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  1. Re:Dear MADD, by DocHoncho · · Score: 1 · on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene

    Offtopic... From the link you posted:

    http://www.mavav.org/2007/01/09/textspeak_linked_to_violent_video_games_1.php

    The China Post reports that a Taiwanese psychiatrist at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei has concluded the first studies linking violent video games and 'textspeak', an awful slang language spoken by a subculture of underground gamers and computer hackers.

    Textspeak is the process of shortening words and adding numbers to a text message to make it "cooler." The form of text messaging is highly annoying. One example suffice: "RU cmin out 2nite?" Deciphered: "Are you coming out tonight?"

    [...] Twelve young adults were given tests in an experiment Dr. Chow conducted at his hospital. They were required to play one popular game, "PS2:Real Three Kingdoms;Nonpareil 4 Generations," for half an hour. Blood circulation in their brains was scanned. The entire process was repeated half an hour later. Chow found the blood circulation in the frontal lobes of all the samples reduced. "Reduction in blood circulation in the frontal lobe," the psychiatrist said, "indicates that it may affect language proficiency." The psychiatrist urges parents to limit the exposure of violent video games to their children if âoethey don't want to receive any more 'textspeak' messages."

    all i can say is "OMG RU Fukin kiddn me?" And if both organizations have negative credibility, what would happen if they combined? Would it be additive, or multiplicative? If the latter, there could be trouble since it would then give them positive credibility!! "ZOMG Textspeak linked to teens playing violent videogames while driving drunk!!"

  2. Re:Dear MADD, by Kamineko · · Score: 1 · on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene

    I would fall off my seat in fits of laughter if somebody claimed to be the press officer of MAVAV, and managed to negotiate a real alliance between MADD and MAVAV. Just seeing MAVAV mentioned in official MADD releases would be hilarious.

  3. Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on ESA to Sue California Over Violent Game Law

    http://www.mavav.org/

    Looks like the Terminator got front page news - http://mavav.org/images/mavav_arnold.jpg

  4. Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on ESA to Sue California Over Violent Game Law

    http://www.mavav.org/

    Looks like the Terminator got front page news - http://mavav.org/images/mavav_arnold.jpg

  5. mavav? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Australian Counter Strike Shooters

    is there a chapter of "mothers against videogame addiction and violence" over there?
    http://www.mavav.org/

  6. Mothers Against Videogame Addiction And Violence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Photo ID Required To Buy/Rent Games In Canada

    http://www.mavav.org/

    I think so too...

  7. Social aspect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Warp Pipe Group May Bring Online Gaming to DS
    MAVAV is dedicated to educating parents in today's fastest increasing threat and danger to our child's health and way of life:

    Videogame Addiction and Violence and Underground Videogame Cultures

    Today videogame addiction is becoming an ever increasing problem, comparable now, even to alcohol and drug abuse. While videogame companies continue to market violence aimed at vulnerable children and young teens. And the newest absurdity, underground videogame cultures which takes gaming to another level, tainted with online "clans", singling out of people, hatred, racism, and sexism.


    http://www.mavav.org/
  8. Re:Future FPS controllers by GT_Onizuka · · Score: 1 · on Gametrak Controller Wins Award

    I can hear http://www.mavav.org/ getting angry already.

  9. Re:What that article is doing here? by sqrt(2) · · Score: 1 · on Videogame Piracy - Is a Stricter Approach Necessary?

    It's almost as fucked up, pro-Christian, pro-Nazi as this website
    I keep telling myself, that CAN'T be real. It has to be a joke.

  10. Sounds like a case for.. by u-238 · · Score: 0 · on Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry

    the Mothers Against Video game Addiction and Violence,
    a band of likeminded mothers with one main goal: to help purge the world's youth of Videogame Addiction and Violence and Underground Videogame Cultures

  11. Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence by DooBall · · Score: 2, Informative · on Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down

    MAVAV.org Let's stop videogame addiction and violence today!

  12. People are falling for this? PHANTOM=MAVAV=HOAX by DoenerMord · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Phantom Game Console

    http://www.mavav.org/

    Remember this site? Kids in college had an assignment to come up with a fake gaming site. This Phantom (akin to Vapor-war) is obviously exactly the same thing.

  13. Games are for nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nvidia Talks About Next-Gen Geforce, Plus Pics

    Games are for nerds and hermits.

    I believe MAVAV already proved that.

    People should stop wasting their time in fucking kids toys.

    We have bigger issues to worry about.

  14. Facts? by Pupp3tM · · Score: 3, Interesting · on The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil

    Just two of the "Facts" that don't really make sense:

    Fact: Health studies have found that even those casual gamers suffer from low self-esteem and self-pride compared to their athletic and more socially accepted peers in their same age group. Young gamers were found to be more likely to become lifetime gaming addicts and becoming
    social outcasts.
    How often are gamers (let's expand a bit and call them "nerds") compared to "their athletic and more socially accepted peers"? Did these people ever notice that there have always been nerds who are less athletic and less socially accepted, even before video games? Is it so surprising that these nerds turned to a different outlet? Just the fact that they think it's better to be athletic and "socially accepted" shows how skewed this site really is.

    Fact: Hardcore gaming not only leads to videogame addiction and abrupt lifestyle changes, but to crime and felony as well. Hardcore gamers never buy computer videogames. Instead, downloading illegally copied videogames or "warez" is the only method acceptable by the underground. Buying a legit copy is grounds for abandonment by community groups. You may not be buying your child videogames, but they can illegally obtain them off the internet.
    I'm sure many of us at some point have download an illegal "warez" program at one time or other. Does that mean we don't buy games? No. Long ago I had a warez version of Half-Life, but then (shortly thereafter) when I realized how great a game it was, I bought it. It's just like any other piracy: not as big a deal as those industry execs make it out to be. And what is this "underground" they talk about that only accepts people with warez? The only underground I can think of (but maybe I'm wrong) is--surprise--the warez scene. In any case, if you're in a clan or something, nobody can tell if you're using a legal copy (just like, presumably, nobody can tell if everyone else is using an illegal copy). Completely spurious. Oh, and kids can get video games illegally? So can parents. What are you going to do, turn off the internet?

    Scrolling down to the bottom of the page, it also makes that age-old claim of the link between violence in video games and real-world violence. I won't even get into that here, but it's interesting to note that even though they claim "new research" supports them, they don't actually say where this information comes from, or even what the so-called link is. There are some forthcoming articles that might address this. But they're not biased are they?

  15. MAVAV mothers against videogame addiction and viol by DooBall · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on RIAA nominated for "Internet Villain of the Year"

    I find their report card particulary absurd

    www.mavav.org

    MAVAV is dedicated to educating parents in today's fastest increasing threat and danger to our child's health and way of life:
    Videogame Addiction and Violence and Underground Videogame Cultures

    Today videogame addiction is becoming an ever increasing problem, comparable now, even to alcohol and drug abuse. While videogame companies continue to market violence aimed at vulnerable children and young teens. And the newest absurdity, underground videogame cultures which takes gaming to another level, tainted with online "clans", singling out of people, hatred, racism, and sexism.