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Jello` - Student  |
(pardon my french through this  )Anyone else think this is total bullshit? The media always has to blame something. Video games, music, eating too much candy, etc. I think its all a bunch of crap. Im 14, ive never thought of anything closely related to the violence caused by video games. Sure I might turn into some evil psychopathic rapist who shoots people for fun, just because I played Unreal Tournament when I was 10. Maybe I will want to go out and by some WW2 gun and shoot some people because I played Medal of Honor. My ass. And if it does affect you, you've obvioulsy already got problems, and shouldent even be let near video games, let alone out of a cage. Thats just my view, post yours. And I leave you with a quote from a comedian who I forgot his name. --- "Have any of you ever been possessed by the spirits of Super Mario Brothers? You know the little voices in your head" "You Must kill!!" "Satan, is that you?" "No, itsa me, Mario" "I'm just eager go go outside and jump on someones back wanting a coin to pop out of their ass" _______________ Brady Brothers: Orion-Greg, Furi0us-Peter, Me-Bobby. Long lost cousin to Flash. Midbie Council #007. Ex-JAK. This post was edited by Jello` on Jul 27 2003 04:41am. |
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Lian Del Rey - Student 
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Gentleman: Knock on wood. _______________ slorp |
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Gentleman Loser - Ex-Student 
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Imho: Video games dont cause violence. Violence is caused by the inability or unwillingness of an individual to conform to the modern moral standards that say un-necessary/un-provoked violence is not acceptable in our society. You can look for a root cause that sparks someone off (bad day at work, spouse cheating on you, parental abuse, whatever..), all day long, but, at the end of that day, some people will react violently to a given situation, and some will be able to maintain self control. Figuring whether this inhibitory ability is nature or nurture is a job for the psycologists/psychiatrists. I think violence can be INSPIRED by video games. I also think violence can be inspired by any kind of media(violent books/films/music/cartoons/tv shows), or indeed any contact with the outside world, so... *Slightly off topic* What is making ME have homicidal urges, at the moment is the abysmal quality of my damned internet connection. In the past 5 days I've had a total connection to the net of about 10 hours! Grrrrrrrr  _______________ "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Bhagavad Gita & J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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TSND(Taking a break) - Ex-Student 
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Video games are no more at blame than the media for teen violence. The games you play can be used as a scapegoat for any of your actions, and unfortunately it is almost always the reason for your negative ones. Violence is part of this world, blame their parents for smoking crack and drinking while they were pregnant, or blame the media for glorifying things like Columbine, or just say the kid was f'ed up..Something as weak as 'oh he played violent video games, thats the reason' should never even be a thought in your head. _______________ In nomine Patris, et Filius, Spiritus sanctus. |
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Carve - Student 
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Truth is subjective... _______________ © |
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Menaxia - Student 
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Yet again - researchers, politcians and journalists have found another way to blame society's problems in something other than the breakdown of the family unit. People who go around killing each other - i think you have to look at their parents to discover the source of such abnormal behaviour. P.S. I'm of the opinion that the world would be a better place without Politicians and journalists twisting every word they come across. It's difficult to believe that truth exists anymore. (OK Rant over....) _______________ This is not the place to look for me |
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Nero - Student 
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i think so 2 _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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SirBizNatch - Student 
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i like the idea of video games as a way of letting out anger, not causing it.instead of killin RL people, we kill the comp.... also, pretty much all videogames have violence, i mean even kiddie games like mario and banjokazooie (mmm that was a fun game...) you have to kill the "bad guys'. now that i think about it, videogames like marioteach moral lessons too, like good and evil, right and wrong. kinda. anywho, videogames would be no fun if they were all like pong and tetris. _______________ Personal body guard to teh 1337 Jacen Aratan! Midbie Council Memeber||Member of the Almighty FiZZsters |
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Kueller - Student 
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Until this day, Jedi Knight Outcast hasn't driven me to slash someone in 2 with a lightsaber (but maybe that's because I don't have 1) LEt me ponder over this for a while. I'm going home and rethink my life. *blames the mindtrick from Obi-Wan for this* _______________ Personal sleepness-nights-supporter of Virtue. Owner of the 1000th comment of Daidalus and 1943th comment of Gradius! Owner of the 300th comment of Carda! -Taught Gradius all his laming skills 
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Carve - Student 
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I'm violent, and I play violent video games. But I don't act on it! _______________ © |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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What violence caused by video games? _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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SS/ph00d - Student 
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Yeah, most people blame video games for violent acts because it may give people ideas, I don't your gonna go and chop someone up with a light saber... or be able to buy a gun to shoot people with without having a permit. _______________ -ShadowSith: CTF/gunner specialist. |
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Ale'Velkyrii - Student 
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Good point. People are looked at strangely and often picked on when they're against violent movies or games. I knew someone that was almost happy 24/7. She was actually the happiest person I've ever met. If there was an open field, she would have to run around and roll in the grass...she didn't have a care in the world. I've seen some people look at her like she was insane. I often wondered what they thought was wrong about being so happy. My point for the actual reason for this thread. She's joyful and religious, yet she plays Metal Gear Solid. Does this say something? Just because she plays a game where you strangle and shoot people, it doesn't mean she's really going to do it. Ok...I'm done now. _______________ Wanna know what my name means? Peralos Ale'Velkyrii: Perilous Drunken Angel, or PDA for short. Perilous, because I'm bound to get into fights I can't win. Drunken, because ALE! Angel, because a valkyrie is basically an angel of Odin. I'm here to send you to the afterlife, but I can't gurantee I'll be stable enough to win a fight.
