Video Games: Criminal training for liberal teens
From time to time, we at the Shelley The Republican blog like to salute the true patriots who defend our nation against the onslaught of liberal tyranny. Not all of our heroes are famous like George Bush and Anne Coulter. We also like to pay our respects to the little guy who takes the fight directly to those who would corrupt our nation. Friends, Jack Thompson is such a person.
Jack modestly describes himself as a Patriot, a Christian and a Republican. Those of us who appreciate his work know that he is so much more. In addition to being one of the most senior attorneys in Florida and a noted criminologist, he has been a tireless pro-family values lobbyist. He is a fierce opponent of pornographic rap-music, and the leading campaigner against the latest kid’s craze: Video Games.
Jack campaigns against products like this, a video game called “Evil Residence”. It is marketed at kids, but contains satanic themes and shows a gravely irrisponsible use of firearms.
Video games systems like Nintendo’s “Playstation” are marketed at kids. Outwardly they appear to be cube-like toys with a fat child-friendly carying handle. Like cartoons, video games are intended as children’s entertainment, but unlike cartoons video games often include dangerously adult themes:
Jack began his solo battle against the video game industry in 1998 when the European video game company, “Take Two” released a game called “Grand Theft Auto”. Not knowing how they might market such a violent game, the publisher initially advertised it to British “Soccer Hooligans” and “Larger Louts”. It soon became popular amongst European criminals. They used it as a criminal training simulator.
This game uses state of the art 3D-graphics to immerse your child in a world of crime. The game computer teaches kids to push drugs, steal cars and use the services of prostitutes, all to the corrupting beat of a porn-rock soundtrack.
Technicians working for Jack discovered a hidden feature or “mod” for the Grand Theft Auto game called “Hot Coffee” This took the form of a sequence where the player earns points by committing felonies (e.g. Murder, Rape, Carjacking). If the player achieves enough “felony kudos points” then he is rewarded by an explicit homosexual pornographic sequence.
This was not the only game from Take Two containing a hidden pornographic mod. For example a year later the same company released “Elder Scrolls Oblivion”, a Live Playing Game or LPG that once again invites the player to brawl and worship false-gods in a medieval fantasy inspired world.
Oblivion also included a hidden mod that made all of the characters naked. Sexually explicit content is often used to sell video games, such as the game “Dead or Alive” shown above. Video games often appear harmless, but contain hidden pornography mods.
It will hardly come as a surprise that Jack discovered that the tragic incident at Columbine high-school was also caused by video game nudity:
The two kids who went on a murderous rampage through their school had been inspired and educated by violent and sexually explicit video games. If only the games industry had learned something from this tragedy, then the evil “Trenchcoat Mafia” might have grown up to be normal Christian teens.
Last year Jack took a case on behalf of parents of a murdered child. Their son had been killed by a gang that was addicted to video games. Naturally, the video game companies denied all responsibility, but With names like Doom, Castle Wolf, Evil Residence and Nightmare Creatures, it is not surprising that games were once again responsible for transforming a normal boys into desensitized killing machines.
The victims of the video game industry are too many to count. Next time you pass a video game shop, please spare a thought for Jack Thompson, defender of the innocent souls, terrorized by games. This good man needs our support and prayers.
Thank You Jack.
God Bless,
Tristan
After reading this I?m sure you are stupid…
Nintendos “Playstation?
LOL
“Playstation” is made by Sony and it?s not “Castle Wolf” or “Evil Residence”. The names are “Castle Wolfenstein” and “Resident Evil”.
I wonder, that you don?t know “Castle Wolfenstein”, because in this game it is your mission to kill many many Nazis.
Good job, Shelly
I really enjoyed it . All the video games should be forbidden.
You are a great man , only Hitler was greater , but go on , you can change it.
I hope people will realize that you are dangerous before it is too late.
Please remain humorist.
Best regards ,
atheisticlinuxuser from slovakia
A few mistakes here, if I may:
The playstation is not a Nintendo product, but a Sony product.
Grand theft auto is not a 3D game. Well, at least the first wasn’t.
(by the way, Microsoft was VERY PROUD to announce at the latest video game conference that they had the exclusivity of the latest GTA. unfortunatly, it wasn’t the case, and they made fools of themselves)
No need to censor that DOA image, they are only in swimsuits. But maybe kids aren’t allowed in swimming pools or at beach?
A few errors in the game names, too: it’s “return to Castle Wolfestein” and “resident evil”.
I will add that most of these games are adult-rated, meaning they are not to be sold to or played by children (complain about it at your local video game shop).
I would just add one thing: be careful, all those games are best-sellers. And knowing that every child who play any of these games will automatically become a serial killer, no one will be safe tommorow
Look im a kid and these mistakes like nintendos “playstation” insult me. Im a strait A student and I have a 4.0! I play Video games that are violent and im still sane. I dont go around looking for hookers and stuff. So please be smart and shurt your stupid mouth!
Uhm… it seems that nintendo released gta only on gameboy (so, low res graphics will not hurt anyone).
You’re probably confusing the playstation from sony or X-box from mighty microsoft (yes, the same company producing windows xp).
Indeed I really prefer games like bubble bobble or tetris.
If two child take weapon and kill a lot of their comrade it’s because they play at violent video game ?
Certainely , video games have a part of responsabilities in this tragedy but we can ask :
1) Where those two under 18 yr old find military weapon ?
2) Where they learn to use it ?
3) Holliwood ultra violent film and stupid film ( xXx …Ect…) arenot responsable at all of the violence of this youg boys ?
4)Those two boy became monster not because product that society put in their hand but because their lake of education and their particular sense of reality . I thougt …
From Europe :
USA is a great country. US people is nice, welcoming and friendly.
