[SUBMITTED] Step 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Jutsa]

So, aside from the name of this draft, this is one where I've gone a little adventurous and made some...
well, fairly unusual character choices.

Also this is another crack at a mostly ignored policy. Enjoy.

Draft 1.02

Title: Step 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Issue: Being rather bored and lazy, your nephew decided to make a series of makeshift video games, ranging from using a paint app to dragging files to play "I Spy". It turns out that banning video games is proving very difficult to enforce.
Validity: Video Games are illegal; Computers are legal

Option 1: "People like your dephew bake be sick," says Officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, coming out of a cold @@HE@@ caught from your nephew. "We have to create a ca-a-ACHOO!" Your secretary readies some disinfectant. "cabpaign agaidst these video gabes. Claib that they're eroding physical ad bedtal health, ad to be od the safe side, have their cobputers searched for ady suspicious a-a-AH... false alarb. Suspicious activity."
[effect] looking for a computer file for too long can cost a small fortune

Option 2: "There's only one sure-fire way to get these kids off of these computers," proposes @@RANDOMNAME@@, readying a sledgehammer. "Destroy them!" @@HE@@ lays the hammer into a defenseless smartphone. "Our society has been plagued by them for long enough!" @@HE@@ pants for a moment. "Computers, that is... n-not the children."
[effect] computers have been violently removed to teach kids to stop playing violent video games and instead play violent board games
[Flag Change] No Computers

Option 3: "Destroy? Good heavens..." says your nettling aunt, readying a dustpan and broom. "Are we barbarians? Not letting our little ones play what they want? Technology isn't going to kill them, @@LEADER@@. That sledgehammer might, but not the computer. Let them play what they may, even if they become wimpy and lazy. Ugh, move over." She sweeps up the destroyed equipment.
[effect] tic-tac-toe is now played on far more expensive mediums
[Flag Change] Cancels No Video Games

Validity: High Authoritarianism
Option 4: "Can we go back to destroying them? The children, I mean," crackles the Krampy Tantalus the Wacky Goat Witch of Northern @@NAME@@, horrifying everyone in the room. "Turn those impish video game players into cans of soup! Then sell 'em at grocery stores!" Your aunt faints, making a large mess in your office. "Very impish."
[effect] soup has never tasted quite so evil
[Flag Change] Installs Capital Punishment*

Title: Step 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Issue: Being rather bored and lazy, your nephew decided to make a series of makeshift video games, ranging from using a paint app to dragging files to play "I Spy". It turns out that banning video games is proving very difficult to enforce.
Validity: Video Games are illegal; Computers are legal

Option 1: "People like your dephew bake be sick," says Officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, coming out of a cold @@HE@@ caught from your nephew. "We have to create a ca-a-ACHOO!" Your secretary readies some disinfectant. "cabpaign agaidst these video gabes. Claib that they're eroding physical ad bedtal health, ad to be od the safe side, have their cobputers searched for ady suspicious a-a-AH... false alarb. Suspicious activity."
[effect] looking for a computer file for too long can cost a small fortune

Option 2: "There's only one sure-fire way to get these kids off of these computers," proposes @@RANDOMNAME@@, readying a sledgehammer. "Destroy them!" @@HE@@ lays the hammer into a defenseless smartphone. "Our society has been plagued by them for long enough!" @@HE@@ pants for a moment. "Computers, that is... n-not the children."
[effect] computers have been violently removed to teach kids to stop playing violent video games and instead play violent board games
[Flag Change] No Computers

Option 3: "Destroy? Good heavens..." says @@RANDOMNAME@@, readying a dustpan and broom. "Are we barbarians? Not letting our little ones play what they want? Technology isn't going to kill them, @@LEADER@@. That sledgehammer might, but not the computer. Let them play what they may, even if they become wimpy and lazy. Ugh, move over." @@HE@@ sweeps up the destroyed equipment.
[effect] tic-tac-toe is now played on far more expensive mediums
[Flag Change] Cancels No Video Games

Validity: High Authoritarianism
Option 4: "Can we go back to destroying them? The children, I mean," crackles the Krampy the Wacky Goat Witch of Northern @@NAME@@, horrifying everyone in the room. "Turn those impish video game players into cans of soup! Then sell 'em at grocery stores!" The previous speaker faints, making a large mess in your office. "Very impish."
[effect] soup has never tasted quite so evil
[Flag Change] Installs Capital Punishment*

Title: Step 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Issue: Being rather bored and lazy, your nephew decided to make a series of makeshift video games, using things ranging from a paint app to using files to play "I Spy". It turns out that banning video games is proving very difficult to enforce.
Validity: Video Games are illegal; Computers are legal

Option 1: "People like your dephew bake be sick," says Officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, coming out of a cold @@HE@@ caught from your nephew. "We have to create a ca-a-ACHOO!" Your secretary readies some disinfectant. "cabpaign agaidst these video gabes. Claib that they're eroding physical ad bedtal health, ad to be od the safe side, have their cobputers searched for ady suspicious a-a-AH... false alarb. Suspicious activity."
[effect] looking for a computer file for too long can cost a small fortune

