Mar 13 2009Killzone Ads Pulled From Canadian Bus Stops

Wow...just wow.

I hate this country so bad sometimes.

@2 Canada?

booo friggen hoo.... everyone is waaaay oversensitive nowadays....someone needs to kick this douch in the sack (if he even has one) with a hockey skate

douche even

wtf?? what a bunch of wossies!!! LOLOL

As a canadian, i am embarrassed. I actually was just noticing the posters this week nd thought the game looked pretty siiick..

Stop. oh oh oh ooooooooooooh ohh oooooh oh ooh ooooooooooooooh
ow ow ow ooooooooh stop oh stop ooh ooooooooh oh oh oooooooooh
I can't breathe ohhhh stop uh uh ooooooooooooooh

♪ Blame Canada! ♫

Agreed with poster #7.

What I find sad about this is how the issue is over imagery -- art -- yet Scarborough lately has had some terrible violent gun crimes. You know, the type where people get randomly hit while walking around. Absolute idiocy.

People like this asshole, automatically assume that someone is going to be offended over something, so they complain without actually talking to the people that they think will be offended first. Why not just call it what it is, YOU ARE THE ONE OFFENDED BECAUSE YOU'RE A BIG PANZY, not them. So quit making excuses and trying to be a hero.

It's because of people like this asshole that I'm seriously worried about the future of the world. It's not video games and movies that are going to be our undoing - believe it or not, people are smart enough to figure out the differences - instead, by the time I get around to retiring, the world is going to be a sterilized, pussy-assed version of itself which won't be able to handle the smallest situation without it turning into major a national crisis

Why are Canadians concerned about Iraq imagery?

BTW, after all of that, I'd like to point out that I am Canadian as well.

@10

Glad to see our trickle up violence policy is finally taking effect in the great white north.

Suck it up, kids can watch ABC and see Iraq-war-scary head images. Unless what she said about going to bus stops for 'shelter and safety' means they're homeless...

wow.. just wow..
what a pussy

@9 - You stole my though right out of my head! Stop that!

weaksauce

From the article:

"I don't think that when you're in Scarborough, where we're having to deal on a constant basis with violence, that does anything to help promote any kind of community renewal or even responsibility,"

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Scarborough is basically Toronto's whipping boy for violent crime. Long term trends showing that Scarborough is less prone to violent crimes than the rest of Toronto.

So they should take down the adverts because of some foreign kids?
F.ucking stupid, this guy is an idiot.

sigh, meanwhile, that teacher is making a b porn movie and posting it on the armature porn section.

stfu. like you never played a video game with guns in it. go fap fap fap coward

...and since i live in Scarborough, i figured I'd add a little additional reading.

According to Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, "[42 Division is] the safest division in the city"; this division includes north Scarborough. The safest part of Toronto is north Scarborough from Victoria Park Ave. to the Pickering border, north of Highway 401. (Which is the area where this bus stop & scho school).

from: http://www.insidetoronto.ca/News/Scarborough/article/45840

...and yes i took a bunch of quotes from Wikipedia. BUT the crime statistics can be found on the Toronto Police website, and the aforementioned quote is properly sourced.

GOOD, I love when video games are taken a tiny peg down. I hate them, but that'd be because I'm not a fat virgin.

@21. Is armature porn for people with prosthetic limbs?

Sounds kinky!

Killzone should remove ads for Canadain buslines from it's video games

i agree with #7. i am also canadian, and am downright embarassed.

so... we are allowed to post the uncensored version of Zach and Miri's poster all over and no one cares but as soon as we post up a poster of "ooo a guy with a helmet and red eyes" its offensive ?

in the immortal words of edger friendly.... "You got that right. You see, according to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, 'Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side order of greasy fries?' I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to, okay pal? I've seen the future. Know what it is? It's a 47 year old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing 'I'm an Oscar Meyer weiner.'"

Finally someone is thinking of the children.... Toronto represent

@27, that made my day.

its why i exist... that and tacos...mmmm...tacos.....

Yossarian was here.

Its Retarded... Just listen to Rap on your local Radio station for the real truth on Crime. haha Break it down whhiiikkky wa

#27 That was awesome. Mostly because I live in Cincinnati and i'd like to smoke a cigar the size of this shit hole town. Also, I actually eat cheese by the bucket load. Neat.

LOL at Catch22 because I thought of a couple different Demolition Man quotes too.

Phoenix: "The world has become a pussy-assed version of itself"

Erwin: "We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence! "

I live in Toronto and I've seen these bus-shelter ads. They're totally harmless. You see worse in the newspapers every day. Ooo... a menacing figure. Piss off, Mr. Mirza, and pull your self-righteous head out of your ass.

