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New Mexico Newspaper Row Shows Game Violence Microcosm

Posted by simoniker on from the love-like-life-in-miniature dept.

Thanks to the Albuquerque Tribune for its pair of editorials, one praising violent games, tongue-in-cheek style, by lauding "the sheer joy of freeform gaming mayhem", and the other a rebuttal suggesting children are genuinely at risk. This provincial echoing of the ever-present worldwide debate starts with Sue Vorenberg's contention that: "There's nothing quite as satisfying as running over virtual French people with a souped-up sports car", and ends with Bob McCannon's statement that "the correlations between violent media and aggression are stronger than between smoking and lung cancer." What can be done to make such arguments a little more evenhanded?

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  1. Even handed by BoomerSooner · · Score: 3, Funny

    To make it more even handed we simply need to put them all in a padded room together and whoever comes out alive wins.

  2. Who cares what the foreign press thinks? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who cares what the foreign press of New Mexico thinks about American video games? :)

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  3. This just in... by DarkGamer20X6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A recent study shows a strong correlation between raping wombats and breathing air, even stronger than that of the correlation between smoking and lung cancer.

    Did you know that 100% of people who rape wombats also breathe air? This astonishing statistic puts anyone who breathes air at risk of wombatphilia. If you breathe air, please, seek professional psychological help immediately.

  4. Re:Really? by C0rinthian · · Score: 2, Funny
    Broadcasting the Teletubbies 24/7 will do nothing to fix the problem these people have in their heads
    Broadcast the Teletubbies 24/7, and I would be willing to bet that violence increases dramatically. I dunno about the rest of you, but that would definitely drive me psychotic within a few days.

    NO MORE TINKY WINKY! (Blam!)