Nah, I blame Shenmue.SharPhoe said:
"Would you like to try a game of lucky hit? How about a game of lucky hit?"
If people try to link violent video games with real violence...
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"Would you like to try a game of lucky hit? How about a game of lucky hit?"
Sometimes I wonder just how rapidly I could get myself placed on an FBI watch list.ThrobbingEgo said:
I'm going to make this simple, in video games, Pac-man causes fatness, violence causes normal people to become mass-murderers, Zelda causes theft and zombie games make people more likely to develop horrid vaccines in order to further the possibility of a zombie apocalypse. Got that?
Part of me tells me not to click that.ThrobbingEgo said:
A friend of mine actually just recently got arrested for doing direct action in regards to mountaintop clearing. So I'm well on my way.Panzer_God said:
Mine was for spam-mailing the White House and then buying what ended up being several materials required for the construction of bombs.dontworryaboutit said:
Killing our dudes.ThrobbingEgo said:
Counldn't resist it but I believe if I am never exposed to violence I would handle it worse if I am I will be able to cope. I let out steam playing video games unlike my friend who elbowed me in the spine over a mr.mime golem trade. Statistically speaking it's all pokemons fault. But seriously if I kill some pixels to let off steam they should let me. Besides people like videos games it makes them HAPPY doesn't happiness..... okay it doesn't necessarily STOP violence but it stops it for a bit with the happiness. God I sound like a bad disney movie now.
http://www.destructoid.com/japan-bans-rape-games-all-of-them-133788.phtmlAkilles79 said:
Not by a long shot. I'm siding with Brad Rice on this one.
Get that outdated and largely disproved figure out of your avatar and maybe I could take it more seriously.
The smoker doesn't believe the effects of smoking are as large as said, regardless of countless studies, so why one earth would anyone here believe that videogames could even potentially cause violence?
Not to say they do, but no one here would believe it if they did, no exceptions.
More interesting to me isn't the violence potential, but the suggestion that violent games may be linked with viewing the world more negatively. This would go hand in hand with the theory that our pastime has a prejudice, wouldn't you say? ;D
The smoker doesn't believe the effects of smoking are as large as said, regardless of countless studies, so why one earth would anyone here believe that videogames could even potentially cause violence?
Not to say they do, but no one here would believe it if they did, no exceptions.
More interesting to me isn't the violence potential, but the suggestion that violent games may be linked with viewing the world more negatively. This would go hand in hand with the theory that our pastime has a prejudice, wouldn't you say? ;D
Regarding my avatar: have you ever heard of irony?Prototype said:
Anyway, I'd argue that the video game debate has nothing to do with possible harm. If music, all music (rock, country, rap, metal, classical - all of it) was determined to be harmful - caused aggression, lowered test scores, whatever - would you get rid of it?
I'd argue that freedom of expression, including the medium of expression, is more valuable than dubious safety risks.
The whole "games influencing people" argument has always bothered me. There's more proof that TV shows such as CSI influence viewers negatively than do games.
I'm thinking of this one example where a guy tried to bleach his car or something to remove blood stains a la something he'd seen in CSI. When's the last time somebody hijacked a car and went on a killing spree so large that the National Guard had to be called in?
I'm thinking of this one example where a guy tried to bleach his car or something to remove blood stains a la something he'd seen in CSI. When's the last time somebody hijacked a car and went on a killing spree so large that the National Guard had to be called in?
