Video-games induce violence???
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Flipper the Priest
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Gunplay said:
Yeah, G Man.
Explain!
BTW 'Trenchcoat arseholes' seems to be catching on.
Flipper the Priest
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Gary G said:
Beautiful!
tom pain
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I read a while ago about a teenager in another country - might have been Mexico can't remember properly - who shot a cop in a movie threatre because he thought he was a pig-cop like off Duke Nukem: Time to Kill. I don't think any action was directly taken against the game but there was a fair bit of protesting.
I suppose the main reason games come under constant attack is because you control the characters action's - and on many games some muderous games the main character isn't punished for his actions.This might lead the gamer's to emulate the actions being they won't be convicted e.g running away from police for a few minutes on GTA and they forget that you have killed someone. However, it would take someone of a very low mental age to think this, so blaming games while the player is incapable of distinguishing between right/wrong is wrong.
I suppose the main reason games come under constant attack is because you control the characters action's - and on many games some muderous games the main character isn't punished for his actions.This might lead the gamer's to emulate the actions being they won't be convicted e.g running away from police for a few minutes on GTA and they forget that you have killed someone. However, it would take someone of a very low mental age to think this, so blaming games while the player is incapable of distinguishing between right/wrong is wrong.
Travis Bickle
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tom pain said:
I once beat a man to within an inch of his life using a ps2 controller because he made me play FIFA and he said it was better than pes.
chicothedude
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Grrr. This is the whole blame society thing thats going on this century. Obvioulsy its not the perpertrators fault, hes just 14 or something, its not like 14 year olds know that hitting your friend with a hammer and then stabbing him to death is wrong or anything.
I despair sometimes I really do.
I blame Tom & Jerry by the way.
I despair sometimes I really do.
I blame Tom & Jerry by the way.
robz18
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im gonna quote chris rock on this one...."WHAT EVER HAPPEND TO CRAZY" its bullshit that games induce violence...i been playin violent video games since mortal kombat and i have not once had the urge to rip out sum1'z heart jus bcoz i c kano do it... the media have really taken the piss, the blame should b deflected from the so called "violent games" and taken out on the parents 4 raisin' these LOONZ, its clear that these individuals havent been taught the difference between reality and a video game
P.S been thinkin of buyin manhunt 4 a while...iz it worth it (wanna get it b4 they ban it all together)
P.S been thinkin of buyin manhunt 4 a while
...iz it worth it (wanna get it b4 they ban it all together)
tom pain
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robz18 said:P.S been thinkin of buyin manhunt 4 a while
At best it's alright. It can get a bit boring, but it's always great to see a level 3 kill with a new weapon. I can imagine most people will get it because of the novelty value of owning a banned game.
Darth Daft
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Jonny2J said:
Had he done that he'd have realised he needed Mammoth tanks to do the job properly. I cant see bush getting off level 1 to be honest.
its complete bollocks, all of it.
The Mirror went back to the american school shootings and said the boys were addicted to Doom "a game used to train american marines to kill" !?!?!?!
how do they get away with printing such crap?
Travis Bickle
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Darth Daft said:
I saw a Simpsons the other night and they had a news bulletin on it and it was like " Just 30 miles from your FRONT DOOR, they are teaching people to KILL, THEY call it the ARMY, we call it THE KILL-BOT ZOO." Or something along those lines.
Some people are crazy full stop
tom pain
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Darth Daft said:
Used to train the army? Sounds like bull****. The conditions in battle are no-where even close. The level of fear created when you know that one bullet could kill you could never be replicated in a video-game. All that happens in Doom is that you can take a load of bullets without any effects, and when you do eventually die you can just carry on.
How can they even re-create the conditions found in war in a video-game?
The US marines are trained to kill gialnt floating heads that shoot fireballs and 15 feet tall cyberdemons? Weird, that must be why they fuck up so badly every time they go to war.
Seriously though, I appreciate that the parents of the dead kid want someone to pay, but hitting the gaming industry is not the answer. The medias (TV, music, games, films) might have an influence on peoples actions, but the people they socialise with, mainly parents, have the biggest impact on how they will react with other (real live) people. Also, as stated by other people earlier, if someone is psychologically imbalanced enough to kill a friend with a claw hammer, they aren't going to "just do it" because of a game, they are going to do it because they cannot physically or mentally understand why it's wrong. The result shouldn't be banning everything and anything that might cause offence, it should be trying to make sure parents understand the importance of teaching moral values, allowing teachers to retain their authority, and let the police and relevant authorities punish/rehabilitate/treat these people properly.
Seriously though, I appreciate that the parents of the dead kid want someone to pay, but hitting the gaming industry is not the answer. The medias (TV, music, games, films) might have an influence on peoples actions, but the people they socialise with, mainly parents, have the biggest impact on how they will react with other (real live) people. Also, as stated by other people earlier, if someone is psychologically imbalanced enough to kill a friend with a claw hammer, they aren't going to "just do it" because of a game, they are going to do it because they cannot physically or mentally understand why it's wrong. The result shouldn't be banning everything and anything that might cause offence, it should be trying to make sure parents understand the importance of teaching moral values, allowing teachers to retain their authority, and let the police and relevant authorities punish/rehabilitate/treat these people properly.
BazHilder
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"Another group of monster teenagers shot up their school today. What makes them do it? Video games? Marilyn Manson? It can't be the parents or the fact that school sucks, or that the jocks do get patted on the head when they beat up the weirdo's and the jobs you get once you graduate from school are stupid, boring, meaningless and a dead end to insanity!"
It is life, not fucking computer games or music or films which cause people to behave the way they do. It is incredibly short-sighted of the media to think we can be manipulated into brainless morons and ultimately murderers by games etc.
It is life, not fucking computer games or music or films which cause people to behave the way they do. It is incredibly short-sighted of the media to think we can be manipulated into brainless morons and ultimately murderers by games etc.