Violent Games Good for Kids

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Posted by timothy on Thursday September 26, 2002 @09:21AM from the contrary-wisdom dept.

fjordboy writes "Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit. From Vnunet:"Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression." Similar article from Reuters as well."

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FIrst Tost by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 09:24 · Score: -1, Troll

fp... Rick Austenson is a foggot who fucks Michael A. Hartman
Re:So that's what's wrong with me by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 09:26 · Score: -1, Troll

What is wrong with you is that you have perverse sexual fantasies about Rick Austenson!!
The games are even better! by nizo · 2002-09-26 09:30 · Score: 1, Troll

Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression.
Not even in my wildest imaginings did I ever think up running around chainsawing people; good thing we have computers around to help augment our violent fantasy capabilities. Not to mention a verion of DOOM where you hire lawyers to sue the baddys into prison instead of blasting them with a shotgun probably wouldn't sell as well.

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I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Kiddie Porn by Rader · 2002-09-26 09:33 · Score: 0, Troll

Does this mean that kiddie porn should be allowed because it allows pedophiles to act out their fantasies in "safe" ways.
this is BS by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 09:39 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah, those violent games worked out great for the columbine kids, right? Give me a break, when you spend 10+ hours a day killing "virtual" people you become desensitized to it. Then you start looking at "real" people more and more like the "virtual" ones, and then if they bully you, you are likely to kill them. Because you are so used to it. Games nowadays are not like pack-man, they are very realistic and getting to the point where there will soon be no difference between video game killing and real killing. And that is a fact. And no amount of reports from no amount of secular academians is going to ever ever change that.
You need therapy. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 09:42 · Score: -1, Troll

Quickly before you hurt someone, you faggot!
Re:Poppycock by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 14:50 · Score: -1, Troll

Spelled anger wrong. You would know about being isolated, and never getting pussy - you are a gamer lamer too. what level is your fag wizard on EQ? RPG fag who writes lame shit stories.
Tevis, the troll is back again.
He knows nothing, and cant take people who point out that he knows nothing. So he got 2 of his friends with 5 moderator points to attack a "troll." See, this is how losers like Tevis operate. The censor unpopular people or lines of thinking in order to be right. The pussy fucking bitch can try, he and his fag friends, to suppress criticism, but he will fail. Tevis, you mother fucking Troll fascist jerk, please die. You suck. Also note Tevis knows nothing. Its rather easy to tell. He takes his myopic view of the universe and would actuate legislation based on this view. He is not learned [learn-ed, two syllables, Tevis the fag wouldn't know this word], and he is a fool. Death to you Tevis, a pox on Slashdot, death.
Hi, I'm a fag, and I'm Tevis Money. Nice to blow you. Oh, Simplex 2 Herpes?; I love the puss! YUM! Time for me to go down and get to work.
(1/2)Musician + Frisbee Fan + Insanity^13 + Paintball player + Mac Freak^2 + Windows Hater + Linux Padawan = ME

Half musician. That's like being half gay, which he claims he is. Only half gay. Typical of a fuckhead like this, he only makes half assed half hearted attempts.

Frisbee Fan He likes flying rims. Reminds his half gay side of giving rim jobs.

Insanity^13 Reads: Insanity to the thirteenth power. Insanity seem to me to be a clinical Boolean, either one isn't, or is by some definition. If anything, you could be some percentage of insane, but to raise insanity to a power, well, that just the droppings of a stupid mind. Like the mind of Tevis Bitch Money.

Paintball player Except he has a cheesy Tippman Prolite or a rental gun with those gay seltzer CO2 charges. He also uses paintballs filled with Hepatitis, HIV, Blood, PUSS, Gonorrhea, Syphilis and of course Chlamydia (contributed from gay friends and incestual sodomizing family members) and piss, shit and blood. He has yet to infect me, as I take my f/x STO Autococker and fill that hole in his head with paint. I'll be the predator teams regularly crack up at your expense, paint noob.

