Videogames = Violence? Think Again!

[LadyNintendo]

You're most likely not wrong. Humans tend to be scared of what they don't know. I've noticed that all who wish to ban games, don't know a single thing about games. They see movies and images, but never play themselves. They don't even bother to experience what it is like and judge before even the tiniest of research.

[Bboy94]

Video games don't cause them to become violent, they already are, so they play violent video games.

[Mysterious F.]

I can agree with everything LN says. And Maggy, too.

[Rinku]

So I'm finally home and bring all of you quotes from the article. Those of you with weak stomachs or can't tolerate such nonsense are advised to stop reading now:

"Following the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings, the Washington Post reported online that the killer had a history of playing the PC squad-based multiplyer shooter Counter-Strike..."
(that sounds like a very lame excuse for killing people to me)

"...antigame crusader Jack Thompson raised the specter on CNN. Dr. Phil played the blame game on Larry King Live. (of course, we all expected them to, right?)

"The mass murderers of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed withthis massive violence overdose" - Dr. Phil. (What bigger lies will he spin?)

Then of course, "scientists still aren't sure if playing violent games leads to real-life violence at all." So then they have to run stupid experiments. Basically they had 32 kids play some shooting game for 15 minutes each and someone studyed some of the players of an online game called Asheron's Call for 56 hours. The conclusion? "I found no evidence of increased aggression or aggressive attitudes." (All I can say to that is 'Good morning to you too, sir.')

Another experiment had 167 people play Doom 3 and Project Gotham Racing. The conclusion for this one? "The people who had previously filled out questionnaires reflecting an even-keel personality were less aggro after playing a violent game. Those who... more aggressive...were more susceptible to these hightened emotions." (Who died and made him Captain Obvious?)

One Dr. points out that games like dodgeball, paintball, and even losing a card game makes people violent, but as EGM points out, "No one is calling for these games to get banned."

Some keep insisting that "The impact of videogames on violent behavior has yet to be determined." (Just lay off already!!!)

Well in the end someone with a brain finally said, "As with the entertainment of earlier generations, we may look back on today's games with nostalgia, and our grandchildren may wonder what the fuss was about."

Most of the older, obviously smarter, always correct adult -ahemcoughahem- proof that video games mess with our minds was mainly big fancy words and phrases repeating the same thing over and over in the desperate attempt that most of the people reading it won't understand and just go with it.

The antigaming article is called "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and Life" and if anyone is brave enough to read it its apparently at the American Psychological Association's website www.apa.org.

[Mysterious F.]

I have lost trust in this world. The current generation (the one who is paying the bills and taking jobs) is officially idiots.

[darkphantomime]

Hmm... I'm starting to wonder... the possible reason why everyone of the adult generation today shot coke enough to fry their brains?

(Sorry, I've been watching a lot of drug oriented movies lately... Scarface, Goodfellas, Blow... and some of that crap was VIOLENT! Especially Scarface..._)

[Gamefreak]

And do you feel any aggression towards us for watching said movies?

[Mysterious F.]

Very good point Gamefreak, and I don't think that JQ doe....

Oh wait. There's me.

[darkphantomime]

Okay, ahem... sometimes.  I'm swearing more often sense seeing Scarface... to the point where it's like an imitation of how AL Pacino was in the latter half... just swearing under his breath.

[Gamefreak]

I swear a bit, but I know when and where to do it.  In the middle of Thanksgiving dinner when you drop your food, is not a time to say it.

[Mysterious F.]

Well, we can all say by this that JQ is under the influence of the movie to a minor extent. Of course, however, it is only cussing. And everyone cusses under their breath at least once. (I've done it too, actually)

[MasterKeyX]

Video games are for fun. They do jnot, i any way, make me more violent.

The entire argument that video games make everyone a violent psychopath is just retarded.

[Vaati]

I just got the August Issue of Electronic Videogaming Monthly the other day, and they had an article about someone writing some research report about how video games led to violence.  I think they also blamed the Virginia Tech Shooting on video games -yes, highly absurd, I know-  >:(.  I think Jack Thompson was in on this too.

It was a highly exaggerated, overindulged topic that the writer and its supporters made a big fuss over and the final conclusion was the most obvious thing ever.Well I don't remember all the details at the moment so when I get back home (only 2 more days of summer school, heck yes!!!) I'll post some quotes and stuff.

So what do you guys think about it?

Well, my nephew used to play alot of violent videogames, and he was really violent. But I think most of it was because he had bipolar. As for me, I rarely play those kinds of games, I'm not violent, but I'm tough. There's a difference.
My grandma said to my mom and my mom said to me "Don't take crap from anybody! If someone hits you, you hit them right back!"

[Zoratunic]

It really doesn't make sense that the people who critisize games never actually play them... ::)

[Fishalicious]

Oh yeah, video games make me violent.

I just run around smashing pig's faces in with a sword while wearing a silly hat and green shirt.

'Cause like... I can't tell the difference from reality in a video game because we all know gamers are unstable enough to cause mental problems.

I also attack zombies in hospitals in abandoned towns. Oh, and lets not forget-- I attack swarms of Tonberries and Heartless on a daily basis.