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noob 45
Syndicate of Gods
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Posted - 2013.04.19 18:40:00 -
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disclaimer: Although watching the 24/7 news about the stuff going down in Boston and the search for the terrorist suspects has inspired my epiphany to play devil's advocate on the subject, I am only acknowledging a long standing debate and I am not saying any of it is inspired by video games.
So last Saturday I was hanging out at a buddies house and he threw in grand theft auto 4, a game I hadn't played since it came out. Very limited content as opposed to gta3 so I got bored quickly, but that is a different thread entirely. Kind of the same deal right now with dust so I finally decided to revisit gta4. When I finished up doing homework last night just before midnight cst, I threw on gta4 while I had cnn turned cnn on another screen. Within 10 minutes of the game starting CNN starts their breaking news coverage of battle between the Boston terrorist suspects and police. This story pretty much sounds like a mission you might run as Niko in gta4. The bridge of naivety that my mind constructed to deflect the reality that videogames do have an affect on our subconscious selves collapsed below me.
Lets all be hoenst here. We all have encountered instances where people get completely out of hand. To put it bluntly there is an internet mentality and subconscious culture that has been developing, one in which people feel that a small amount of anonymity and possible unaccountability is enough reason to do and say things that one might not do "in real life." Every 15 minutes of COD you will hear a spectrum of racism, life threatening, and simply ****** up ****. We must all accept that although these are video games we are playing, this is still real life and you are experiencing it in the same way that even dreams are real life experiences. The way we perceive and experience and interpret the world in our brain can be overly simplified to an electrochemical process whether its seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, touching, or smelling. Even your imagination.
We all should step back and take a deep breath. Chill out for a minute. Everything we do and experience has a lasting effect on us and who we are and what we do. I'll be first to admit that I am no saint. Hell yesterday I spent half a skirmish teamkilling a bluedot because I held a grudge, and his corpmates because I'm an *******. Sorry kaloftherathe for killing you for helping my target. Despite the touch of buddha I'll probably tk boomer nextime anyways for that matter.
The point is we need to atleast recognize that we are affected by games. Even if it simply is being desensitized in some way. This goes double for parents who consider letting their kids play these ki |
Daedric Lothar
Onslaught Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.19 19:17:00 -
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Grrrrr... Video Games do not make people violent. People alluding that video games make people violent in an effort to remove my video games makes people violent.
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Spademan
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2013.04.19 20:21:00 -
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I'm sorry, but I just will never understand this notion. No one thing on it's own can shape a person, it takes a vast combination of factors to turn someone to violence, including culture, circumstance and mentallity. Now, while video games would come under the section of culture, it is a fairly small section of it. Video games really don't have much affect on a persons mannerisms.
You dont see me, my mates or indeed many people that have played pac-man sitting in a dark room listening to music and munching white pills. |
Chances Ghost
Inf4m0us
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Posted - 2013.04.19 21:54:00 -
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mental illness plays more of a part in these events than ever single other factor combined.... and yet nobody ever meantions it and points the finger in all different directions |
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Intara Direct Action
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.19 22:13:00 -
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There are more people who breathe air getting cancer than people who play violent video games going out killing people.
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Jedah McClintock
McClintock's Mercs
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Posted - 2013.04.20 19:34:00 -
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Anyone who is intellectually honest will admit that violent video games do have an effect, but the question is what kind of effect. I would argue that it does not breed violent sociopathic behavior which the moral crusaders have said about videogames, before that television, comic books, cinema, books, opera... basically every entertainment medium which was an important part of the culture. Let's be blunt, the content which we rate Mature is anything but, and it is the immature who most gravitate to the excessive violence. In my own experience, I've found that games which are excessively violent don't get me going the same way they used to when I was a boy, and in my viewing habits found my favorite films have very little violence (and all of it is either an important plot point or historical fact).
As for the Boston bombings, plenty of people know why that happened, but that's another tinderbox to set aflame another day and not on this forum.
As for online behavior in Call of Duty... the online multiplayer is what people play it for, and I don't give a darn to play it. It's not my scene or my taste, so I separate myself from the cesspool. People talk about the cultural rot, all the while consuming the same rot. Trust me, it is so easy to keep it out of your life, you just have the guts to do it. And when you do, don't be a dip about it. |
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