Evrything you wrote are not USA. USA is a democratic country with very strong value. They gave us freedom. But not in your way. They gave us freedom with the spirit of your fathers founders like G. Washington and others great US citizen. For me you are not USA.
God bless USA. Long live to US democracy.
You seriously expect us to believe that European criminal masterminds use computer games as training simulators?????? The very same European Criminals whose peers are running organised crime in the USA, the mafia? Are you saying they learn their trade from computers?
You truly are stupid!
Im sorry, but this society that we live in is so negative. Even games like SimCity and Pac-Man have a negative impact on our children. Shelly I agree with you, How do we reach out to our conservative government officials and make them ban Grand Theft Auto, Doom, and especially the “nonthreatning” games such as SimCity and Pac-Man? We KNOW these are all works of Lucifer. We need games that are educational, that teach math and science and especially religon.
Don’t forget that you great *Jack* had been erased from court because of his integrists opinions…
Adults video games are for ADULTS, like ADULTS movies are.
I’m killing a lot of 3Dmodels everydays but i’ve never wanted to take a gun and kill real people, i’m playing since the age of 7 (i’m 26 now) so please !
My beloved’s little brother (12) is playing *hard* games and the only weapon he dreams of is the “st*r w*rs laserblade”, nothing else…
I agree with this:
1) Where those two under 18 yr old find military weapon ?
2) Where they learn to use it ?
3) Holliwood ultra violent film and stupid film ( xXx …Ect…) arenot responsable at all of the violence of this youg boys ?
4)Those two boy became monster not because product that society put in their hand but because their lake of education and their particular sense of reality . I thougt …
Hello I’m the bad bad NAZI from Germany, I only eat Sauerkraut and Rippchen, have a Bierbauch and can only point with my right arm to the stars, when you know what I mean. People like you are very very dangerous. Please shut up.
This Article rocks. So many Mistakes that it should really be clear now that you are just humoring us. I think you know very well what Bulls*** you are telling on your blog, but just for the fun of it: One mistake that hasn’t been corrected yet: It’s Rpg for Role Playing Game instead of Lpg.
So for all you lovely Reps out there: If you really want to change something in your country you should start with restricting the usage of firearms to only authorised personell like cops. Look how easy you can get a weapon in the States and you know the primary answer for all your gun-related violence.
Second: You should start using a rating system for Videogames and Movies that is enforced by the gouvernment like we have it in germany. If a Game is rated “adults only” you can only buy it legally as an adult and if it is too violent or the goal of the game is just the killing (like in the Game “Hit Man”, where you play a killer that is being hired for different jobs) then it can even be banned from advertising, so nearly noone will know about it.
So long!
A Roman-Catholic
you are funny. it is very curious to see what people like you think. it is especially entertaining when i consider that you actually believe the stuff you write.
Do violent games create violent people, or do violent people play violent games?
I have played quite a few violent games, even when quite young, and yet I am quite a pacifist, unless violence becomes completely necessary.
Be careful not to judge things by correlation. 95% of murderers eat bread on a regular basis; should we therefore ban bread?
LOL, Tristan, if you are going to bash something, please, do your research CAREFULLY…
C’mon Playstation from NINTENDO? hahaha!! don’t make me laugh. Playstation is a videogame console from Sony. And they are not marketed at kids… Their main target is “Everyone”, that’s why ESRB(Entretainment Software Rating Board http://www.esrb.org) exists.
LOL “Evil Residence” its not a game ^^ Maybe you meant “Resident Evil” which is a game targeted at a “mature” audience (18 years and up).
VideoGames are just for fun… If you don’t want to play a game full of violence, sex and stuff, buy videogames rated “Everyone” ;)
But, if you are against them, watch CNN or FOXnews or get out of your house… you will find REAL violence EVERYWHERE ^^
Shelley, I have been following your blog for a few months now, and whilst I may not entirely agree with your all your views.
But I’m more concerned for your apparent lack of research (without any references I may add), which is obvious from the number of mistakes visible. To make a statement, it is always wise to backup your statements with true and well researched material.
Also more concerning is your mismatched ethics. Specifically in this post you mention that is a kid commits murder because of a computer game, then it is the developer at fault not the kid. But, in a previous post, you said that if someone kills another with a gun, it not the gun maker at fault, but the person using it. Surely in both cases the ethics are conflicting. Is it the person who commits the murder, or the manufacturer of the device used?
Whilst violent computer games (not all games are though) can contribute to the influence put on the users, computer games can’t be hold responsible for their users. Surely this is the responsibility of the parents? If you want someone to blame for when a kid commits a crime; it should be the kid’s parents!
As a player and a video game lover, I must tell you that the video games used as examples in this article are not so relevant.
The more violent video games I’ve ever played are Manhunt and Condemned - Criminal Origins.
Doom is a good example of a violent game but the third opus well called Doom 3 and his little Brother Quake 4 are better. Doom 3 and Aerea 51 (in which one can hear Marylin Manson’s voice) gather satanic values. The game Soldier of fortune enable the player to dismember his victims. The game Counter Strike (probably the most played game ever) trains kids to shoot people in the head as a reflex.
It’s true that mods enables people to watch nude girls in GTA San Andreas and in Dead or Alive Beach Volley. This fashion started with a mod for Tomb Raider called Nude Raider which enabled to play the whole game controling a nude Lara Croft. The game Ferenheit (an other very good game) contains explicit sexual sequences. The “hot coffee” mod for GTA SA doesn’t contain homosexual sex sequence and GTA SA has an “adult only” rating. The regular version of The Sims 2 contains hetero and homosexual sex, and even sex with alien and is intended for 13 years old players.
Mafia and the GTAs are good criminal teachings but they are pretty innocent compared to Carmaguedon in which the players earns money and points by driving over citizens. There are also games called Hitman in which kids can learn how to become a killer.
