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[miauw62]

And then the sad thread was the "how to efficiently eat shit" thread.

[pisskop]

And I was so hoping for bio-towers that recyled stool to grow food in solar-powered towers.  Shame I can't find that link

So here's this one.  But none of this poop eating is a sad thing?

[Nadaka]

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/19/1812238/school-shooting-prompts-legislation-to-study-violent-video-games
And so it begins.
Herp de derp
ban vidja gaems!

[miauw62]

This is probs more rage thread material, but somebody needs a good punch to the face. I'm happy to live in Belgium.

[Lord Shonus]

It's a fairly trivial matter. Politicians want to look like they're DOING SOMETHING about a tragedy, or at least look like they're trying to DO SOMETHING. This won't pass even if other Democrats support it, which is unlikely. Better this than some half-baked bill that doesn't address the situation, looks good enough to deter further analysis, and might actually pass.

[scriver]

Can't say I'm very upset about more research being done on it. Either it will reinforce the current consensus or it will bring up new information. Either way, we get closer to the truth.

[10ebbor10]

Not really. Videogame research tends to swing very heavily between pro and contra.

Last things I heard was that videogames were better than television, because it's less realistic, but that both inhibit the negative reaction against seeing violence. No clear link between videogames and causing violence though.

[Frumple]

So... hrm. Would that mean that banning video games is one step toward banning television?

... suddenly my morals waver and temptation grows within. The thought of daytime drama and entertainment news becoming contraband is akin to a blessed dream to me... I'm... not sure I would mind the excising of commercial video game sales in exchange for that.

[DrPoo]

Not really. Videogame research tends to swing very heavily between pro and contra.

Last things I heard was that videogames were better than television, because it's less realistic, but that both inhibit the negative reaction against seeing violence. No clear link between videogames and causing violence though.

The reason why Vidya is better than watching sitcoms all day is that you arent constantly fed with meaningless information and you get to actually interact with the things onscreen. Much more stimulating to your brain and thus healthier.

[10ebbor10]

So... hrm. Would that mean that banning video games is one step toward banning television?

... suddenly my morals waver and temptation grows within. The thought of daytime drama and entertainment news becoming contraband is akin to a blessed dream to me... I'm... not sure I would mind the excising of commercial video game sales in exchange for that.

Actually no. It would mean that banning television should be a step towards banning video games.

Edit: Depends on the type of games to. Your average facebook game isn't exactly the greatest intellectual accomplishment of mankind.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

And there will always be fundies and other happy people who won't want that :/

edit: animal meat is what I mean here..

Don't be so sure. PETA themselves are offering a million dollars to the first laboratory to produce economically viable vat-grown meat.

Hear hear. If someone can get the taste and texture to actually, genuinely, match with meat, I don't really give a fribbly what the blazes sort of non-meat it's made of.

It isn't made of non-meat. It's meat, actual, true meat. Just grown in a gigantic tissue culture instead of cut off of animals.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/19/1812238/school-shooting-prompts-legislation-to-study-violent-video-games
And so it begins.
Herp de derp
ban vidja gaems!

No worries. The Supreme Court already put dem vidja gaems under the First Amendment, they're safe.

[Frumple]

Yeah, tissue culture'd be good, too. I was thinking along the lines of textured/flavored soy or some such nonsense, but honestly, whatever works. Even if the suffering makes the meat more delicious (literally, no joke. Iirc, pain does something that... tenderizes? Think that was it.), I imagine we could just engineer the vat grown stuff to come out the same way.

And damn, designer food. Honestly, a steak not troubled by the inefficiencies of getting it from a cow? Hot damn. You could have a steak the size of a football field! And, like, invite the whole neighborhood for a weekend long steak consuming (non-sexual... probably) orgy. Helluva' lot better way to spend the weekend than watching sunday football.

[kaijyuu]

Yeah, I'd probably eat vat-grown meat myself. Though ideally we could just replicate it ala star trek, but we're not that good at matter rearrangement yet

[misko27]

This is so serious, I heard construction workers complaining about them blaming "VIOLENT VIDEOGAMES"
 
Hmm. Does PETA even have a million dollars? Now someone must invent it just to put them out of buisiness!
 
Or it turns out it's made of burned Trees or something.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, tissue culture'd be good, too. I was thinking along the lines of textured/flavored soy or some such nonsense, but honestly, whatever works. Even if the suffering makes the meat more delicious (literally, no joke. Iirc, pain does something that... tenderizes? Think that was it.), I imagine we could just engineer the vat grown stuff to come out the same way.

I'm not familiar with that, but it would have to be some chemical produced by the muscles due to stress. We'd need only stimulate the culture in a similar fashion.

And damn, designer food. Honestly, a steak not troubled by the inefficiencies of getting it from a cow? Hot damn. You could have a steak the size of a football field! And, like, invite the whole neighborhood for a weekend long steak consuming (non-sexual... probably) orgy. Helluva' lot better way to spend the weekend than watching sunday football.

You'd need a lot of nutrient slurry and probably some genetic engineering to keep such a culture alive long enough to produce such a steak.

Hmm. Does PETA even have a million dollars? Now someone must invent it just to put them out of buisiness!

Probably. They're a fairly large organization with very devoted members, I'm sure they could come up with but a single million if they had to.