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Violence in Video Games Debate Continues to Rage
ubermiester writes "The Washington Post is reporting on a newly released study by the American Psychological Association, claiming that 'exposure to violence in video games increases aggressive thoughts, aggressive behavior and angry feelings among youth.' This partly contradicts another study released a week before by a University of Illinois Professor claiming that 'game violence does not prompt players to project violent tendencies into real life.'"
If they try to take my violent video games away, i will throw barrels at them until they run out of lives!
> Sun continues to rise daily, what else is new?
Ah, the old rise/set debate. Scientists continue to invistigate which happened first...
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After a couple of hours of GTA I always want to punch someone. And I'm a reasonable, dweeby, pacificist nerd.
Heh, well, maybe if they put more sex into video games, all those kids would instead decide they want to make love, not war :)
Can't we solve this debate using rigorous scientific methods?
* Expose the test group to violent videogames.
* Expose the control group to non-violent videogames
* Compel both subject groups to commit a series of brutal murders
* Autopsy the brains of both subject groups.
The answer should be right there, in the brain autopies.
-kgj
-kgj
I can't help feeling that there's something of a contradiction here...
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One day I'll get my hands on the person who started this debate and KILL THEM!
Get your Unix fortune now!
Sheila: Time's have changed
Our kids are kids are getting worse
They wont obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flappin heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Ok, I won't any farther with these lyrics but I am sick of these distracting campaines. What's Next on the calender? Meth? Rock Music, Dancing? Pool Halls? Bowling?
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
there is nothing in Doom III worse than the violence of Tom and Jerry or Roadrunner
I don't remember Wile E. Coyote using a sawed-off shotgun on the RoadRunner, whose entrails would smear across the walls with each successive shot...
But yeah, video games are just this genetation's rock and or roll / rap / etc.
I have found that exposure to politicians increases aggressive thoughts, aggressive behavior and angry feelings along with substantial loss of mass in my wallet.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Obvously you have not been reading Your Onion Lately.
"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
violence it just makes me so angry that I want to turn off GTA: 3, put down my controller and punch them in the head!
I mean really, where's the god damn corrolation?
funny thing is, the violent video games never brought out those feelings in me, it was usually the (non-violent) puzzle type games that required a specific sequence of 25+ movements/actions or you would have to start over again from the very beginning that would increase my aggressive thoughts and angry feelings, especially when a mistake was made at the end of the puzzle and I would have to start again through the whole thing again.
What's more, many of them were once children themselves!