Does gaming cause real life violence?...Shut up
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No, as I recall Hitler never played Videogames.. So suck it.
Ya, I know that is a terrible example, but I don't feel like going down this road again
Ya, I know that is a terrible example, but I don't feel like going down this road again
A thing that someone else here (I forget who) pointed out is that the media ignores the real problem and focus on the video games. In the case of the "Halo killer" as the article is calling him, the author seems to ignore the problem of poor gun control/possible bad parenting, and focuses on the game. I feel that the article should give the message that it's possible that the games may have had an influence, but it would have been a completely different case if gun laws were changed.
I give you, Mister Tobey Grummet [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tobey-grumet/4/6a9/928]. A man who cannot construct sentences properly -farmerboy219 said:
- works in cliches -
- and doesn't understand tenses -
Sort of harsh to shoot him and then charge his leg as an adult.
Or we can just look at that page that wants you to disable pop-up blockers so it can spam you.
Verdict: Our kids are more at risk from bad journalism.
Sigh...
Violent video games are not a serious reason or viable excuse for violence. Anyone who can fucking think knows that what you do in Halo, Assassin's Creed, or anything else is totally separate from the real world and shouldn't be done. And the people who can't think need to get some help anyways, and it's not Bungie's fault if some already messed up kid gets set of by Halo- hell, anything could have set them off, and why did the parents let them get it anyways if they hopefully knew their kid was messed up?
Although, the reasoning "addiction + being deprived of what you're addicted to = crazy" can at least be applied to, say, cocaine or really anything. But it's still retarded, I say.
I'd go on a rant now about how overparenting/helicopter parenting is what really leads to this what with not letting your kid deal with real-world issues so they don't know how to react and go kill someone when they first experience contradiction way past when most of us learned to deal at the age of like five, but that would be getting a bit off topic and seem diversionary. Actually, shit, I appear to have just done that.
Violent video games are not a serious reason or viable excuse for violence. Anyone who can fucking think knows that what you do in Halo, Assassin's Creed, or anything else is totally separate from the real world and shouldn't be done. And the people who can't think need to get some help anyways, and it's not Bungie's fault if some already messed up kid gets set of by Halo- hell, anything could have set them off, and why did the parents let them get it anyways if they hopefully knew their kid was messed up?
Although, the reasoning "addiction + being deprived of what you're addicted to = crazy" can at least be applied to, say, cocaine or really anything. But it's still retarded, I say.
I'd go on a rant now about how overparenting/helicopter parenting is what really leads to this what with not letting your kid deal with real-world issues so they don't know how to react and go kill someone when they first experience contradiction way past when most of us learned to deal at the age of like five, but that would be getting a bit off topic and seem diversionary. Actually, shit, I appear to have just done that.
I play games for pleasure, and to relieve stress. If someone interrupts me I get grouchy but not violent. Gaming is 'ME Time'. If I didn't play games, i'd have to find another way to relieve stress. Who know? If I didn't have other hobbies to relax besides gaming, I MIGHT actually be prone to violence. Although thats doubtful.
Is this a never-ending debate or what? Like the chicken or the egg. I play violent videogames. They haven't made me violent. My last show of fists was in school - more than 15 years ago - a fight over a game of marbles I think.
Is this a never-ending debate or what? Like the chicken or the egg. I play violent videogames. They haven't made me violent. My last show of fists was in school - more than 15 years ago - a fight over a game of marbles I think.
Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter.
Its a much debated and very intriguing theory that somebody who watches something violent would be moved for whatever reasons to go and recreate that act themselves on another person.
Myself, I think that this may be partly true in some ways, but "videogames hurt our children" is a steaming pile of MerkinMedia paranoia orgyfest.
I am an avid gamer and I always have been. Being a manly man, I usually prefer the ones where I get to mow down (or slice up) countless waves of feeble bad guys with my teh uber awesome nucular chainsaw deathgun. (read: GOW2, Fallout3, R63, doom et al)
However, I have only once violently attacked another person. I was 12, and he started it.
Also, at that time the worst kind of violent media I had been exposed to was Robocop, and I didn't try to blow this guy's kneecaps off with an automatic pistol before cuffing the twat and reading him his rights. Monkey see monkey do applies more to monkies than humans in this case.
