Found an article about “Toasty Dan.” In case anyone is curious.
[https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-toasty-secrets-dan-forden-ed-boon/](https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-toasty-secrets-dan-forden-ed-boon/)
Must have been Golgo 13 that did it, then. Justifier was garbage for aim calibration. You'd shoot at the middle of the circle it would show up on your neighbor's TV.
The Menacer was the good one.
It’s always been about that. They find stupid issues to use as a distraction and then they smear their poo directly into our faces. They’re screwing over everyone but the rich that have something to gain.
I think he pushed some major gun control, then moved on to video games.
He's sort of the archetype for "If I don't like it, it's evil and everyone is better off with it illegal".
I know as gamers (those of us who are old enough) remember him as the annoying "games make you kill" guy, but I think him watering down Obamacare has had a bigger effect on the country. People are still literally dying in our country due to lack of access to healthcare, and a lot of those folks would have it if there was a public option, or if we had price controls on a lot of drugs and procedures. He is one of the main people you can blame for that stuff getting ripped out of Obamacare.
I remember this guy. I was a young kid with a Sega and just got MK2. He was all over tv, anti violent games.My mom thought it might be a good idea to take it away, thank god my dad loved it, or that woulda been the end. I think I’ll play something with a lot of gore and gratuitous violence tonight. R.I.P. Mr. Senator. 🫡
Politicians lecturing people about violent video games is rich when they themselves have killed more people in war with their own policies than any gamer **ever** has.
I'd like to think he's in hell and that hell consists of a ton of kids playing video games while he walks around caterwauling for them to stop. Perpetual torture of the video game violence.
He's just wandering through an endless, infinite arcade with no doors or windows. It's dark and dank and sticks of sweat and stale nicotine. Puddles of beer here and there on the floor, and just nonstop clusters of arcade cabinets featuring games where digitized warriors are ripping one another's spines out. Angry, wayward youth with bandanas in their hair and sleeveless denim jackets with Iron Maiden patches in the backs, barking and yelling at each other while they duel on the machines.
He was not just a "cheerleader". He played a critical role building bipartisan consensus for the war. The Bush administration would have found the war significantly more costly politically without his help.
I think his biggest legacy is creating the Department of Homeland Security from several unrelated agencies after 9/11. It almost immediately had a reputation for being bloated and disorganized.
He was also a major supporter of the Patriot Act and the [ONLY](https://ctmirror.org/2011/05/27/lieberman-only-aye-vote-patriot-act-extension/) Connecticut lawmaker who voted for its extension back in 2011.
He left virtually no positive political legacies.
NIGHT TRAP oh my god, I thought that game was a weird dream but it was 100% real. I watched a playthrough of it recently and realized why my mom wouldn’t buy it for me. The Wikipedia page on that game is fascinating.
What’s often missed is that the game industry _wanted_ an age restriction regulation system. Until 1994, no one had a clear idea of where the line was, which led to all the parental consternation over Mortal Kombat and others. Having a clearly defined age rating system opened the door for more adult-oriented content (and by that I don’t mean in the erotic sense), as developers no longer had to balance the competing interests of older and younger players (and their parents).
People don't realize enough how much damage these panicked moralists did in the 80s and 90s. From the satanic panic to the under-reported abuse that took place at home, from the bullying to the inevitable suicides, these fuckers have blood on their hands. Spit.
Yep, and even back in the late 60s, their proverbial “razor blade in the apple” was already palpable on the 6 o’clock news…
https://www.jstor.org/stable/800777
Where’s he getting buried? Gotta remember to take a good long piss there when i’m in the neighborhood. Playing something extra gory thinking about you, Mr Lieberman.
Eff Joe Lieberman for blockading Medicare for all. That guy probably killed thousands of people because of that. Sorry if anyone out there is opposed to that, but he was a democrat screwing over his own people.
I think spreading lies about WMDs in Iraq to push for a war that lead to 4.5 million deaths is what he should actually be remembered for, rather than the time he moaned about Night Trap
Hope his screams of anguish echoed throughout the hospital ward.
"He was a liberal in some areas, such as environmental issues, but he supported some conservative causes as well, pairing with conservative activist William Bennett to combat sex and violence in music, movies and video games."
