Videogames are dangerous?!?(urgent)

[Tavrobel]

Good Lord, Psychotic, you're a terrible, horrible person! It's filth like you that we can't have a fully moral, functional, Christian society, in which everyone does the right thing and fears God! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

[Miriel]

Everything we do, every book we read, every movie we watch, every game we play has SOME sort of influence on us. That can't be helped.

But studies have shown that violent video games do NOT produce violent people. There may be a tendency for violent people to be attracted to violent games, but playing violent video games does not result in aggressive behaivor in the player.

[blim]

Its just tabloid bull, one minute its music (ozzy, judas priest etc) then its films (childs play) then its games. If i remember right the sociologists call it "moral panic" its a standard tool to sell papers.

[Martyr]

Ya, dun do your homework and play more video games, they make you 1337 and wins teh internetz.

QFT?

[Xaven]

Obviously, we need to ban punching bags. As you can plainly see by watching the people using them, they do nothing but promote and instill violence into us. Or something like that.

No, I don't get mad when my parents tell me to stop playing video games and do my homework. Well, you know because that never happens.

[Kanshisha]

At a rough guess, I've probably terminated anywhere between 200,000 and 500,000 or so digitised lifeforms throughout my gameplaying career with little, if any, remorse. I've played games from the GTA series since I was 11. I am now 19.

Here are my IRL stats:
People killed: 0.
Cars stolen: 0.
Muggings committed: 0.
Rapes committed: 0.
Amount of people who I have assaulted to the point of them needing medical treatment: 0.
Amount of prostitutes hired: 0. (Yeah yeah, I know you all find that hard to believe. Now I've commented on it, please spare me your terribly witty remarks about it.)
Amount of hit-and-runs: 0.
Amount of times arrested: 0.
Amount of times I've gone on a gun crazy rampage, and the army had to be called to put me down, so I blew up their trucks but not their tanks because those damn things need flamethrowers or molotovs to destroy, and I've always been a rocket launcher and remotely denotated explosives fan myself: 0.
Amount of library fines due to late returns: 0.

Video games made me do it.

Finally, I would like to end on the following note: In GTA you can do heinous and disgusting things like being a paramedic or a firefighter. Our children should not be subjected to such depraved acts! For great justice, ban this space invader filth.

Lol so you keep count?
hmm...its like me saying that i've broken my personal high score of 1 rape a day...pretty odd and yes i would be pissed if my parents told me to get of the ps2...

[Gullick]

I always thought that video games were a release, we dont go around blowing up cars and beating people up because we can do it virtually. However, there was a man who didn't cause harm to others but to himself due to a Video Game. i forget his name but he played Guild Wars i think, for such a long period of time that he died of exhaustion. So only in EXTREME cases, are video games violently influential, otherwise i think they help prevent those kinda things.

Also, condiering like, gang and street violence, doesn't it make sense that its the people who are out one street and not playing video games that are causing the trouble?

-Gull-

[Dr Aum]

I hate when they say that video games cause violence; I think that they help us subside our anger.

From what I've heard, this is very true. I recently saw an article linking violent video game playing to less violent tendencies, but I'll have to do a bit of scrounging around on Our Beloved Series of Tubes to find it again.

[Chemical]

@_@ They're dangerous to my academic standings.

[Madame Adequate]

I cannot recall being hurt by a videogame.

Consoles on the other hand... man, X-boxes are heavy.

[Giga Guess]

Everything we do, every book we read, every movie we watch, every game we play has SOME sort of influence on us. That can't be helped.

But studies have shown that violent video games do NOT produce violent people. There may be a tendency for violent people to be attracted to violent games, but playing violent video games does not result in aggressive behaivor in the player.

Yes, I still love the Jack Thompson funded report that showed a definite link between violent images, and violent people. Not that he mentions the fact that violent people seek out violent images, he just kinda left it as a vague comment to let his boogy man grow.

[Bunny]

Ya, dun do your homework and play more video games, they make you 1337 and wins teh internetz. :bigsmile:

QFT?

QFT.

[Quindiana Jones]

Videogames are dangerous. It's a fact. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. Once, I was playing this game and I kept losing, so I busted my hand beating the crap out of the CD.

That didn't happen.

[Laddy]

I don't see how playing The Sims will make me want to speak Simlish and aspire for Knowledge, it will just get me entertained.

[Loony BoB]

I'm still waiting for the day where I piss someone off so they go home and get their cat (or other pet) and say "[pet name], I choose you! [type of attack]!" and then stand there with a really weird pose as if the wind was blowing really fast in their direction, and then later wonder why their pet didn't ravage me with it's awesome [type of attack].