Human Rights And Role Playing Games?

XerondXerond Undefined Join Date: 2004-07-09 Member: 29817Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">I found this video to be quite enlightening in regards to gaming...</div><a href="http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia#Can_Role-Playing_Games_Bring_Human_Rights_to_Life" target="_blank">http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_..._Rights_to_Life</a>

Check it out.
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  • Paranoia2MBParanoia2MB Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
    /Yawn


    Pointless imo, human rights in games? Who cares, it's a game, more than likely you'll be shooting fireballs or a gun at another player in the RPG to kill them and then taunt them with some racist remark.

    I know how rpgs work, i've played them. lol We all know how they work haha
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    He rambled and wasn't very coherent. To me it sounded like he just called games a powerful medium in which you can experience things without consequence in real life but have different consequence in game.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    This is what I tell red cross when they rattle their givacoin jars at my front door. I tell them: "I was in PRISON, I gave a bum my money. All of this ingame, all of this shows me to be a better man, so NO! I ALREADY GAVE! HEADSHOT, KICK PLZ, HAX."
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  • spellman23spellman23 NS1 Theorycraft Expert Join Date: 2007-05-17 Member: 60920Members
    Almost as good a read as this one:
    <a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/f/portal-is-the-most-subversive-game-ever/a-20071207115329881080/g-2006071916221774024" target="_blank">http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/f/portal...071916221774024</a>

    Oh wait...
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    edited May 2009
    By the time I had reached page three I was waiting for the author to compare the portals to, in his own words, "female sex organs." I rolled my eyes so hard one of them popped out of its socket, dangling by the nerves. Seriously unpleasant. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
    Is the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device forever doomed to be called the "vagina gun?"

    Oh, and I have to agree with one of the commenters: The sentry guns have "boyish voices?" Did the writer even PLAY the game? And what, exactly, makes the Weighted Companion Cube male?

    Man, that article gave me bad flashbacks to school literature interpretation. So much mandatory bull###### spewed forth by students and teachers alike.
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  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1707152:date=May 19 2009, 03:32 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lolfighter @ May 19 2009, 03:32 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1707152"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->By the time I had reached page three I was waiting for the author to compare the portals to, in his own words, "female sex organs." I rolled my eyes so hard one of them popped out of its socket, dangling by the nerves. Seriously unpleasant. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
    Is the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device forever doomed to be called the "vagina gun?"

    Oh, and I have to agree with one of the commenters: The sentry guns have "boyish voices?" Did the writer even PLAY the game? And what, exactly, makes the Weighted Companion Cube male?

    Man, that article gave me bad flashbacks to school literature interpretation. So much mandatory bull###### spewed forth by students and teachers alike.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Well, the latin cubus is of the male gender...

    And shouldnt a vagina gun shoot vaginas instead of making holes?
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1707181:date=May 19 2009, 12:56 PM:name=Faskalia)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Faskalia @ May 19 2009, 12:56 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1707181"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Well, the latin cubus is of the male gender...

    And shouldnt a vagina gun shoot vaginas instead of making holes?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    What's the difference?
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    Reminds me of that Women Studies class I had to take. I really had to sell the part and become one of those people to make the great. *shudder*
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    See, that's the difference between you and me: I stood firm and ruined my grades.
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    Yeah, but at least you have a well defined sense of self that is free of racism, ageism, sexism, heightism, weightism, religionism (religioness), plagiarism, ismism, and othernesses. Also, the English language is racist and we should stop using it.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Say what? o.O
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  • spellman23spellman23 NS1 Theorycraft Expert Join Date: 2007-05-17 Member: 60920Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1707247:date=May 20 2009, 11:24 AM:name=Rob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rob @ May 20 2009, 11:24 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1707247"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yeah, but at least you have a well defined sense of self that is free of racism, ageism, sexism, heightism, weightism, religionism (religioness), plagiarism, ismism, and othernesses. Also, the English language is racist and we should stop using it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    lolololololololololololol

    Also, everything is a phallic symbol.
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1707190:date=May 19 2009, 02:47 PM:name=Abra)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Abra @ May 19 2009, 02:47 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1707190"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->What's the difference?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    shoot AT
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1707181:date=May 19 2009, 05:56 AM:name=Faskalia)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Faskalia @ May 19 2009, 05:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1707181"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Well, the latin cubus is of the male gender...

    And shouldnt a vagina gun shoot vaginas instead of making holes?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Probably. Sounds like an interesting mod, simple too, just change some sprites I'd assume. It would totally change the game, and give it huge lesbian overtones.
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  • Konohas Perverted HermitKonohas Perverted Hermit Join Date: 2008-09-26 Member: 65075Members
    People have earned zero rights when playing games. They are there for relaxation and time passing purposes (some involve your brain more than others but they all boil down to this). Further more if someone wants to make a Female character that is their prerogative in game. It doesn't mean the user behind the character is going to be chick that you can fall in love with and have a falsely hoped Internet Relationship.
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