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| | | (...) ...but arming minifigs with pistols, rifles, crossbows, bows and arrows, swords, knives, spears, lances, dynamite, and other implements of destructions which in real life cause horrible pain and misery is apparently in-line with their value (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Thomas Main
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| | | | | | | (...) I am disheartened by both TLC's attitude toward how people use their products and this reaction from LUGNET (so much for a family newsgroup, eh). If TLC is sucessful in their pursuit to remove objectionable films made with their products, I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Mark Nelson
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| | | | | | | (...) That sounded just as bad as the animations, if you ask me. Please, if you cannot withstand from using such language, at least semi-censor it by using asterisks. Remember: there are, I am sure, younger people then me here. -- Mark Nelson Age 14 (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | | | (...) Very well said! Despite your age, consider yourself one of the more mature members of the group here today! :) -H. (22 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Gregory
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| | | | | | Eduardo, Tienes una boca llena de mierda. ("You're a potty-mouth.") (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Eduardo Vazquez Harte
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| | | | | | (...) Up yours! Tu tambien capullo Now this gay idea of making LEGO minifigs that are gay, transexual, lesbians... is stupid. I understand and agree with my cousin, when I was 7 she changed all my minifig's legs to bricks 1x2, those bricks where (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Gregory
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| | | | | | | Eduardo, I agree with you that people should not make gay minifigs. I just didn't like the vulgar language you used to express your thoughts. Fuzzy (22 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | | | (...) There is nothing wrong with making gay minifigs, any more than there is with making heterosexual minifigs. Sexual content may be inappropriate for kids, but a pair of gay minifigs doing non-sexual things (like simply living together, or (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Ross McCullough
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| | | | | | | | (...) I disagree. To me, the Lego minifig as always been aracial. Yes, it tends to have the physical characteristics of a caucasian, but it is not hard to take the same skin tone and change the features and come up with a black guy. (I think this (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | | (...) A man and a woman who come with two kids isn't an expressly heterosexual couple? What would they have to do be so? Chris (22 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Daniel Jassim
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| | | | | | (...) Please take this to email, guys. (...) You made your point and you have a right to an opinion. Now, I'm interested to know why you think this. (...) Meaning that all the Lego minifigs looked male and she wanted to have some females as well? (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —John Neal
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| | | | (...) I think they do, and I think your analogy is unfair. One could argue that tyranny, evil, and oppression are unavoidable in this world-- to defend against such is both honorable and necessary. To me, *that* is where TLC focuses their attention (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) Disagree. <!-- heading off-topic... --> Problem #1 - It teaches violent solutions as acceptable solutions (perhaps even encouraged?) to moral dilemmas. Problem #2 - It further solidifies a distinction between good and evil which doesn't exist (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Of course. Sometimew it is *unavoidable* Please provide an acceptable solution to stopping the moral dilemma of the Nazi tyranny in WWII without violence. (...) Disagree. I think good and evil can be distinguished IRL. Sometimes it's harder (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Markus Wolf
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| | | | | (...) I suppose at John's response you would question what it means to "develop normally" and what it means to be a "mature healthy adult." I want to throw my name in with those who believe there is a difference between good and evil. I would (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) From my particular standpoint, it would only be morally good when the person doing it honestly believed they were doing good. However, it doesn't mean that the person shouldn't be stopped-- nor that one would be morally wrong to try and stop (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) Ah-- I agree in principle. That it IS sometimes unavoidable. But making it more commonplace gives it the appearance of not so much of an last-resort, and more of a general solution. (...) Disagree. :) See: evil [below] (...) Evil (ee-vil): 1) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Well, (and sorry for straying OT;-) bringing LEGO back into the discussion, fantasy play IMO is best when the stakes are high (saving the world or even better, the universe), from the evil Ogel [the *very* antithesis of LEGO and all that is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) And here I thought it was cuz politicians were more evil than war! :) (...) I will agree that in a fantasy realm it's better than in a realistic-fantasy realm. IE a futuristic fantasy with violence is "better" than a modern fantasy with (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | (...) it (...) That's because sex is neither good nor evil. (...) What you think of as normal and healthy is not. It is a stunted charicature of humanity. People seek out experiences when they are ready for them. This information isn't being forced (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —John Neal
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| | | | (...) It can be. S & M, which combines sex and violence is evil; rape is evil. (...) What I am talking about is presenting adult material *before* a child is mature enough to handle it. In this example, a child wouldn't be seeking out this (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) Excuse me? S&M is not "evil"- as long as the people taking part are consenting (over age of consent, whatever that is where the act takes place), it is no more "evil" than sex in the missonary position between a man and his lawfully married (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I second this. It's a little off topic -- but I recently heard/learned that kissing was made popular by the Romans. Now, I don't know if that is true, but it's interesting to think that something commonplace today -- even in public -- (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms" —Thomas Stangl
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| | | | (...) What a load of crap. If the S is happy, and the M is happy, who the HELL are you to call it evil? Self-righteous bigot. Hide behind your righteousness if you want, but it won't disguise that you're a bigot. (...) Rape is not sex. It's not (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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