Video games and violence discussion

[Norelco]

Discuss here, keep it out of the VA Tech thread.

[Mysterio]

video games are bad, cause Dr. Phil said so.

[Exoduso]

Dr Phil and Hilary Clinton can both go to hell.

[Demosthenes]

People always need a scapegoat, they always want to blame something, at least they could make a fucking effort to be right you, the douchebags! A little over a decade ago, someone would have blamed violent cartoons. Yeah cause after watching bugs bunny, I feel an intense urge to go drop anvils on the heads of other people. Let us not forget when ninja turtles were blamed for everything. Remember when someone blamed power rangers for all the faults in the world? Oh fuck can we remember when Bart Simpson was quite possibly the only reason we ever had delinquents?

[Po]

People who kill people and blame it on video games or movies are in denial. Anyone who out of nowhere kills 30+ people and injures 30 more, has a lot more problems than playing Grand Theft Auto.

People that use this as an excuse are fuck sticks.

[The Blackrose]

I honestly don't think you're going to get much out of this thread, mostly because I think everyone is in agreeance that Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson are a pair of retards.

Not to mention you're either going to get the "correlation != causation" argument or a link to a study which retroactively owns itself in the face, which will just end this thread.

[Exoduso]

Let's see them smartasses then. Cancel the production of violent games, and let's see if people still kill each other when the only thing to play is Viva Pinata....I guarantee you the numbers will stay the same.

[Norelco]

I honestly don't think you're going to get much out of this thread, mostly because I think everyone is in agreeance that Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson are a pair of retards.

Not to mention you're either going to get the "correlation != causation" argument or a link to a study which retroactively owns itself in the face, which will just end this thread.

I know. Just trying to keep it out of the other thread. Nothing like two monkies throwing feces at one another. :D

[Kross]

Sick ppl will kill with or w/o violent videogames...

It's such an irrelevant factor.

If there was something to blame, it would be the superficial lifestyle that "the man" has imposed on us and younger generations. The fact that most ppl in North America has never been physically/mentally challenged so they don't know the hardships previous generations had to endure to fully appreciate what we have today...

If that sick person who went on a rampage had not have life given to him on a silver platter, he would have easily moved on from his girlfriend breaking up with him..

Let's face it, we are fucking spoiled and it's making us weak. When the war is going to hit our shores, we're going to be fucked....

[Kisamoo]

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/1625/20070105qt1.jpg

[Kenai]

Even more irritating than overweight people who blame restaraunts for their waist line imo (because they are forcing you to eat there, and then order their junkiest food!) It's ALWAYS somebody else's fault, that's the real logic here. I mean, the Bible has all kinds of graphic depictions of violence, for example, not to mention any worthwhile history book discussing things such as the Holocaust and Congo massacres, but that's perfectly ok for some reason.

[Mifaco]

COUNTER-STRIKE DID V-TECH

[SephYuyX]

V-TECH

Is it bad when I first saw and still see the title of the shootings thread I think "V-TECH JUST KICKED IN!!!"?

Can I blame videogames for this?

[Epical]

It pisses me off to no end when people resort to blaming video games and certain genres of music for events like VT Tech and whatnot. Sure, it's tragic, but I mean stop jumping to fucking conclusions. What about movies like Saw and Grindhouse? That shit is more fucked up than a video game.

[Mifaco]

V-TECH

Is it bad when I first saw and still see the title of the shootings thread I think "V-TECH JUST KICKED IN!!!"?

Can I blame videogames for this?

The first thing I thought of when I saw the shootings on the news was "HOW WILL /b/ REACT?"

[SephYuyX]

V-TECH

Is it bad when I first saw and still see the title of the shootings thread I think "V-TECH JUST KICKED IN!!!"?

Can I blame videogames for this?

The first thing I thought of when I saw the shootings on the news was "HOW WILL /b/ REACT?"

Haha, I was just thinking about that.. so I went and found http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/in ... h_massacre lo and behold..

[Septimus]

I honestly don't think you're going to get much out of this thread, mostly because I think everyone is in agreeance that Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson are a pair of retards.

Not to mention you're either going to get the "correlation != causation" argument or a link to a study which retroactively owns itself in the face, which will just end this thread.

While most people will agree, there is always a group who are ready to blame something modern for all of the ills of society.

In the late 50's and early 60's, rock and roll music, specifically Elvis, caused teens to do wild thing like chewing gum in class and sometimes smoke. You see, back then was a much simpler, innocent time. Teenage pregnancy hadn't even been invented yet. Nothing funny whatsoever was going on when a girl started to gain a little weight around the midsection, went to visit an aunt for several months, then magically came back thin. Or shotgun weddings, and 4-5 months later the woman "prematurely" gave birth to a full-term baby. Nope, it was all a happy Norman Rockwell painting, and the world was full of sock-hops, hootenannies, and malted shakes at the corner malt shop. Segregation didn't exist, because people pretended that it didn't. And pay no mind to those bachelor uncles and spinster aunts- they just didn't find the right person to marry and raise 2.5 children in the loving embrace of suburbia. (Hey, let's introduce that bachelor uncle and spinster aunt, they'd get along smashingly!) Yup, everything was swell and dandy. Oh, except for the looming threat of thermonuclear annihilation from the commies.

But anyway, people love to find scape goats- rock and roll, movies, comic books, cartoons, heavy metal, rap, video games, etc. Did you know that before Elvis recorded Heartbreak Hotel in 1956, there was absolutely no violence, murders, or wars ever? For every generation, there are many vocal people do not want to admit that within humans beats a dark heart capable of horrors, so they try their best to shift the blame to anything else instead of where it belongs, the people who commit the crimes.

[Kenai]

V-TECH

Is it bad when I first saw and still see the title of the shootings thread I think "V-TECH JUST KICKED IN!!!"?

Can I blame videogames for this?

The first thing I thought of when I saw the shootings on the news was "HOW WILL /b/ REACT?"

Haha, I was just thinking about that.. so I went and found http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/in ... h_massacre lo and behold..

Wow lol. That is so absolutely horrible but I lol'd quite a bit. See you down under.

[The Blackrose]

V-TECH

Is it bad when I first saw and still see the title of the shootings thread I think "V-TECH JUST KICKED IN!!!"?

Can I blame videogames for this?

The first thing I thought of when I saw the shootings on the news was "HOW WILL /b/ REACT?"

"vtec kicked in yo" was standard.

Also, I caught this little gem:

http://webpages.charter.net/ltship/blac ... onvtec.jpg

Linked to not break the forum.

[GRT]

this ain't the place for this discussion, cuz everyone here (including myself) is biased lol