About terrorism, the Microsoft game Flight Simulator enable kids to learn plane aproach trajectories to the Wold Trade Center or any other building in most American Cities.
To conclude, I must tell you about the marvelous Postman which laugh at each american traditional value.
Thanks for reading.
This website is an eye opener! I never would have thought in this day and age that anyone who knows how to use a computer could still be so mis-informed with the world around them.
Do I need to point out the non-factual facts you claim in this and every other article you write? I respect freedom of speech, and appreciate your views with a grain of salt. However you might want to read something other then the church-white supremacist-conservative propganda which you then drunkenly regurgitate into this illicit website of ignorant mistruths.
And btw, your website DOES run on linux.
Video games reduced violence in state prison? Can this be?
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2006-03-14-prison-arcade_x.htm?POE=TECISVA
I think I am going to crack open a six pack tonight, play some Black Sabbath backwards, get naked and play some pornographic video games in your honor Shelley!!!
You rule!!
may I be so bold as to inquire why you don’t tackle relevent issues which you should be interested in? Such as demosectic spying and immigration reform? Do you agree with your great leader on these topics?
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I’m just going to pretend this blog is a joke, then I can continue to have some faith in humanity…
Hi Tristan,
May I point out a few mistakes in you fair and balanced article?
1. Nintendo’s game console is called the Gamecube.
2.Cartoons are sometimes adult material.
3.DMA Design (Lemmings)made Grand Theft Auto in 1997 not Take2.
4.The guy who found and made the Hot Coffee Mod is Patrcik a Dutch guy (http://patrickw.gtagames.nl/)
He is most certainly NOT working for Jack.
5.The Mod itself lets you play a little (heterosexual)sex game and it has nothing do to with rape.
6.Take2 has no relations what so ever with The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and by the way that game was released only a month ago. (As opposed to one year after Grand Theft Auto was released as you stated)
7.Its Role Playing Game not your own invented genre Live Playing game.
I gotta stop my sides are hurting me.
I keep coming back to this site because of how amazing it is how you folks get your facts wrong and contradict yourselves time and time and time and time and time again.
I can tell, without a doubt, that you are uneducated and I would also bet there are many children/teens in the US who know better than to make unfactual/contradictory claims like you do so repeatedly and also play the games you misquoted (but I get the idea) in your blog post.
Im not going to correct you like so many others kindly did. I really liked the comments by “concerned reader” and “evil_tux”. Thanks guys for the glimmer of wisdom this site fails to produce.
For other serious republicans out there I say this:
Im a democrat and I agree with some of the republican ideals, as I think other democrats do and vice versa. Its not black and white like this site makes it out to be; it’s gray and I can assure you that if we disagree I will honestly listen to your argument and either agree, agree to disagree, or agree to share in a compromise. There is so much at stake in this day and age that if we draw the line too quickly or irrationally we all lose. And before we do that lets all let Shelley (and Tristan) know how wrong they are.
On top of that anyone outside the US reading this please do not think this is a reflection of even a SMALL mintority of the US population. These two are by themselves with this crap.
You all should be happy that Shelley even allows your comments here.. You all belong to the free speech zone!
god bless you tristan!
Mark
Another GREAT JOKE (I hope so, if this is what you truly think, I pity you) from Tristan, I thought I was reading what my mother thinks about violence in video games and my brother’s and my hobbies.
The games you are speaking of, are classified as “ADULT” games, they are destined to Adults and not children. Adults have more live experience to understand the entertaining way of those games.
I really appreciate to play GTA, it was the first game I played where I was a bad guy. (thinking… Oh I mistook, it was Syndicate, another GREAT video game, and Carmaggedon and Quarantine of course). Those games worked well because for once, players incarnated bad people doing avil things.
Violence are present is video games because violence is everywhere in this world. Just take a look at the news.
About Oblivion, it is a very good game, you can be only a good one, but you can become an evil one killing on sight city guards ond other people.
A French atheist (former Roman-catholic), using linux for work, who likes drinking alcohol with his German, British, Belgian … friends and playing violent video games with them too.
Another GREAT JOKE (I hope so, if this is what you truly think, I pity you) from Tristan, I thought I was reading what my mother thinks about violence in video games and my brother’s and my hobbies.
The games you are speaking of, are classified as “ADULT” games, they are destined to Adults and not children. Adults have more live experience to understand the entertaining way of those games.
I really appreciate to play GTA, it was the first game I played where I was a bad guy. (thinking… Oh I mistook, it was Syndicate, another GREAT video game, and Carmaggedon and Quarantine of course). Those games worked well because for once, players incarnated bad people doing avil things.
Violence are present is video games because violence is everywhere in this world. Just take a look at the news.
About Oblivion, it is a very good game, you can be only a good one, but you can become an evil one killing on sight city guards ond other people.
A French atheist (former Roman-catholic), using linux for work, who likes drinking alcohol with his German, British, Belgian … friends and playing violent video games with them too.
Curious thing that our beloved webmistress doesn?t take a peek around here to shut the trap of those “evil-doers” who so shamelessly evidence the obvious lack of research of this article XD
Quote:You all should be happy that Shelley even allows your comments here.. You all belong to the free speech zone!
What? Is there a “non-free speech” zone in the web? OMG, I?d love to read it! XDDDDDDDDDD
Tristan, you are so right…
But Take Two, who created all thoses horribles games, is owned by Microsoft!
How it is possible?
You’re a fucking bitch that has no clue what the fuck you are talking about.
One more thing.
