FoxNews bashes Bulletstorm (LOL)

[CoL0sS]

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I think some people do genuinely try to unravel our workings. But I've never seen anything concrete enough to make me think there's more than a shred of validity to it.

By our nature, each human being is so different. From our biology, upbringing, environmental factors and frick only knows whatever else. They all play a massive part in what makes us, us. And to suggest we can all be decoded so simply. It's ridiculous.

I think so too, or at least I'd want to believe that I have a bit more complex personality to be "decoded" by a one hour session. Perhaps I'll be proven wrong.

 

[X10J]

"The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games," she said.

I stopped reading there.

Same.

People like this need to be taken away from anywhere that they may publicly voice opinions. They seriously shouldn't be allowed to.

Same here. Also the way they went from 9 year old's playing violent video games to real life rapes is just laughable. I seriously wonder how that psychologist got her degree (no offense to any psychology student on the Escapist, I'm pretty sure you guys agree that voicing opinions as facts is not professional)

That's what 99.999'% of psychology is.

And I do mean that to sound offensive to any Psychology student.

From reading psychological texts and making the mistake of taking it for an A level. I can whole heartedly say it's complete Bull!

They make rash leaps of logic, they think conclusive means 'more than 10%' and they push their own hang ups and inner workings onto the rest of humanity as validation or explanation.

You only have to read the first few pages of Freud's 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality' to figure out that he is just using his own experiences and feelings on the subject matter as baseline for his research. He even later discounted most of what his subjects told to him because it conflicted with his own theories.

I'm not saying that all psychology is bad or fake. But the majority of it is. It's working under the assumption that we're all cardboard cut-outs and that we should all function one particular way. So any deviation from that base model is evidently defective and must have something wrong with it.

We're to complex to slap so many labels on everything, in a bid to explain how and why we work. There is no definitive norm and anyone who argues otherwise should be shot from a cannon into orbit. Whilst wearing an embarrassing swimming costume.

Now suggestion and misdirection. That's interesting. That works on the basic physiological functions to effect the subconscious and the conscious. That's about as much physchobabble as I swallow.

What you're talking about seems like psychoanlysis, which is rare and widely unaccepted today. Most psychologists don't agree with Freud.

 

[Droppa Deuce]

Urgh, I'm sure Obama will get the blame for all of this.

And the Democrats.

And Mexican immigrants (both legal and otherwise).

And blacks.

I hate Fox News.

 

[captaincabbage]

Oh shit, I barely got halfway through before I started vomiting in my mouth.
This is easily the most horribly written, ill-informed and biased writings I've ever read. I'm just glad I live in Australia. We might not have an R18 rating (yet), but at least we don't have arseholes like this spinning off at every new form of media just to gain ratings.

 

[X10J]

They claim to be "fair and balenced", yet they recieved around $100,000,000 from the RNC last year. I submit that they should either not report on anything politicaly related, or be sued for false advertising.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

Dangit, now I'm gonna have to buy it. Any time a game stirs up the slightest bit of controversy, I feel compelled to support it.
I was all ready going to buy it, but at least now I have a pseudo purpose behind it.

 

[Section Crow]

Its a bloody 18 game anyway!

kids under this age shouldn't even be playing this sort of game and how would the kids know what a gang bang is at that age? when they hear it they will just reference it back to the game...

 

[GlorySeeker]

Whos buys these games for Nine yr olds?
The parents.
Thats who the blame should be put on if anyone. If the Game is rated "M" Then dont let your nine yr old play it. Its that simple. And Fox news, should move to comedy Central...lol

 

[Smagmuck_]

Do this people really think that an impressionable small child is capable of doing any amount of this kind of damage?

Makes me sad to be a Republican... >.>

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Huh. I saw this on my friends wall on Facebook and thought to myself "I bet this will be on the Escapist". Called that?

Anyway, Haters gonna hate. You think they would be focused on Anonymous, who actually has the potential to do bad, as they so gallantly showed us earlier this week. Whatever, gives the anons more time to wipe them out

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Postal 2
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No seriously I played the game when i was 12 and now I'm a raging psychopathic rapist. I'm writing this from a prison library.
Brb buttsecks

"omg dropped soap brb"

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Wow, just WOW. Just when I thought they couldn't get even more stupid...

 

[RandomWords]

Yeah, because fox news is always right, especially when it come to video games... (sarcasm)

 

[WorldCritic]

If a nine year old buys Bulletstorm, it's not the retailers fault, it's not the developer's fault, and it certainly isn't the ESRB's fault. It's the parents. Take that dad!

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Is anyone else tacking on that if your in the supposed 'target demographic' of this game (aka pre-pubescence according to these vapid hate-mongering fucks) that you really shouldn't know the innuendos. This is just the thing...if you don't know the other meaning, it's not an innuendo and you can't link it to sex. They're just funny names for things!

And that rape comment...after Mass Effect I went out, kidnapped a woman, painted her blue and raped her repeatedly. There, I said it. It's all true. Any sexual content in any game turns even the most level-headed gamer into a sick twisted rapist. [sub]fucking morons, i just don't even...[/sub]

ahem...

WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE STILL ALLOWED TO VOICE THEIR OPINIONS!?

 

[X10J]

What you're talking about seems like psychoanlysis, which is rare and widely unaccepted today. Most psychologists don't agree with Freud.

That's certainly not he impression I got from my psychology teacher. Her class made me do a complete 180 on the entire idea of it tbh.

That sucks. I mean sure some of his therputic techniques are used, but most of the psychologists I know don't agree with most of it. Now I'm curious, do you remember more specificaly what she said.

 

[spacecowboy86]

Carol Lieberman, a psychologist and book author, told FoxNews.com that sexual situations and acts in video games -- highlighted so well in Bulletstorm -- have led to real-world sexual violence.

?The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games,? she said.

Seriously. There's not much else I can say.

-m

my thoughts exactly. I read that line and instantly had one of those "really? can you back that up?" faces.

 

[Carlston]

Carol Lieberman, a psychologist and book author, told FoxNews.com that sexual situations and acts in video games -- highlighted so well in Bulletstorm -- have led to real-world sexual violence.

?The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games,? she said.

Seriously. There's not much else I can say.

-m

Wait playing whoda what now?
last i checked Bullet storm just make bad sexual reference not had sexual mini games?

 

[sigma2]

That's called making something appear worse than what it really is.

On a side note...