Mac Freak^2 Mac Freak. Squared. That applies I guess. What I pay for my computer: (PC Price)^2. But he forgets to mention the appropriate performance; sqrt (PC Performance) = Mac.

Windows Hater He hates Winderz but has been known to say that it is outsmarting Linux. Tevis the fuck-head likes to personify inanimate objects because he is Insane to the Thirteenth power. Dum dum duuuum. And whats with this person being multiple persons. Is he a Windows Hater or a Linux Padawan? Are you part Padawan and Part Windows Hater? Each of these is a whole unto themselves. Now schizophrenia is not ruled out, but this is ridiculous. JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER of NONE

Linux Padawan This is similar to something a has been would say, but this dipshit is a Linux "never will be". He has never used it, has never used gcc, redone his own kernel, written anything in C, (or C++, Java, Lisp), can not use VI or Emacs, probably knows Pine and Pico real well which makes him Padawan. What a fucking gay term. This is the type of Fuck, Tevis, that Liked Jar Jar binks. He is the archetype of one who has helped George Puke-ass further defile Star Wars. Your fat sexless loser creed is not applicable to everyone, despite what you may believe.

I also believe Tevis to be a boy scout. But his troopmaster calls him a boi scout. He know how to use a canoe paddle, but really likes them with the crock on the end cut off and the pole of the paddle inserted by his troop master in his ass. He got is LIFE badge by being a venue of GAY LIFE for his troopmaster, which he calls Cockmaster Joe.

Tevis Money , I want you to fuck me in the ass please. I am dying to be anally accosted. I want to be ravaged like hog. I want you to dress like a farmer and make me oink like a pig. I want an ass reaming like no other. Tevis Money , I haven't had this kind of lust for you since the crazy college days. We used to butt fuck each other in the stalls. You always told me not to flush and preferred using my feces as apposed to real lubricant. I remember your chocolaty member, your manhood, draped in my feces. Man, Tevis Money
, I remember. I was day dreaming, escaping into a nether world where we used to fornicate, and live in fornicatory bliss. You used to like to keep your tubes socks on to enhance they gay look. We were so flitty and light on our feet. I am so very confused these days. I have difficulty conceptualizing the time that was then in contrast to now. I mean, first you were a raging homosexual, now you wont look me in the eye because of this anime woman. I know that bitch is a transvestite, and you lust after my ass while you are being tentacle raped. You are closeting your homosexuality and denying your roots in my ass! Don't be fooled! TEVIS MONEY knows how to suck a dick. He may nibble, and bite, and pretend to be sheepish at first, but deep down this cock loving acolyte of shaft licks cock like a bar maid. I am destabilizing. The world is going dark to me. I have scintillating threads of motley thoughts; my ability to control my self evanesces away! I have only an adamantine desire to see your balloon knot once again, and to have you ravage mine! TEVIS MONEY - I NEED YOUR HOT MAN SEX NOW. This is your long lost butt buddy Troopmaster Joe, please come back, my son's ass isn't has good as yours!

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My name is TEVIS MONEY and I'm here to Say
I'm a Virgin and I'm gay
I'm looking for some ass if you give me some
If you don't mind making out with a bum
Call the number on the screen! - I may look like a whimp
But in bed I'm mean!

TEVIS MONEY HERE here again, and I'm at the drums
I'm looking for sex amongst the bums
I have a lot of trouble with HTML
I keep telling people smarter than me to go to hell
I give anonymous blowjobs in the subway
I'm saving for more video games and homoerotic anime

COPYWRITE [SIC] Tevis Money and Gay Joe, from the album CREAM.
Re:Poppycock by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-26 14:57 · Score: -1, Troll

