Comments on: Hot Coffee http://blackcompanystudios.co.uk/blog/user/mrcranky/35 Thoughts on games, the games industry, and other gems from the life of the Company Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:06:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: PeterM http://blackcompanystudios.co.uk/blog/user/mrcranky/35#comment-23 PeterM Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:38:12 +0000 http://www.blackcompanystudios.co.uk/?p=35#comment-23 Sweet. Sweet.

]]> By: MrCranky http://blackcompanystudios.co.uk/blog/user/mrcranky/35#comment-22 MrCranky Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:35:37 +0000 http://www.blackcompanystudios.co.uk/?p=35#comment-22 <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050727-5143.html">Grandma sues R*</a> <em>/me makes wild hand waggling motions in the air of disbelief</em> Her <em>14 year old</em> grandson! Grandma sues R*

/me makes wild hand waggling motions in the air of disbelief

Her 14 year old grandson!

]]> By: PeterM http://blackcompanystudios.co.uk/blog/user/mrcranky/35#comment-21 PeterM Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:09:27 +0000 http://www.blackcompanystudios.co.uk/?p=35#comment-21 I have to agree 100% with Chris about the responsibility issue. For the legit players, the features in question were removed from the game. There will always be people coming down on video games for adult content. My usual response to reading headlines about it is "meh". I would however argue that the root of the problem isn't computer games, it's that humans no longer function in the way they were created for. Do you really think humans evolved to sit at a desk all day and buy their meat from a supermarket? We're hunters, gatherers, and (gasp) killers by nature. We don't have to do anything like that any more, since Mr Sainsbury does it for us. I'm not saying we should all fashion ourselves some spears and go on the hunt, but humans need a way to release their natural violence. If driving along a polygonal street, shooting pixelated gangsters and jacking virtual cars does that for us, then so be it. It's better than going onto the real streets and being violent. Most of the critics of violent games seem not to acknowledge that teenage violence has reduced since the advent of computer games. http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/violence.htm So, to summarise, "meh". I have to agree 100% with Chris about the responsibility issue. For the legit players, the features in question were removed from the game.

There will always be people coming down on video games for adult content. My usual response to reading headlines about it is “meh”.

I would however argue that the root of the problem isn’t computer games, it’s that humans no longer function in the way they were created for. Do you really think humans evolved to sit at a desk all day and buy their meat from a supermarket? We’re hunters, gatherers, and (gasp) killers by nature.

We don’t have to do anything like that any more, since Mr Sainsbury does it for us. I’m not saying we should all fashion ourselves some spears and go on the hunt, but humans need a way to release their natural violence. If driving along a polygonal street, shooting pixelated gangsters and jacking virtual cars does that for us, then so be it. It’s better than going onto the real streets and being violent.

Most of the critics of violent games seem not to acknowledge that teenage violence has reduced since the advent of computer games.

http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/violence.htm

So, to summarise, “meh”.

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