Have any "anti gamer" or "video game ignorant" stories.

[ckam]

[All I can really remember is a anti-video game article that I read in my school's newspaper. I wrote a letter to them responding to the arguments but I have yet to see it published. I still fucking have the file, too. Those bastards.

awwww, I wanna see it! D:

Be careful what you wish for...

* Slow clapping starts * Nice speech/letter, Do you by chance have the original article? I'd love to read it, What? Ignorance is the best form of entertainment after all.

Sorry, but that actually requires me to type up the entire article and I'm not willing to do that.

What if I said pretty please?

Violent video games should be limited

When walking through the halls, you are likely to hear Call of Duty (COD) or any other wartime game being talked about. You most likely heard many different things about how people waited in line for the midnight release of COD Black Ops. This was brought out on a school night, so how were students able to get enough sleep for the next days learning? This is just one example of how war-based games are taking over kids? lives.

?Video game violence can be played too much and could actually lead into the real world,? said junior Ryan. ?Video games are okay, but I could never sit and stare at a screen for hours.?

Over winter break while driving home I witnessed three little boys outside ?shooting? each other. What has happened to playing soccer, football, or other less violent games? I think war and gun games and toys are taking over our society, and making violence seem fun. I cannot deny I have had my own few minutes playing the popular game COD ? I did enjoy it ? which frightens me even more. If these games and toys continue to rise, we could likely see the violence increase in relationships.

Children at a young age should learn to handle problems verbally, not violently. With all the violence going into people?s brains, when in a tough situation, they are going to act how they are most comfortable, which could be violence. With high school students playing these games at what seems to be many hours a day, they can become distracted. Also students at this age are faced with many difficult situations, and may not know how to handle them.

?I play on average eight hours a week,? said sophomore Aaron.

These days you hear about physical fights breaking out between elementary level students, and when walking around a group of middle school students, you are likely to hear a few ?f-bombs.? I do not completely blame the change in behavior on video games; there are other factors that come into play, but I do believe that war -related activities are a huge contributor.

I?m not trying to whine and complain about the use of these games, and tell you to stop playing the games, everyone needs something to relieve their stress, and everyone does something different.

I do think that the amount of time, or the picture they are displaying is not a good one, and either the vision needs to change, or the amount of time playing these games needs to decrease. I have not figured out a solution for the amount of time, I simply cannot tell you to play for only one hour; I?m not your mom.

Take this article as a wake up call to all you people who spend 20 plus hours a week I mean seriously that is unreal. The whole issue here isn?t the amount of time one video games, but the type of games. If you play war like games every day for hours and hours, you are more likely to remember this behavior, and use it in your everyday life. There are other types of video games out there, that don?t involve killing people and acting like you are a soldier involved in a war.

We don?t need violence, its nothing good, and it leads only to bad things, so take this wake up call, and try to change your ways.

-Libby

 

[Sneeze]

My dad did the same kind of thing with me (sans muslims). I was playing oblivion while also trying to have a debate on why it was right to kill these goblins.

Me "Because they will attack me!"
Dad "What about the ones who you just assume will attack you, you don't know what every goblin will do"
Me "Well I was told that these goblins were attacking this farm"
Dad "Who told you?"
Me "The Quest giver"
Dad "Why should you trust the quest giver more than a goblin?"

I-- I'll never look at an RPG the same way again.. ;_;

OT: I've never had anything to ignorant, nothing along the lines of they make people murder or rape from anyone, I just to have "you'll grow out of them" maybe as a kid and people saying they're overpriced sometimes (my mum did not approve of my Dead Rising 2 special edition...) but meh, most people have accepted it's part of me and I'm not going to change.

I do get the odd speech about how I'm working towards a difficult industry though and its unlikely I'll ever make it and I need a back up plan, etc etc. Not much about actually playing games though.

 

[Wolfram23]

snip

That is such a worthless, biased, and horribly opinionated article. "Libby" needs to learn some life lessons and do some damn research.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

My mom used to think video games caused violence. She reads a lot of brain research and was pretty sure of herself, I never payed much attention to it. Last weekend we were discussing video games and she says that another research study shows that the best people coming into the workforce are those who play games because of their ability to use technology, cooperate, and communicate easily.

So I guess my story is actually a happy one...

 

[Nouw]

Let's just say for this thinking task a bunch of people basically summed up an argument of games being bad for you. Let's just say that. >.>
[sub]My mum's friend's daughter thinks games are bad for you because a t.v. report said so. My friend also thinks that all games are 'mindless killing.' I hope it wasn't Christianity that taught her that >.>[/sub]

The stories are completely unrelated.