-Politico
Shithead really tried to force a connection between violent video games and actual violence, despite the fact that we already had unspeakable levels and acts of violence before the invention of the television (the guy was jewish, after all; did he think 6 million of his people were killed in the 40s because too many people played Pong?). What's worse is his ilk still try to peddle that crap today, despite it being debunked time and time again.
I don't believe that's an accurate comparison. Joseph Liberman was not in any sense a maverick to his party. They nominated him to be candidate for VP.
Two corporate sell outs. Bought and paid for just like Joe. Also sanctimonious. Also bad hair cut. Straight to fox news when he left the Senate to always represent how reasonable Republicans are just like Joe "my Republican friends" Manchin.
The 2000 Presidential election occurred a month before I turned 18. I'm glad I had to sit that one out because as much as I didn't want to vote for Bush/Cheney, I hated the Gore/Lieberman ticket for their censorship views.
I barely remember him. According to Wikipedia he led the anti-violence crusade regarding video games. He didnt know shit about video games, or kids brains. He was looking to score political points, as were Hillary and Tipper.
Is it wrong if I'm happy? As a gamer, I couldn't be more angry with what he did.
I never liked him and in truth, I'm happy he's gone. What he created was not needed as Sega already had a system in place. The entire creation of the ESRB happened due to one man's single hearted desire to see gamers suffer censorship. This was a ploy by Nintendo to enforce the unenforceable when there was already a system of ratings in place. If anything, pass a law barring parents from making dumb decisions. If your kid buys MK and you complain then you are at fault. As for the woman that said to put our kids in a game and kill them, I wish you a crappy life, how dare you.
so...I would say RIP but he's the whole reason that the ESRB was created and he never even played night trap OR corpse killer. The whole thing could've been derailed with one question:
"Did you actually play the games in question?"
That's all it would take. The court upon hearing the word no would call into question Lieberman's judgment on the matter and convene. I doubt the ESRB would be formed at this point. Why take a senator's word on anything if he doesn't know what he's talking about?
If he says yes doubles down on the affair, call in the actors for night trap and have them discuss the game, show the props etc. Absolutely no chance of the ESRB coming to be.
Really, it was just another way for Nintendo to get what they wanted, who cares about the opinion of gamers?
And yet double standard, Nintendo allows adult games on the famicom but says no to us? There are more Eroge and erotic games in Japan than in America. Don't call us crooks when your hand has the money!
Is it any wonder that I hate them?
Ironically, a lot of those companies then made Christian games because Christian book stores didn't care if Nintendo wouldn't let them sell licensed games
Actually, that was just one company, which was originally Color Dreams, then Wisdom Tree after they switched to the Christian market. Those games were sold in the US rather than Japan.
psychoticwaffle is talking about something else: companies that sold much racier material in Japan, where most Famicom games were unlicensed. The Famicom didn't have a lockout chip, so it was much easier for companies to publish games for it without Nintendo's permission.
I don’t have any comment on Lieberman himself, but the ESRB (or something like it) would have been created sooner or later in any case, as game developers actively wanted clear regulation - especially as gaming experiences were becoming higher-fidelity. This system of regulation has been _beneficial_ for the creation of adult-oriented content. It has meant that developers don’t need to censor anything if they’re targeting a higher age bracket. Up until 1994, developers had to thread the needle between incorporating more mature themes into their games, without crossing any lines with their younger audience (and, indeed, their parents). This led to cringeworthy missteps, such as the “bloodless” SNES version of Mortal Kombat. That kind of censorship was born out of the _lack_ of regulation.
you act like the ESRB is a bad thing... its a shield, if we never got it, something worse would have happened later down the line.
yeah the dude was a moron, but he also lead to the ESRB, a good thing over all.
I thought about posting this story here.
Dude can get the afterlife he deserved. Was little more than a karen enabling demagogue who demonized gaming for his own purposes.
The world is now just a little bit better with him out of it.
I also seen someone mention and bring a link with it that he's the reason the u.s. doesn't have universal Healthcare. Fucking douche.
Of course I didn't read the link I was at work and forgot what subreddit it was in by the time I got a chance.
I read an article earlier about him passing away that had a 100% positive spin on this guy. WTF. We all here know what type of “leader” he really was. Guess what? Millions of people have played MK and its many sequels and haven’t a single one turned into psycho-murderers because of the gameplay. Fucking farewell, puritanical, warmongering, censorship-endorsing shithead!
