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(01-19-2008,
09:32 PM)
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Brazil bans Counter-strike & Everquest
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http://kotaku.com/346800/brazilian-g...-everquest-fun http://info.abril.com.br/aberto/info...8012008-14.shl http://www.procon.go.gov.br/procon/d...textoId=001092 Couldn´t there be a more fitting response.  Yeah, because you know Brazil is so devoid of really important problems, our Justice is so fast, so efficient, that judges are "lacking" things to judge. So let´s waste time and money with these so called "videogames". Jack Thompson and related assholes, envy this! "Brazil, trying hard to be world´s number 1 laugh stock!" Last edited by Youta Mottenai : 01-19-2008 at 09:39 PM. |
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smells clean, brushes teeth. Also combs hair regularly.
(01-19-2008,
09:37 PM)
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#3
The judge is right on the ball. Whats next, banning GTA2?
(Actually, I think thats already banned...) 5 years ago, the rule in LAn houses, where counterstrike was played 99% of the time, was that under 18 needed parental permission, and couldnt stay after 10pm. |
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(01-19-2008,
09:43 PM)
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#12
Only in South America.
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Member
(01-19-2008,
09:45 PM)
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#16
EA Brazil has already published a statement regarding the issue and will appeal against this decision. I don't see the game being banned... cs_rio, a user-made map with references to slums, baile funk songs and so on, is what has sparked this stupid decision. In my humble opinion, I think that the farthest this judicial decision will get is a ban on cs_rio from public Counter-Strike 1.6 (yeah, it's not even available on CS Source) servers. And even that is a loooooooong shot in my opinion.
As for EverQuest... man, the game isn't even sold here. Come on! This judge's intention is to appear to public. Y'know, state elections will happen this year in Brazil. Moron. |
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Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
(01-19-2008,
09:51 PM)
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#19
Yeah, that'll surely work. Sure there'll be no more lan houses with those games!
Originally Posted by Firestorm:
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Member
(01-19-2008,
10:46 PM)
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#32
Attention whore judge. Happens every four years. Someone tried banning RPG books a while ago. Everquest isn't even sold in Brazil.
EA distributes Valve's games here, and they'll surely get this down quickly. If not, I'll get into it myself, since this decision is clearly unconstitutional. The banning also came from an very strange source (consumer's protection) and with an incredibly lame reasoning (the games are "health hazards"). Also, the local press and gamers seem to talk very little about the banning of Everquest. It was completely random and the "reasoning" behind it can be easily applied to any MMO game, if that judge ever comes to know about them. |
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(01-19-2008,
10:49 PM)
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#34
They should ban Ragnarok and Lineage II instead. These games are like plague here now.
I agree the reason for this move about CS is cs_rio. Was because of this map and ONLY because of it that became so much popular, mainly on a time it was cool here to act like a gangster or a hustler and glamourization of violence and drug trafikking. That's why CS became so popular with the wankstas and in the slum quarters. cs_rio was even noticed on Jornal Nacional from Rede Globo, Brazil's most famous evening news. Last edited by TreasureHunterG : 01-19-2008 at 10:55 PM. |
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(01-19-2008,
10:54 PM)
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#37
the judge forgot two things about my country:
1) rules are meaningless, which leads to: 2) noboby buys original games in brazil. this is pathetic by all means, just when a good politician aproves a law that will cut taxes for gaming in brazil (law 300/2007, because nintendo wants to put a factory here), someone does something stupid like this. if pliticians in NA know jack shit about games, imagine here. vao pra puta que pariu! |
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Member
(01-19-2008,
11:04 PM)
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#41
Originally Posted by Barkley's Justice:
A prudent move would be: -give police officers real working equipment (police with a rusty 38 without bullets and without a working body protection vest vs drug dealers armed with automatic rifle/RPG/machine gun/grenade), -stop treating criminals as "victims of an unffair society", -remind everyone that if you buy drugs (yes, that one bought "just for some innocent weekend party fun") you are part of the problem, -cut criminals controll over drug traffic/crime factions from inside prisons walls via cellphones (that shoudn´t be there to begin with) and well structured phone centrals, -punish, hardly, cops, lawyers, public servers, judges and politicians involved in traffic/caught in illegal acts, -etc, etc, etc. p.s. In case someone asks: I think CS boring as hell. The game is not the point, but the stupidity involved in the ban is. As I said: "Brazil, trying hard to be world´s number 1 laugh stock!" |
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(01-19-2008,
11:20 PM)
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#44
Originally Posted by Youta Mottenai:
And the most important: stop the crime glamourification on the media. Many TV and Radio shows, musical styles (baile funk and pagode) and newspapers glamourize the crime constantly on Brazil. Until this stop, nothing you mentioned will happen. |
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(01-19-2008,
11:33 PM)
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#45
Originally Posted by TreasureHunterG:
I have to disagree with that. Baile funk and pagode shown on TV and radio hardly ever glorify violence and crime, it's not like gangsta rap. The only instances when that happens is when such artists end up related to drug barons and such. It's the media's duty to report when these things happen. ... obviously, that does not include the "proibidões" (bootleg CDs with straight-out references to crime kingpins, inciting turf wars and so on... for more than obvious reasons, those aren't allowed to play on radio and TV). |
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(01-19-2008,
11:42 PM)
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#48
They should also ban Duke 3d! |
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Member
(01-19-2008,
11:43 PM)
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#49
I spend about half the year in Rio. The prostitutes chase me off the beach they are so pushy because I am foreign. My companies cars are bulletproof after a nasty incident on the Yellowline. Most of the city lives in brick houses in the Flavellas (slums) that I swear are slowly melting every time it rains because the bricks are crap. But at least fucking CS is banned!
Good job! Actually, I love Rio and am trying to move there despite its problems. |
