Red Cross: Video Gamers are War Criminals

**Makatiel** · 12-08-2011 07:56 AM

Yeah, I'm with GJ here. Just because some PR guy says something idiotic does not make the American Red Cross lose all credibility. Lets not forget the 99% of the positive things they do because of a few stupid PR things.

**Barbarossa_5** · 12-08-2011 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by 13thforswarn

I agree with everything in this post, however, I also think it would be interesting if a game allowed people to take POWs instead of just killing a guy with like 4 health left, perhaps even give more points if you do so. For example, in Battlefield 3, you find a sniper hiding and you sneak up behind him. Instead of stabbing him or shooting him, you pull out a piece of cord and knock him unconscious and tie him up or something. So you get 50/100 points for knocking him out, and 100 for tying him up. Of course, it shouldn't be forced upon a developer to do this, it should be done if they feel like it.

The RTS game Act of War lets you do this, in a fashion. The basic resource in the game is money. After 'killing' infantry units with bullet type weapons they become incapacitated and your own infantry can capture them. If you do, you get the option of selling them back for cash, or interrogating them for intel.

**HelmetTesterTJ** · 12-08-2011 12:43 PM

Let's not forget all the virtual pollution created in games like Minecraft. I'm sure there are some players well out of line with the Kyoto Protocol. Perhaps players (looking at you, SoL, with your 128 furnaces) should be required to make sure their furnaces are emitting too much virtual smog. Notch should probably introduce virtual retrofits for furnaces to help reduce the amount of CO2 escaping. And perhaps some more environmentally friendly forms of energy production should be required; wind and water turbines come to mind. Perhaps players should have to buy and sell carbon credits if they wish to use their furnaces. Too long have the regressive environmental policies in Minecraft been allowed to exist. It is time for the U.N. to step in and encourage Majong to control their virtual carbon footprint.

**Barbarossa_5** · 12-08-2011 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by HelmetTesterTJ

Let's not forget all the virtual pollution created in games like Minecraft. I'm sure there are some players well out of line with the Kyoto Protocol. Perhaps players (looking at you, SoL, with your 128 furnaces) should be required to make sure their furnaces are emitting too much virtual smog. Notch should probably introduce virtual retrofits for furnaces to help reduce the amount of CO2 escaping. And perhaps some more environmentally friendly forms of energy production should be required; wind and water turbines come to mind. Perhaps players should have to buy and sell carbon credits if they wish to use their furnaces. Too long have the regressive environmental policies in Minecraft been allowed to exist. It is time for the U.N. to step in and encourage Majong to control their virtual carbon footprint.

You joke but windfarms and hydro dams would be friggin awesome things to build.

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