From their site:
“Take-Two is headquartered in New York City, with its international headquarters based in Windsor (England). The Company has development studios in Edinburgh, San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto, Leeds (England), San Rafael (California), Hunt Valley (Maryland), Camarillo (Califonia), Boston, Bellevue (Washington) and San Francisco; product development and testing in Lincoln (England), San Francisco, Westlake Village (California), New York and Austin; electronic peripheral and accessory manufacturing in Hong Kong; and sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Windsor (England), Paris, Munich, Madrid, Milan, Sydney, Breda (Netherlands), Auckland, Shanghai and Tokyo.”
They’ve been around, now you.
This has to be one of the most ill informed and overtly humorous articles I have ever read. Thank you for keeping me entertained.
Guineapigpaul
:D
Honestly - you must have more fun writing this than I do reading!
A pleasure!
/hat’s off to you
My name.. is Armando… Alejandro.. Estrrrrrrrrrada!
HAHAAAH!
Thanks very much, after reading your comments I have been convinced that I should never play another video game ever. I would like to point out the following that I have realised due to this blog post.
I shall never again play sports games because I believe that I am cruelly hurting the ball and I may be hurting the innocent players. It has also convinced me to stop playing real sports for the same reasons. I soon shall become an obese and unfit person, thank you.
I have stopped playing driving and racing games now as I feel that I may be polluting the virtual environment with the gasses that the vehicles emit, it would be a shame for the game characters to suffer from the effects of global warming in a few decades due to my pleasure of driving. This has convinced me never to use a motor powered vehicle again. As a result I cannot reach my job destination and I will soon be unemployed due to my extended unscheduled leave of abscence. Similarly I have stopped playing flight simulation games as I believe they encourage mass fuel consumption and terrorism.
I used to be keen on simulation games such as Sim City, I have stopped playing these as I realise that where there are large corporations and populations, there is corruption and I would hate to think that the quiet area that I live in now could turn into such a horrible place. I have also stopped playing agricultural sims and I hope soon to be suffering from survy through the lack of vitamin C as I will not be growing any fruit trees anymore as it is what these agricultural simulations encourage. Animal nurturing simulations are played no more as I believe they may encourage me to care for real animals. I pray for an exponential increase in the rate of animal species becoming extinct.
I have stopped playing puzzle games also as I believe that it may encourage me to stimulate my brain. I fear that my eventual superior intellect will end in myself building a nuclear weapon by hand from recycled materials and use it to hold the world ransom. I also do not play educational games for the very same reason, I may become educated.
I have stopped playing virtual card games (and also real card games) as I believe that I might end up becoming a gambling addict and will spend my entire winnings on liquor, prostitutes, expensive jewellery, fire-arms and ozone destroying, fast motorised cars. As a result of not playing these games I hope to become an anti-social hermit living on top of a nearby mountain living off of nearby grass and the (hopefully) nearby stream. Infact, I may live in a cave as I believe the sun is evil as it allows plants to grow where they will be used in creating roads, buildings and many retail products accross the globe, and as you know roads have evil motorised vehicles on them, buldings are full of the educated and retail products encourage capitalism and therefore financial corruption.
I now loathe music related games thanks to your blog. I realise that dancing games require excersise, something that I am now against thanks to my previous comments on sports games. I also find that the music played in these games may encourage young ones to go out and buy these compact discs thus feeding the large corporatins that produce these dics, as well as creating a demand for the discs that are being created from unrecycled materials. As a result I think all music should be banned, as well as films as these also appear on digital video dics, or DVDs as I’m told they are more widely called. Due to this, I would also like to boycott all television for the above reasons, also I may accidentally be entertained.
To conclude, I now require a entertainment free life and will hopefully get to the point where I am a completely soul-less shell of a person with no social skills whatsoever and actively dismiss the company of close ones such as my family and others. I hope that your next step in global politics will be to follow in Hitlers footsteps and promote a master race of human beings.
You may realise that I was being completely sarcastic. Try to research your information a bit more as no-one will take you seriously if your research is completely laughable.
Shelley,
How come every time you write something, no matter the subject, it is full of blatant mistakes, or, to be more precise, lies? It seems you actually do some minimal reasearch on any given subject but take great care in using false information in your articles, just to be sure people are going to react in the face of your ignorance. Even a kid would make less mistakes than you. You are running a website, you have access to the world wide web, but with all this information available you still manage to tell us so many lies. Do you only know the existence of a website named “wikipedia” where you could have checked many “facts” used in your article? Research on this site is simple, fast, and usually reliable - but now you’re gonna tell me that this site is run by satanist liberals, that it is using LINUX, or some other stupid excuse.
Truth is you NEVER quote your sources, because there are none that match your level of stupidity (maybe some right-wing extremist parties).
And yes, your website IS RUNNING UNDER LINUX, you rotten liar! You pretended to have fixed the problem, eh?
PS: I would love to see what you think about SUV (4×4) vehicles; I believe that subject would deserve an article aimed at showing all those ignorant liberals that liberty of movement is sacred, no matter the consequences on the environment or the public safety LOL
On another note Shelley.
I noticed you have a couple of ‘member bloggers’
After reading their User Profiles I found Mike Goodman (yes your BROTHER) the most entertaining.
The way your BROTHER uses our God given language is truly an insult.
Have you any idea what this FAMILY member of you is writing on his connected-to-you blog?
Here’s an example:
“i know this is gonna sound a litte odd and shit but i want the girls out there know that i am still single - so if there are any hot girls like the one on the picture out there - hey - how are ya - please write to me - ok - mike@shelleytherepublican.com (i got the email from my sister)”
Hey? what’s that.
What did he just type there?
“anyway - write to me girls - ok - would be cool if you live in iowa or in the greater area - well you have to be hot and shit and you have to be american and blonde if possible - and you have to be a patriot and not afraid to show it - ok - cya later you cute girls
mg”
and:
“i love my country but i do have me problems with george double-u bush now - i just think he is not hard enough - you can probably figure i am a pretty hardcore rightwinger - and proud of it - fuck it”
I became instantly sick Shelley, you of all people must understand, he talks about faeces and fornication!