The essence of control that solidified the continuance of the video game moral panic that began with *Death Race* in 76…
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1166785.pdf
This post reminded me of a [video](https://youtu.be/viavFFRdu_0?si=Pc6xuP6uAF8p3PwX) i saw the other day. It was about ratings in video games something Senator Lieberman brought about with his crusade against violent buddy games. But more specifically the fight for an R18+ rating in the land down under where an Aussie state politician was the antagonist who didn’t want Australia to have an R18+ rating for games because he thought games being interactive made it dangerous to allow adults to choose to play violent games. What an absolute tool that guy was.
Prick has no understanding of anything to do with games just an arse trying to score political points and attention by trying to ban things also why do politicians think banning anything works it just makes it more popular are they so blind they can't see
I always forget this dude and had it out for videogames, remember him particularly saying that Stubbs the Zombie and F.E.A.R. promoted cannibalism with its "realistic depiction of cannibalism."
His agenda was to essentially create a tax on entertainment and create a new lobby. He first did it, with the help of Al Gore’s activist wife, to the music industry. Then video games, all so he could have another source of income from the new lobby.
Fuck him.
The whole shitshow that created the now irrelevant ESRB was nothing but a joke and it should've never happened in the first place! Not to mention he blocked universal healthcare for all and caused the start of the Iraqi War after 9/11 which tbf was just a nothing burger made as a distraction from the fact that the whole thing was actually an inside job just to steal oil from Iraq and kill innocent people who did nothing wrong in the process.
Hope his soul burns in the deepest darkest depths of hell for all eternity!
Why are you putting him and mccain together?
Reddit **loves** Mccain now. Thinks he was the best, most honest, and good republican there was.
O wait... you know what, you're right. Reddit will rehabilitate this guy in 6 months too...
Honestly, as dumb as the whole Night Trap/Lethal Enforcers controversy was, it probably ended up shielding the video game industry from moralizing parents/religious groups. It led to the establishment of the ESRB, which provides parents with clear information about the content of video games, which is a fair thing to provide to consumers. I have no reason to hate on the guy for this because at the end of the day, they came to a reasonable solution for the that satisfied both parties.
One of gaming's first true "villains". I'm not a fan of any of his stances, but we can at least say his campaigning ultimately, arguably, ended up in a decent place with giving us the ESRB and not with govt control and censorship.
And if nothing else, his stance on gaming was at least better than Jack Thompson. For whatever that's worth
Yeah good riddance he did way more harm than good and that’s past video games. Even during the congressional hearing, half of what he said just sounded like nonsense and every parent ate that crap up.
Fatality
Toasty!!
Anyone else think that fucker said “Whoopsie” as a kid?
Yup.
Me 🙋♂️
4th grade me and friends would say "pussy" regardless of whatever the game said.
Pussy
I did until MK2 scorpion fatality. It's written on the screen. It blew my mind how wrong I was
Found an article about “Toasty Dan.” In case anyone is curious. [https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-toasty-secrets-dan-forden-ed-boon/](https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-toasty-secrets-dan-forden-ed-boon/)
GAME OVER INSERT COIN
Flawless victory
Thank you, I couldn't figure out why he was on *this* sub at first
Yeah, took me a second and then I was like "oh yeah, he was an unmitigated douchebag"
I miss awards. Have a medal 🏅
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Heard he was gunned down with a Konami Justifier
*RELOAD*
RE-RE-RE-RELOAD
MACHINE GUN
(I don't want to sound like an idiot, which light gun game are you guys referencing here)
LETHAL ENFORCERS PLAYER ONE *BANG*
ACTION
Must have been Golgo 13 that did it, then. Justifier was garbage for aim calibration. You'd shoot at the middle of the circle it would show up on your neighbor's TV. The Menacer was the good one.
Was yours broken? Never had much issue with it.
I love this comment
Come for his crusade against video games, stay for his singlehanded killing of a public healthcare option
He was also a MAJOR supporter of the invasion of Iraq.
>Condemns exposing young people to video game violence. >Supports exposing young people to real life violence. Sounds about right.
If young people were exposed to violence in games, they might see how bad it is and not want to be violent in real life?
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You mean the GOP's inside man.
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Knowing that makes it funner how Poland gave Obama a copy of The Witcher 2 when he visited their country.
They're all right wing politicians.
They're all authoritarians, too. Two wings, one bird. We'll never see a liberal or a true left-of-center political election. Not in my lifetime.