Option 2: "There's only one sure-fire way to get these kids off of these computers," proposes @@RANDOMNAME@@, readying a sledgehammer. "Destroy them!" @@HE@@ lays the hammer into a defenseless smart phone. "Our society has been plagued by them for long enough!" @@HE@@ pants for a moment. "Computers, that is... n-not the children."
[effect] computers have been violently removed to teach kids to stop playing violent video games and instead play violent board games
[Flag Change] No Computers

Option 3: "Destroy? Good heavens..." says @@RANDOMNAME@@, readying a dust pan and broom. "Are we barbarians? Not letting our little ones play what they want? Technology isn't going to kill them, @@LEADER@@. That sledge hammer might, but not the computer. Let them play what they may, even if they become wimpy and lazy. Ugh, move over." @@HE@@ sweeps up the destroyed equipment.
[effect] tic-tac-toe is now played on far more expensive mediums
[Flag Change] Cancels No Video Games

Validity: High Authoritarianism
Option 4: "Can we just go back to that thought about destroying them? The children, I mean," crackles the Krampy the Wacky Goat Witch of Northern @@NAME@@, horrifying everyone in the room. "Turn those impish children into cans of soup! Then sell 'em on the market!" The previous speaker faints, making a large mess in your office. "Very impish."
[effect] soup has never tasted quite so evil
[Flag Change] Installs Capital Punishment

Last edit: Nov 26, 2018.
Edit: Added "Tantalus" as Krampy's last name, thanks Westinor.
Note: This is more for future reference in case I wanna recycle this option. This issue's gotta be dead by now.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

The issue is good! A reversal already exists but another is welcome.

Liking the character with a cold. Not so much liking the misuse of the word literally.

[Jutsa]

will change then.

Glad that I got a stamp of approval.

(also yeah, I know a reversal exists, but I still wanted another issue about it. :3)

[Trotterdam]

Being rather bored and lazy, your nephew decided to make a series of makeshift video games, using things ranging from a paint app to using files to play "I Spy".

Check your grammar here. The double "using" is conf-using.

Validity: High Authoritarianism
Option 4: "Can we just go back to that thought about destroying them? The children, I mean," crackles the Krampy the Wacky Goat Witch of Northern @@NAME@@, horrifying everyone in the room. "Turn those impish children into cans of soup! Then sell 'em on the market!" The previous speaker faints, making a large mess in your office. "Very impish."
[effect] soup has never tasted quite so evil
[Flag Change] Installs Capital Punishment

So... what? Is this all children, or just the ones who play video games?

[Jutsa]

Good points...

New draft's up.

I want it to just be the video-game-playing children, but honestly I feel weird having the witch actually say "video-game-playing".
I'd love some help on that one.

[Candensia]

It took me a lot longer than I would’ve liked to figure out that option one is horribly misspelled (on purpose).

Darn you, brain.

I do like the odd characters present in this draft.

[Jutsa]

lol thanks. I tried to make all of them unusual in some way. Was mostly an experiment, but I think it's turned out nicely.

[Australian rePublic]

How did he learn to code them

[Jutsa]

Wellh, I mean, programming languages probably still exist in nations with computers but no video games,
but the idea behind this was less "he programmed a game" and more "he technically played games by unconventional means".

I say this being a person who's done this plenty of times, myself. Nothing quite like a sporting round of
"Granny's Adventures in the Maze of Red Paint", y'know? And don't tell me you've never played Hide-and-go-seek with your computer files?
(I have, but only on accident.)

[Australian rePublic]

Wellh, I mean, programming languages probably still exist in nations with computers but no video games,
but the idea behind this was less "he programmed a game" and more "he technically played games by unconventional means".

I say this being a person who's done this plenty of times, myself. Nothing quite like a sporting round of
"Granny's Adventures in the Maze of Red Paint", y'know? And don't tell me you've never played Hide-and-go-seek with your computer files?
(I have, but only on accident.)

So what about countries with no computers?

[Jutsa]

Covered in the validity.

A shame said nations won't have this issue, but I think that they'd be more interested in bringing computers back than video games.
(Though Plug In and Play probably covers that anyway... idk, I imagine it would.)

[Trotterdam]

I say this being a person who's done this plenty of times, myself. Nothing quite like a sporting round of
"Granny's Adventures in the Maze of Red Paint", y'know? And don't tell me you've never played Hide-and-go-seek with your computer files?
(I have, but only on accident.)

I enjoy using my computer to study mathematics. Does that count as a game?

As for files, I use grep for those.

[Krogon]

I think option 2's effect line is a bit long. Also, I think it would work better if the speaker for option 3 was someone like your grandma.

[Sacara]

Smartphone, sledgehammer, and dustpan are all one word. I like issues that deal with mostly unused policies.

[Jutsa]

I even got the first sledgehammer right...

thanks, Sacara.

[Jutsa]

I know I've got a couple other drafts to work on, but I figured I'd bump this one for feedback.

Seems like it's gotten pretty good feedback, so I guess I'll put this one on last call?

Also, changing option 3's speaker to... idk, I kinda like "aunt" over "grandma" here, but I'll let an editor decide... if this gets picked up, of course.

ed: And done. Took a while.

[Jutsa]

Submitted! Thank you all for helping.

I should note that it might be a little bit of time before I bump another draft, though; Gotta take a small break from writing, I think.
*Goes to the World Assembly to write more complicated and lengthier drafts whilst commenting IC* Yeah uh idk what's wrong with me either.

[Candensia]

Best wishes!