You would know about bad parenting, as you still live with you parents, in a trailer park. You also spelled actually wrong twice which means you are as stupid dumb fuck. What's with you lame cliché expression, "Good God?" Are you trying to be sarcastic because your parents are probably more interested in work than you? And ever hear of financial aid. Yes, Tevis, mommie and daddie aren't obliged to pay for your college. And about keeping the house clean, why does mommie and daddy have to do that for you? Cant you clean up after your stupid, stupid fucking self. I am so glad you aren't my kid, you fucking LAME piece of shit.
Tevis, the troll is back again.
He knows nothing, and cant take people who point out that he knows nothing. So he got 2 of his friends with 5 moderator points to attack a "troll." See, this is how losers like Tevis operate. The censor unpopular people or lines of thinking in order to be right. The pussy fucking bitch can try, he and his fag friends, to suppress criticism, but he will fail. Tevis, you mother fucking Troll fascist jerk, please die. You suck. Also note Tevis knows nothing. Its rather easy to tell. He takes his myopic view of the universe and would actuate legislation based on this view. He is not learned [learn-ed, two syllables, Tevis the fag wouldn't know this word], and he is a fool. Death to you Tevis, a pox on Slashdot, death.
Hi, I'm a fag, and I'm Tevis Money. Nice to blow you. Oh, Simplex 2 Herpes?; I love the puss! YUM! Time for me to go down and get to work.
(1/2)Musician + Frisbee Fan + Insanity^13 + Paintball player + Mac Freak^2 + Windows Hater + Linux Padawan = ME

Half musician. That's like being half gay, which he claims he is. Only half gay. Typical of a fuckhead like this, he only makes half assed half hearted attempts.

Frisbee Fan He likes flying rims. Reminds his half gay side of giving rim jobs.

Insanity^13 Reads: Insanity to the thirteenth power. Insanity seem to me to be a clinical Boolean, either one isn't, or is by some definition. If anything, you could be some percentage of insane, but to raise insanity to a power, well, that just the droppings of a stupid mind. Like the mind of Tevis Bitch Money.

Paintball player Except he has a cheesy Tippman Prolite or a rental gun with those gay seltzer CO2 charges. He also uses paintballs filled with Hepatitis, HIV, Blood, PUSS, Gonorrhea, Syphilis and of course Chlamydia (contributed from gay friends and incestual sodomizing family members) and piss, shit and blood. He has yet to infect me, as I take my f/x STO Autococker and fill that hole in his head with paint. I'll be the predator teams regularly crack up at your expense, paint noob.

Mac Freak^2 Mac Freak. Squared. That applies I guess. What I pay for my computer: (PC Price)^2. But he forgets to mention the appropriate performance; sqrt (PC Performance) = Mac.

Windows Hater He hates Winderz but has been known to say that it is outsmarting Linux. Tevis the fuck-head likes to personify inanimate objects because he is Insane to the Thirteenth power. Dum dum duuuum. And whats with this person being multiple persons. Is he a Windows Hater or a Linux Padawan? Are you part Padawan and Part Windows Hater? Each of these is a whole unto themselves. Now schizophrenia is not ruled out, but this is ridiculous. JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER of NONE

Linux Padawan This is similar to something a has been would say, but this dipshit is a Linux "never will be". He has never used it, has never used gcc, redone his own kernel, written anything in C, (or C++, Java, Lisp), can not use VI or Emacs, probably knows Pine and Pico real well which makes him Padawan. What a fucking gay term. This is the type of Fuck, Tevis, that Liked Jar Jar binks. He is the archetype of one who has helped George Puke-ass further defile Star Wars. Your fat sexless loser creed is not applicable to everyone, despite what you may believe.

I also believe Tevis to be a boy scout. But his troopmaster calls him a boi scout. He know how to use a canoe paddle, but really likes them with the crock on the end cut off and the pole of the paddle inserted by his troop master in his ass. He got is LIFE badge by being a venue of GAY LIFE for his troopmaster, which he calls Cockmaster Joe.

