Has videogame violence affected you?
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I'm a vegan who doesn't even kill ants.
I spent all of yesterday playing TF2 making people go boom.
I spent all of yesterday playing TF2 making people go boom.
Oh definitely yes. You know, San Andreas once inspired me to go to a strip club, beat fifteen hookers to death and then have a three hour stand off with the military, sniping soldiers from the top of a crane that I'd found. And don't even get me started on all the deliciously violent changes CoD has worked on me...
Seriously though, video games are, at very worst, capable of de-sensitising us somewhat, but that's the worst of it. From there, it's really up to the person as to how they react to that change.
To be honest, I think that violent films and the media's insatiable desire to publicise violence has just as much to do with that change as video games do.
Seriously though, video games are, at very worst, capable of de-sensitising us somewhat, but that's the worst of it. From there, it's really up to the person as to how they react to that change.
To be honest, I think that violent films and the media's insatiable desire to publicise violence has just as much to do with that change as video games do.
Nope. Violent Videogames is actually my Anger and Evil outlet. So it helps me not to become cruel to others.
The people who run Bungie? BOOM!SODAssault said:
But OT, I don't believe there are any links between violent games and real life violence, any more than with TV, films, books and news stories. In fact, news stories are the most shocking because they are REAL (unless you're watching FOX).
It's all played up by the media, the best example (although not about violence) was Mass Effect. A brief and tasteful sex scene in which nothing is seen and the scene is necessary to the plot.
Kevin McCullough: "Mass Effect can be customised to sodomise whatever, whomever, however, the game player wishes," and "with its ?over the net? capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away".
Martha McCallum: stated that the game "leaves nothing to the imagination" and features "the ability for players to engage in full graphic sex" where the player gets to decide what happens.
Both completely wrong, NEITHER HAD PLAYED THE GAME.
My point is, although this example is about sex and not violence, the media and politicians are happy to jump on the game-bashing bandwagon because it gives them easy fuel to get popularity from concerned adults. If anyone took a moment out to actually experience gaming properly, they would understand the truth.
Also people complain about violence in games affecting children. Yeah, there's the classic "they'll play it anyway" response, but kids SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING GAMES THEY ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO. Yeah I did (Dino Crisis when I was 7? Fuck that) but the parents are ultimately responsible.
TL;DR Video game violence is not an issue other than for misinformed/ignorant people.
PS This is my first post
No more than any other outside influence. Movies, television, books, magazines, friends, family, video games, the internet, the squirrel in the tree three miles down the road all these things can make a person violent.
The whole basis for this argument is that every aging generation needs something to blame for the change in the new generation. Everything has been blamed when its new, music (several times), television, movies, clothes, hair styles, college, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc have all gone through the same thing.
The whole basis for this argument is that every aging generation needs something to blame for the change in the new generation. Everything has been blamed when its new, music (several times), television, movies, clothes, hair styles, college, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc have all gone through the same thing.
I will admit, every now and then walking down the street; I feel the slight urge to shoryuken someone.
does this make me violent? No, not yet. But I feel sorry for that person that eventually feels the bottled up wrath unleashed one day... It'll happen! Likely when i'm in an old folks home, in a wheelchair. SHORYUKEN out of of that shit. No one sees it coming.
does this make me violent? No, not yet. But I feel sorry for that person that eventually feels the bottled up wrath unleashed one day... It'll happen! Likely when i'm in an old folks home, in a wheelchair. SHORYUKEN out of of that shit. No one sees it coming.
I'm exactly the same way. Even if its the creepiest looking little fucker in existence, I'll still refuse to just squish them and opt to gently grab them in a napkin and set them free outside.Mr Thin said:
I'm such a softy.
But dammit, I don't care if you're the cutest virtual puppy ever, I will set your polygons ON FIRE!
Hasn't effected me. (sitting a top a pile of dead, demons as I toss a gernade and blow up a Centaur)