I wonder what would happen if people protested to get the adverts back into bus shelters. This happens all to often in the great white north... We hate to ruffle feathers so we pander to every idiot's whim. That's why Canadian's have no real identity anymore, because we may very well offend someone who immigrated here. We're too way friggin' liberal.

@36, I agree to a certain extent. You can never please everyone all the time but that's exactly what this country is trying to do. Once you become accepting of everything you lose your identity and become so open ended you don't even know who you are. We need solid guidelines that makes sense.

People's feelings are going to get stepped on. Big deal.

...and that's me not getting political.

I'm going to play devil's advocate, If I understand correctly the way this went done was more like the following:

Mirza: Hey sony, some of the kids that go to my school are refugees, they witnessed unspeakable acts of violence in their home countries, saw dead bodies dragged through their streets, and have multiple family members who have been killed by war. Could you not have video game called the "Killzone" that glorify war and violence advertised at thier bus stop which they take to go to school.

Sony: Shoot, our bad, we'll take it down.

Now you may commence to verbally attack me and call me a pussy for siding with the guy who didn't want to rub war in refugees faces.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max expressed his outrage over the irony of a government who sent warriers into battle to kill the enemy but didn't allow them to write the F word on their helmets, much like the Geekologie website.

What a faggot.

i'd be more worried about flying bullets in Scarborough then 'scary' posters.

wait. why. because he looks like a dick? yeah. I need protection from that.

people need to come down ITS AN AD!!! if you dont like it dont look and what 4/5th grade kid takes the public bus? whats he use as bus fee finger paints and macaroni sculptures.

"Pauline Johnson Junior Public School, near Birchmount Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E."

Oh yea like the kids there are not packing ......

I live 10 mins down the road and plan to throw a brick at this guy.

LOSER .... needs to be stabbed by one of these "innocent" kids of his.

I can't imagine where all of the money went that caused us to tailspin into an economic crisis...thanks for thinking ahead you dirty hippie-maple-suckers. Stop drinking the bong water eh?

Well, Sony's advertising dollars got their worth. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity....almost makes me want to run out an buy a copy.

The teacher actually did a better job of promoting than the advertising company Sony hired. By superboosting it with bad publicity, Like SPELLINGNAZI typed,"Threre is no such thing as bad publicity".
Or maybe Davis Mirza was paid by Sony to email them to cause some contraversy. Just a thought......anyhow.......
I would like to buy the game, but my wife won't let me because it will be a bad influence on my daughter. LOL.

Game's got game though! damn

Wooow. Clearly you are incredibly ignorant. I actually live in Toronto, and when you realize these families have left their home countries to get away from war, how is it fair that they have to encounter war images in public areas? You're all using the example of war in the newspaper, but there's a big difference between going to a newspaper stand and buying a newspaper, and having posters on bus shelters, which are PUBLIC AREAS. Half of the city takes the bus regularly.

Also. To those who said "I'm Canadian blah blah blah this means my opinion counts" screw you! I used to live in the suburbs, and I just moved to Scarborough this year, and it is a totally different world.

This is to the jerk who said, "If you don't like it, don't look". Dude, that's not so easy in a public place, which is why people aren't allowed to piss at the bus station, show off their man boobs, or fornicate with stray dogs - all of which I know you do while you drool over hulks with glowing eyes and masks with breathing tubes. Not to be gross or anything, but if you don't like what I typed, then don't read it. Capice?

I think Elisa and VIctoria are on their periods.

Japones: yeah, the two people who actually put some thought into their posts instead of giving into the knee-jerk reaction of "people who criticize video games are teh ebil!" must be on their periods. Oh, brad0261 seemed thoughtful as well, he must be on his period too. Also, I think you meant PMS. You must be experiencing that time of month when you're stupider than usual - the entire month.

Look, people - everyone's reacting like this is someone complaining that video games cause violence. It's not. It's someone pointing out that certain images could trigger reactions in people who have experienced violence. It's not an extraordinary proposition.

This isn't in the newspaper or TV. This is a full-sized poster that you have to stand next to for 15 minutes to get to school. It's a person-sized image of a soldier coming for you that you have to be confined with. The medium is just as much a problem as the image itself.

The comments that Mirza's complaint generated more publicity for the game? yeah, so what? The complaint wasn't against the game itself, it was against the posters being in bus shelters. I don't think Mirza cares about the game at all.

Oh, and the people whining about having to treat immigrants like people? Grow up. The world does not revolve around you.

@52 Feck you
I dont see why we should censor stuff because of some foreign twats