I wholeheartedly agree with this. When I was a Kid (before the advent of PC's and cable tv was only a rumor) virtually everything we did was a made up game that involved pretend killing or the strong overcomming the weak in some terrable way. Is seeing some cartoonish violence on a screen really any more "real" than conjuring up the images from your imagination? Everybody wants a simple solution, but face it, reality isn't simple.
I'm sure that playing quake for hours on end could have had some effect, but what doesn't? In the end it is how you deal with the situations that confront you, not the situations themselves, that make up your character.
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Gore? Anti-Technology? But...But...He INVENTED the internet!
Sob
Thats funny, I never heard of getting cancer from staring into a high definition camera lens before...
Ahh, to be young and on the internet... I guess nobody here remembers Who George Carlin is, much less his bit on the "seven dirty words"
I wholeheartedly agree with this. When I was a Kid (before the advent of PC's and cable tv was only a rumor) virtually everything we did was a made up game that involved pretend killing or the strong overcomming the weak in some terrable way. Is seeing some cartoonish violence on a screen really any more "real" than conjuring up the images from your imagination? Everybody wants a simple solution, but face it, reality isn't simple.
I'm sure that playing quake for hours on end could have had some effect, but what doesn't? In the end it is how you deal with the situations that confront you, not the situations themselves, that make up your character.