NEWS: Video Games: Not Bad For You

See I never did that, but I did spend an entire summer digging holes in my backyard, inflating small creatures with a bike pump until they exploded.

They're in uproar about Manhunt 2? Did anybody even buy that game?

And there's no way Jack Thompson's can have his fingers up his ears while his head's up his own ass.

Also, if you're a gamer and into giving to charities, this one is great.

Oh, man. Just run now. It'll save you so much pain.

Don't quit your day blog.

Its better to unleash some rage on you PS3 or Xbox them to do it in public or at work....or is it??? All kidding aside, if you want to see violence just turn on the news... no rating there.

I was part of a debate in college about video game violence. To prepare for it we had to argue both sides... one day I argued for video games, the next that they attributed to violence. I think myself a good researcher and debater but I totally sucked when saying they promote violence. In the actual debate I argued in the value of the media and got five out of five judges approval.

Music was going to ruin the youth
Then Movies
Then Television
And comic books, and contemporary literature, pornography, sex ed.

You know what causes violence? Ignorance and stupidity. It's a fact. These assholes and their studies puts me in the mind for some serious dismemberment.

Yeah, i got through it. 97¢ in '08!

A big fuck you to Jack Thompson!

Wow, we're one page in and already the Godwin comes out.

hey, i paid too! cater to meeeee! i want bad grammar and nearly unreadable articles, damn it!

if you think an article is unreadable because of a handful of grammatical or editorial mistakes, then you might just be stupid. i'm getting sick of people who log on just to nitpick at small faults in articles when they do nothing to contribute constructively or creatively to this site.

At least one person did. My friend bought it for the Wii. When I had first heard the notion of the Wii I thought, 'Eventually there will be some grotesque and gratuitous physical action involved with this.' Manhunt 2 is it.

I didn't play the game but I watched my friend go through it, and it was fuckin' creepy to see him swing the remote as he vicariously crushed a prone man's skull with a sledgehammer. Not saying anything about causation, just that it's creepy if you don't really like gruesome violence.

Not to mention, you've paid more, so you're a better customer, therefore your needs should be met before ours.

The very same, and those idiocies are just the tip of the iceberg.

The guy is a holy crusader.

Lack of Masturbation leads to violence.

One small point: I like to think I'm not violent in part because I don't eat at McDonald's.

I imagine particular violent behaviour can be inspired by movies or games, but the person has to have a predaliction towards violence in the first place.

Remember the congressional music hearings during the 80s, when Congress attempted to unilaterally censor music and wound up putting labels on recordings they deemed inappropriate?
The music industry was represented by John Denver, Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister and Frank Zappa for those hearings, and Zappa made the elected officials look like buffoons. One quote he used during those hearings is applicable to this article, and the whole debate about violent video games leading to violent behavior.
FZ said "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. "
Media of whatever kind has no direct link to violent or otherwise criminal behavior, or for that matter to any kind of behavior. Anyone who says otherwise is promoting a false agenda.

There are so many reasons for violence that I think it's just silly to say that video games cause children to become violent. I've played games my whole life, from the cute fluffy stuff to the downright violent and have never once wanted to go out and shoot someone. I think it has to do more with other influences and psychological factors. There was evidence that in the past school shootings that there were warning signs that people just chose to ignore. As a education major in college, we are constantly bombarded with people telling us that if we see a problem with a student, to do something about it immediately. It disgusts me to see these things happen, and people to look back on it and say "Well, he did write/do these things before the shooting took place" and then blame it on a video game or music.

Saying that video games cause viloence amoung the youth of today is just an easy scape goat to saying "Oh shit, I should have been paying better attention."

I can say that video games might give a kid ideas (though I can't think of any at the moment), but it doesn't make them sharp shooters. If you want to say that it does, I guess you can look at Duck Hunt, I played that game constantly, but only managed to get high scores by standing really close to the tv screen (and I know that I'm not the only one who did this)

Anyways, that's my little rant before bedtime.