• 1Oct 08

  Sex and violence.... Yay

  Before starting, I am once again compelled to say sorry for not being around. Work and personal reasons have made it hard to be here as of late. Also sorry for the lack of commenting on your blogs. Don't hold to against me.

  I have been trying to make another audio/video blog but work, computer issues, and losing a excellent partnership have made things difficult. My intent is to disguise the movie and games rateing systems. so, in related news here are my thoughts on sex and violence.

  First off I have to say I love both sex and violence. As we all do. But it has always perplexed me that in popular culture Violence is so much more acceptable then sex.

  In "God of War" there is a sequence where the main character has off screen sex with 2 women. This was the subject of much controversy in the media and probably with parents as well. However the wanton, brutal, and graphic murder of hundreds of humans and animals (some innocent) didn't seem to raise too many eyebrows.

  From the first video games up til the newest of releases, the great majority of them are all about violence. Don't get me wrong, I freakin love to kill things(in videogames...mostly) and I have little intrest in sex based games(mostly). Though I would love to have sex while playing a video game. But I think one activity would probably steal most of my attention (the question is which).

  If you take all the mainstream movies made in the past 30 years and cut out and pasted together all the shots of someone being shot in the head in to a video, it would be hours and hours long. Do the same thing with all the shots of full frontal nudity and you maybe able to fill the time of a sitcom without the commercials (what a great show that would be though).

  what is the real reason for this? is it that we are obsessed with violence and death? Is it that we are scared of sex and nudity? the answer is yes to both of the latter questions. but the answer to the first questions is the censors and the rating systems. because a few stuck up fuddy-duddies (that's right I said fuddy-duddies) think we can't handle seeing nasty dirty boobies, but glorious fountains of crimson spraying from the uncapped necks of our enemies is pure beauty and art.( I agree with the second part)

  It is a bizzar double standard of two things that are not in the same class. It's like loving to tear clumps of hair out of you head, but being freaked out by people who like eating chocolate.

  anyway, my point is not that there should be more or less of either of these things in games or movies, but that the priorities of the world in general need re-adjusting. In real life I'd much rather have sex then attack someone(I'm apparently a lover not a fighter...but I like fighting too) and I think everyone should feel that way. So, why do people want the reverse in what they watch or play. Come on everyone, lets have a little sex in our violence. Also violent sex sounds good to me.(consensual I mean. I would hope that's obvious)

  Til next time, make war not love

  Jim

  • Posted Oct 1, 2008 11:46 am GMT
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• 20Aug 08

  Give me a break... Seriously, I'm tired.

  Sorry I'm not around much these days. I work the stupidest hours and usually around 45 of them. I hope to catch up on all your blogs soon.

  speaking of being tired. check out this article I read:

  If it's good enough for Cartman, it's good enough for Square-Enix.

  The developers of the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI seemingly borrowed a page from the Emmy-winning South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" by updating the game with one of the longest - and most physically grueling - video game fights ever. Introduced in the game's latest downloadable update, the boss monster "Pandemonium Warden" remained perfectly fit after a group of high-level adventurers wailed away at it nonstop for over 18 hours straight.
  Though the seemingly unbeatable boss will not prevent people from 'completing' the game -- persistent online games typically do not "end" like most single-player games -- it has sparked debate over what exactly the game's developers, Square-Enix, expect out of their devoted fan base. Message boards have lit up with disgruntled players calling out the company for failing to respect its very own in-game warning telling players they have "no desire to see your real life suffer as a consequence [of playing]. Don't forget your friends, your family, your school or your work."

  Easy for them to say. While the beast continually healed, the gamers weren't so lucky.

  "People were passing out and getting physically ill," leaders of the player guild said in a forum post. "We decided to end it before we risked turning into a horrible news story about how video games ruin people's lives."

  There are very few things I want to do for 18 straight hours and most of them I can't talk about in ear shot of the underage. But, as lonily as i may be I still don't want to fight a single boss for that long.

  later guys

  • Posted Aug 20, 2008 3:51 pm GMT
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• 24Jul 08

  Oh, what a world.

  First let me just say if your at GiantBomb my names porthand_jim there too. But I've only gone there once so far, but feel free to add me.

  Second thank you all for the kind words about my audio blog. We'll see what surprises I can dig up to do another with.

  third, the real point of this blog has nothing to do with gaming, but Naming. I got this on yahoo news and I am at a loss for words.

  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

  Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

  Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.

  The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.

  "The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

  The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

  In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.

  Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.

  New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

  Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.

  • Posted Jul 24, 2008 9:34 am GMT
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