Dear Shelley please tell me I got it wrong and this person Mike Goodman is not related to you.
A concerned reader.
I agree shelley games are the devil, you forgot to mention a couple of games: sokoban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban) and Xye : (http://xye.sourceforge.net) The foreign influence and the decition to burn our kids’ brains with those games are very clear to me
Anonymous said…
On another note Shelley.
I noticed you have a couple of ‘member bloggers’
After reading their User Profiles I found Mike Goodman (yes your BROTHER) the most entertaining.
The way your BROTHER uses our God given language is truly an insult.
Have you any idea what this FAMILY member of you is writing on his connected-to-you blog?
Here’s an example:
“i know this is gonna sound a litte odd and shit but i want the girls out there know that i am still single - so if there are any hot girls like the one on the picture out there - hey - how are ya - please write to me - ok - mike@shelleytherepublican.com (i got the email from my sister)”
Hey? what’s that.
What did he just type there?
“anyway - write to me girls - ok - would be cool if you live in iowa or in the greater area - well you have to be hot and shit and you have to be american and blonde if possible - and you have to be a patriot and not afraid to show it - ok - cya later you cute girls
mg”
and:
“i love my country but i do have me problems with george double-u bush now - i just think he is not hard enough - you can probably figure i am a pretty hardcore rightwinger - and proud of it - fuck it”
I became instantly sick Shelley, you of all people must understand, he talks about faeces and fornication!
Dear Shelley please tell me I got it wrong and this person Mike Goodman is not related to you.
A concerned reader.
5/16/2006 12:16 PM
Yes, Mike is my brother. I don’t approve his blog but nevertheless he is my brother and I love him.
“Yes, Mike is my brother. I don’t approve his blog but nevertheless he is my brother and I love him.”
5/16/2006 12:40 PM
Thank you Dear Shelley for answering a bit of my questioning and taking a little bit of the concerns away.
You are so right.
Love is the answer. It doesn’t really matter what Mike does, wants, likes or dislikes.
He is your brother. Family. You love him.
Thats how it should be.
However my second concern is this, does your brother goes to church?
Is he a true Christian?
Not approving of his ‘blog’ is an understatement Shelley, I truly hope you will take actions to stop this outragious ‘blog’ behaviour from your brother immediatly.
A concerned reader.
the source of all evil at the world:
http://thesource.ofallevil.com/
Hi Shelley,
I’m just leaving this comment to ask you why hardly ever react to all these people. I know most of them aren’t very polite in their comments, but some of them are and they are obviously looking for a discussion, but you tend to ignore them. They tell you some of your information is wrong, but you never respond to that.
If you are so sure you’re right, then why don’t you convince these people that you are.
I’m really not trying to attack you here, but I just really want to know.
Thank you in advance,
DiMi ( Dutch and a non-Christian, but I hope that doesn’t stop you from commenting on this. )
I’m just leaving this comment to ask you why hardly ever react to all these people. I know most of them aren’t very polite in their comments, but some of them are and they are obviously looking for a discussion, but you tend to ignore them. They tell you some of your information is wrong, but you never respond to that.
Dimi, we are too busy working on saving this country from crazy liberals. We do read everything our readers write, and we thank you for your prayers and interesting points. We believe in freedom of speech, so we post almost anybody’s comments on the site. We believe in the rare cases where people offer a critical perspective, this will only show how morally bankrupt America’s liberals are.
Generally we only reject a comment if it violates our terms and conditions.
Kind Regards,
Tristan
How come every time you write something, no matter the subject, it is full of blatant mistakes, or, to be more precise, lies? It seems you actually do some minimal reasearch on any given subject but take great care in using false information in your articles, just to be sure people are going to react in the face of your ignorance. Even a kid would make less mistakes than you. You are running a website, you have access to the world wide web, but with all this information available you still manage to tell us so many lies. Do you only know the existence of a website named “wikipedia” where you could have checked many “facts” used in your article? Research on this site is simple, fast, and usually reliable - but now you’re gonna tell me that this site is run by satanist liberals, that it is using LINUX, or some other stupid excuse.
Every STR.com article is extensivly researched. We do not need communist websites like Wikipedia to find the truth. We promise to publish further articles exposing the scandals behind Linux. If you dispute our facts, I suggest you start your own blog. I am sure you will just be laughed at!
For your information, STR.com runs on Windows 2003 Enterprise edition.
This is hilarious.
“Every STR.com article is extensivly researched.”
Really? I personally don’t believe opinions can really be accounted for, even if they’re disagreed with, because yeah, everyone is entitled to their own. However, your facts that back up your opinions need to be validated, quoted, referenced, or at least correct. If you go to http://www.us.playstation.com, you’re going to see the SONY logos down at the bottom. Not Nintendo. Your article on podcasts was also full of holes. I work for Apple, I have for a few years now (yep, dirty liberal here supporting the minds of children being polluted with the satanic wealth of knowledge available to children through podcasts) and when iPods were first being made, trust me, podcasts were not a hidden feature, they didn’t exist. Wikipedias being Communist? How? They’re free sources of information specific to one topic, similar to encyclopedias in a library.
As someone that is proficient in all 3 Mac OS, Windows, and Linux, your article about how linux was evil and dangerous was hilarious…it’s just an operating system, and there’s no need for antivirus software because it’s pretty secure all by itself. I did tech support for Microsoft, cleaning out spyware, viruses and browser hijacks for almost a year. The amount of patches and additional software needed to safely use Windows is rediculous. So why not use linux? Sure, you have to learn a bit more in order to use it, but why is that a bad thing?
