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Columbine Student on VG Violence
Sophia wrote in to mention some discussion of Video Game Violence on 1up.com this week. Brooks Brown had the experience of attending Columbine High School around the time of the now infamous shooting incident. Via his blog, Brown goes into a detailed discussion of Why Violence in Gaming is a Good Thing. From the article: "GTA isn't about fucking hookers or killing cops. It's a story of a guy who got screwed trying to get back on top. It is, by nature, a story game. Postal 2 may let you kill anyone you want in bloody and disgusting ways - but that's not what it is about either. It is, by nature, a tech demo in the abilities of programmers and AI. it is WE - the gamers - who change what the game is about and determine what happens. It is the person playing who determines what the game contains." Jane Pinckard has a quick reaction to his post. More commentary on this subject is available via John Davison's Blog, who met Brown at a taping of a news program which was ostensibly to be about gaming in general. Instead he was ambushed about violence in games and ended up walking out.
*weeps*
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Well, it's basically a game where you can drive around an ambulance and take people to the hospital, drive around a fire truck and put out fires, drive around a police car and catch criminals or drive a taxi and take people places. Of course, there's much more you can do, but I'm not into all that violent stuff.
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The real danger is with racing games. Try racing an Audi S4 around in Project Gotham all day, then hopping into a real S4 to go to the grocery store. Dangerous stuff.
Think of how I felt after I played Katamari Damacy...
GTA isn't about fucking hookers or killing cops.
Then I think there's something wrong in my version...
This is all well and good, but I think it misses a crucial point - this.
Right...?
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Video games don't influence children; otherwise the 80s would have been full of teens sitting in the dark listening to techno and popping pills...
Not to "me too!" a comment, but Just yesterday I was driving by a parking lot and in the far corner your standard "crotch rocket" motorcycle was sitting all on its own. I couldn't help but think it was placed there specifically because it would trigger a mini-game.
Luckily, I live in reality and was amused by that thought, not inexoribly drawn into it like a moth to a flame.
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I mean we all remember those famous Technical Demos:
- Mortal Kombat characters executing fatalities to demonstrate advancments in sprite scripting technology.
- Serious Sam's technical display of hugely explorable levels and efficient creation (and removal) of hundreds of agents simultaneously.
- The Playboy series of games which push the boundaries of graphics and strive for photorealism.
- Duke Nukem feeding strippers money and getting them to take their clothes off displayed revolutionary bounce-physics.
I know driving around in cool cars in videogames and then getting into my piece of shit car makes me so angry I want to shoot people too.
What if you found a scroll of genocide?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
He turned to Puppy Theft . I'm not kidding you.
tetris is about blocks being created and it is the player's job to destroy them all. if you let them procreate, you lose.
death is everywhere.
if you let it.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
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- "Yes, we're looking for a game that doesn't have any violence."
"Easy enough. I've got lots of games without violence. Anything in particular you want?"
- "The game can't have any violence at all."
"Ok."
- "I mean nothing."
"Well, Crash Team racing doesn't have any violence in it."
- "Yes it does. You can hit each other's cars."
"Uhm.. ok...so, no conflict at all you mean?"
- "Yes."
"Hmm... Here, try Bust A Move. It's a very good game with no conflict."
- "We've tried it before. It's too violent."
"...Too violent? There isn't any violence in the game at all."
- "You shoot things and monsters fall out."
"Ok...here, try Intelligent Cube. Great game, no monsters and no shooting."
- "You can fall off the edge and the moving blocks can kill the character. Too violent."
"Uh...ok...uhm...well, there are a lot of racing games without violence."
- "Racing games have competition. The game can't have any competition."
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You had me until this sentence:
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
3. 1999 called and wants its "high return of mutual funds" back. Actually, so do I.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Ever since Space Invaders, I can't stop running from house to house firing straight up into the air.