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 Re: Computer Game Violence  [Re: Sinbad]
#3541988 - 12/25/04 01:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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i believe games like GTA and first person shoot em up games MIGHT have an affect on the psychy (sp?) of a 12 year old, but thats why they have rating systems now.
BTW, isnt there a shrromery arcade game that the goal is to run over as many people as possible with in like 2 minutes?
whoever owns that trophy....how many vehivular homicides have you commited IRL? j/k
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Phluck]
#3542148 - 12/25/04 03:09 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The games don't really tend to improve shooting abilities a whole lot, they're more centered on learning procedure. I'm not sure that the kids in the army today are any more likely to shoot to kill than the kids in WW2.
It is. WWII it was actually very low. Korea, some but few gains had been made.. Vietnam even more. Since then it's been fairly high.
I think the biggest contributor to that has been the new targets they use. Those funky torso-outline targets. Practice shooting at those things as they pop up and out from around stuff.
Dammit. now I see d33p beat me to it. mneh.
There's a good number of chapters in "On Killing" about this.
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Sinbad]
#3542170 - 12/25/04 03:21 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wanted to get superpowers and destroy the world even before I started playing video games.
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: d33p]
#3542974 - 12/25/04 10:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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have you read, "on killing", by lt. col. dave grossman?
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Anonymous]
#5504318 - 04/11/06 06:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i also have noticed the increasing level of violence in video games. has anyone bought BLACK for PS2? i played it, it was so violent, i wanted to go shoot someone. I think all the computer geeks from this website should make a hella trippy game that is not violent. Whos with me?
oh and about brain washing...these games change how we casually think (like i recently contemplated robbing a house due to Grand Theft Auto)
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: StupidKid]
#5504323 - 04/11/06 06:35 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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except for some puzzle games, the main objective of games is to kill or defeat something
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Sinbad]
#5506715 - 04/12/06 08:06 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I play and enjoy violent games a lot, but I wouldn't say I'm really desensitized. I can watch thos gross pics on the net.
But when I watch a video of the old Iraqi regime torturing people, or a video of Hutu's slaugtering Tutsi's on the street, or a video of a women stomping a kitty on high heels, I still cringe and feel awful.
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Sinbad]
#5506754 - 04/12/06 08:16 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Games are violent? Fuck no... I should cut your throat for even suggesting that.
 
Seriously, though... people only think games are getting increasingly violent because they're not thinking straight. It's just like how people of every generation have a tendency to think that the apocalypse is CLEARLY going to happen in thier lifetimes... they lack the insight to realize that they're being self-indulgent.
In the past, mankind had many pastimes that were UNBELEIVABLY worse than violent videogames.
For example: colosseum, anyone? If you think videogames are violent, what definition would you give to a place where you actually watched people fight to the death, or watched people being disemboweled by lions?
Public executions? No, it is not violent at all to get your family together and go watch several people's heads being chopped off.
So, clearly, mankind is going down a moral hole from which there is no return, because of interactive games that have the balls to think they're allowed to simulate reality. How dare they not shelter the world from itself!
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: Konnrade]
#5506813 - 04/12/06 08:32 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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ahhh so easy to forget history isnt it Konnrade.
Since history repeats itself if u forget about the past u forget about the future.
if one cant draw the line between a video game and real life, well they got some problems and were probably gonna end up killin some1 anyways.
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Re: Computer Game Violence [Re: fresh313]
#5506827 - 04/12/06 08:40 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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> people only think games are getting increasingly violent because they're not thinking straight.
Ding! At least somebody is thinking straight. Computers (and video games) make a convenient excuse for politicians to use as a scapegoat. Most parents are old enough that they did not have video games in their childhood. This makes it easy to lie to them about video games. Kind of hard to convince a parent that playing Cowboys and Indians is causing all the violence... so spin it... DOOM is causing all the violence. Too bad we can't admit to our own human nature... but then, that would just show how insane it really is to try and legislate moral values the way we do.
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