My Grandmother’s largest piece of advice to me was that knowledge really was power…never shut yourself out to learning about something. Learn as much as you possibly can in school, because knowledge is never a waste. My biggest conflict with most Christians is that they are one-sided and refuse to even listen to another point of view and are completely intolerant of others that share differences (homosexuality, other religions, nationalities, social status, financial woes). My Grandmother, on the other hand, was a Christian that was not only a democrat, but also someone that really believed and thoroughly followed the teachings of Christ and the Christian God: tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness, love…I’ve abandoned the Christian faith because I feel the fundamental beliefs have become so distorted from the ways I was taught from my Grandparents, however I have not abandoned its fundamental principals, which were noted above.
Basically my suggestion is to prove your facts before trying to validate your articles…and at least consider the grey areas instead of automatically looking at only the black and the white. The world does not exist in such extremes. Speech and Debate were not classes I excelled in, however, backing up and fully researching your facts and statements was the most valuable piece of advice I took with me.
Sincerely,
Tessa
Interesting that you note (incorrectly I would imagine) that terrorists are using fames to train. I thought that was america, lookup the game america’s army for instance.
Most media reports say violent behavior may be rooted to video games. The truth of the matter is, it comes from everywhere and the games are getting the heat because it’s something new. The Columbine incident may have been influenced slightly by violent videogames (which is, in the first place, should not be in their posession due to their age. Parental supervision? Absent), but a major factor may be because they’re not loved enough, they’re neglected, they’re bullied, and all other causes of why a child or teen turns delinquent. There was this one indcident when me and my older friends (whom are sales associates in game stores) wonder why videogames take heat from the media when most of the time when the person who did the crime (we are discussing the criminal who became the reason why the game “Manhunt” was banned) was “unbalanced” in the first place, before the game was even released (he was well-known for harrassing sales people like the game store sales associate friends I have mentioned earlier)
The real solution to this video game problem is not to consider it a problem at all. Rating systems should be enforced, parents should guide their kids (like what they’re supposed to do in the first place), and to stop sensationalizing something that may be considered a work of art, and entertainment, a pleasure, an enjoyment, a hobby and a social activity called “videogames”. It’s hard to imagine if you’ve never played one before, but like the hula hoop, the yo-yo, the boogaloo, disco, the mullet, rock music, and many more fads and enjoyments in the past, videogames will become a part of the land of the free.
Interesting to know, but a mod developed for the US army came out not long ago. It’s helping troops on the ground learn to communicate with Iraqi citizens, you know, prevent civil war and stuff? :)
The mod was made for a game called Unreal Tournament 2004, a game entirely based on shooting “to kill” other players online. :)
I rather like the idea that the US army though it was a suitable game to mod for their training.
I’d point out all the mistakes in this, but I’m sure someone already has.
who do you think you are i read your crap on your website and the stuff you say shows that you havent realy done any reserch on the mater
“I work for Apple, I have for a few years now”
That was all I needed to know.
You work for one of the liberal organisations that is trying to destabilize our nation. Al Gore is a member of the Apple Computer board of directors; In a future story we will be exposing many of of Mr Gores more ludicrous lies in his new “documentary”.
If you were a true patriot you would be denouncing the liberals who want to turn the U.S.A. into an Al-Queda outpost!
I’m sorry to call you this but you are a Christian Extremist. And according to your American Television, being an extremeist, youm are a terrorist
Your facts have no backing, Jack Thompson is the laughing stock of the video games industry with his biased and opinions with no backing. In GTA, you don’t have to play any of the mission. You can just live your life as normal.
The Kids in Columbine had been bullied in school by other kids as they didn’t fit the Peer’s idea of “Normal”. Video games had nothing to do with it. Just because they played Doom doesn’t mean they copied it and the only people who could tell you would be the kids who commited the vile, shooting.
I’m a 21 year old,European Gamer (Oh no, satan personified in your opinion). In the UK, we have Age Restricted games and it works! We don’t have young kids buying 18+ games. Their parents can choose to and more often than not, won’t buy them. I, personally, don’t enjoy “Resident Evil” or “Castle Wolfenstein”. I’d prefer to play a Motor Sport game or a Proper Football game (Pro Evolution Soccer et. al).
While games like RE and RTCW are violent, they haven’t got needless killing in them. RE has the plot where you are fighting for your life and the life of others where as RTCW is a fight against the Nazi Regieme. GTA is a free-roaming game where you don’t have to do any mission. You can become a Taxi Driver, Vigilante, Fireperson or Ambulance Driver. You don’t even have to do that.
Please, get your facts right before you start to have a go at the gaming industry. Its clear you don’t have the facts to form a coherant arguement
God bless you Tristan. Jack Thompson is a true American Hero.
Tristan,
I’m afraid to tell you this but you’re a liar. And since you think you’re a good Christian, it’s time to REPENT - publicly of course.
According to your previous posts, Linux is evil and your site is not using it; well as a matter of fact, it still is using Apache, and thus Linux. You’re whole website is still hosted by Linux, no matter what you say.
So be a little more humble and admit that you lied, you’re still lying and probably will continue to do so.
Or prove me that I’m wrong - words won’t be enough.
I’ll pray for you, I think you need it.
Im pretty happy I found this blog. I have been on the internet for many years already, and I thought it was all full of sex, blasphemy and pedophilians.
Yesterday, a “friend” of mine (friend is written like that because he has communist tendencies, which make our friendship impossible to grow) told me about this blog, offended by an article in which (as I found) finally the truth is said about linux and Microsoft Windows.
I’m glad he told me about it, now I don’t feel I’m alone in this world anymore. Specially now, that the communist have got the power in my country, Spain.
God blesh you, I will be reading this blog periodically.