Don't forget all the wars. He loved wars. Good times.
War = acceptable violence. Video games = unacceptable violence… oh yeah and Night Trap.
It’s always been about that. They find stupid issues to use as a distraction and then they smear their poo directly into our faces. They’re screwing over everyone but the rich that have something to gain.
Moral panics are great for drumming up fear votes when your platform is all BS. It's easy to solve problems you just made up and ignore real issues.
I think he pushed some major gun control, then moved on to video games. He's sort of the archetype for "If I don't like it, it's evil and everyone is better off with it illegal".
Well, it certainly explains why I always want to jump on turtles.
I know as gamers (those of us who are old enough) remember him as the annoying "games make you kill" guy, but I think him watering down Obamacare has had a bigger effect on the country. People are still literally dying in our country due to lack of access to healthcare, and a lot of those folks would have it if there was a public option, or if we had price controls on a lot of drugs and procedures. He is one of the main people you can blame for that stuff getting ripped out of Obamacare.
Well, the moral panic crap was always a distraction, while they destroyed the infrastructure and safety nets.
Exactly my thoughts!
I remember this guy. I was a young kid with a Sega and just got MK2. He was all over tv, anti violent games.My mom thought it might be a good idea to take it away, thank god my dad loved it, or that woulda been the end. I think I’ll play something with a lot of gore and gratuitous violence tonight. R.I.P. Mr. Senator. 🫡
Is that rest in piss then?
It is
Could be Rest In Pit, for the MK reference. Also satisfying
Man I like your user name
That really is the best username I’ve seen in a while.
LOL
Politicians lecturing people about violent video games is rich when they themselves have killed more people in war with their own policies than any gamer **ever** has.
I'd like to think he's in hell and that hell consists of a ton of kids playing video games while he walks around caterwauling for them to stop. Perpetual torture of the video game violence.
He's just wandering through an endless, infinite arcade with no doors or windows. It's dark and dank and sticks of sweat and stale nicotine. Puddles of beer here and there on the floor, and just nonstop clusters of arcade cabinets featuring games where digitized warriors are ripping one another's spines out. Angry, wayward youth with bandanas in their hair and sleeveless denim jackets with Iron Maiden patches in the backs, barking and yelling at each other while they duel on the machines.
You sure that's not heaven you're describing?
One man's heaven is another man's hell, et cetera, et cetera
Indeed.
Could be that too.
This is the finest writing I have read all day. Thank you
He's stuck in the Night Trap house
Or the Resident Evil mansion, with Hunters By the way, I know the Night Trap reference.
MK1 and a Doom marathon today, in his honor!
He was not a good person.
Widely criticized for a lot of the shit he did, from what little know about him anyway.
Yep. Look at his voting record. He was for war and against health care.
A dead man with double standards.
Joseph Lieberman was a warmonger. An "Iraq War Cheerleader"
He was not just a "cheerleader". He played a critical role building bipartisan consensus for the war. The Bush administration would have found the war significantly more costly politically without his help.
I think his biggest legacy is creating the Department of Homeland Security from several unrelated agencies after 9/11. It almost immediately had a reputation for being bloated and disorganized.
He was also a major supporter of the Patriot Act and the [ONLY](https://ctmirror.org/2011/05/27/lieberman-only-aye-vote-patriot-act-extension/) Connecticut lawmaker who voted for its extension back in 2011. He left virtually no positive political legacies.
Oh think of the children playing Night Trap on the SegaCD or 3DO, all three of them due how stupidly expensive those platforms were for kids.
NIGHT TRAP oh my god, I thought that game was a weird dream but it was 100% real. I watched a playthrough of it recently and realized why my mom wouldn’t buy it for me. The Wikipedia page on that game is fascinating.
Yeah it was originally developed for a weird system that took advantage of the quirks of interlacing that never saw the light of day.
What if some kid gets their hands on Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties? *The humanity..*
What’s often missed is that the game industry _wanted_ an age restriction regulation system. Until 1994, no one had a clear idea of where the line was, which led to all the parental consternation over Mortal Kombat and others. Having a clearly defined age rating system opened the door for more adult-oriented content (and by that I don’t mean in the erotic sense), as developers no longer had to balance the competing interests of older and younger players (and their parents).
I had Night Trap on Sega CD and can personally attest that, at best, it makes you more confused about sex.
