violence in games

[rosinski117]

I just want to know why people are blaming games for the violence of today. I mean its only a game. I think that sociaty has gotten so bad that they are copying what games are doing. What do u guys think

[Funky Biscuits]

I think you should stop making so many threads is what I think.

[SlainPwner666]

FUNKY
HEEL
OT: They blame games, I don't know why. Someone wouldn't sell little timmy GTA4, so someone had to buy it for him. I blame the parents

[FaceGrater]

I have an essay I wrote for school about this. I'll post it once I get of work. If you're interested that is.

[PSOLaguna]

What do u guys think

Talk to your parents and ask them.

[Funky Biscuits]

Because they like to have something to blame instead of realizing the kids behavior is a result of there own bad parenting, because it is easier to believe.

[Necrocide]

...I like violent games...
But only because there's a tendency for many fun games to be violent.
Not vise-versa.
I don't give a shit if it has violence or not.
I just want a fun game.

[rosinski117]

the only time i see me acting like a game is when im driving. i think of midnight club or need for speed

[OneKplus337]

I have an essay I wrote for school about this. I'll post it once I get of work. If you're interested that is.

Don't do that. Didn't someone post a zombie paper they typed up recently for a class. I'm sure no one read that giant wall of text...

[zombicidalmaniac]

they blame games because children should have them ever wonder y 8 yr olds act like they got guns my lil bro got introduced to halo 3 when he was 2 (hes 3 now) now i cant get him to stop playing with his toys and acting like there guns and his "dance" is teebaging which is halirous but still do ya get my point?

[leet_headcrab]

This looks like a topic that should be closed.

[PSOLaguna]

This looks like a topic that should be closed.

So's your face.

[zombicidalmaniac]

WOW thats a very harsh com bak PSOLaguna

[OrangeCat X]

Hmmm... I have a Magazine article about boys, guns and video game violence that is NOT negative.

I'll pull it out, but the gist is that playing violent games gets stress out of a person's system safely and without upsetting society

i.e. In an accepted manner. Unlike pulling out your 9mm in a Burger King, for instance WHEN THEY THEY PUT ONIONS ON MY BURGER WHEN I SPECIFIED THEY WERE NOT TO.

Part of it online. Last paragraph, "No-Tolerance" http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/artic le.jsp?content=20080109_70985_70985&page=3 (http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20080109_70985_70985&page=3)

[VanBradford]

playing violent games gets stress out of a person's system safely

I don't think so. It's not that you would run around and shoot people after playing this sort of games, but in fact they can act as an aggressive prime, affecting your every day interactions on a subliminal (and mostly not fundamental) level.

Furthermore there's a degree of habituation and a faster recognition and recall of aggressive cues by trend. Same thing with action/splatter movies etc.

It's one thing to reasonably assume, that video games don't produce brutal idiots, but it's another to say they would get stress out of a person's system safely...

EDIT: I'll read this article tomorrow, if I remember... hope so.

[lawlhat]

I don't give a shit if it has violence or not.
I just want a fun game.
This

OT: They blame video games because they are so uneducated in todays world they just blame the most popular thing with violence.

[PSOLaguna]

WOW thats a very harsh com bak PSOLaguna

You cant beat "So's your face" its a classic.

[darkmessiah]

Uhhhh, your mom?

[PSOLaguna]

Uhhhh, your mom?

No, just...no.

[darkmessiah]

What has happened to this world??

[Braniac]

What has happened to this world?

At least we still have yo momma jokes....

0_o

[shadowstreak]

What do u guys think

I would have to say sir that you currently have the greatest streak of locked threads! And that each one has it's own place in hell! Cannot wait until this one joins the rest! Good day sir!

[FaceGrater]

Don't do that. Didn't someone post a zombie paper they typed up recently for a class. I'm sure no one read that giant wall of text...

I can't find it anyways. It was short to begin with, wouldn't have been to bad. The crux of it was that its just bad parents unwilling to admit they are to blame. Games are rated "M" for mature for a reason. If some fucktard parent buys that for their kid and then complains, I have no sympathy for their lack of parenting skills.

[PSOLaguna]

I have no sympathy for their lack of parenting skills.

or nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills, lmao.

[DethPenguin]

or nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills, lmao.

But what they do have, are a particular set of skills..
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A4657/465768/300_465768.jpg

[darkmessiah]

He looks better with a beard.

[PSOLaguna]

But what they do have, are a particular set of skills..

Oh that is priceless, to bad hes looking rather old there.

[FaceGrater]

or nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills, lmao.

All valuable parenting skills my friend. Especially the nunchuku skills. Got whip those little bastards with something so they know who's boss.

[Qwertymann]

Ah video games.. so mindless, entertaining. People blame video games for this, yet.. I think it helps. Come on, what's more satisfying than picking up a controller or grabbing a mouse and going to bash some skulls or pop some heads? Throwing said controller or mouse at a wall does not count when extra frustration occurs.

But these so-called blamers of video games.. have they even thought of the violence in movies? Comic books? I mean, how many superhero comics are running around out there and all of them have guys in tights beating morons to a pulp? And movies; they have a much more real picture of violence.

Like horror movies. "OHAITHAR. I blow your face off and watch blood go everywhere!" A real picture in the movies, or animated stuff in video games? Why video games, of all things?

People like having a reason to blame something for one bad thing or another. I also forgot about another thing: teaching children about war and weapons. Sure, this may not be exactly violence in a pictured video or animated format, but surely it must drive some idea into the people's mind who are learning about this, correct?

[Nuttz]

I agree Qwerty. I'm a firm believer that Video Games should be classified in the same league as movies and TV shows. I mean, at the rate they're growing they're gonna be bigger than the film industry in a few years, that's if they aren't already.

[Qwertymann]

Mmhmm.
I could also more against the defence of video games, but I think most of it has been said already.
"Pick the biggest, most popular thing and blame it for a currently growing problem."
Bleck.

[Elite]

"Pick the biggest, most popular thing and blame it for a currently growing problem."

This can be applied to many problems we all currently face...
Don't tell anyone but this is the strategy the Capitalists and the Media uses all the time.

[GamerKing]

Like how the deppresion was blamed on communists.

[Qwertymann]

True, Elite, it can be.

Depression was blamed on communists...??
That has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

[GamerKing]

/pimp slap

[Qwertymann]

Oh. The depression... I was close. :)