http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hBkj-Bi6dzGMMrid_jOE2PHFsw4g
The games “incite violence” and are seen “harmful to consumers’ health”, a “subversion of public order”, an “attack against the democratic state, and the law and against public security”…
Whoa. Just, woah.
Mankind is going to fascist hell in a handbasket, this I already knew. I’m just fucking amazed, one news item after another, how fast it’s happening all over the world.
“An attack against the democratic state?” Yeah, that’d be funny if it weren’t so bone-deep stupid.
Too long have the trolls and ogres and terrorists suffered daily violence. Only now will the favelas know peace.
Successful lobbying from the honorable representative from Azeroth has resulted in his product to continue to be sold there… after all, far be it from us to discourage free tr… <aide whispers in his ear> What do you mean there is no country called Azeroth? He said he lived in Lakeshire… Name was something like Osgood, talked alot of the rising price of shoes.
I would not do such things if I were you! Zug-zug!
I’m guessing Judge Carlos Alberto Simoes was always the first one killed in every Counter-Strike round and got tired of being pwned.
(I did too, but being that I’m not a judge, I just stopped playing it.)
Right…they’re going to solve their problems by banning computer games. Very logical. It’s that kind of progressive, intelligent thinking that makes Rio De Janeiro the peaceful, crime-free paradise that it has been for decades. Oh, wait…
Sounds like His Honor is a butthurt pally.
I’ve already figured out how to sneak 100 copies past customs! Carnival, here I come!
It is my understanding that distributing physical copies of the game is banned. However, one can still download CS off steam like pretty much everyone has been since steam came out. LAN centers can still keep it installed on their computers. Mibr doesn’t have to worry about anything. Silly Brazilian legislature!
Still, that’s really dumb.
Hardly anyone buys copies of Everquest any more. Pretty much those are all down loaded from sony. Further more, it isn’t like a whole lot of new people are joining the game.
Eh, they’ll just move on to other games like WoW, Halo, Guild Wars, F.E.A.R…
I could write a rant several pages long on the stupidity of banning video games at all. Instead, I’ll just call them idiots for banning two games. Either ban them all or don’t bother.
(Addictive as drugs? More like addictive as alcohol. Sure, some people overdo it, but many more manage to incorporate them into a normal, healthy lifestyle.)
I doubt that whatever agency is tasked with enforcing this law is going to draw much of a distinction between Everquest and Everquest II.
Well, good for them.
Yeah, yeah, personal liberty, yadda yadda. Personal liberty already is not absolute, as evidenced by the existence of laws against, say, theft. Or truancy. There’s no great ideological education in these “games” beyond to take all you can & to kill any outsider. Menace to society is what they are.
Thank god that someone has finally done something about the rising tide of Everquest and Counterstrike related violence. Here is a partial list of events that have occurred since these games were released and were popular:
World Trade Center attacks
Iraq War
Britney Spears
Coincidence? I think not.
I’m glad someone finally put an end to their ten year old reign of terror.
The odds are excellent that this is a whoosh, but I know too many people who say things like this, and are entirely serious about them, to be certain. Before I add you to my ever-expanding list of authoritarian pricks who not only think they know what’s best for everyone but feel entitled to punish people for disagreeing, please elucidate. Thank you.
Again, this is probably a whoosh, but I recommend first watching Bus 174 and City of God, then asking yourself:
Are social conditions presented therein even remotely due to video games?
If Brazil really wishes to enhance public order, public security and consumer health, is this really where they should be directing their efforts?
Assuming the political leaders lack the will or the interest in actually tackling these difficult problems, sure. Blame them on something intangible produced by foreigners… sounds like an effective strategy to maintain political power to me and almost certainly what I’d be doing if I was corrupt and cynical and wanted to keep my cushy job.
this reminds me of a meeting I was in today where the boss wants to make students finish in 8 weeks instead of the state required 6 months because a small number of dumbshits cant finish in 6 months so have to restart only there is a new software package due soon that will AUTOMATICALLY send email and text message updates to parents and students…but yeah we should definitely change to 8 weeks because that sure as fuck is important when the company is about to go under…and he wonders why he cant pay the bills
This move is totally counter productive, anyway. How will the special forces train without Counter-Strike? If some terrorists come and want to blow up their green boxes filled with wood, spare metal debris or cement blocks they are fucked.