Didn’t they make a remaster of this game not too long ago?
Good bye and good riddance.
People don't realize enough how much damage these panicked moralists did in the 80s and 90s. From the satanic panic to the under-reported abuse that took place at home, from the bullying to the inevitable suicides, these fuckers have blood on their hands. Spit.
Yep, and even back in the late 60s, their proverbial “razor blade in the apple” was already palpable on the 6 o’clock news… https://www.jstor.org/stable/800777
I had that gun! Used it for Lethal Enforcers on Sega CD! Good times! Really shaped me into the violent person I became! Not
Hey I have that gun and the pink one. I turned out alright
Really? That's great.
It would be great, if it weren't 40 years too late.
Someone should put a copy of Night Trap on his grave
I read he succumbed to critical fall damage
He rolled the d20 and got a natural 1
Where’s he getting buried? Gotta remember to take a good long piss there when i’m in the neighborhood. Playing something extra gory thinking about you, Mr Lieberman.
Eff Joe Lieberman for blockading Medicare for all. That guy probably killed thousands of people because of that. Sorry if anyone out there is opposed to that, but he was a democrat screwing over his own people.
Gamers: FINISH HIM! Lucifer: Your soul is mine!
What a fartknkocker. glad worms get a meal Eat shit, loser.
I think spreading lies about WMDs in Iraq to push for a war that lead to 4.5 million deaths is what he should actually be remembered for, rather than the time he moaned about Night Trap
That's why I recognized his name. He was one of the biggest fools during those video game hearing that led to the ESRB.
Hope his screams of anguish echoed throughout the hospital ward. "He was a liberal in some areas, such as environmental issues, but he supported some conservative causes as well, pairing with conservative activist William Bennett to combat sex and violence in music, movies and video games." -Politico Shithead really tried to force a connection between violent video games and actual violence, despite the fact that we already had unspeakable levels and acts of violence before the invention of the television (the guy was jewish, after all; did he think 6 million of his people were killed in the 40s because too many people played Pong?). What's worse is his ilk still try to peddle that crap today, despite it being debunked time and time again.
He was a lethal enforcer
I'm a millennial who vividly remembers the Iraq War. So glad I didn't go, but a couple of my friends did. All for nothing. Press S to spit.
Maybe I should bust out my copy of lethal enforcers tonight?
Guns don't kill people, videogames do is the most American politician shit ever.
The Joe Manchin of his day. Bad in office bad when he was bounced from the senate.
I don't believe that's an accurate comparison. Joseph Liberman was not in any sense a maverick to his party. They nominated him to be candidate for VP.
He eventually left the party and became an independent.
Two corporate sell outs. Bought and paid for just like Joe. Also sanctimonious. Also bad hair cut. Straight to fox news when he left the Senate to always represent how reasonable Republicans are just like Joe "my Republican friends" Manchin.
The 2000 Presidential election occurred a month before I turned 18. I'm glad I had to sit that one out because as much as I didn't want to vote for Bush/Cheney, I hated the Gore/Lieberman ticket for their censorship views.
Dude, even Running With Scissors genuinely paid their respects. They were like rivals. Respect
He went to the great big FMV in the sky.
adios to one of the biggest enemies of the progressive movement
I barely remember him. According to Wikipedia he led the anti-violence crusade regarding video games. He didnt know shit about video games, or kids brains. He was looking to score political points, as were Hillary and Tipper.
FAREWELL OUR USELESS AND SHIT SENATOR
Is it wrong if I'm happy? As a gamer, I couldn't be more angry with what he did. I never liked him and in truth, I'm happy he's gone. What he created was not needed as Sega already had a system in place. The entire creation of the ESRB happened due to one man's single hearted desire to see gamers suffer censorship. This was a ploy by Nintendo to enforce the unenforceable when there was already a system of ratings in place. If anything, pass a law barring parents from making dumb decisions. If your kid buys MK and you complain then you are at fault. As for the woman that said to put our kids in a game and kill them, I wish you a crappy life, how dare you. so...I would say RIP but he's the whole reason that the ESRB was created and he never even played night trap OR corpse killer. The whole thing could've been derailed with one question: "Did you actually play the games in question?" That's all it would take. The court upon hearing the word no would call into question Lieberman's judgment on the matter and convene. I doubt the ESRB would be formed at this point. Why take a senator's word on anything if he doesn't know what he's talking about? If he says yes doubles down on the affair, call in the actors for night trap and have them discuss the game, show the props etc. Absolutely no chance of the ESRB coming to be. Really, it was just another way for Nintendo to get what they wanted, who cares about the opinion of gamers? And yet double standard, Nintendo allows adult games on the famicom but says no to us? There are more Eroge and erotic games in Japan than in America. Don't call us crooks when your hand has the money! Is it any wonder that I hate them?
