# Washington state passes anti-video game law **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571 "2003-05-30T16:56:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![45\_70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/5f9b8f/32.png) [@45\_70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/45_70)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/21 "2003-05-31T02:33:34Z")
We need another law. Don’t vote for officeholders with less IQ and common sense than a croquet ball. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/22 "2003-05-31T02:34:44Z")
**World Eater** , compared to other states in the U.S., Washington is a hellhole, or hopelessly liberal. Live here for a while and take your pick. It’s all relative, y’know.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/23 "2003-05-31T02:38:12Z")
I’m utterly stunned to the point where my mouth is literally hanging agape. **P.T. Smegma** , do you really think that your troubles with the Washington State government give you license to spew your verbal diarrhea at **Scotticher**? You called her a _fucking animal_? And you wish painful anal rape on her? Are you KIDDING me? Go take a valium – you _seriously_ need one. You are _completely_ out of line and _way_ over the deep end. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/24 "2003-05-31T02:43:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shayna \* > \*\*I’m utterly stunned to the point where my mouth is literally hanging agape. **P.T. Smegma** , do you really think that your troubles with the Washington State government give you license to spew your verbal diarrhea at **Scotticher**? You called her a _fucking animal_? And you wish painful anal rape on her? Are you KIDDING me? > > Go take a valium – you _seriously_ need one. You are _completely_ out of line and _way_ over the deep end. \*\* I have been waiting for you to explain how it is **Scotticher’s** _fault_ but in the absense of that, I offer a very hearty AMEN to **Shayna’s** post. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/25 "2003-05-31T03:40:51Z")
Oh shit. Simple. Until you’ve walked in my and my wife’s, and my daughter’s, and my son’s, and our extended family’s shoes: Fuck you. Seriously. If you are under the impression that some fucking beaureaucrat has a better idea about _anything_ regarding “family values,” than my wife and I, I’d love to hear it. To all my fellow Dopers: I have lost highly profitable jobs for the sake of my wife and children. I really wish there was some Internet documentation of this fact, so I could refute the predjudiced, once and for all. If the detritus that want to slag me in a Pit Thread for no reason (lacking email, honest questions, etc.) want to slag me, go for it. I’ve been a scrapper for over half my life, I’m sure I can handle a few more sanctimonious twerps. I just beg the honor of my very own Pit Thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/26 "2003-05-31T03:57:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by P.T. Smegma \* > Oh shit. > > Simple. > > Until you’ve walked in my and my wife’s, and my daughter’s, and my son’s, and our extended family’s shoes: Fuck you. Until you’re willing to offer even the slightest scrap of justification for your abominable behavior in this thread, right back atcha. > [@](#): > > Seriously. If you are under the impression that some fucking beaureaucrat has a better idea about _anything_ regarding “family values,” than my wife and I, I’d love to hear it. I’m under the impression that intestinal bacteria have better ideas then you do. > [@](#): > > To all my fellow Dopers: I have lost highly profitable jobs for the sake of my wife and children. I really wish there was some Internet documentation of this fact, so I could refute the predjudiced, once and for all. I was going to ask, “What the fuck are you talking about,” but I’ve decided instead to go with, “Who the fuck cares?” Jesus. You come in here and start screaming at **Scotticher** for not having any respect for what you’ve been through, then refuse to tell anyone what the hell happened to make you so pissed off. So, I don’t give a shit. If you can’t be bothered to explain you ludicrous hysteria, I can’t be bothered to care about it. > [@](#): > > If the detritus that want to slag me in a Pit Thread for no reason (lacking email, honest questions, etc.) want to slag me, go for it. How’s this for an honest question: WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR DAMAGE? > [@](#): > > I’ve been a scrapper for over half my life, I’m sure I can handle a few more sanctimonious twerps. > > I just beg the honor of my very own Pit Thread. 😉 Yeah, whatever, you hypersensitve cockwad. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/27 "2003-05-31T04:06:15Z")
Well, campers! As far as **Scotticher’s** post? Maybe she oughta put up with two years of state-sanctioned abuse. It hurt my whole family. A lot. Her post seemed to me to be a ‘knee-jerk’ post. Until she finds out what the fuck she’s posting her provincial bullshit about, perhaps she ought to do just a little research. I know this will seem like the cheesiest garbage: **Scotticer** , I know you are worth so much more than what I have read so far. Please show me. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/28 "2003-05-31T04:07:30Z")
