Ban of half-life in Singapore.
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dear those in charge
if someone can explain to me way it is bad to play a computer game at home that depicts violence,
when it is law that every male must spend 2.5 years learning how to kill in the army
then i'll be happy to listen, until then .. perhaps this is the first sign of truely loosing your hold on the reality you believe you control
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Banning games will only cause piracy to increase.
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Yes Christ|ne, although i not sure what's your gender ... I agree with you.
You can always use the arcade age and clothes restriction imposed a couple of years ago as a example that parents are too protective... and so good in using the government to help them.
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Hello,
Can I run Counterstrike beta 5.2 without the half-life CD ?
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steventay I have no idea since I haven't play counterstike yet(so be playin soon with my friend in school? hee).
But good news, heard that counterstrike is not banned in LAN shops?
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Hello,
If CS is not banned in Singapore, how do I play the CS game when it ask me for the Half-life CD game which is banned?
Any 1 know how to solve this.
Please reply to the forum.
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ya and tat's where piracy comes in handy...
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Its true so far. Most of the computer stores in Funan have either stopped bringing in Half Life and Unreal, or they have remove the games off the shelves. Cyber cafes have stopped letting people play the game, until the ban is revised, or they find some clause or such that gives them a loophole to exploit.
Crazily enough, most of the original copies of the game have been snapped up when I went looking.
Personally, I think that parents are dumb. Literally. I mean, think about it, parents almost ALWAYS act as if they know things better than those who handle, operate computers EVERYDAY. I'm reflecting from my 3 week argument where I literally had to fight tooth and nail for my new computer. Basically, my parents think that I know absolutely next to crap about computers. Things like "Yah yah, you're BETTER than those that work in Silicon Valley." type of crap. I find such mentality being really irrate.
I mean, what makes them think that games like that are too violent ? Its not like we have gun shops lurking around every corner of the neighbourhood.
Basically put, the government is just trying to appease the supposed public majority. Its ridiculous actually, since eventually, WE will be the ones that will consist the majority. Maybe we gamers should protest or soemthing in front of the parlimentary building.
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"A Gentleman is not an implement."
-Confucius, Analects, 2:12
[This message has been edited by Rulakir (edited 08 February 2000).]