If they ever actually played any or even more than one. I'm usually a big fan of Glenn beck (Please, as a side note, for the love all that is holy DO NOT turn this into an anti Glenn Beck, I hate Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck is an idiot, etc thread) but the guest he had on (Lt. Col Dave Grossman) and the segment he had on last night was pure garbage.
You can watch the segment(s) at the blaze.
The only video game footage they even showed as I could recall, was from manhunt 2. A subpar, "murder simulator". (I mean, if they wanted to show some graphic violence, ill wager most of us could think up 10 better examples in 30 seconds) This, and other games like GTA are the examples they always trot out. Its always about killing the innocent and how horrible it is. Yet they never show games where one could argue the killing is good. Is zelda a "murder simulator"? How about Metroid? Diablo? Or how about any other game where the objective is to kill things like monsters, demons, or people (who people like Beck or Grossman would agree that if real) would be evil and necessary to kill? Nope. Never.
Two of the highlights that struck me are. #1 Grossman not ok with violent pixels, because they train a reaction into "See target---->Shoot target". But ok with paintball, airsoft, hunting. Ever been shot with either? Depending on which they are and where you got shot, they can sting pretty bad and hurt. Ever hunt a deer? Lie in wait.....line up the shot...boom. But oh no thats not training people to into "See target----->shoot target" That aside from the fact that Grossman has literally wrote the book on how to turn people who are afraid to kill, into people not afraid to kill. Be it military, police, etc.
The second is really stupid and proves they don't play many games. They were talking about the sandy killer and hows its believed that he shot himself because the cops showed up. Beck might have had the right idea because he said (paraphrased) "Is it because the reality of the situation suddenly washed over him and he killed himself?" And than Grossman talks about how we are trained in that too from video games. How in video games "After they've killed the last person, after there is nobody else to kill, and after reality sets in. The magnitude of the horror hits them, and, the repercussions hit them, and one way to escape in many video games is to kill yourself, many video games the way to restart the game is to kill yourself. When everything goes bad *gunshot to the neck* kill yourself and game over."
You heard right folks, the sandy killer, and I surmise in a few years a huge wave of our generation will up and kill themselves, because that's what video games has taught us to do when things get too tough, or go wrong (and when there is no one else to kill, of course). And this guy, is a psychology professor.
"Why did he kill himself?"
"I don't know, he was just playing a newly released Bethesda game..."
"Damn, 3rd one this week"
You can watch the segment(s) at the blaze.
The only video game footage they even showed as I could recall, was from manhunt 2. A subpar, "murder simulator". (I mean, if they wanted to show some graphic violence, ill wager most of us could think up 10 better examples in 30 seconds) This, and other games like GTA are the examples they always trot out. Its always about killing the innocent and how horrible it is. Yet they never show games where one could argue the killing is good. Is zelda a "murder simulator"? How about Metroid? Diablo? Or how about any other game where the objective is to kill things like monsters, demons, or people (who people like Beck or Grossman would agree that if real) would be evil and necessary to kill? Nope. Never.
Two of the highlights that struck me are. #1 Grossman not ok with violent pixels, because they train a reaction into "See target---->Shoot target". But ok with paintball, airsoft, hunting. Ever been shot with either? Depending on which they are and where you got shot, they can sting pretty bad and hurt. Ever hunt a deer? Lie in wait.....line up the shot...boom. But oh no thats not training people to into "See target----->shoot target" That aside from the fact that Grossman has literally wrote the book on how to turn people who are afraid to kill, into people not afraid to kill. Be it military, police, etc.
The second is really stupid and proves they don't play many games. They were talking about the sandy killer and hows its believed that he shot himself because the cops showed up. Beck might have had the right idea because he said (paraphrased) "Is it because the reality of the situation suddenly washed over him and he killed himself?" And than Grossman talks about how we are trained in that too from video games. How in video games "After they've killed the last person, after there is nobody else to kill, and after reality sets in. The magnitude of the horror hits them, and, the repercussions hit them, and one way to escape in many video games is to kill yourself, many video games the way to restart the game is to kill yourself. When everything goes bad *gunshot to the neck* kill yourself and game over."
You heard right folks, the sandy killer, and I surmise in a few years a huge wave of our generation will up and kill themselves, because that's what video games has taught us to do when things get too tough, or go wrong (and when there is no one else to kill, of course). And this guy, is a psychology professor.
"Why did he kill himself?"
"I don't know, he was just playing a newly released Bethesda game..."
"Damn, 3rd one this week"
