Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 06:20 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote:
> > I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8.
> > And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;)
> >
> > I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free)
> > derived from that engine also has the option!?
> >
> > Tom
> 
> 
> Ok, I'll clarify further: without "kill them!" :-)

Ok, here's the thing I don't understand: you don't want your son to
actually see that when you shoot a person (or animal) that it bleeds,
because, I presume, you tend to find something gory about that.  But the
act of walking around rooms shooting everything that moves -- that's not
gory for some reason?

It seems to me that the act of bleeding (we all do it) is in fact
natural, and shouldn't be that disturbing compared to the acts of
violence committed in FPS to begin with.  This is analogous to the
ratings board giving a "PG-13" rating to a movie with excessing drug use
but an "R" (or worse) rating to a film portraying sex, a natural act.
As if to say, "Yeah, shooting up is pretty bad but, hey, at least
they're not fucking!".

Anyway, if I'm ever unfortunate to find myself on the wrong end of a gun
I hope it's by someone who is aware that if/when he pulls the trigger I
will bleed as opposed to, say, a person who thinks I'll simply fall down
and, after a few seconds, disappear.

Note I'm not disputing the game, just the "logic".

-a

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