RE: [HoE] Re: Help [OT]

["Eric Tolliver" <e.tolliver@home.com>]

If that is the tack you're takeing you might as well say everything the
media prints is bad. Look at colombine they started blaming doom for the
kids violence among other things such a marilon manson.. I didn't mind that
they blamed Doom since it sucks anyway, So long as the media doesn't pick up
on the really good games like tribes I'm happy. In that vein how come nobody
is complaining about pokemon. That is a very bad game to let our kids play.
It is basically electronic cock fighting you even lose andd gain money as in
cock fighting. The last time I looked it wasn't legal to hold cock fights or
for kids to gamble , but here it is a game that teaches both to our kids at
a very impressionable age.

Forgive these the ramblings of a madman for I am indeed quite crazy from
having played to much pokemon.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
Michael
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 12:53 PM
To: hoe@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [HoE] Re: Help [OT]


No, I'm writing on the "what the media did is bad"
aspect of these cases... blaming roleplaying games
falls into "media bad" :)

--- Eric Tolliver <e.tolliver@home.com> wrote:
> My point is if its a good article essay or
> assignment he would not need to
> look for the trash he was looking for. I wouldn't
> even mention those
> instances he was trying to find info on. Thats why I
> think what hes writing
> is going to be more negative than good.
> Otherwise he would have just posted the question "
> Hello everyone what makes
> RPG's good?"
> And that would have been it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net
> [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
> John Higginbotham
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 8:35 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: [HoE] Re: Help [OT]
>
>
>      Hey, Eric, you might want to reread the
> original
> post. It sounded to me like he was writing for a
> school assignment - not the media.
>
>      On the flip side, gang, Eric has a point.
> Publicity for gaming is almost always negative. With
> the exception of the local Ren Faire (which buys
> advertising space), I've never seen a news report of
> article that was complementary of gaming. The local
> TV
> stations have carried reports about LARPs in the
> area
> that almost always make the people involved look
> like
> imbiciles. (The ones I've seen covered are Vampire
> LARPs and the SCA in general.)
>      Honestly, the coverage has been so bad that the
> Live Action coordinators that I've spoken with in
> the
> Phoenix area have stated outright that the news
> media
> is not welcome to cover their games. One game had
> their permission to play at a location because the
> reporter doing a story on them stood up the
> corporate
> representative from the mall.
>
> =====
> John Higginbotham
> Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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