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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?""
If you read at the bottom, there's a note from the guy who's done all 3 interviews; this is a testbed for future expansion upon the topic, so he used a standard set of questions for all the interviews so as to try and avoid injecting personal bias, or going off on tangents with any particular person. And in all 3 cases, the answers are all a matter of subjective opinion (even if Thompson wants everyone to believe its a fact).
Its an interesting approach to seeing the views of both sides of the community on game-related violence. Webcomic authors are usually some of the more in-touch people with the pulse of serious gamers (at least, authors like those @ PA, CAD, VGCats, etc). So they're generally well respected voices in the gamer community, and have a little more clout I'd say than Joe Gamer pulled off the street.
Of course it helps that he chose two webcomics (that are both hilarious of course) that are on the more violent/weird side of things, while being drawn by normal, non-homicidal people. They're a perfect contrast to Jack Thompson, and a perfect example of why he's a nutcase.
http://thechubbyferret.net - Ferret pictures and informative links.
Number of copies of GTA San Andreas sold in 2004: 5.1 Million
Number of incidence of violence related to GTA: umm... let's say there were as many as 100.
That's 0.001%. No stastician would say that there could be ANY correlation with a number like that.