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Kalheka - Student 
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Personally, I don't believe that video games cause violence. Everybody has a choice. You have to be a mindless machine to be driven to do anything becuase you saw it on a tv screen or a computer monitor. What I find most disturbing about the violence argument actually has nothing to do with violence at all. Think about this: Our country gets absolutely flabbergasted at seeing two consenting adults in a sexual act, hetro or other wise. We are more shocked by acts of love towards each other than we are about violence it seems. Kinda screwed really bad when you see it from that particular perspective. _______________ Death is only the beginning. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Basically what you have here is a group of people saying video game violence causes people to be violent. They then conduct a study that proves it to be true. That's about as legitimate as pizza hut conducting a study that proves how good it is for you to eat pizza. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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All of the "research" done on video game violence has been in the form of seriously flawed, biased, agenda-driven "studies" grounded in post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc "logic." Our lawsuit-frenzied culture has grown to despise the notion of personal responsibility, and "moral relativists"--which is Newspeak for sociopaths--reject all notions of good and evil, right and wrong. But pretending otherwise doesn't change the fact that we are 100% responsible for our own actions. People do evil things if and only if they choose to do so. Evil is a choice, not something that just happens. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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crazy_hacker - Ex-Student 
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these guys are just crazies who have to come up with something to get paid this week. ive been playing video games as long as i can remember, and i turned out fine (starts having a siezure then stops suddenly) i still remember commander keen and street rod..... (i posted this same thing on another thread too) EDIT: im 12 years old and i beat vice city and gta3, and im not plotting to work 4 some1 to kill some1 else _______________ if at first you dont succeed, try and try again. if you still dont succeed, youve just wasted a whole lot of time trying something you just cant do
This comment was edited by crazy_hacker on Jul 27 2003 07:28pm. |
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Mune - Student 
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These guys are weird. Have they forgotten their great times reinacting war battles? Or that time that they played cops and robbers or cowboys and indians with their buds? Haven't they been addicted to Dungeons and Dragons? _______________ Captain Barkeep. |
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Marcel Mandarijn - Student 
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lol |
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Buzz - Student 
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must....squash.....turtles..... _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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Even i hate to do so, i TOTALLY agree with ya... The media must always talk bad about something, whatever this is... But they most talk badly about video games. Those motherfuckers can kiss our ass, cuz we're never gonna quit playing such games!!! _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
I agree with you, Jello, if people DO go out and shoot people they already have problems, it's not a game of BF1942 which makes them go berserk. Many of the "experts" (and none of them are of course gamers in any way) seeks a scaping-goat (or whatever the term is) for young peoples behaviour, first it was the TV, then came music, and now they're after games. What they apparently don't think of is that it might be the actual person who has issues, and this might have been caused by environment, friends, school, home, etc., can have done this, not some FPS. What's more is that it's all too easy to get guns, but I'll leave that alone. To sum it up, games are_not_what makes people go on a rampage with guns, it's themself/their environment. PS: What scares me is that I can't reject the thought of Jello becoming a psycho-rapist causing death with guns.... |
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Marcel Mandarijn - Student
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I agree, I think that the chance for us to get a gun and shoot some ppl is smaller because we get rid of our agressions in a game, so actually Im saying that the whole world should play as many games as possible and nobody will be killed anymore . |
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Cyb - Student 
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indeed indeed indeed... and those ppl think they have a good thought why all that violence exists, but they never played any game, so it's just a thought... I'm sure we gamers know better cause we all played games and it doesnt make us violent so we know how it is ... _______________ ~~ Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none! ~~ |
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Ale'Velkyrii - Student
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Morons...sheer morons... I would ask if they put research into this, but I know they did. I also know that they were idiots about it. (THEY being people that are against video game violence). The kind of research I've seen was talking about video game violence...not about people killing people because of it. If you want to kill someone, go play Jedi Knight 2 or GTA. I've seen two interviews about Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City being the major cause of people shooting people. A few things about that...both interviews were EXACTLY the same. It was a waste of time. How long have people been naturally violent? Wars are not started by video games. People don't usually get involved in the mafia or school shootings because of a video game/movie. As other people have said, if they are affected by the game, there's already something wrong with them... I'm done complaining and rambling. Carry on. _______________ Wanna know what my name means? Peralos Ale'Velkyrii: Perilous Drunken Angel, or PDA for short. Perilous, because I'm bound to get into fights I can't win. Drunken, because ALE! Angel, because a valkyrie is basically an angel of Odin. I'm here to send you to the afterlife, but I can't gurantee I'll be stable enough to win a fight.
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Orion - Retired 
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I agree with ya Jello. Games are made to not be real, yeah the are getting more and more realistic looking and with the types of games but they are entertaiment and any sane person can realize that its fake and not real. i use violent games to get aggressions out and have fun. no plot out how im goin to kill people, just because you can shot a gun in a game doesnt mean your gonna shoot it just as well in real life. people just need to put the blame on someones else besides themself which makes me very anger. especially since im goin in to the gaming industry for a career. just my 2 cents ;p _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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