If we are going to ask "Do violent video games make people shoot their parents and shout "HEAD SHOT!" ", we may awell ask "Does educating our children about violence in world war 2 make them prone to round up Jews and gas them?"
This entire debate IMHO is nothing more than a media diorrhea feeding frenzy. Just another little thing for America to be paranoid about and safeguard their children from.
In actual fact, if you feel your child may be playing too many violent video games or you disagree with their content, there are two things you can and should do.
1. Broaden your horizons, the internet is a good place for that.
2. Take the game away if you still feel the same way.
If your 12 year old is playing Gears of War 2, that's illegal and by allowing it to happen you forfeit all rights to complain about the effect it may or may not have on him or her.
EDIT:
Forgot to address the addiction angle
Game 'addiction' sounds a bit strong.
I have been very attached to completing or carrying on a game that I am really into, and because of that if someone were to walk in and unplug my PC I would probably shout at them, plus turning off PC's when the hard drives are being written to can corrupt data and sometimes damage the drive so IMHO I would be well within my rights to do so.
It is exactly the same thing as walking up to someone who is really into a good book and simply taking it off them. Or ejecting someone's DVD from the drive right before Sauron is about to get his arse kicked and Middle Earth will be free forever.
Its *VERY* *FUCKING* *IRRITATING!!*
But in most cases I suspect it would not result in violence, unless the protagonist deliberately and repeatedly performed this type of action with intent to piss me off.
rawr.
Its a much debated and very intriguing theory that somebody who watches something violent would be moved for whatever reasons to go and recreate that act themselves on another person.
Myself, I think that this may be partly true in some ways, but "videogames hurt our children" is a steaming pile of MerkinMedia paranoia orgyfest.
I am an avid gamer and I always have been. Being a manly man, I usually prefer the ones where I get to mow down (or slice up) countless waves of feeble bad guys with my teh uber awesome nucular chainsaw deathgun. (read: GOW2, Fallout3, R63, doom et al)
However, I have only once violently attacked another person. I was 12, and he started it.
Also, at that time the worst kind of violent media I had been exposed to was Robocop, and I didn't try to blow this guy's kneecaps off with an automatic pistol before cuffing the twat and reading him his rights. Monkey see monkey do applies more to monkies than humans in this case.
If we are going to ask "Do violent video games make people shoot their parents and shout "HEAD SHOT!" ", we may awell ask "Does educating our children about violence in world war 2 make them prone to round up Jews and gas them?"
This entire debate IMHO is nothing more than a media diorrhea feeding frenzy. Just another little thing for America to be paranoid about and safeguard their children from.
In actual fact, if you feel your child may be playing too many violent video games or you disagree with their content, there are two things you can and should do.
1. Broaden your horizons, the internet is a good place for that.
2. Take the game away if you still feel the same way.
If your 12 year old is playing Gears of War 2, that's illegal and by allowing it to happen you forfeit all rights to complain about the effect it may or may not have on him or her.
EDIT:
Forgot to address the addiction angle
Game 'addiction' sounds a bit strong.
I have been very attached to completing or carrying on a game that I am really into, and because of that if someone were to walk in and unplug my PC I would probably shout at them, plus turning off PC's when the hard drives are being written to can corrupt data and sometimes damage the drive so IMHO I would be well within my rights to do so.
It is exactly the same thing as walking up to someone who is really into a good book and simply taking it off them. Or ejecting someone's DVD from the drive right before Sauron is about to get his arse kicked and Middle Earth will be free forever.
Its *VERY* *FUCKING* *IRRITATING!!*
But in most cases I suspect it would not result in violence, unless the protagonist deliberately and repeatedly performed this type of action with intent to piss me off.
rawr.
I think this raises the question are violent people attracted to violent games or do violent games turn people violent? If it's the second one that's when we should be worried.
Speaking as someone who plays Halo 3 (still trying to finish on legendary) I haven't had too many murderous compulsions except when people wheel out this garbage.
Speaking as someone who plays Halo 3 (still trying to finish on legendary) I haven't had too many murderous compulsions except when people wheel out this garbage.