I'm a christian and I like games, so it can't be that.

lol

Of course, some of my friends aren't exactly the best example of the kind that like video games >.>
[sub]Being I'm Korean, a hell of a lot of them love gaming though. Yes they play Starcraft 1/2, why do you ask?[/sub]

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

My parents kind of hate video games, especially my dad. My mom expresses her dislike but hardly ever and mostly doesn't say anything because she knows I like them. Dad on the other hand has tried for years (ever since I first started) to convince me that video games are bad. He says since I am controlling a character that is killing people, I am therefore killing people. He even said "If you like killing people so much then join the army, you can do lots of killing"; he wasnt serious of course, but he thinks that killing is killing whether it's real or not (and that it destroys you humanity either ways). My humanity is fine, I am still peaceful and passive, still the nicest guy ever, no desire to do any real killing, still a somewhat devout Muslim.

 

[Carlston]

I get a lot of the Dnd Video game links to the lame ol urban myth of the Steam tunnels and Mazes and monsters. Which I promptly turned around and made fun of them for using a Tom Hanks movie as a basis for a judgment.

 

[Bags159]

While I was driving my Mom around town (to practice driving; I'm fifteen, rounding sixteen), we heard on the radio that a man the day before had tried to escape the police. Apparently, he didn't have a driver's license and was probably doing something illegal (obviously) and he decided the most rational course of action was to drive down the highway as traffic is coming towards him.

"He must have learned it from video games," I hear her comment.

Befuddled, I say "What? Wh-what makes you say that?"

"How else would he think to go on the other side of the road?"

"He was running from the cops!"

"But he probably saw it in a videogame and thought 'oh, I can do this.'"

A bit more abrasive now, I rebuttle: "Yes, because a low-income criminal who hasn't the money to get a license obviously has the disposable income to buy and play games."

"Then where'd he get the idea?" she asks.

"Where do people get the idea to run red lights or deal drugs or traffic women?"

So she presses her case: "But there was a guy on Craigslist who put his phone up for sale, and when he met with the buyer, the buyer attacked him."

"Yeah, I remember that part of GTA 4, when I lure someone out over the internet and kill him..." And we ended the conversation there.

Okay, yes, I know that is in fact a mission from GTA 4, but it's not like she knew that . Besides, you were killing a criminal in that!

That last part was great.

Whenever my mom tries to understand what's happening in a game I or my brother is playing it's fairly awkward.

"is that a war diagram?"
"... it's a radar"

 

[ultrachicken]

My mom has this fixation with the idea that video games are only for children. She has, on multiple occasions in the past, witnessed me playing something (one of the silent hill games, god of war, bioshock) and said with a disgusted tone, "Are kids supposed to be able to play this?" or "Isn't this supposed to be for kids?"

My response to that would have been to point at the ESRB label on the game.

Mine has to be: "So, when are you going to quit video games?"

Asked by numerous people. On many occasions.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Oddly enough I've never had this issue with family. My mother doesn't seem to mind that I spend a majority of my time playing games and most family never even factor it in as one of my traits, despite me having a portable of some kind at all times. My grandmother is worse for it than me though, she had a DS before anyone else I knew, about three days before its official release.

A few cousins and uncles play games, mostly shooters and sports games. But other than that not many people in my family do yet they're all fair understanding of my hobby of choice. They do note that I spend maybe a bit too much time playing them, I'm inclined to agree some days...

EDIT

All this being said, I have a few friends and cousins who believe that anything Activision release that vaguely sounds like 'Call of Duty' is the pinnacle of gaming. Can't win 'em all.

 

[pete675]

one week after Il got gta 4 i was at classs and a teacher say you not gonna bring a gun to school when shes sad that iL was not impress lates shes see was sorry

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Sometimes i wonder what the hell ''those'' people do with their free private time.
Stare at the ceiling?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

In my Sociology class, one student's debate topic was violent video games. Following the rebuttal, the floor was opened up, and I proceeded to tear apart every single argument both sides had come up with.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Let's see the worst I've seen is, an English teacher who seemed to think video games rot your brain or whatever, barely even bothered arguing with her, she wasn't going to listen. One time I brought DSes on a bus trip to play Mario Kart with people. Some kids from a different school (We where using the same bus) where like "The DS isn't that for kids?", didn't care enough to argue (I think one of them laughed at the notion that the original Star Wars trilogy where some of my favorite films of all time).

And since we are bringing up our parents' impressions of games. I had to have my dad go out and buy my copy of Mass Effect 2 because I don't have a car, but I wanted it as soon as possible. Anyway, a trailer showed up when he was watching football and he was surprised at the notion "The game talks". I then went on to explain to him the cinematic nature of BioWare's games, we went through the same thing when my brother was playing Red Dead Redemption.

I don't think either of my parents have negative opinions on games, although my dad doesn't really play them (My mom likes Tetris and Dr. Mario and has a GBA Sp).

 

[Terminate421]

I was driving my brother home and stopped by a gas station.

THEN,

My brother is in 8th grade and said to me, "The reason this economy is so bad is because people aren't willing to get up because of video games."

His excuse? He plays football, and Lacrosse.

The only reason I didn't make him walk home that night was because I didn't want to get yelled at by my dad.