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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3923 Joined: 15 Aug 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3447 Joined: 8 May 2008    |
Sounds like Australia. People would make an underground videogame market like the drug market. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1417 Joined: 3 Apr 2008    | id die of extreme boredom and lack of kicking ass |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4160 Joined: 6 Sep 2008    | Underground Quake Deathmatches. WHERE THE LOSER REALLY DOES DIE. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 107 Joined: 3 Sep 2008     | I bet there are enough smart gamers to go underground with games. And if some international government does decide games are too "dangerous", there are enough people that play games for them to decide to regulate/create their own rather than ban them entirely. Games could be good propaganda someday. |
Paperboy  Posts: 21 Joined: 16 Oct 2008     | Either I move out of the country to, say, Australia or I would build an underground illegal gaming center and charge people to play games so I can use the money to "distract" the gaze of the government...or suicide. Depends on which one is easier to do. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 476 Joined: 8 Apr 2008   | I'd become a Criminal... |
BANNED  Posts: 599 Joined: 10 Oct 2008     | What happened when booze was banned? Mafia formed in America. User was banned for: Your.Name.Here Presents: Perma-Ban, the Thread!. (Permanent) |
BANNED Posts: 599 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 |
That was so clever I had to quote myself. User was banned for: Your.Name.Here Presents: Perma-Ban, the Thread!. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3470 Joined: 20 Aug 2008     | I'd take up model railroading. I'm gonna do it anyway if Windows 7 sucks hard enough... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1016 Joined: 17 Jul 2008   | I'm going to Canada, thay have a good army (but never use it). And sense this would accompany a fachest government I might start up or join a rebelion. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2633 Joined: 30 Sep 2008   | The gamer army would rise to conquer the fascist government, Oh wait we would probably all get locked up and executed... nevermind. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 706 Joined: 8 Sep 2008 | well i would be pretty fucked. i guess i would try and see if the people watching me cared... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 621 Joined: 20 Jan 2008   |
We ARE using it. We're in Afghanistan trying to stop the Al Qaeda* from taking over after America forgot to put any form of democracy in there. *Tell me if this is spelt wrong. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 118 Joined: 25 Aug 2008   | i would join the newly formed underground gaming circuit |
Beat Writer  Posts: 188 Joined: 23 Sep 2008    | Hypothetically, I don't think that the government's ban on them would last six months, much less be permanant, just because that it is an infringment on rights, not to mention a massive shutdown of USA-based game developers, laying off tens of thousands of workers with next to no jobs for their skills. Even if its because games get "too violent", that is why the ESRB is established in the first place. For the umpteenth time, it is not the fault of the game makers that little Timmy got his hands on a copy of Crusty Sewer Rapist 3; it is the parent's fault, who are supposed to check the 'M' rating in the first place. And the government banning violent games in the first place, like Australia, just proves the presence of ignorant fear in the government, and self-undermines their own credibility. Completely off-topic, yet still related in a backwater way, it is about (sorry for lack of accuracy, mind is failing me tonight) a $500 fine for carrying a four-inch knife on a plane in Australia, but a several thousand dollar fine and possible jail time, up to 14 years, for carrying a laser pointer. Australia really is a laughingstock in some instances, nice beaches or not. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 501 Joined: 24 May 2008  | THEN I might turn violent. Given that I actually have access to radioactive materials, that's bad for everyone. Until then, though, I won't be shooting up any high schools because of video games. They help keep my stress-addled mind together. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 571 Joined: 22 Apr 2008  | Impossible to enforce of course, besides it being a serious violation of our rights. But lets say it somehow is put into place and is being enforced. Mafia would swoop in and would make billions. Supply and demand, it does wonders for the crime syndicates. |
BANNED Posts: 599 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 |
