The Official Martin Hash Video Game Thread

[Okeefenokee]

Lol, your game is rayssiss,

[SuburbanFarmer]

Trying not to think about that game. I want to play it so bad.

[Okeefenokee]

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wow, a new level in scummy publishing. Short version: These guys took a free, open-source game, and started selling it under a different name. The lengths they're going to are comical.


https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/0 ... alpilot3d/

VirtualPilot3D is actually FlightGear, a free (FREE!) open-source flight sim, developed over the course of the last 15 years by a band of dedicated, talented, and splendidly altruistic hobby developers. The shabby hijackers attempting to sell it to you under the VirtualPilot3D, ProFlightSimulator, Flight Simulator Plus or FlightProSim name have contributed nothing to this marathon endeavour. They seek only to profit and deceive.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... ore-524273

In the hard-to-find corner of the website that explains, unpersuasively, why PFS definitely isn’t FlightGear, Dan and co. actually resort to misrepresenting and maligning the sim they are hijacking. With statements like “FG does not provide new updates very regularly”, “open source products do not offer any support” and “no more fiddling with files” they paint a highly misleading picture of the labour-of-love they cynically parasitize.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Also, apparently, Trump held a 'meeting' of conservatives and lobbyists, to show how violent videogames are "to protect the children". He had a YouTube montage built of video game deaths.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... e-meeting/

US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February’s murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it “is really shaping young people’s thoughts.” This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short video montage of video game deaths. The White House have released this publicly, so we can all see a sloppy montage of deaths from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 4, and more. Somehow it isn’t a surprise that some clips are clearly ripped from YouTubers – watermarks and all.

[Penner]

Also, apparently, Trump held a 'meeting' of conservatives and lobbyists, to show how violent videogames are "to protect the children". He had a YouTube montage built of video game deaths.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... e-meeting/

US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February’s murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it “is really shaping young people’s thoughts.” This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short video montage of video game deaths. The White House have released this publicly, so we can all see a sloppy montage of deaths from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 4, and more. Somehow it isn’t a surprise that some clips are clearly ripped from YouTubers – watermarks and all.

So, 1990s. Didn't studies prove that there are no links to violent video games and real-life violence?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Also, apparently, Trump held a 'meeting' of conservatives and lobbyists, to show how violent videogames are "to protect the children". He had a YouTube montage built of video game deaths.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... e-meeting/

US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February’s murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it “is really shaping young people’s thoughts.” This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short video montage of video game deaths. The White House have released this publicly, so we can all see a sloppy montage of deaths from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 4, and more. Somehow it isn’t a surprise that some clips are clearly ripped from YouTubers – watermarks and all.

So, 1990s. Didn't studies prove that there are no links to violent video games and real-life violence?

Trump is still in the 1990s.

[Speaker to Animals]

Trump is still in the 1990s.

I would be too if I were that rich.

[Penner]

Also, apparently, Trump held a 'meeting' of conservatives and lobbyists, to show how violent videogames are "to protect the children". He had a YouTube montage built of video game deaths.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... e-meeting/

So, 1990s. Didn't studies prove that there are no links to violent video games and real-life violence?

Trump is still in the 1990s.

At best, the violence may desensitize us to graphic images but it doesn't create real-world violence. Although, if parents do not want their children to play violent video game then they are going to have to be parents and make sure their kids are not playing them. Plus, you know we already have a rating system for video games, TV shows, movies, etc....

[Okeefenokee]