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[Fluffyumpkins]

[Amp Divorax]

If anything, we need to bring this guy back from the dead....

[Fluffyumpkins]

http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/21/37920 ... ideo-games


This is clearly the result of living in a house full of video games.

[Ho]

I think most of the video game related blood letting at my house is when I injure myself while working on something.

[MonMotha]

Needs more Gun Mania.

[Merk]

I feel like every shooting committed by a minor has been blamed on (or at least attributed to) vidja pretty much since Columbine.

[Riot]

While it's easy to say "videogames didn't screw me up so they're not the culprit," as someone who works with kids and hearing what they talk about every day, you can't ignore that games are a HUGE potentially negative influence. It's changed since we were kids growing up with games. This is the stuff that kids experience when they're 11, 12, and 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIU434rDLpQ

There is huge peer pressure for kids to play Call of Duty and stuff, so younger and younger kids are getting violent games. They talk about guns and know about specific types of rifles and it normalizes it all for them. That's not to say they're encouraged to go do it, but idolizing games like that and idolizing people who are good at games like this and getting high "killstreaks" normalizes the whole idea like I said. *shrug*

[SoDeepPolaris]

While it's easy to say "videogames didn't screw me up so they're not the culprit," as someone who works with kids and hearing what they talk about every day, you can't ignore that games are a HUGE potentially negative influence. It's changed since we were kids growing up with games. This is the stuff that kids experience when they're 11, 12, and 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIU434rDLpQ

There is huge peer pressure for kids to play Call of Duty and stuff, so younger and younger kids are getting violent games. They talk about guns and know about specific types of rifles and it normalizes it all for them. That's not to say they're encouraged to go do it, but idolizing games like that and idolizing people who are good at games like this and getting high "killstreaks" normalizes the whole idea like I said. *shrug*

I know iI had to fight the urge to lay proximity mines all over my middle school...

[Pokebis]

While it's easy to say "videogames didn't screw me up so they're not the culprit," as someone who works with kids and hearing what they talk about every day, you can't ignore that games are a HUGE potentially negative influence. It's changed since we were kids growing up with games. This is the stuff that kids experience when they're 11, 12, and 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIU434rDLpQ

There is huge peer pressure for kids to play Call of Duty and stuff, so younger and younger kids are getting violent games. They talk about guns and know about specific types of rifles and it normalizes it all for them. That's not to say they're encouraged to go do it, but idolizing games like that and idolizing people who are good at games like this and getting high "killstreaks" normalizes the whole idea like I said. *shrug*

Convince them to play better games.
Also, I'm young enough to say I've seen similar (more) gory scenes in games when I was 11, 12, and 13. When I was 14 I began frequently browsing Encyclopedia Dramatica (RIP).

I am a positive, morally adjusted young man who wishes to improve the world for everyone on our planet and all those who will grace it in the future.

[Riot]

My point isn't that it makes everyone think crazy thoughts, my point is that it normalizes and idolizes the hyper realistic gory rampages to a certain chunk of impressionable misfits who play this stuff 4+ hours a day. I have never been one to villify games, but you can't tell me that levels like the airport rampage in Modern Warfare 2 (YouTube it) can be good for the teenagers that inevitably all play this stuff religiously.

[Amp Divorax]

My point isn't that it makes everyone think crazy thoughts, my point is that it normalizes and idolizes the hyper realistic gory rampages to a certain chunk of impressionable misfits who play this stuff 4+ hours a day. I have never been one to villify games, but you can't tell me that levels like the airport rampage in Modern Warfare 2 (YouTube it) can be good for the teenagers that inevitably all play this stuff religiously.

[Potter]

My point isn't that it makes everyone think crazy thoughts, my point is that it normalizes and idolizes the hyper realistic gory rampages to a certain chunk of impressionable misfits who play this stuff 4+ hours a day. I have never been one to villify games, but you can't tell me that levels like the airport rampage in Modern Warfare 2 (YouTube it) can be good for the teenagers that inevitably all play this stuff religiously.

[Riot]

Yeah obviously. Guess what though, they don't play Call of Duty and shooting games. I think the abundance and availability of guns is a way bigger issue than games, but I'm just saying people are crazy to think that certain violent games don't have some kind of impact on kids.

[DAVE101]

They mainly play that cartoony junk like mariokart, pokemon and Final Fantasy so that doesn't count.

"Habitual violent video game play early in the school year predicted later aggression, even after controlling for gender and previous aggressiveness in each sample. Those who played a lot of violent video games became relatively more physically aggressive."
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... l.pdf+html

I am a positive, morally adjusted young man who wishes to improve the world for everyone on our planet and all those who will grace it in the future.

"I'd love to make this world a better place. The first step is to stop [insert social group] from poisoning our society." How do we know you don't think like this? You're prolly a racist sonabich!

[Pokebis]

Oh no, you caught me!