Yes, I do work for Apple…proudly…was that the only thing that was picked out of everything else I said? Also, how are we trying to destabilize the nation? Really, I’m curious. I would to see your synopsis, with your references quoted and cited from reliable sources based on facts. I look forward to that being one of your future articles focused on today’s technology and its impact on society.
All the best,
Tessa
Didn’t Rock*Star produce GTA?
Oh, and I really love it how you’re calling Jack-o an American patriot. PRetty funny, especailly since he was awarded the “Jack Thompson is a jack-ass Award” in Electronic Gaming monthly, and he tried to get the folks at Penny-Arcade arrested for donating $10,000 to a video game company in his name.
Oh my god! You suck! Jack Thompson sucks!
If you have guns in your country……Stupid arses (or ass if you can’t write in English)will blow each others heads off. Blaming computer games is just a way for you idiots to make money. If you didn’t let every Dick,George and Ronald have guns then maybe you wouldn’t have a problem.
So stick that one up yo ass!
Hey idiot,
Before mouthing off your two-bit opinion on video games and how they impact American society and youth in particular, get your facts straight. Although you’ve been reminded already, I’ll remind you again. Playstation is a game console by SONY, not NINTENDO. Nintendo makes the GAMECUBE. There is no such game as Evil Residence. There is Resident Evil though. And finally, what’s a live playing game? Did you mean to say “role playing game?”
If you and Jack Thompson don’t like video games, or the content in the games, I’m sure I can speak for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of other people when I tell you to kiss my video-game loving ass. By the way, I’m 27 years old. A lot of gamers also happen to be adults. Kids aren’t the only ones playing video games. This isn’t 1987 anymore, asswipe. Get a life, instead of trying to curtail the enjoyment of others with your censorship and your do-gooder morality.
Tristan,
I just want to tell you, your absolutly right it really is a training tool. I too, punched someone off their motor-bike after out-running it for 6 city blocks. Then i turned around twice and jumped once then looked up, a bazoka appeared. Needless to say i shot everyhting in sight, including an ambulance a police car and a tank. After receiving a dozen bullets in the chest i walked over to a health pack and got healed just by touching it. Then, after i got 4 little stars, the police stopped chasing me and i did it all over again.
We believe in the rare cases where people offer a critical perspective, this will only show how morally bankrupt America’s liberals are.
We do not need communist websites like Wikipedia to find the truth.
You are amazing. Thanks for a lot of fun!
QUIZ!
in which country the governement is financing a game where your mission is to kill a lot of people?
USA of course!
–>http://www.americasarmy.com/
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In which country can you easily buy gun to kill people like in the US game GTA?( we can add in this US game there is also pornography)
USA of course!
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From where is from the X-BOX how is the only thing how can read the game Dead or Alive (how have been denonced by Shelley)
USA of course!
(X-BOX is a Microsoft product)
I am at a loss here. The reason? I am unable to decide as to whether you (the original poster) are really and honestly portraying your beliefs, or simply deliberately trying to wind up thousands of people. It is very difficult for me to see how you would harbour such strong beliefs without some sort of indoctrination at some level, and have zero common sense at the same time.
Please, enlighten me as to which it is you are.
George is a very good pupil.
I’m very prood of him.
George W Bush have made of the US state the most liberticide industrialised country.
Great job George!
“If you were a true patriot you would be denouncing the liberals who want to turn the U.S.A. into an Al-Queda outpost! ”
You lying freak. How dare you say this about the liberals. You republicans are no better. Al Queda has already infiltrated the US thanks to your dumb leader Bush’s policies. You republicans are blind and brainwashed “Gods children” wannabees. 9/11 happened during Bush’s time when he opened the borders. Not during Clintons. You guys are no better than the Islamists in the middle east.
I hope that the author of this article does not honestly believe the drivel that flows from his keyboard.
Note to the rest of the world: These two people represent themselves only. Whatever you read, remember that no one with higher brain functions regards them as intelligent.
By the way, we pulled of Vietnam because it was deemed unwinnable. We got our arses properly kicked. We did not “save the world” from communism. It still thrives in China, and I dare you to try convincing them to change. They have the numbers to conquer the world alone, and this accounts for every strategic advantage in existence.
There is no such game as Evil Residence or Castle Wolf.
There is no such Genre as LPG.
There is, however, a game known as Resident Evil, there is also a game titled Wolfenstein, and there is a genre called RPG or ROLE Playing Game.
http://www.us.playstation.com/?ref=http%3A//www.sony.com/index.php
That is the link to take you to the Playstation homepage. The second half of the link says
http://www.sony.com/index.php
Nintendo does not manufacture the Playstation. Sony, however, does. Do you own a Sony CD Player? Stereo? VCR? DVD Player? In any case, it matters not. Neither Nintendo, Sony, or even your beloved Microsoft, produced Resident Evil. It is a third party game produced by CapCom. No religion is involved, either, satanist or otherwise. The villain responsible for the tragedy forcing you to fight for your life to escape is a virus, which you would know if you did ANY research. Don’t argue this with me, as I am a player of the series, and know a HELL of alot more about it than you, who can’t even get the fucking title right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
Are you gonna tell me that because wikipedia has an article on sushi, that sushi doesn’t exist, because a “Communist” website like wikipedia has an article on it? Sorry to bust your bubble before it is blown, but millions of americans eat sushi every day, myself included. There is one strike against your lack of logic and lack of research.
http://www.americasarmy.com/
What do you know? A game produced by an american company which has the player killing people, even endorsed by the army on TV. STEEERIKE TWO!
