Violent Games Survey

[Tsaba]

Filled it out for you, I think I got everything onto that list.... I'm pretty sure I did.

 

[CombatEye]

was going to fill it out, but cant because I'm British and there is no option for University level education

In the US those words are frequently used interchangeably if though they aren't the same, sorry about that. If you just mentally switch out "college" for "university" there it will put the result in the category I intended.

Although I understand that, it still doesn't mesh up well with British education, there is no option for those who have only completed college (between High School and University) also most university course are only 3 years so I still don't know which I should do.

Basically you could think of it as how many years of higher education post high school have you taken. High School = 0, Some College = 1, 2 year college = 2-3, 4 year college = 4, More than 4 Year College (Master's/Doctorate) = 5+. That should equate well enough.

 

[Spade Lead]

Just finished! Now I'm gonna go play a violent game.

Sounds fun

I just realised, reading the last question, that the more i play violent video games, the less i want to be violent in real life.

The same here, but I definitely noticed an increased desire to go to the shooting range after a particularly bad (or good) match on CoD. I was a great shot in bootcamp, but I tend to suck at FPS games.

 

[opp1123]

Completed

 

[Spade Lead]

Done. A problem with your survey is you ask if I own a firearm, if FPS affected my choice to buy a firearm. However, there's no option that I don't own one. Another one is no consideration of the nationality of the person taking the survey, which can have a lot of bearings on how they respond to it (e.g. people own guns less in the UK than in the USA due to legality of guns).

You have a good point. I was assuming that a bit much from my own American perspective. I see now that one question is a little off, but answering no to a previous question which at least covers it. Thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, my answer to that was definitely, because I do want to own a gun, but I don't own one right now due to personal economics.

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Wow, and I have been reading War and Peace, in which Prince Nikolai is involved in a duel...

 

[SamuelT]

There we go. All done.

(Does a bow count as weapon?)

 

[Hafnium]

Done.

Good luck with your work. Remember that you may very well be biased, force yourself to acknowledge the facts even if they might counter your opinion and your report.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Filled it in, all the best for your paper!

 

[TheDooD]

Survey Complete

 

[Lightning Delight]

There you are. Although I find it interesting that contact sports count as violent activities. There's more to football than hitting!! There's also..... um..... uh...... penalties?

 

[Super Toast]

Done and dusted. Now, I'm off to shoot some terrorists!

 

[Estocavio]

Filled it out.

Also, im not entirely sure Dwarf Fortress or Space Station 13 would qualify as playing Violent Games, since their Robust combat systems are entirely in text.

But in my opinion, on that basis, they do not count, and therefore...

I just realised, reading the last question, that the more i play violent video games, the less i want to be violent in real life.

Humans are Violent. Outletting Violence in some way or another, be it through, say, Football, or Video Games, all reduce the desire to outlet aggressive urges in other ways.

Its like taking Painkillers for Headaches, kind of. It doesnt make the headache go away, but you dont feel it as much, and you dont have to sit there ignoring its existance at the time.

I know, thats vague. But its 2am and i cant think of a better comparison.

 

[Shameless]

ummm it's closed.

 

[CombatEye]

ummm it's closed.

Sorry about that. I had to make a new version since I got more responses than it allows (free site). New link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CLSQTKTGZ

 

[tigermilk]

There we go. All done.

(Does a bow count as weapon?)

I suppose it depends which end of it you are on

I would presume as its primay use is for injuring/killing or training ones self to perform such tasks would mean yes it is.

 

[scorptatious]

There we go. Hopefully this will help you out with your paper.

 

[DanielBrown]

Done. Good luck with the paper.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

You're going to get a biased opinion here. In fact, I don't know if you CAN get an unbiased opinion on this. But whatever, best of luck for your paper, man.

 

[Josh Horton]

Woo! I am my own weapon! Lol... State requires me to register as a lethal weapon with my training

Good luck with your paper, I did one similar for college.