Red Cross says War Games should be bound by the Geneva convention

Started by jimmy olsen, December 07, 2011, 05:30:03 PM

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Malthus

#30
December 09, 2011, 11:46:04 AM
Worrying about whether your computer games follow the Geneva Convention is the very definition of a "first world problem".  :D
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Richard Hakluyt

#31
December 09, 2011, 11:58:53 AM
What about hate-speech between Dwarves and Elves? This has got to be a major worry as well  :hmm:

Strix

#32
December 09, 2011, 12:09:59 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 09, 2011, 11:58:53 AM
What about hate-speech between Dwarves and Elves? This has got to be a major worry as well  :hmm:

There are quite a few quests in WoW where you perform medical experiments on prisoners.
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Neil

#33
December 09, 2011, 12:40:40 PM
Quote from: hotshot on December 09, 2011, 10:23:23 AM
QuoteRolling over people with tanks:  Good fun.
Or not.
There's nothing more satisfying than spotting a lone engineer repairing his tank, and then sneaking up on him, jumping in the tank and then backing over him.
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CountDeMoney

#34
December 09, 2011, 07:36:19 PM
Quote from: Neil on December 09, 2011, 12:40:40 PM
Quote from: hotshot on December 09, 2011, 10:23:23 AM
QuoteRolling over people with tanks:  Good fun.
Or not.
There's nothing more satisfying than spotting a lone engineer repairing his tank, and then sneaking up on him, jumping in the tank and then backing over him.

Yup.  BattleGTA.

Ed Anger

#35
December 09, 2011, 07:38:26 PM
I like watching the driver of the tank pop out to repair his tank and then run over to steal it. THIS IS A TANKJACKING.
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jimmy olsen

#36
December 09, 2011, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 09, 2011, 11:58:53 AM
What about hate-speech between Dwarves and Elves? This has got to be a major worry as well  :hmm:
Quick, someone send them some WH40k games!
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sbr

#37
December 09, 2011, 09:02:30 PM
Quote from: Malthus on December 09, 2011, 11:46:04 AM
Worrying about whether your computer games follow the Geneva Convention is the very definition of a "first world problem".  :D

No kidding. :D

Neil

#38
December 09, 2011, 09:13:23 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 09, 2011, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 09, 2011, 11:58:53 AM
What about hate-speech between Dwarves and Elves? This has got to be a major worry as well  :hmm:
Quick, someone send them some WH40k games!
Aliens aren't covered by the Geneva Convention, nor are demons.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

jimmy olsen

#39
December 09, 2011, 10:12:22 PM
Quote from: Neil on December 09, 2011, 09:13:23 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 09, 2011, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 09, 2011, 11:58:53 AM
What about hate-speech between Dwarves and Elves? This has got to be a major worry as well  :hmm:
Quick, someone send them some WH40k games!
Aliens aren't covered by the Geneva Convention, nor are demons.
Plenty of rebellious humans get annihilated, tortured, etc.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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11B4V

#40
December 10, 2011, 06:05:49 PM


QuoteShould the Geneva Conventions Be Applied to Video Games?


I usually play the Germans in CMBB and we dont do that sort of thing.
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Razgovory

#41
December 10, 2011, 06:39:27 PM
I remember an RTS where civilians were a harvest-able resource.
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Ideologue

#42
December 10, 2011, 07:09:22 PM
Now I have an image of the ore trucks from Command & Conquer scooping up people and taking them back to the refinery.  It's pretty great.
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Tonitrus

#43
December 10, 2011, 08:43:34 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on December 10, 2011, 07:09:22 PM
Now I have an image of the ore trucks from Command & Conquer scooping up people and taking them back to the refinery.  It's pretty great.

Soylent Green mod?

Solmyr

#44
December 11, 2011, 07:12:30 AM
Quote from: Drakken on December 08, 2011, 08:04:42 AM
Quote from: Tyr on December 07, 2011, 08:58:06 PM
Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

You could execute prisoners in M:TW, with a zany sound of people dying with their throats slit.

Do the conventions apply to medieval warfare? :unsure:
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