In case you havent’t noticed, it’s the bottom of the ninth, the bases are depressingly empty, you’re down by six, with two strikes, and two outs. You’re about to be sent home crying by someone from the intelligent team, who actually knows what they’re talking about, instead of spouting the nonsensical DRIVEL that fuels the world’s stereotypes about americans (I feel no need to capitalize the word, as I do not feel being an american is anything to be proud of).
Here comes the fatal blow. Take Two did not produce the game known as Oblivion, nor was it produced in 1999. It was produced by Bethesda Softworks in conjunction with Microsoft (Yes, that’s your almighty Microsoft, miss Shelley the republican(another word I feel no need to capitalize, for the reason stated above). Here is a link if you develop higher brain functions instead of thinking with your cerebellum (which is the little thing that does no more than regulate balance(regulate means control, if you’re confused by big words. Notify me if you are still confused by other words, as a sixth grade reading level is required to understand most of these words. Maybe your teacher can explain after she’s done wiping your arse.)
http://www.bethesdasoftworks.com/
The first images are of Oblivion, and that, folks is strike three.
On a personal note, people like you, Tristan, spouting your idiotic drivel, and Shelley, hosting it, and actually professing belief in it, are what make me ashamed to be an american. I can only thank God and count the days until I move to Japan.
In case you can’t read blatant challenges to your intellect (or lack thereof), or are afraid to allow the truth on your supposedly american website, here is a formal challenge: Debate me. I will win, I guarantee you. The assembled staff of your website can assist you. That’s right. Bring on Mr. Chimples too, as you will require at least one primate brain to participate.
I am deliberately attempting to goad you into one of your rants. Please, by all means, rant. Rave. I need something to laugh myself to sleep with.
I don’t know who you are but I know that you are NOT a real American. You must be either some phony liberal immigrant or just plain another democ-rat America-hater.
One way or the other, please leave this purely American website. We don’t want you here you criminal.
I have to go to bed now.
Shelley
Oh my! I’ve been insulted by a lymbically-governed idiot. Forgive me for not crying into my beer. How WAS I able to predict that you would call me unamerican?
I was raised with all the traditional values you seem to hold so dear, but seem at the same time to know nothing of.
“the teachings of Christ and the Christian God: tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness, love?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?”
Tessa, you’re on to something here, which seems to go over the heads of our oh so gracious hosts.
Oh, and by the way, I was born on February 26th, in the Madigan Army Medical Facility in Tacoma, Washington, to a soldier named Timothy and his wife, Laura. I am more american than you could ever hope to be. I exercise my right to free speech, I think for my self, and I tolerate others different from me. Those are three of the things that made America great, and three things in which you are found sorely wanting. I currently attend Southern Oregon University, and pay in-state tuition. You do the math, if you develop higher brain functions.
No, I am not a democrat, but nor am I a republican. I do not follow any other party either. I am nonpartisan, as indicated on my voter registration card. Political parties have torn this country apart, just as George Washington predicted. Partisan politics have ravaged this country ever since he left, and it’s all been downhill from there. When FDR took office and saved us from the depression, we had a brief upward spike, but after him, this country went to hell. I don’t care if the next FDR comes from the republican party, the democratic party, or little Timmy’s birthday party, so long as he changes this place for the better.
I do not hate America. I cannot stand, however, self-proclaimed “patriots” who claim to love america, but single out various religions and ethnic groups. What you may not know (you would if you had paid attention in history class) is that the true american spirit is one which opposes oppression in all its forms. In case you haven’t noticed, America, and we, as americans, are the laughingstock of the entire world. The reason? People like you. You condemn everything contrary to your own beliefs, which is as unamerican an attitude as one can encounter here.
So, who is the real america hater? Me, tolerant of others, accepting the good with the bad, or you, denouncing everything you disagree with, alienating other religions and races?
Wake up, you limbically-sustained moron! America is not the center of the universe. Do not forget that this nation protects you only so long as almighty God wishes to leave it standing. If people like you had your way, we would be living in the Third Reich, wearing a symbol denoting race, religion, and sexual orientation. Your brand of bigoted thinking is the reason we learn about Auschwitz! People like you could well be the posterchildren for abstinence.
On the subject of liberals, I couldn’t care less. As stated 3 posts previous, I will not finish my life in this country. I absolutely refuse to live in a country governed by your brand of ignorance and bigotry.
Southern Oregon University may be labeled a liberal arts college, but at least people here think for themselves. If thinking for myself, instead of merely absorbing everything handfed to me by the white house, and regurgitating my own skewed version makes me liberal, then I’m proud of it. Better to be a liberal who thinks for myself than a neo-con drone. I would say you have as much sense as God gave a rock, but I wouldnt want to offend any rocks who might read this.
Stop dragging down the collective intelligence of humanity with your drivel. Post something accurate and worthwhile for a change.
This is probably the funniest site I have ever visited. This post is surely one of the funniest ones too.
Well Shelley, I have played for many hours all the games that you mentioned. Am I a serial killer now? Am I dangerous? I don’t think so.
Look at the crime rates of people from 15-34. They have decreased a alot since playstation 1 came out.
shelley you’re just a flipin idiot. nuff sed.
moron
Wow this has to be the most ignorant site in the whole internet. Only people like the author of this article would fall such bullcrap.
oh my god, i’m becoming a desensitized killing machines, please save my soul
This is the most pathetic attemt at an article I have seen.
“Evil Residence” as you call it (Or “Resident Evil”, as it’s proper name is) Contains no satanic themes. Besides, there is nothing irresponsible in defending one’s life, as you do in the game.
Playstation is endorsed by Sony Entertainment.
GTA did NOT use state of the art 3D technology, as it was not available at the time…
Your info is not very believeable…
“Oblivion” was released by Bethesda Softworks, not Take Two… not a year after GTA. GTA was released in 1998… Oblivion was released in 2006…
The player character in Oblivion is never allowed