**P.T. Smegma** Since I don’t know what in the hell you are talking about, I have no opinion about it. What I do have an opinion about is I’m extremely disturbed by your serious attack on a fellow doper who didn’t do anything to you, and now you have taken it a step further and implied an attack on all of us. Being angry over some injustice you/your family endured at someone else’s hands does not give you the license to attack someone else. In short, you owe **Scotticher** an apology and after your last general “fuck you”, you owe the board one. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/29 "2003-05-31T04:11:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Until you’ve walked in my and my wife’s, and my daughter’s, and my son’s, and our extended family’s shoes: Fuck you. _HOW DARE YOU FUCKING TALK ABOUT SHOES LIKE THAT?_ Your insensitive cavalier attitude about shoes makes me sick! Do you know the _hell_ me, my mother, my brother, my boyfriend, my roommate, my cat, and the cute guy who sat down the row from me in Italian class went through on account of shoes?! No, I _won’t_ tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/30 "2003-05-31T04:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cadolphin \* > \*\ ***P.T. Smegma** Since I don’t know what in the hell you are talking about, I have no opinion about it. > > What I do have an opinion about is I’m extremely disturbed by your serious attack on a fellow doper who didn’t do anything to you, and now you have taken it a step further and implied an attack on all of us. > > Being angry over some injustice you/your family endured at someone else’s hands does not give you the license to attack someone else. > > In short, you owe **Scotticher** an apology and after your last general “fuck you”, you owe the board one. \*\* You can email that apology to me, with a copy to **Scotticher** , if you want your posting privileges back. I don’t know what your problem is, but that’s NO reason to abuse another poster like that. Lynn For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/31 "2003-05-31T05:06:59Z")
I loves me some Lynn. Have I mentioned that lately? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/32 "2003-05-31T06:31:41Z")
So… How about that stupid video game law, huh? Boy, was that ever… stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/33 "2003-05-31T06:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*I think **Alereon** ’s point is that, if you want to attack a strawman to gain some political points, you don’t pick someone who contributes a substantial amount of money to your state’s economy. \*\* Thank you for making my point much more eloquently than I could. ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/34 "2003-05-31T10:07:27Z")
**Lynn** stays up late…_for great justice!_ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/35 "2003-05-31T11:18:32Z")
Ya know what I love about this place? The sheer randomness. How often do you see a total meltdown in a thread about video game laws? I wandered into this thread to orate about the First Amendment and I was treated to someone’s 19th Nervous Breakdown. It’s a serendipwad moment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/36 "2003-05-31T11:26:24Z")
I think that what I don’t understand is why, if **SmegHead** is so angry about Washington State, he is even angrier at the suggestion he move out of Washington State? ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/37 "2003-05-31T11:40:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*. > > It’s a serendipwad moment. > > \*\* BWAHAHAHAA. If I had any cow orkers here, they’d be wondering why I was in convulsions just now… ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/38 "2003-05-31T11:44:32Z")
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**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/39 "2003-05-31T11:54:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \* > \*\*Second, are these people completely ignorant of legal precedent? The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals already struck down a similar law regulating the availability of violent video games to minors in American Amusement Machine Association v. Kendrick, finding that the law wrongly curtailed freedom of expression. The 8th Circuit court is also expected in the coming months to strike down a similar law about video games in IDSA v. St. Louis County. > \*\* In the long and wondrous history of the law, the 8th Circuit has a reputation. Nobody ever follows us. Ever. We’re the black sheep of circuits. For instance, in the history of bankruptcy law, I think there was a total of _one_ time that an 8th circuit court was followed on a critical question of law. If I were before the SCOTUS in any case that didn’t actually arise in the 8th circuit, I would shove a can of albacore tuna up my ass before I actually mentioned an 8th circuit holding, unless the fact patterns were absolute clones. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571/40 "2003-05-31T12:06:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by istara \* > \*\*I think that what I don’t understand is why, if **SmegHead** is so angry about Washington State, he is even angrier at the suggestion he move out of Washington State? \*\* You may owe someone an apology, **istara**. **Smeghead** remains a pretty cool dude. **P.T. Smegma** , on the other hand… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-state-passes-anti-video-game-law/178571.md?page=3)