Tevis Money , I want you to fuck me in the ass please. I am dying to be anally accosted. I want to be ravaged like hog. I want you to dress like a farmer and make me oink like a pig. I want an ass reaming like no other. Tevis Money , I haven't had this kind of lust for you since the crazy college days. We used to butt fuck each other in the stalls. You always told me not to flush and preferred using my feces as apposed to real lubricant. I remember your chocolaty member, your manhood, draped in my feces. Man, Tevis Money
, I remember. I was day dreaming, escaping into a nether world where we used to fornicate, and live in fornicatory bliss. You used to like to keep your tubes socks on to enhance they gay look. We were so flitty and light on our feet. I am so very confused these days. I have difficulty conceptualizing the time that was then in contrast to now. I mean, first you were a raging homosexual, now you wont look me in the eye because of this anime woman. I know that bitch is a transvestite, and you lust after my ass while you are being tentacle raped. You are closeting your homosexuality and denying your roots in my ass! Don't be fooled! TEVIS MONEY knows how to suck a dick. He may nibble, and bite, and pretend to be sheepish at first, but deep down this cock loving acolyte of shaft licks cock like a bar maid. I am destabilizing. The world is going dark to me. I have scintillating threads of motley thoughts; my ability to control my self evanesces away! I have only an adamantine desire to see your balloon knot once again, and to have you ravage mine! TEVIS MONEY - I NEED YOUR HOT MAN SEX NOW. This is your long lost butt buddy Troopmaster Joe, please come back, my son's ass isn't has good as yours!

* m o n e y * f u c k s * b u t t h o l e ! ! ! * mcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccm oc/ccccc\ccccccccccccc\cccccccccccc/cccc\ccccccco n|ccccccc|ccccccccccccc\cccccccccc|cccccc|ccccccn e|ccccccc`.ccccccccccccc|ccccccccc|ccccccc:ccccce y`cccccccc|ccccccccccccc|cccccccc\|ccccccc|cccccy *c\ccccccc|c/ccccccc/cc\\\ccc--__c\\ccccccc:cccc* fcc\cccccc\/ccc_--~~cccccccccc~--__|c\ccccc|ccccl uccc\cccccc\_-~cccccccccccccccccccc~-_\cccc|cccci ccccc\_ccccc\cccccccc_.--------.______\|ccc|ccccc kcccccc\ccccc\______//c_c___c_c(_(__;cc\ccc|cccck sccccccc\ccc.ccCc___)cc______c(_(____;cc|cc/ccccs *ccccccc/\c|cccCc____)/cccccc\c(_____;cc|_/ccccc* bcccccc/c/\|cccC_Tevis Money Fucks ASS c/cc\ccccc ccccc|ccc(ccc_C_____)\______/cc//c_/c/ccccc\ccco tccccc|cccc\cc|__ccc\\_________//c(__/ccccccc|ccc tcccc|c\cccc\____)ccc`----ccc--'ccccccccccccc|cck hcccc|cc\_cccccccccc___\ccccccc/_cccccccccc_/c|c* occc|cccccccccccccc/cccc|ccccc|cc\cccccccccccc|c! lccc|ccccccccccccc|cccc/ccccccc\cc\ccccccccccc|c! eccc|cccccccccc/c/cccc|ccccccccc|cc\ccccccccccc|! !ccc|ccccccccc/c/cccccc\__/\___/cccc|cccccccccc|! !cc|ccccccccccc/cccccccc|cccc|ccccccc|ccccccccc|! !cc|cccccccccc|ccccccccc|cccc|ccccccc|ccccccccc|! * m o n e y * f u c k s * b u t t h o l e ! ! ! *

My name is TEVIS MONEY and I'm here to Say
I'm a Virgin and I'm gay
I'm looking for some ass if you give me some
If you don't mind making out with a bum
Call the number on the screen! - I may look like a whimp
But in bed I'm mean!

TEVIS MONEY HERE here again, and I'm at the drums
I'm looking for sex amongst the bums
I have a lot of trouble with HTML
I keep telling people smarter than me to go to hell
I give anonymous blowjobs in the subway
I'm saving for more video games and homoerotic anime

COPYWRITE [SIC] Tevis Money and Gay Joe, from the album CREAM.