bombs are very real. bomb threats are very real.
i find it strange that you can have quite that opinion and yet you ARE an administrator.
Did I say they weren't? I'm looking back over my post and I said no where in there about bombs and threats not being real.
I'm not your run of the mill Admin. Get to know me and you'll see I'm far far different then the norm when it comes to Admins.
I will cut you some slack if you didn't read all of my post, or didn't understand what I said like these other people.
But if you did read it right and did understand it... well you'll see.
okay, listen. being an admin at a Pokemon forum has A LOT to do with that admin's feelings towards the extent of vulgarity and violence in a Pokemon game. why do you think PC has a vulgarity filter? it's there because as a forum that will attract many children, the administration must be weary of what is exposed to any potential visitor. it's NOT there because terrorists WANT us to use profane language.
that's just silly. there's no logic in that. the motives of terrorists have nothing to do with how the public should treat profanities, especially when considering the way D/P presented the bomb situation. bombs are a BIG deal and bomb threats should be just as BIG, and if game developers continue to present bombs in such a small, putrefied light, then their audiences, children, will grow up thinking they aren't a big deal, and will probably make a couple bomb threats a year just to get a few days off.
if you think there's no problem with that, then i'm the fool for thinking i could have a reasonable discussion on a pokemon forum.
Dude, you picked the wrong person to quote when it comes to games and IRL. You're in for a treat with this.
My rank on PC has nothing to do with my personal feelings about games. I used to be one of the people who let their rank on a forum dictate how they feel about things and what things they can and can't say. Then I got high enough and didn't give a flip what anyone thought about when it came to me and my feelings on things.
And one of the things I can't stand, is people telling me what to do or how to act when it comes to Staff matters. So lets not go there.
Now that that's out of the way.
Remember that quote you quoted from my first post, and remember me saying something about being stupid? Guess what Samson, you fit right in that group.
No offense to anyone out there, but I find it really really stupid that someone can believe that games is what drives people to do violent things, I find it stupid for someone to think that games play such a big role on people that they don't do this or do that because they learned it from a game. And that's one of the things behind "people need to understand the line between real life and games." (both the people who are messed up enough to do things due to games, and the people who think games are to blame for this and that).
Lets take a kid for example (4 or 5 years old). They just got Pokemon D/P, they learned that bombs are fun things to do and shouldn't be taken serious (that is if they are able to read all the stuff to get to that point). From 5 years old to age 15, how many times is that kid going to be alone where a parent, teacher, or someone taking care of them can't say "OMG it's a bomb, come on Jimmy we got to get out of here."? Thought about that did you? And if the kid is past 10 years old, doesn't know what a bomb is, and still thinks it's something funny in a Pokemon game then that kid is really messed up. Pokemon isn't to blame, the people who made it isn't to blame, it's the parents for not teaching the kid and/or the kid for not staying in school.
I for the life of me can't see how people like you can blame games for the stupidity of people. You're no better then Jack Thompson, thinking games are the root of all evil in the world, thinking "Well if something goes wrong games are to blame". Can't find a cause for someone being stupid, so it must be the games. Am I right? You think violent gamers = violent people, thinking games dumb people down to things IRL? That's what you think isn't it? Because if it's not then you just went back on what you said. You thinking crying bomb in a Pokemon game is bad and will make kids feel ok around bombs IRL. So using that logic killing in a game = being able to kill IRL. That's what you're trying to say right?
Maybe a bomb part in Pokemon wasn't the best of ideas. Not because of your reasons for disliking it, but for it not being within the Pokemon norm. And one more small thing about Pokemon games. What's the difference in Sapphire, where Team Aqua wanted to flood the whole earth? Bombs kill, flooding kills, well what was so bad about that? Are you also pissed because Team Aqua had dumbed down kids when it comes to floods?
And about the part where you saying "bombs are a BIG deal and bomb threats should be just as BIG". I agree, bombs and bomb threats shouldn't be taken lightly. But the line after that just makes you walk right back into the quote where all this started.
"it's a game, and people need to understand the line between real life and games."
And sadly, you need to learn the difference in games and IRL. Because if you think they are the same then you shouldn't be playing games, you should be out there boycotting all games. You need to return or trash your D/P ver, trash your consoles and boycott it all because you think gaming = IRL.
So yea, have fun with all that.