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Started by merithyn, July 29, 2019, 12:17:38 PM

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#105
August 06, 2019, 06:30:32 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 06, 2019, 04:57:26 AM
So, more guns don't seem to solve the problem. I guess the next logical step is to encourage wearing body armor and combat helmets in public?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/bullet-resistant-backpacks-have-become-another-back-to-school-staple.html
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Syt

#106
August 07, 2019, 11:59:44 AM
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garbon

#107
August 07, 2019, 12:28:06 PM
Latest is that it was a mistaken report though, just like that one in Baton Rouge(?)
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Duque de Bragança

#108
August 07, 2019, 01:53:37 PM Last Edit: August 07, 2019, 01:55:10 PM by Duque de Bragança
Is this Mc Carthy statement true as in he really said it? I mean it's more than possible but I would like a confirmation.

Habbaku

#109
August 07, 2019, 02:11:46 PM
Quote definitely looks to be fake. Some Googling returns nothing like it, aside from him blaming video games for shootings.
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Josquius

#110
August 07, 2019, 02:30:58 PM
A quick Google shows it coming up in multiple places. Seems real. Not in a position to check videos right now though.
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Valmy

#111
August 07, 2019, 02:34:46 PM
Kind of surprised the Japanese spend so little on video games. But then you work ridiculous hours over there right?
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Habbaku

#112
August 07, 2019, 02:42:41 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 07, 2019, 02:30:58 PM
A quick Google shows it coming up in multiple places. Seems real. Not in a position to check videos right now though.

A fake quote can come up in multiple places. Doesn't mean it's real.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Malthus

#113
August 07, 2019, 03:21:39 PM
It's a fake, but not far off from reality - McCarthy (and other Republicans) are busy blaming violent video games for mass shootings, while others are pointing out that nations such as Japan have more video game usage per capita than the US, but less mass shootings.

The inventer of this fake quote just put the two ideas together and put it in the mouth of McCarthy.

https://splinternews.com/top-republicans-are-blaming-video-games-for-the-white-t-1836953770
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The Minsky Moment

#114
August 07, 2019, 04:01:40 PM
On the merits there is obviously no empirical cross-country correlation  between video game sales and mass shootings.

There does appear to be a emerging correlation between having a bunch of morons in high government positions and mass shootings.  Not sure if there is causality here but better to be safe and get the morons out.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Brain

#115
August 07, 2019, 04:05:28 PM
The US might need more hentai.
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The Minsky Moment

#116
August 07, 2019, 04:07:14 PM
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Josquius

#117
August 07, 2019, 04:09:20 PM Last Edit: August 07, 2019, 04:11:59 PM by Tyr
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2019, 02:34:46 PM
Kind of surprised the Japanese spend so little on video games. But then you work ridiculous hours over there right?

They seem very in for a penny in for a pound when it comes to games (or indeed most things).
Not that many people who play a lot of games as part of a balanced life. It's either "I know what Mario is" or complete shut in obsessive.
No inbetween.

Plus of course its not the 90s anymore.
The Japanese games industry died many years ago.
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Duque de Bragança

#118
August 08, 2019, 09:47:16 AM
Quote from: The Brain on August 07, 2019, 04:05:28 PM
The US might need more hentai.

For the sake of the argument, I will suggest hentai of a different kind than Urotsukidōji.

Razgovory

#119
August 08, 2019, 10:07:33 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 07, 2019, 04:09:20 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2019, 02:34:46 PM
Kind of surprised the Japanese spend so little on video games. But then you work ridiculous hours over there right?

They seem very in for a penny in for a pound when it comes to games (or indeed most things).
Not that many people who play a lot of games as part of a balanced life. It's either "I know what Mario is" or complete shut in obsessive.
No inbetween.

Plus of course its not the 90s anymore.
The Japanese games industry died many years ago.

You say the strangest things sometimes.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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