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is this legal?

billycopbillycop Member Posts: 5 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Ten Forward
alright, so i was going through my Facebook history (just one of those general scans to kill any spam) and i came across a semi-old article stating that games like STO will become illegal in the USA next year. you can read it here:
http://www.p4rgaming.com/mmorpgs-now-classified-as-schedule-i-drug-by-us-government-due-to-addictive-properties/

so can the US government really do this?i hope not...... :mad:
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    skhcskhc Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Let's look at the P4rgaming website front page headlines shall we?

    "Notch confirms Minecraft is meant to teach children how to use a gun"



    Yeah. Legit website...
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    lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    lol

    Look at some of the other articles on that site. It's clearly a spoof site like The Onion. It's kind of funny how many people fall for stuff like this heh.
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    sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    It reads like a poorly-written joke.
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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    skhc wrote: »
    Let's look at the P4rgaming website front page headlines shall we?

    "Notch confirms Minecraft is meant to teach children how to use a gun"



    Yeah. Legit website...

    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??
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    reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Besides, the government wouldn't ban something unless they couldn't figure out a way to get a cut of it.
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    billycopbillycop Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    eh, i guess i fell for it then. but i thought i would bring it here just to see what you all would think.....
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    iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    billycop wrote: »
    eh, i guess i fell for it then. but i thought i would bring it here just to see what you all would think.....

    I think Poe's Law makes websites like that legal.
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    philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??

    I thought the DOOOOMMMMEEDDD thread implied the use of guns, but they really meant to say "puns".
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??

    There was a bizarre story recently where a kid got caught with a gun (unloaded and with the firing pin removed), tools, and knives in school. His father explained that he and his friends were using the guns to recreate scenes from Minecraft. The result was that in a week containing both a major shooting and a main series Grand Theft Auto release, all the major news networks spent a day talking about how Minecraft was driving kids to commit make believe violence.
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    steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??

    In my day, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam were teaching children how to use weapons.
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    lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Great. So what happens if the old Doom game is discovered, then reprogrammed so that it could run in a Holodeck?
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    felixhexfelixhex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??


    It was Duke Nuke'em for me. Shooting fat little pigs with scantilly clad pole dancers when I was a child... ah those were the days.
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    khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The tinfoil hat is strong with this thread.

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    centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I thought DOOM was the one blamed for teaching children how to use weapons??

    I thought that one was chainsawing children and puppies? :confused:
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    turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    You guys are making me feel really old - I was taught how to use weapons by shooting at ducks flying out of tall grass... every time I missed them, that dog started snickering at me...
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    lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    You guys are making me feel really old - I was taught how to use weapons by shooting at ducks flying out of tall grass... every time I missed them, that dog started snickering at me...

    We were supposed to shoot the ducks? I was waiting for the dog to pop out of the grass... :eek:
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    mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    You guys are making me feel really old - I was taught how to use weapons by shooting at ducks flying out of tall grass... every time I missed them, that dog started snickering at me...

    What are you talking about? The person who taught me how to use a gun was a guy with a machine gun running across a screen. I was bad at the game, so I had to use a code to get myself more lives. :P
    hevach wrote: »
    There was a bizarre story recently where a kid got caught with a gun (unloaded and with the firing pin removed), tools, and knives in school. His father explained that he and his friends were using the guns to recreate scenes from Minecraft. The result was that in a week containing both a major shooting and a main series Grand Theft Auto release, all the major news networks spent a day talking about how Minecraft was driving kids to commit make believe violence.

    Wow, media will latch onto ANYTHING, won't they? I think they are getting desperate.
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    captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    billycop wrote: »
    so can the US government really do this?i hope not...... :mad:

    Right now, the US government cant even come to work, and its a totally bogus story anyway.
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    khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    captainrevo1 wrote: »
    Right now, the US government cant even come to work, and its a totally bogus story anyway.

    Totally man. I feel for you lay people over there.

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    misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    steamwright wrote: »
    In my day, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam were teaching children how to use weapons.

    In my day it was the A-Team.:cool:
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    jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Hmm if i took something that conducted electricity and put it to this thread would it arc off of all the people wearing tin foil hats here? :confused:

    and if so would it cause some massive electrical discharge due to the sheer amount of people wearing tin foil hats? :eek:
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    There's literally one person in the thread who didn't recognize it as a fake story, and that's the OP. And even they were skeptical enough to ask first. No tinfoil here.
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