Red Cross: Civilians in Video Games Have Rights Too!!

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

http://kotaku.com/5863817/war-crimes-in ... s-scrutiny

Well, I'm glad they've found something to keep themselves busy.

 

[Luzur]

LOL WAT

 

[Unkillable Cat]

They better not learn what I've been up to in Syndicate...

Or Carmageddon...

Or Lemmings...

Or... well, crap.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Disgusting subhumans.

 

[Aldebaran]

If it can throw Kotick into the modern day Nuremberg trials, it sounds like a net gain to me.

I think that they should really worry about freedom of speech first, though. Most of the byte people have no choice but to read the script that they have been handed. And the material they're forced to work with? No thanks. I'll pass.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

They better not learn what I've been up to in Syndicate...

Or Carmageddon...

Or Lemmings...

Or... well, crap.

War crimes trial for you.

 

[Skittles]

Oh, fucking Kotaku.

Red Cross is just talking about more realism.

Maybe if they actually do something effective we can have fun FPS again instead of highly polished shit.

 

[Menckenstein]

Pretty sure the Red Cross need to answer for their allegiance with Umbrella Corporation or something. Hypocrite assholes.

 

[deuxhero]

Rainbow Six?

Rainbow doesn't officially exist and it fights non-uniformed forced. Pretty hard to officially violate it.

 

[Gragt]

I wonder about the number of people involved in this. By "Red Cross", do they mean a large number in the organisation or just a few who are concerned about video games? If I'm not mistaken, Kotaku writers get paid by the number of visits on their articles, so it makes sense for them to blow things out of proportions, and if the subject is controversial, it might spawn a heated discussion, which means more visits.

 

[Elim]

Why are people so damn stupid? No wonder everything goes downhill.

 

[sea]

I wonder about the number of people involved in this. By "Red Cross", do they mean a large number in the organisation or just a few who are concerned about video games? If I'm not mistaken, Kotaku writers get paid by the number of visits on their articles, so it makes sense for them to blow things out of proportions, and if the subject is controversial, it might spawn a heated discussion, which means more visits.

Reading the article, that's exactly what it sounds like. For all we know it was 3 crackpot members having a discussion, but they curiously avoid specifics and instead cast it as the entire Red Cross in the headline. Kotaku are pretty notorious for bending the truth and reporting information they know is bad, only to "apologize" later, so this doesn't surprise me in the least.

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO I KILLED 60 MILLION PLUS IN DEFCON ONCE TONIGHT AND I ALMOSY FELT BAD BUT THEN I REMEMBERED IT WAS FUN

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I can't play Defcon. It always creeps me out.

 

[kris]

While the Movement works vigorously to promote international humanitarian law worldwide, there is also an audience of approximately 600 million gamers who may be virtually violating IHL,

I see a virtual lawsuit coming up.

In computer and video games, violence is often shown and the players become 'virtually violent.

Would be grand with a game were you can virtually kill the red cross. I sense much butthurt in that one.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

It's impossible to violate human rights of non-humans.

 

[Luzur]

I can't play Defcon. It always creeps me out.

how can mass exterminatus creep an Astartes out?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I can't play Defcon. It always creeps me out.

how can mass exterminatus creep an Astartes out?

Because it destroys whole humanity.

 

[Phelot]

Video Game Journalists: Defenders of Gamer's Freedumbz!

"Guyz we may suck the dicks of every major publisher out there, but we'll lay down our lives against the evils of moms and church groups that threaten to take away our gamez!"

 

[WhiteGamer]

BRO I KILLED 60 MILLION PLUS IN DEFCON ONCE TONIGHT AND I ALMOSY FELT BAD BUT THEN I REMEMBERED IT WAS FUN

I killed 100 million people in Armored Core: For Answer, and they didn't just die, entire nations lived in giant airships and they all fell to their deaths when I took out the engines of the airships.

 

[J1M]

As long as the laws and trials surrounding virtual war crimes are virtual...

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Knowing that I am committing a war crime only makes my penis harder as I violate these innocent virgin pixels.

How far does this go though? Does slaughtering 1000 zerglings equate to killing 1000 real people?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Only if it shows the slaughter on screen.

*nukes Megaton, the two kids inside become dust in the wind*

*zero fucks given*

*killable children mod is released*

 

[Commissar Draco]

I wonder which group of those fags are more laughable: Kotaku jouranlists or RC?