Ugh mental people ruin all our fun.

Malygris:
The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.

So violent video games are the equivalent of fucking Nazi's?

Idiots.

Oh, I am so ashamed of my country for this. This is seriously retarded, why do even the families of the victims themselves search for the easiest and most convenient "solution" to school shootings?
On a side note, I don't think they will be able to fill that bin(except with games nobody wants to play anymore, in order to get that jersey).

I call upon gamers in Germany to get off the couch and protest these morons, we shall see who has the greater number of protesters. Video games don't make people kill people, a combination of everything does.

Heh a book burning but with games instead. That put a smile on my face. On the other hand wow thats just dumb. I really doubt they are gonna get that far. If families are going to bring in their violent games and they are so outspoken to them why do they have them in the first place?

Oh,lookie,some German guys are trying to blame everything on videogames. Again. It is,indeed,not unlike Nazi book burnings.

Really. What's next?

I wanna make a joke about this, but I'd probably get suspended. So I'll just say something else instead.

Do they honestly think that people, gamers in particular, will go and give them their games, which they bought? I'm sorry for the families of the victims, but blaming the violence in video games won't solve anything.

germany has always had a problems with video games but who can really blame them. World War 2 games one of the most popular kind of games but nobody wants to be reminded of bad times of their country, that why theres no call of duty vietnam

Its always the same:
Some fanatic group wants another minority banned, because they dont truly understand them.

Send them to see Gabe Newell. After all, if talking to Valve stopped the L4D boycott, maybe it can do the same here?

violent video games dont kill people,people kill people.
but in all seriosity (another semi joke)people have always killed and will always kill each other there have always been psychopaths the most videogames do is give nutcases ideas but a movie could or a book or even the news could do that to.

according to there logic hitler must have been a gta addict lol

The funniest thing is that their goal is "to ban videogames that are made to kill people". Yeah, they can't even write their goals correctly.

Glefistus:
Remember the LAST time German's had a media burning? And there was that one quote "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people" which turned out to be true? Hmmmmmmmmmm

OK, we got it(this is not aimed at you directly but at all the people who constantly bring up the book burning in Nazi Germany).

The Nazis also burned books.

Remember the LAST time German's had a media burning? And there was that one quote "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people" which turned out to be true? Hmmmmmmmmmm

doh mispost

Malygris:

I'm not going to make the obvious joke about what happened the last time Germany tried something like this

Go on, make it, the very fact that they are using an anti you know what symbol to promote an act last popularised by you know what just begs for a joke about it...

It is quite interesting how history repeats itself. People try to forget about their history, try to cover up and protect the children(or society in general) from the monsters an horror of the past, but in doing so, they become the very things they are trying to protect against.

Malygris:
The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.

And that is a modified version of the symbol seen on signs in parks to encourage people not to litter, only with a swastika instead of a piece of trash.

OT: I think it's a stretch to blame all this stuff on violent video games. I mean who was the dumbass who let their kids have access to their guns? hmmmmmmm?

MaxTheReaper:

Baby Tea:
But didn't the Nazis do the same thing with book burnings?
It's like an endless loop! They can't help but burn things!

Not just books.

I love how Germany keeps overcompensating for something the rest of us don't even care about anymore.
They don't want to remind anyone of the Nazis, so they act exactly like them.

It's like if you wet yourself at a party and then bring it up constantly, talking about how embarrassed you were.
Yes, everyone remembers.
Yes, it was bad.
No, nobody is going to bring it up if you don't.
But you do.
Constantly.

Well stated.

And every time I think that people are getting ahead and learning by watching others, I see shit like this. People died just fine before video games. Realistically speaking, a video doesn't put anything in your head that wasn't already there. Games are a mirror of society not a cause of society.

All hail the Devil Made Me Do It defense... *sigh*

If you're so amazingly upset by the fact that some crazy guy killed your loved ones, why don't you blame the guy?
Okay, he's dead, but he's still the one who did it.

Besides that, it's like these people went out of their way to avoid "the harsh truth" and just blame shooting games.

Primary word being "games".

HK_01:
Oh, I am so ashamed of my country for this. This is seriously retarded, why do even the families of the victims themselves search for the easiest and most convenient "solution" to school shootings?
On a side note, I don't think they will be able to fill that bin(except with games nobody wants to play anymore, in order to get that jersey).

because they themselves know that if they didnt blame something else, people would point out how they didnt pay attention to what their kids play, buy, or watch.

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CaptainCrunch:
I love how the solution to the problem of violent videogames is forming a mob to burn them. Classic Frankenstein's monster.

You bet your nonbreeding zombie panda ass, very classic.

I am also fond of what the actual message is behind this type of thinking. I posted it in the Australia thread about banning L4D2 but here goes.

Essentially it is saying that they believe the parenting of their nation is so weak that it can be overshadowed by flickering lights. It is stating that a Nanny State is preferable to choice because we/they can't be trusted to make decisions for themselves. It also states that flickering lights are stronger than any set of personal morals or ethics, stronger than any mentorship, or even stronger than actually finding out why this person snapped.

Flicking lights, in your country, creating serial killers... This is where you can almost hear my eyes roll.

Can they also burn books they think are too violent ? Movies ?

Damnit, 40,000 morons rallied against a L4D2, can we get 40,000 intelligent people to rally against that.

EDIT: oops, sorry for the double post. The thread didn't display my post after I submitted it so I assumed I had pressed "back" or something.

ShadowKirby:
Can they also burn books they think are too violent ? Movies ?

Damnit, 40,000 morons rallied against a game, can we get 40,000 intelligent people to rally against that.

Be fair though, most of them are just ignorant, being deceived by the morons.

...WAIT 40000? No wonder my grandparents emigrated. Well, it was because of either the ignorant people or the Soviets, hard to tell.

Also there was recently this incident where a 18 year old stormed a school, threw Molotovs into the classes and attacked the fleeing students with a axe. He injured 2 girls badly and got shot down in the police, luckily noone got died. He survided but hasnt spoken to someone yet. This occured in Ansbach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansbach) about 4 weeks ago. It turned out that he didnt play any violet games. But the police recovered a 60 page text, in which he listed up why he did it. One of the causes was that got bullied in the bus in sixth grade.

I do hope that I read something in tomorrows news about this. It seems to bring up alot of discussion here, which personnaly will end that these people will actually get compared to Nazis, in Germany.

All right...
Everyone in Germany is now obligated to read "Fahrenheit 451" and then tell me in a 20 pages Paper why they think we should destroy what disagrees with us...
-_-