Violent video games disrupt the functions of the brain

So because I play HALO, I'm going to kill people?


BTW if anybody wants to play over Gamespy, were harris1

and also Nomah I guess.

 

I've played violent video games since Wolfenstein and I still feel as about uncomfortable around real guns as Trent Lott would feel at Morehouse. "Ha ha ha, I made a funny" -Splinter.

 

Fantastic...my second child will be bred to be the ultimate killing machine, providing security for my family. Now I dont have to install the cobra pit in my foyer.

 

...and Jackass causes kids to kill themselves, and music makes people satanic...it's always someone else's fault....

 

No, HALO only trains you to kill Covenant and the flood, GTA trains you to kill people.

 

Mateo, LOl!

Everyone else, I'm not a proponent of controlling video games. But, I have to wonder about everyone who are so quick to jump on, find fault with, and criticize any piece of news that might remotely suggest that violent video games might -- in some way -- not be the best or healthiest thing for someone. This particular one was a bit inflammatory so I'm not too surprised. But, the zeal with which you defend the games makes me wonder if you are considering the merits of the controversy at all. If it were really true and well-proven that violent video games made people who otherwise would not be violent violent, would you still defend them? I think you would.

 

Well, if there is a correlation, I'm curious to see how many Donkey Kong'ers are climbing ladders, jumping barrels, and saving damsels in distress, or pac manners eating pellets in mazes, or Missile commanders running missile defense bases, or Centipeders who have become exterminators...you get the idea.

 

If drinking water made you die would you drink it?

 

If my Aunt had balls, would she be my uncle?

 

But, I have to wonder about everyone who are so quick to jump on, find fault with, and criticize any piece of news that might remotely suggest that violent video games might -- in some way -- not be the best or healthiest thing for someone.

Because people don't like to hear that something they enjoy might have negative consequences.

Playing video games for fun here and there is not going to affect most people, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't or wouldn't affect people who spend 7-8 hours a day playing them and live in the world of video games. I know firsthand that our games have had an effect on how people live their lives - I don't see why other games wouldn't have their own effects in different ways.

 

I'm going to make a video game where the main character is a guy, and the main objective is to have sex with as many other guys as possible, turning our nation's youth into a bunch of flaming homosexuals

 

I get the idea, but you are straw-manning the opposition's argument -- which is exactly what I'm getting at. I'm actually not trying to say their argument even has merit. I'm saying that video game defenders are too quick to argue and, I'll add, often use specious argumentation and logical fallacies in the defense. I think this is a good example, where -- instead of taking a good hard look at the argument they present (that a change of brain patterns has been detected among heavy users) -- you liken it to something obviously ridiculous, saying they're argument is the same, and transfering the ridiculousness of the comparison to the argument you are attacking. It is a straw-man to say that, according to their argument, a person who plays Donkey-Kong is more likely to climb ladders. Their argument doesn't even address a person's desire to engage in a particular activity; they are saying it erases an aversion. You could at least say that the theory would suggest Donkey Kong players had less of an aversion to jumping over barrels -- even though that wouldn't be true either.

 

I'm not directly defending video gaming. I'm tired of the lack of responsibility individuals take for their actions. I'm tired of people looking to blame somebody else for the choices they make.

If a person is going to sit behind a tv and play games for 7 or 8 hours a day, do you think it is a game that's messing this person up, or is there already a screw loose?

Almost everything is excess is bad for you. You have kids that eat WAY too much sugar or fat...do you blame the food company's for making food like that?

If you have someone watch Bambi over and over, and they are traumatized by the killing of Bambi's mother, can you blame the movie when said kid goes out and kills deer hunters?

 

Many things the masses enjoy have negative consequences.

You are responsible for the decisions you choose to make. No one can control your mind. Don't blame something else for a choice somebody makes...or I could blame everything bad I do on the devil, because we all know the devil made me do it.

 

As a maker of video games, and someone who is very close to the situation, I agree that video games are not good for kids.

The problem is that any 12 year old can go into their local games store and buy a mature title.

That is wrong....we took mature magazines and movies away from kids, we should do the same for games.

I don't mind T or Teen rated games available, but Mature titles should only be allowed at NewStands.

Just my .02 as a game developer and father of 2 boys.

Game on !!!

DaDakota

PS. BF1942 just released a new map today..Coral Sea...it rocks.

 

Many things the masses enjoy have negative consequences.

You are responsible for the decisions you choose to make.

No one said otherwise. There's no rule that says there's only ONE cause for anything that happens in the world. Other things can contribute to it.

For example, you withhold food and water from a prisoner, torture him, and terrorize him, and he attacks you, then you don't think you have some responsibility for it, even though he made the decision to attack you?

Of course its the person's fault ultimately. As a society, though, we look for ways to make it less likely that someone else will kill you. That involves looking at lifestyles and conditions of society that tend to encourage or create said behavior. To dismiss this type of evidence of actual effects on brainwaves as irrelevent because it doesn't demonstrate responsibility is silly. To go on and imply there's no correlation is even sillier:

<I>Well, if there is a correlation, I'm curious to see how many Donkey Kong'ers are climbing ladders, jumping barrels, and saving damsels in distress, </I>

 

thats why I buy them ! bout time they recognize! keep it up :-D

 

Man if that Invisible Fan was here I would ring his scronny little neck, damn camper.