get rid of it'. It's stupid.
It's really lucky of me to upload the music lyrics I do which can fit into some of these categories and not be deleted yet. I have had some suspicious problems with my soundcloud accounts in the past so maybe. I wish soundcloud would get rid of the 'offensive','abusive','culturally offensive','obscene',and 'indecent' clauses. It isn't needed. People offended by lyrics can put them in categories like this to get them taken down and that is NOT the way the Internet should work.
I'm not happy about this. This crap should not be on the Internet at all. Subjective content restrictions need to be Gotten rid of, completely. They don't do anything positive. They just prevent people from being offended. It's like accidentally or purposely offending people is a crime now. It shouldn't be. Guess what folks.... you have the right to be offended. You have no right whatsoever to be shielded from offensive content because that's fucking stupid. End of story.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
NSA's new Malware plan must be stopped
So NSA's rediculous power is only going to get worse now. If you thought them collecting info was bad, well, guess again. Now, according to Slashdot, they want to use Malware, probably rootkitted malware to steal info from possible "terrorists", using fake emails spread claiming to be from Facebook and other Social Networking services. It's bad enough when we have no privacy anymore, but now they want to mess up the security of our computers? What the hell is wrong with them. Do they even know how bad malware is? Certain malware can totally fuck up a system, and that's what they want to do to get their spying data from us.... It's really sick...
I highly recommend that people who don't want their PC's hacked by NSA and others (because others will use the malware the NSA makes against other people, mark my words) should contact their Representatives and complain. It's really important we do this. Send them a message saying how you don't want the government allowing others to utterly destroying people's PC's (because that's what malware does) while the NSA can do the same thing at the same time! Tell them how disgusted you are at the NSA! Show them your anger! Remind them that what NSA is planning to do should be punished with Life in Prison like it would be for any Civilian hacking a PC. But NSA won't pay thay price, will they?
Some hacker nuked my PC 2 years ago and 2 1/2 years before that. I've been a victim of nasty malware, Rootkits, Polymorphic file infecting Viruses that nuke your PC by infecting all programs on your computer, destroying all your date (like Virut), and worse. This shit is already out of control, and the companies that makes pile of shit antivirus products aren't doing shit against the horrible malware out there, and now the NSA wants to join the hackers in the great job of nuking our PC's for what, for National Security? WTF!
This whole pile of crap idea is NOT for national security. It's for spying on people and accessing their PC to enable them to use that whole framework to enforce laws that are impossible now, like Punishing people for playing violent games (through a tax or prison time even), or listening to mp3 music (getting their info for mass lawsuit filing!, or worse), or to punish people who criticize the government. This crap is NOT needed for National Security! Tell your REP that!
In the mean time, It's really important to Protect your Own PC. An antivirus will do nothing against their malware. It will be a rootkit more than likely and Antivirus products can't even flush out tougher virii or fake antivirus crap now. Instead get the free Program Sandboxie. It sandboxes your browser in a protected area it builds that makes it so that any malware laden email will simply run the malware in the sandbox, doing nothing to your computer. Download it here:
Saturday, March 1, 2014
GOP trying to overtax "Violent gaming companies" with the new Tax Reform bill.
So reading gamepolitics got me this article to attack. Basically, the GOP is trying to make it so R&D tax credit does not get given to "Violent Gaming Companies", another ill planned attempt to kill off the industry in 5-10 years, like the Oklahoma Tax Bill that would have made it legal to tax people who stored, played, and otherwise consumed violent games 1% Of all the property they bought in the state, (which would be 100's of dollars per storage, use, etc for me, more for others). Since no one could afford such a tax no one would even buy violent games and the industry would go bankrupt, provided the bill spread to other states like the filthy virus it was. Good thing it was struck down in court.
But the current Tax Reform bill has absolutely nothing to do with tax reform in a positive way when you factor in the future consequences the industry will have. I have no clue how high the current Tax Credit is for R and D for the gaming industry but it must be quite significant. Make it so this tax credit goes out the window and gaming companies will eventually (not right away but eventually) stop even trying to make new engines for their games because they can't afford it. So they use old engines, and since old engines = shit graphics to most of the gaming community, the game will get shitty reviews and won't even sell. Once this happens to 75 percent or more of the industry you have only the big corporations even being able to afford the tax credit and all others use old engines and eventually the new games with the old engines get panned as obsolete and they don't make anymore money off of them, therefore they go out of business because they can't afford to make new engines for their games.
I for one hate this. It's not entirely the GOP's fault, because to me Graphics =/= better game, Gameplay is far more important and so is story. But to modern consolitis infected morons graphics are everything and because of that this whole idea will eventually kill the industry. Someone has to stop this kind of thing now, because I don't see the trend of better graphics = better game changing soon.
Write your representatives and tell them you think this tax is a ludicrous example of censoring an industry that the public thinks put out trash for games (which is the most common example of an opinion on violent games, unfortunately). Tell them the government should not be putting there noses into the gaming industry for a sick minded attempt to kill it off, which is what this really is!
My youtube video goes into this more:
But the current Tax Reform bill has absolutely nothing to do with tax reform in a positive way when you factor in the future consequences the industry will have. I have no clue how high the current Tax Credit is for R and D for the gaming industry but it must be quite significant. Make it so this tax credit goes out the window and gaming companies will eventually (not right away but eventually) stop even trying to make new engines for their games because they can't afford it. So they use old engines, and since old engines = shit graphics to most of the gaming community, the game will get shitty reviews and won't even sell. Once this happens to 75 percent or more of the industry you have only the big corporations even being able to afford the tax credit and all others use old engines and eventually the new games with the old engines get panned as obsolete and they don't make anymore money off of them, therefore they go out of business because they can't afford to make new engines for their games.
I for one hate this. It's not entirely the GOP's fault, because to me Graphics =/= better game, Gameplay is far more important and so is story. But to modern consolitis infected morons graphics are everything and because of that this whole idea will eventually kill the industry. Someone has to stop this kind of thing now, because I don't see the trend of better graphics = better game changing soon.
Write your representatives and tell them you think this tax is a ludicrous example of censoring an industry that the public thinks put out trash for games (which is the most common example of an opinion on violent games, unfortunately). Tell them the government should not be putting there noses into the gaming industry for a sick minded attempt to kill it off, which is what this really is!
My youtube video goes into this more:
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