"Video games promote hatred, violence and sexism."

[Haunted Serenity]

Soon as she said they monitered 130,000 kids i said bull. the funding required for that and the amount of time would be huge. I like the expression on the guy supporting games face when the other to talk. He's just thinking how all gamers in the world are reacting to this.

I was violent before i started playing video games. They gave me a place to channel my agression. Take that conservative politics and leaders.

 

[Spekter068]

"video games promote hatred, violence and sexism."

Indeed they do. Usually towards people who spout this generalized, uninformed nonsense.

I seem to remember my mommy telling me that interrupting people is rude. Apparently, those people are so old, they've forgotten that lesson.

 

[DeepComet5581]

What a load of sanctamonious bullsh*t.

i'm 17 and have clocked maybe about 4000 hours of "Violent" video games (Such as GTA, COD etc) in my life. I am also an avid pacifist and anti-sexist. I dislike anyone who uses video games as a model for their own life... If I knew one.

The fact is, most people like Haunted Serenity are inherantly violent. Most people who I know that are violent are violent due to their enviroment i.e. parents, siblings, friends or the general community. HS has a point with channeling agression. I find that, if i'm stressed, taking out half of Stilwater with a Minigun really destroys my urges to be violent to people in real life.

Load of horse cr*p if you ask me.

 

[wolf thing]

i think the man suporting games sould be soluted. he held his ground well

 

[Thoric485]

Similar accusations have been thrown at works of literature, art, music, film, pretty much every worthwhile medium.

Old people should grow up.

 

[evilgrim]

Yawn.

Their problem.
Not mine.

I know videogames don't "promote-hatred-violence-and-sexism"
And I know they're idiots.

And so, I rest my case.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Don't worry everyone. When I rule the world, I will make it illegal to publicly speak out against video games. Then we can put the uninformed dribble of the haters behind us.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

There are currently games to this day that don't have violence or sexism. I'm currently among other X360 users are running XBL Arcade game rooms with many non-violent games and there are several others but even with the violence and sexism there is also such a thing as not letting your kids or nephews, nieces, and little cousins play these types of games. My brother only lets his kids play Wii games and the most violent is...well...none of the Wii games they own. I'm the only one that owns the violent ones and I never play them while the kids are in the house because I too don't want them to ever get interested in them and my brother will let them choose their video game paths when they get old enough.

These three are full of hot air and this is promoting hate for all that is video games.

 

[SarahSyna]

I dunno, guys. Clearly there's a lot of bullshit in here, but is it really inaccurate to say that Modern Warfare 2 promotes violence by naturalizing war and making it exciting? Is it really inaccurate to say that a game like Dead or Alive promotes sexism?

If the video game community were really mature at all, they would respond to these accusations by looking to see what could cause them, not saying that we should either kill or wait for the death of people that make them.

The big thing is that those are particular games. They don't represent every game out there. However, the people in the video tar all videogames with the same brush. My father has the same thing. He actually cannot see the difference between Dragon Age and, say, Mirror's Edge because hey, they all have someone going down a corridor, so they're all the same. Story doens;t matter, characters don't matter. they're all the same because someone walks down a corriodr and may or may not have a gun while doing so. (Yes, he actually said this).

What these people fail to realise is that videogames fall into the same category as films and books. Yes, there are sexist videogames and violent videogames but there are sexist and violent books, movies, comics and songs. But a few sour candies don't spoil all the sweets.

Quite frankly, these people are the same kind of folks who had the Hayes Code and the Comics Code brought in, and led to the Animation Age Ghetto. And those people were all wrong as well.

Wow, I got off topic there.

 

[SnowCold]

My head exploded with hatered.
I can sorta understand sexism, but racism? RACISM?! where is even ONE rcist game?! (unless the axis is a race)

 

[shaboinkin]

This is how I think they view video games

Video games are a form of entertainment and we find entertainment is said video games. If we are playing GTA and we find it fun to kill a hooker just to get my money back after the prostitution (lol good stuff), we MUST find it fun to kill a hooker in the real world.

But the same thing can be applied to movies, books, and tv shows.
So their argument is null and void and full of flaws.

 

[Valiance]

lol he said "call of duty 2: modern warfare"

...Hilarious if you ask me.

 

[bad_dog14]

I saw 3 minutes of that horrible video and then shut it off, cos I can't stand that fucking woman!!! 'Videogames are interactive, movies aren't! Videogames promote racism, violence, hatred and sexism! Anyone who ever played a videogame is an addict! Blah blah blah made up study!'

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

People like that deserve nothing more that a bullet to the brain. I'm dead fuckin serious. THEY are the one polluting the world's youth, not the fuckin videogame industry!

EDIT: And they always bring someone who works in our industry, just to have everyone spit on him with bogus studies and ignorant babble. They did the same thing a few years back when they brought Geoff Keighley on the Mass Effect sex-scene debacle on Fux News. They do it just to 'prove' how stupid gamers are cos they play videogames instead of going to school, DURR!

 

[Varrdy]

"video games promote hatred, violence and sexism"

To people who say that, I say this:

"Don't bloody play 'em then!"

Wardy

 

[drbarno]

I refuse to acknowledge a bash at a gaming industry if there isn't an expert of someone studying effects of video games or similiar is there to do the bashing, then I might pay attention.

As far as I know majority of problems people say are caused by video games are usually existent, regardless. an example being that I was the butt monkey of my primary school class for a few years, defiently causing the low self-esteem there, NOT video games.

 

[Treblaine]

Is this guy ACTUALLY trying to imply that Venables* was in 1993 "affected" by violent video games?!?!? I never heard anywhere that he had any access to any video games!

There is so much incredibly wrong with this show I see it as futile to go through pointing out how incredibly bad all the points are, the issue should instead be: how could such an incredibly biased show ever get on the air?

I can almost guarantee this is a daytime TV show on some obscure channel, where the majority of the audience are pensioners or housewives.


*BTW, note to non Brits: John Venables is the name of someone who when he was only 10 years old killed a toddler. For some retarded reason the public who normally are highly protective of children see this little boy as guilty of murder, and he has been on the receiving end of death threats since then. I mean ten years old... how is that old enough to be criminally responsible?