Comments on: Beer Pong, Blumenthal And Wii

By: MrBozak

MrBozak — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:19:37 +0000

Parents who dont want to parent can have their children jacked up on pharmaceutical narcotics. Yet those same kids shouldnt be playing a video game with the word beer.
Just another lame attempt for those parents who cant hack their job, or was this fabricated by the competition. Sure lets write a law to relieve myself from my God given responsibility, so when my child dies I can get paid.
Any parent supporting this crap should remember that your child is your responsibility, not the governments. Unless you have been proven an unfit parent. In my book, asking for this is equivalent to admitting that you are an unfit parent and have no control over your children. If you dont know what games they play, where they go, who they hang around with; in general who they are. Then what the hell have you been doing all these years as a parent?

By: voice of reason

voice of reason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:10:08 +0000

Doesn’t stop there – then it goes to Marilyn Manson – always someone on the music scene, and I’m sure there is someone more recent. But Blumenthal was hired to do what he was doing. Good guy/bad guy. Sometimes I like the fight he fight he fights. Sometimes I think he could be spending his time on other things that are way more important. But I would think we all feel that way about our jobs – even if you stay at home to take care of your kids. There are always going to be more important things. That’s why we learn to prioritize. But if someone brings it to his attention and his office feels it needs to be dealt with, he has to do it. He may have saved that company and Wii millions of dollars in lawsuits if down the road some stupid family had sued. Sad commentary on where we have come.

By: Fred S

Fred S — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:14:13 +0000

To continue
Turfgrrl got it right from the beginning �Beer Pong is a mindless game. It is can be played by anyone with or without beer. To liken a virtual version played in the privacy of homes as something that promotes heavy alcohol consumption just suggests to me �.�

90% of all video games emulate something, whether it�s football, bowling, driving, WWII, whatever. To play real football, you throw a ball. To play a football videogame, you press a button. To play real life beer pong, you throw a ball. To play the beer pong video game, you press a button.
Before you say realife beer pong involves drinking, remember that the videogame does not. If anything the JV Games company did a service by never including it. As stated over and over again, the video game consists of nothing more than throwing a ball into a cup.

Why is the videogame industry taking so much flak. As Turfgrrl suggested earlier, is this reminisant of the 60�s were millions of government dollars were spent trying to figure out the lyrics to �louie louie� or the 80�s were Ozzy Ozzborne was corrupting our children to Satanism. He�s now considered classic rock right?

By: Fred S

Fred S — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:47:20 +0000

And that�s what I�ve been saying. The courts and litigation have screwed everything up, but instead of constantly working and bowing to a broken system, shouldn’t we be working to make it better so people will once again be able to live without fear of being sued for any ridiculous reason. Would it return our basic human instincts and help someone injured without fear on consequence.

A solution: Give Judges the ability to heavily fine lawyers for frivolous suits. When a lawyer has to pay 5-10,000 for wasting a courts time, I guarantee you they will become very selective.
Blumenthal being a lawyer, do you think we would support this

As before, with Beer Pong simply going through a name change and nothing else, is that really protecting the kids?

By: voice of reason

voice of reason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:49:14 +0000

You are absolutely correct anon. No one remembers how to take responsibility for their own actions any more. People are always looking to blame the other guy. It has ruined just about every aspect of our culture. Why do you think not as many kids can walk to school any more? Why do you think our playgrounds have so many rules and don’t have the same fun equipment we had as kids? – Everything is too much of a liability. That’s why good people don’t want to become doctors and our medical profession is in a crisis so we see physician’s assistants instead of “real doctors” – there aren’t enough to go around. That is why in this case of the Beer Pong, the company had to act. They didn’t want one 13 year old to have a problem and they lose everything. Blumenthal had a point – it should not have been marketed to them under that name. That is all I have been trying to say and Lindsay has been trying to say. It is not the fault of the company that people are stupid and greedy and but that is the way it is so they have to protect themselves and do it the way it should have been done to start.

By: too quick to judge

too quick to judge — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:48:53 +0000

The McDonald’s case has been misrepresented. They were at fault because the coffee machine was serving not just hot but superheated coffee. I don’t remember if it was a malfunction or human error. So, the company was at fault…

By: anon

anon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:01:39 +0000

It is the rediculous lawsuits that result in this mess. Like the “I spilled hot coffee on myself and got a burn so I sue McDonald’s for not warning me that the coffee was hot” case. Now we must label everything to the standard of the least intelligent person.

By: Fred S

Fred S — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:57:10 +0000

Hi Lindsay,
I completely realize they are not trying to ban it. My concern is the complete sensitivity to the word “Beer” and the fact they are actually trying to get it changed.
I�m not going to waste all of our time about going into the bill of rights, all of us here knows where that leads.
Why does it seem to break the American conscience when we use that word?

I don�t want to get off topic but you made another comment that struck me, �there are enough stupid ones out there to make seemingly rediculous restrictions necessary�.

Why should the majority of Intelligent people be punished for the actions of the fewer stupid people. We�ve all seen those cases where a criminal seems to enjoy more rights than the victim. In recent years (Last 30 or 40), it seems to becoming more common. I won�t go into any examples because I know everyone of you will be able to think of something that made you just shake your head.

To be a strong society, is bending to the lowest denominator the correct path we should be on?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:00:06 +0000

Youre right Fred, I think generally most people ARE smart…but there are enough stupid ones out there to make seemingly rediculous restrictions necessary.
And please note that no one is trying to BAN the game..theyre just btrying to change the name so it can be marketed responsibly, or restrict who buys it…theyre not BANNING it.

By: Fred S

Fred S — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:52:46 +0000

I respectfuly disagree, I don’t think people are stupid at all. I think people in general and of a whole are very smart. You have morons in there of course but I don’t believe they make the majority, they just gather the most attention.

@voice – Just watched the video but I went to JV’s website and the news got something wrong.
I don’t know whos handleing JV PR or marketing but they are bloody genius’s somebody is going to write a book on this.
Here’s the thing, the game got changed to Pong Toss but it also got re-rated by ESRB. It’s now an “E”.
Soooo. Identical game, different name and now it’s ESRB’s lowest rating and cant be block by parental controls.
I wonder if somebody shot themselves in the foot but im really glad to see this. All over the word Beer.