Thats pretty much what I said. User was banned for: Your.Name.Here Presents: Perma-Ban, the Thread!. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 501 Joined: 24 May 2008 | Regardless of enforcement, someone would die if this law ever was put into place. It's too much of a violation of free speech that if it ever got ratified it's a clear indicator that this country is about to go belly-up. May as well get in on the violence early. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 6 Joined: 15 Oct 2008 | I'd probably live a healthier, richer, more socially active life. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4296 Joined: 20 Dec 2007   | Piracy would fucking skyrocket to unfathomable numbers. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 601 Joined: 20 Aug 2008  | If video games are outlawed, only the outlaws will play video games... Remember, laws don't apply to criminals. Most people forget that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008 | All the people with underground on their profiles would really be underground. I'd still play, as long as it wasn't a too serious offense. I'd read a lot more. I'd sleep a lot more. I would get a t-shirt of Che Guevara with the xbox logo in the background. |
Muckraker  Posts: 335 Joined: 30 Aug 2008  | If games were outlawed, only outlaws would have games! Eh, probably never happen, the government doesn't have the reasources to stop video gaming, just like prohibition. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1554 Joined: 10 Sep 2008  | you would have people on street corners going "psst, hey I can hook you up with some street fighter if you have the dough." |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3945 Joined: 16 May 2008    | It's been done in many places. Free governments though wouldn't last long if they did this. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 365 Joined: 10 Jan 2008  |
Quite possibly the most ironic thing ever. I'm sure Ernesto is rolling in his mass grave at the thought. :p |
Beat Writer  Posts: 176 Joined: 16 Jun 2008  | I'd probably do even better in life than I'm currently doing. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008 |
Thank you. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1152 Joined: 23 Jul 2008  | I'd go around shooting people, jacking cars and talking in a heavy eastern european accent. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1604 Joined: 28 Aug 2008  | You Do Not Talk About Game Club |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   |
Tell me about it... Though, it would probably be sold underground, yeh... I'm pretty sure that it would be a very hard law to enforce though... |
On the Record  Posts: 6467 Joined: 24 Apr 2008    | There would be a reckoning. The order would spread, and at first i would disbelieve it, how could this be true? I would ask the internet, and the series of tubes would confirm it. Something would awake. Below rock and mortar would awake a demon of rage, my helm would flash red and my rage would summon to me this demon of hate and flame. He would ascend through time and space to erupt, screaming pain and black revelation, into our mortal dimension. My hate would find a source and all would know rage. Like a vengeful god i would spear upwards from the ULTRAhouse to shower the sky in mortar and red hot iron. My bellow would stretch through rock and steel. There Will Be No Dawn For Men. To Me Would Come The Gamers, Filled With Rage And Hate. And I Will Say, Even As The Sky Is Drenched Red In My Pure Hate And Utter, Utter Disapproval. And I Will Say You Shall Be My Finest Warriors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It Will Begin With The Unsuspecting. They Will Awake One Morning To Find Themselves Shaking From Some Unholy Quake. And It Will Be The Thunderous Steps Of The Chosen, As They Make A Bloody War On All Before Them. No Aim Bot Will Pervert Them But Still None Will Escape The Booming Headshots, Perfect Frags In A Ballet Of Utter Pwnage Beyond That Which Even The Devil Himself Can Achieve With A Hack. They Shall Know No Respawn, For No Harm Shall They Allow To Grace Them. With Shields Of Righteous Fury They Will Bring The Light Of The Truth To The Heretic, The Blasphemer And The Camper... Especially The Camper. Flame Shall Roll In Waves Before Them, As Battalions Of Battleships Fly Overhead. All Shall Fall. Military After Military Shall Crumble Before The Power Of The FPS God Commanded By The RTS Veteran, And With G-Mod Contraptions Shall They Reave Down All Opposition. Until I Stand, The Avatar Of Our Will, Above The King Of The Government. And Upload A Cartridge Of Pain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the ashes we will build a new world, Sim city players acting as mayors to keep towns safe, Zoo/theme park/space tycoon players will push into realms of design and the stars. FPS players will train constantly to be ready to meet the foes we may meet and the gamut of gaming experience will topple all obstacles in our path. And that, my friends, is what i would do if they banned gaming. |
Paperboy  Posts: 46 Joined: 16 Oct 2008 | If video games were banned, then you can consider me a criminal because I will never give them up. |
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I was just wondering about this hypothetical question: what if all videogames were outlawed because they were too "dangerous" and the government put a permanent ban on them?