panorama on video game addiction

[wolf thing]

tomorrow panorama will be doing a episode on video game addiction on BBC one. iam interested to see what they have to say and hopefully they will be fare in portraying video games.
just encase you didn't know. im interested in what you think and sorry if this has been done before

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

hopefully they will be fare in portraying video games.

lololol

I've got to agree with this. Panorama aren't exactly the fairest of documentaries.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

$50 bucks says at least a quarter of the show will be about videogame violence...

 

[drbarno]

hopefully they will be fare in portraying video games.

lololol

I've got to agree with this. Panorama aren't exactly the fairest of documentaries.

Same. Most documentries that study things like these always tends to show it in a negative light.

 

[Maveron]

I'm always impressed about how gamers are always shown as delusional psychotics who are utterly unable to distinguish real life and games. Shouldn't all this violence be therapeutic? If I smack a zombie upside the head with a stepladder a few times I should lose the urge to punch the next person I come across

 

[Retal19]

I really hope my parents don't watch that. If they see something on TV they instantly start comparing me to it. For example: Supernanny. A kid on it does something wrong, that I also did, MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, and my parents instantly turn around to me while I'm sitting drinking from a Juice Box.

Hopefully Panorama will be sensible enough to actually talk to Gamers instead of just massive dickheads waving their PhD adorned Dicks around.

 

[wolf thing]

hopefully they will be fare in portraying video games.

lololol

I've got to agree with this. Panorama aren't exactly the fairest of documentaries.

i still hold on to the slim slither of hope there is

 

[Jack and Calumon]

It's the Panorama drinking game! Take a drink everytime they mention Call of Duty, World of Warcraft or South Korea's love of games.

Calumon: I don't like this game. Why don't we play Jumprope?

 

[Peabob]

The BBC is run by middle class people in their 40s and who panda to the fears of over middle class people in their 40s. Target audiences ftw. I stake my PS3 trophy collection it's going to be a load of scaremongering, mainly showing the worst events of the GTA series. Obviously it's more difficult to horrify if they were restricted to footage of Mario and Sonic.

I hate how class-ist the BBC is. I remember a toothless news report about a local street market in London, about how "these" people come and buy their fruit and veg daily. The reporter signed off with "why not come down and get a taste of working class life". How fucking patronising.

 

[Peabob]

Please excuse my spelling.

 

[Enemy Of The State]

It'll be the usual repeated scenes of Call of Duty and GTA, with someone getting set on fire or having their arm blown off and then some psychologist saying that playing this will turn you into a murderer.

 

[Mcupobob]

Can see them having dramatic shit flying all over the place, visiting dirty ally ways were they payed a homeless man to go on about how it was his video game addiction that got him there and now he gives BJs out back for quarters to get his fix at arcades.

The news reporter will have a sad tone in her/his voice telling us that there are some how millions others like him.

Thats just my guess, in less its about pot they slam nearly everything.

 

[zfactor]

I'm always impressed about how gamers are always shown as delusional psychotics who are utterly unable to distinguish real life and games. Shouldn't all this violence be therapeutic? If I smack a zombie upside the head with a stepladder a few times I should lose the urge to punch the next person I come across

Yeah, that's sort of what I think. Violent people may play violent video games, but playing violent video games does not make you a violent person.

 

[Eponet]

or South Korea's love of games.

Love of sports. It's a sport over there.

 

[tomtom94]

This will be the same Panorama whose researcher came on here a few months ago and was treated like shit.

Frankly we deserve all we get for the treatment we gave him, and the number of people writing it off before it's even been broadcast sickens me.

 

[The Lunatic]

I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to get.

Anything which is interactive will result in people getting addicted, for some reason with more acceptable things we use the term "Obsessed" but, you get the idea.

Games are very interactive and the vast majority of these "Horror stories" come from people in their teens.

Honestly, what do you expect? Going through your teenage years, your body has a lot of stuff going on, given a choice between school work or video games, what do you think most people in their teens are going to choose? Yes, some take it to an extreme degree, but, the only people to blame in these cases are the parents.