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Violence in Videogames with VG Cats
me at werk writes "Following up on Tim Buckley's interview, CBS News' GameCore has posted the interview with Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats. From the article: "Psychos will always be psychos; they don't need video games to help them. Though this one time my brother punched me in the arm when I beat him in Mario Kart. Does that count?""
but don't people do stupid shit they see in movies too?
yes they do. Found that trying to track down the story of the kids lying in the road after seeing it in a movie. That's a scene from The Program. And it lead to a death and a serious injury from idiots who got run over. I'm sure one could come up with examples of people doing incredibly stupid things under the influence of just about any piece of media. There must have been Shakespeare inspired killers at some point.
If you're playing games to the point that you're not interacting with people, there are other reasons you'd be violent. Antisocial people don't need video games to isolate themselves, and they certainly don't need them to inspire them to mail bombs to people. Did the Unabomber even have electricity, let alone Nintendo?
Something that got me in the interview with the lawyer last week is that it said video games "build up the synaptic pathways to kill. You learn to do in real life what you do in the games..." didn't make sense. The game would build certain pathways, but I would think you'd learn to do down down back forward high punch from muscle memory, not to actually rip somebody's head off with the spine still attached.
One of my life goals is to walk up to one of these people and make the hand motions to perform some sort of Mortal Kombat move, and then say, "If you were right, you'd be dead now."