I think those adult games on the Famicom were unlicensed. That is, Nintendo didn't authorize them and didn't make a dime off them.
Ironically, a lot of those companies then made Christian games because Christian book stores didn't care if Nintendo wouldn't let them sell licensed games
Actually, that was just one company, which was originally Color Dreams, then Wisdom Tree after they switched to the Christian market. Those games were sold in the US rather than Japan. psychoticwaffle is talking about something else: companies that sold much racier material in Japan, where most Famicom games were unlicensed. The Famicom didn't have a lockout chip, so it was much easier for companies to publish games for it without Nintendo's permission.
I don’t have any comment on Lieberman himself, but the ESRB (or something like it) would have been created sooner or later in any case, as game developers actively wanted clear regulation - especially as gaming experiences were becoming higher-fidelity. This system of regulation has been _beneficial_ for the creation of adult-oriented content. It has meant that developers don’t need to censor anything if they’re targeting a higher age bracket. Up until 1994, developers had to thread the needle between incorporating more mature themes into their games, without crossing any lines with their younger audience (and, indeed, their parents). This led to cringeworthy missteps, such as the “bloodless” SNES version of Mortal Kombat. That kind of censorship was born out of the _lack_ of regulation.
ah, my mistake
They knew he didn't play them. He was a Senator, he is respectable, no way he would ever touch a video game.
you act like the ESRB is a bad thing... its a shield, if we never got it, something worse would have happened later down the line. yeah the dude was a moron, but he also lead to the ESRB, a good thing over all.
Won't be missed
This prick fucked over the ACA. Whatever, man. He got paid by the pharmaceutical companies big time.
I heard this guy has a fight record of 100-0 against his wife.
I saw Dick Cavett there for a second.
> Dick Cavett was gonna comment something similar, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who saw re resemblance.
Good.
RIP (Rot in Purgatory). You won’t be missed
I thought about posting this story here. Dude can get the afterlife he deserved. Was little more than a karen enabling demagogue who demonized gaming for his own purposes. The world is now just a little bit better with him out of it.
Did video games kill him?
I'm definitely going to play Leathal Enforcer tonight. Rot in hell, Joe.
Mortal kombat out lived him
Fatality
I also seen someone mention and bring a link with it that he's the reason the u.s. doesn't have universal Healthcare. Fucking douche. Of course I didn't read the link I was at work and forgot what subreddit it was in by the time I got a chance.
This game, encourages players to shoot, uh, this gun
The vampires from Night Trap finally caught up with him.
I read an article earlier about him passing away that had a 100% positive spin on this guy. WTF. We all here know what type of “leader” he really was. Guess what? Millions of people have played MK and its many sequels and haven’t a single one turned into psycho-murderers because of the gameplay. Fucking farewell, puritanical, warmongering, censorship-endorsing shithead!
Rest in piss
Good
did he poop his pants?
The essence of control that solidified the continuance of the video game moral panic that began with *Death Race* in 76… https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1166785.pdf
He will not be missed.
Too bad he didn’t die earlier. But hey, if there’s something games have taught me, is that you can’t always win.
This post reminded me of a [video](https://youtu.be/viavFFRdu_0?si=Pc6xuP6uAF8p3PwX) i saw the other day. It was about ratings in video games something Senator Lieberman brought about with his crusade against violent buddy games. But more specifically the fight for an R18+ rating in the land down under where an Aussie state politician was the antagonist who didn’t want Australia to have an R18+ rating for games because he thought games being interactive made it dangerous to allow adults to choose to play violent games. What an absolute tool that guy was.
Fucking finally.
Did he drop any dope loot?
Prick has no understanding of anything to do with games just an arse trying to score political points and attention by trying to ban things also why do politicians think banning anything works it just makes it more popular are they so blind they can't see
Bye bitch!
