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re: Video games? Really?
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:29 am to JetsetNuggs
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:29 am to JetsetNuggs
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I kill the frick out of aliens and humans in video games and you don’t see me committing atrocities
You aren’t a depressed, impressionable young adult with underlying mental health issues
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Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:32 am to RedRifle
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This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:32 am to RedRifle
You mean to tell me Fox News was spouting fake news? Who knew?
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:33 am to RedRifle
If we are going to blame video games then we have to blame the media for covering these mass shootings.
What makes more sense? Someone plays a video game and then says "you know what? I think I am going to go do this for real".... Or someone watching the news and sees the coverage of a mass shooting and then thinks "you know, this has crossed my mind.. But look someone else has stepped up and did it, maybe its my time to do it"?
And do we even know these shooters are playing video games? How many people who play video games go out and shoot people? How many people who go out and shoot up people play video games?
I play one game.. Fortnite. I love to play team rumble, get a sniper rifle find a spot where I can just start taking people out.... But there is no way in hell I could do that in real life (unless its self protection).
If someone plays a game and then gets inspired to go do a mass shooting, they have problems that go beyond the video games.
What makes more sense? Someone plays a video game and then says "you know what? I think I am going to go do this for real".... Or someone watching the news and sees the coverage of a mass shooting and then thinks "you know, this has crossed my mind.. But look someone else has stepped up and did it, maybe its my time to do it"?
And do we even know these shooters are playing video games? How many people who play video games go out and shoot people? How many people who go out and shoot up people play video games?
I play one game.. Fortnite. I love to play team rumble, get a sniper rifle find a spot where I can just start taking people out.... But there is no way in hell I could do that in real life (unless its self protection).
If someone plays a game and then gets inspired to go do a mass shooting, they have problems that go beyond the video games.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:34 am to Tyga Woods
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You aren’t a depressed, impressionable young adult with underlying mental health issues
I'm 26. You just proved my point. Some people are either mentally ill or mentally weak. Dont blame the video games for that.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:34 am to Gray12
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The smartest people don’t go on to become Politicians most of the time...
Just the most sociopathic ones.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:34 am to pioneerbasketball
Real talk by Eminem.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:35 am to RedRifle
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Say it’s not really a problem
You don't think it could be a problem?
I doubt it increases the homicide rate, but it's been proven to desensitize.
Parental issue though
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:37 am to RedRifle
That’s so painfully stupid and such an extremely unintelligent stretch
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:39 am to RedRifle
There are studies out there that suggest a mild rise in aggressive behavior after playing violent video games. Mild.
There’s absolutely no established scientific correlation that shows violent video games cause people to become mass murderers. Or violent TV shows. The issues leading to that are far more complex than a video game.
That’s an old, tired rhetoric that goes back to “that damn rock music makes them all heathens”.
There’s absolutely no established scientific correlation that shows violent video games cause people to become mass murderers. Or violent TV shows. The issues leading to that are far more complex than a video game.
That’s an old, tired rhetoric that goes back to “that damn rock music makes them all heathens”.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:42 am to RedRifle
We don't see smoking on tv or the movies because it might cause kids to smoke, but violent games have no effect?
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:44 am to RogerTheShrubber
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You don't think it could be a problem?
quote:
ideo games do not cause violent behavior. There is no scientific, consensus-backed research supporting the idea that playing video games -- even bloody, realistic shooters -- leads to real-life acts of brutality.
However, this misguided theory prevails. After a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead on February 14th, a handful of politicians decried video games for corrupting young minds and inciting violent behavior. Days later, President Donald Trump said during a meeting about safety in schools, "I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts."
Tomorrow, video game industry leaders are scheduled to meet with Trump to discuss the (non-existent, completely imaginary) problem. The Entertainment Software Association will be there and it has a clear message for the White House: "Video games are plainly not the issue: entertainment is distributed and consumed globally, but the US has an exponentially higher level of gun violence than any other nation."
This isn't a new setting for the ESA. The trade association represents due-paying titans including Sony, Microsoft, Activision and Nintendo, and it's the industry's first line of defense against federal attempts to regulate video games. For example, the ESA established the Entertainment Software Rating Board in 1994, at the height of video game panic in Congress. The ESRB's promise to put ratings on all games placated politicians who were calling for the government to step in and censor.
LINK
Here is an article from 2018 I found.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:47 am to RedRifle
That, in a nut shell, is why Faux News is retarded. But so too is their insistence on it being mental health when they have no clue what they’re talking about.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:48 am to RedRifle
I think it’s funny how we played cowboys and Indians and war with cap guns and model guns growing up, something frowned upon today yet didn’t have problems with people wanting to mow down real life humans with guns in real life.
We had arguably equal to more violent cartoons, and there were tons of killings in westerns and the like, yet still nobody going on public killing rampages.
It’s not the video games, or the violence. It’s the humans who’ve changed.
We had arguably equal to more violent cartoons, and there were tons of killings in westerns and the like, yet still nobody going on public killing rampages.
It’s not the video games, or the violence. It’s the humans who’ve changed.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:51 am to RedRifle
Also, I want to throw this out there. If you look at the growth of video games and compare it to the murder rate, as video games become more popular, murder rates have gone down.
So more murders were taking place when Duck Hunt was popular
So more murders were taking place when Duck Hunt was popular
Posted on 8/4/19 at 10:56 am to TheCaterpillar
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Bad parenting is the cause.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 11:12 am to RedRifle
TV has no influence on human behavior.
That’s why suberbowl commercials only cost $5,250,000.00 for 30seconds.
That’s why suberbowl commercials only cost $5,250,000.00 for 30seconds.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 11:16 am to TheCaterpillar
quote:Absolutely. The destruction of the two parent Christian household has caused most of the problems in society we see today
Bad parenting caused Columbine.
Just like almost all these other shootings.
Posted on 8/4/19 at 11:20 am to L1C4
[quote]We don't see smoking on tv or the movies because it might cause kids to smoke, but violent games have no effect?
Why are these people committing mass shootings? The dude in El Paso wrote a manifesto explaining his reasoning. Had nothing to do with a video game.
The Las Vegas shooter. You think violent video games influenced him? If we go back to Columbine and look at every mass shooting in the US from then to today, Most of them seemed like there was something else going on. Some were mentally ill, there were a few that involved disgruntled employees.
Were the terrorist who flew the planes into the twin towers inspired by video games? What about the brothers in the boston bombings?
Like I mentioned before, there was a lot of crime before video games existed. As video games become a thing, crimes continue.. Then all of a sudden "oh well video games are all of a sudden causing people to kill people".
Why are these people committing mass shootings? The dude in El Paso wrote a manifesto explaining his reasoning. Had nothing to do with a video game.
The Las Vegas shooter. You think violent video games influenced him? If we go back to Columbine and look at every mass shooting in the US from then to today, Most of them seemed like there was something else going on. Some were mentally ill, there were a few that involved disgruntled employees.
Were the terrorist who flew the planes into the twin towers inspired by video games? What about the brothers in the boston bombings?
Like I mentioned before, there was a lot of crime before video games existed. As video games become a thing, crimes continue.. Then all of a sudden "oh well video games are all of a sudden causing people to kill people".
Posted on 8/4/19 at 11:32 am to dcrews
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I'd like to have this guy explain what the reason was pre-video games.
I mean...how many of these mass shootings made the news prior to video games? The most famous case pre-1990s was Charles Whitman.
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