My Textbook says video games are bad!
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*brain explodes in wrath*
No! Crap like this causes violence! All that games allow me to do is take out my frustrations in virtual worlds rather than having it bleed over into reality.
For the most part.
My lawyer says to shut up now.
Still, my first point stands.
No! Crap like this causes violence! All that games allow me to do is take out my frustrations in virtual worlds rather than having it bleed over into reality.
For the most part.
My lawyer says to shut up now.
Still, my first point stands.
Obviously because the partners are intimidated by their significant others' L33T G4M1NG SK1LLZZZZZ!!@!@11121! B00M H34D$H0T!Merteg said:
how is that semi trollish? Is it because I brought up Call of Duty? Also can there even be a semi-trollish? I though you are or your not.BaronAsh said:That's pretty violent. Also semi trollish.0p3rati0n said:Video games? BAD?! DRUGS!?!? DATING VIOLENCE!?!?!?!?! WTF that's BS! I play a s*** load of CoD and I'm not that violent!? Although that's how most boys are. Let's hunt down the b***** that created that propaganda! ~
Study #3334:
Troll places false information on videogame forum, falsely claiming his health textbook has a passage which blames videogames for violence.
Expected response: Forumgoers will wildly flail at non-existant textbook and not pause to consider lack of evidence.
Results: Experience nearly failed when a few forumgoers doubted the claim. However, a quickly fabricated quote, despite the unlikeliness of its construction, dispelled the doubts in the majority. Forumgoers stopped questioning the false claim and complained as predicted.
Experiment successful.
Troll places false information on videogame forum, falsely claiming his health textbook has a passage which blames videogames for violence.
Expected response: Forumgoers will wildly flail at non-existant textbook and not pause to consider lack of evidence.
Results: Experience nearly failed when a few forumgoers doubted the claim. However, a quickly fabricated quote, despite the unlikeliness of its construction, dispelled the doubts in the majority. Forumgoers stopped questioning the false claim and complained as predicted.
Experiment successful.
We have a winner!!!FredFredburgur said:
Ive been saying this myself for a while. If you think about it from a research perspective, what study could they actually do to indicate a causal relationship? The only research that could even indicate the tiniest fraction of evidence at a causal relationship would be GROTESQUELY immoral. About the closest they have ever come is showing that video games increase, "Aggression". Really. That's nice. Now does this sort of aggression lead to violence? If that Aggression a causal response to the game? Whats that? You have no idea, and no evidence one way or another? Yeah, that's what I thought. Best part is, I want to see them compare the aggression of a violent game to the aggression of, say, playing football. I'm going to go and get football banned.
But really, your health textbook is downright surreal. I mean, I've seen bad science condemn video games before, but even though its bad, flawed, spurious reasoning, there is still reasoning of a sort. That's just downright non-sequitar. Beyond that, it's actually rather offensive and dangerous to the problem of dating violence.
I'm sorry but I can't believe you just because of how wrong that is. I can't think of any place in the country that would actually put that in their health textbook. Where do you live?
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And especially after reading that the guy lives in New York, and of all places New York wouldn't say something like that. And I'm not being stereotypical or overly New York-supporting or anything, New York is simply generally a more liberal state.
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Thank you for confirming what I already suspected.The Random One said:
And especially after reading that the guy lives in New York, and of all places New York wouldn't say something like that. And I'm not being stereotypical or overly New York-supporting or anything, New York is simply generally a more liberal state.
I'm pretty sure that Jack the Ripper and the Marguis de Sade didn't have access to any type of video games. And they were pretty messed up people. Likewise: Vlad the Impaler, Caligula, Napoleon, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander the Great, Caracalla, etc.
If anything, when taken as a whole, human society has become LESS violent over time. Think about it: here in the USA, give or take about 125 years ago, dueling with pistols was considered to be an acceptable way to settle a disagreement. Over matters of 'honor'. Do bad things still happen? Yes. All the time. But factors that influence the violent acts of the young are largely the same factors that affected those that are now parents. Abuse at home, mental illness, bullying, substance abuse...these have all been around for as long as there have been humans. And likewise, there have always been people that end up doing terrible things because of them.
In the 1950s it was television and comic books that were blamed. In the 1990s it was still television and now video games. In the 2050s it will be whatever technology happens to be new and popular with young people.
If anything, when taken as a whole, human society has become LESS violent over time. Think about it: here in the USA, give or take about 125 years ago, dueling with pistols was considered to be an acceptable way to settle a disagreement. Over matters of 'honor'. Do bad things still happen? Yes. All the time. But factors that influence the violent acts of the young are largely the same factors that affected those that are now parents. Abuse at home, mental illness, bullying, substance abuse...these have all been around for as long as there have been humans. And likewise, there have always been people that end up doing terrible things because of them.
In the 1950s it was television and comic books that were blamed. In the 1990s it was still television and now video games. In the 2050s it will be whatever technology happens to be new and popular with young people.
You're not the only one. I guarantee that at least half of the people screaming for the publishers' blood were only doing it to be ironic.TikiShades said:
Yes, I got the sense to check your profile and saw. And as I said, that only confirms my belief that you can't be serious. New York of all places?Merteg said:
Please provide proof or I will have to declare you a troll.
You are aware that New York is majorly only liberal in the city, where the poorer people live.ElephantGuts said:
That being said, I live in a conservative town.
All that aside, I'll bring home the book tomorrow.
Edit: I am sure you will say I'm lying and sense It's not home I'm obviously a troll.
Go to school and shoot your teacher in the face this is the only way to stop the madness and show the trueness of our plight. After you have rounded up some hostages strap them to an explosive device and climb the nearest clocktower to rain death down upon your town.
This clip should show what you hope to acheive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYC4ekzg60
This clip should show what you hope to acheive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYC4ekzg60