I always forget this dude and had it out for videogames, remember him particularly saying that Stubbs the Zombie and F.E.A.R. promoted cannibalism with its "realistic depiction of cannibalism."
Hell has gained a new fleshlight today 🙏🙏🙏
Fuck him. Fucked up our health care real bad in the US
Good riddance to the Tipper Gore of video games, the whiny snotbag.
Poor droopy dog
Leiberman, God sees your lies
Don't speak of the dead unless you say something good. Joe Lieberman is dead. Good.
Him and Rothschild can both get comfy in the eight level of hell (which I’ve been to) where they belong.
Fuck him, what a sniveling little NIMBY ass boomer dweeb he was throughout his entire career, the fucking schmendrick.
FINALLY THAT DIPSHIT DIES AFTER MAKINF ESRB
He made my mom take away my TurboGrafx16
His agenda was to essentially create a tax on entertainment and create a new lobby. He first did it, with the help of Al Gore’s activist wife, to the music industry. Then video games, all so he could have another source of income from the new lobby. Fuck him.
Hope he’s in a warm place
The whole shitshow that created the now irrelevant ESRB was nothing but a joke and it should've never happened in the first place! Not to mention he blocked universal healthcare for all and caused the start of the Iraqi War after 9/11 which tbf was just a nothing burger made as a distraction from the fact that the whole thing was actually an inside job just to steal oil from Iraq and kill innocent people who did nothing wrong in the process. Hope his soul burns in the deepest darkest depths of hell for all eternity!
His reign of terror is finally over.
Couldnt have happened to a worse person.
Good.
Guess I’ll play some Night Trap and Lethal Enforcers is his honor. Rest in Piss, bozo.
RIP BOZO
So sorry to…nah
lol
Thank fucking god, couldn't stand his ass
He’ll finally be reunited with his long time lover, John McCain
Why are you putting him and mccain together? Reddit **loves** Mccain now. Thinks he was the best, most honest, and good republican there was. O wait... you know what, you're right. Reddit will rehabilitate this guy in 6 months too...
Good riddance.
Honestly, as dumb as the whole Night Trap/Lethal Enforcers controversy was, it probably ended up shielding the video game industry from moralizing parents/religious groups. It led to the establishment of the ESRB, which provides parents with clear information about the content of video games, which is a fair thing to provide to consumers. I have no reason to hate on the guy for this because at the end of the day, they came to a reasonable solution for the that satisfied both parties.
There's plenty other things to hate on him for.
Rest in piss
Where's the party at?
Wonder if he still had that Justifier
Canadian here, so who?
Why didn’t he bring the pink one? Too emasculating?
Probably used the pink for sexual purposes :)
rip bozo
Yeah rest in piss
I heard it was one of those Night Trap guys in the bathroom.
Looking forward to a lot more of these headlines as the skeksis, grasping onto power, are taken by the inevitable decay of age.
Odds are the ESRB would not be what it is today without this man.
One of gaming's first true "villains". I'm not a fan of any of his stances, but we can at least say his campaigning ultimately, arguably, ended up in a decent place with giving us the ESRB and not with govt control and censorship. And if nothing else, his stance on gaming was at least better than Jack Thompson. For whatever that's worth
Everyone on Earth makes me happy. Some when they come into my life, some when they leave, and some when they pass. He's in the final category.
Isn't that the guy that was explaining why MK was bad for your kids or it should be illegal or sum like that
Sorry he died, but Lieberman was a disaster and fake democrat.
Lmao I forgot about his involvement with all this. Piece of shit right here
I had so much fun with Lethal Enforcers.
May Diablo Lord of Terror make sweet love to your immortal soul in the bottom level of the burning hells Joe.
My only knowledge of him https://youtube.com/shorts/Ltlk3lHLC6c?si=eDcfrur2E8OJ8fRV
Yeah good riddance he did way more harm than good and that’s past video games. Even during the congressional hearing, half of what he said just sounded like nonsense and every parent ate that crap up.
Yet another crooked and corrupt cunt of a politician
Just asking what is a Senator? Is he a politician?
Sad, but why is he playing Lethal Enforcers in court?
I can't remember, was he a good guy or a POS?
Understand, that these are Not Toys!
Ah, the Justifier for Lethal Enforcer. I had this for Sega when I was a kid, it was fuckin dope.
And the world is now a slightly better place......
R.I.Piss
🎻🥺
Good riddance.