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sanddude · 2012-03-04 10:05:49

Just a little debate I wanted to start up.

YES IT'S VIDEO GAMES SO IT COUNTS AS READING AND PLAYING.

GLaDOS2 · 2012-03-04 10:07:04

Guess how many times this is going to get flagged and flamed! big_smile

@topic: It depends on the person.

Luke121 · 2012-03-04 10:08:53

Only in budding psychopaths.

But that doesn't mean we should IGNORE THE RATING SYSTEM, now does it?

veggieman001 · 2012-03-04 10:09:30

it can
it depends on the individual and how they react to certain things

sanddude · 2012-03-04 10:11:02

veggieman001 wrote:
it can
it depends on the individual and how they react to certain things

+1.

If someone's an idiot who doesn't know right from wrong or a 4-year-old child, then yes it could influence them. But that's not the video game's fault; it's the parents fault for not teaching the kid right from wrong or giving a violent video game to a freaking 4-year-old child.

veggieman001 · 2012-03-04 10:16:17

well it's not necessarily 4 year old or people who don't appear mentally stable

sanddude · 2012-03-04 10:18:42

veggieman001 wrote:
well it's not necessarily 4 year old or people who don't appear mentally stable

Good people don't just turn bad by playing a violent video game. To say that's ridiculous.

veggieman001 · 2012-03-04 10:21:48

i don't think good people exist, so um yeah

Ecliptic · 2012-03-04 11:06:10

No. We don't see people running around killing every Russian that we see now don't we.

It probably does affect some people. But for the majority it doesn't.

Greenatic · 2012-03-04 11:16:07

I think it mainly affects people who are underage for the game, i.e. 10-year-old playing a M game.

Ecliptic · 2012-03-04 11:17:47

Greenatic wrote:
I think it mainly affects people who are underage for the game, i.e. 10-year-old playing a M game.

I played M-Rated games when I was 10. I'm a perfectly fine person now.

blazerv82 · 2012-03-04 11:20:49

no
anything longer and it'll be a lecture

Wickimen · 2012-03-04 11:37:03

The trick is to ask the right question!

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coolboy2009 · 2012-03-04 12:29:25

This may sound unreleated, but it is, actually.
Henry the 8th behaved quite gentlemanly before a jousting accident. After that, a lobe that affected his behaviour was damaged, and made him the king he is today.
So, that means you would have to be bludgeoned by a sharp object while watching/playing that media in order to be aggressive.

Greenatic · 2012-03-04 12:39:58

Wickimen wrote:
The trick is to ask the right question!

Well said, well said. lol

Greenatic · 2012-03-04 12:43:33

Ecliptic wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
I think it mainly affects people who are underage for the game, i.e. 10-year-old playing a M game.
I played M-Rated games when I was 10. I'm a perfectly fine person now.

Well, it also has to do with how you were brought up. I think violent video games aggravate problems that are already there. For example, a person who grows up with strong morals but plays M games underage will probably be a good person. But a person who grows up around violence and plays M games underage, I think, would probably be a worse person than if they hadn't played the M games.

There are always exceptions, though.

veggieman001 · 2012-03-04 12:53:26

coolboy2009 wrote:
This may sound unreleated, but it is, actually.
Henry the 8th behaved quite gentlemanly before a jousting accident. After that, a lobe that affected his behaviour was damaged, and made him the king he is today.
So, that means you would have to be bludgeoned by a sharp object while watching/playing that media in order to be aggressive.

the king he is today???

Luke121 · 2012-03-04 13:01:07

veggieman001 wrote:
coolboy2009 wrote:
This may sound unreleated, but it is, actually.
Henry the 8th behaved quite gentlemanly before a jousting accident. After that, a lobe that affected his behaviour was damaged, and made him the king he is today.
So, that means you would have to be bludgeoned by a sharp object while watching/playing that media in order to be aggressive.
the king he is today???

Yep, zombie Henry the 8th.

bananaman99 · 2012-03-04 13:02:42

I read a book once that said something like "No one could be naive enough to think violent media causes people to commit violent actions. However, if someone already inclined to commit violent acts is exposed to these forms of media, it may show them ways to carry it out"

I agree completely.

veggieman001 · 2012-03-04 13:07:14

Luke121 wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
coolboy2009 wrote:
This may sound unreleated, but it is, actually.
Henry the 8th behaved quite gentlemanly before a jousting accident. After that, a lobe that affected his behaviour was damaged, and made him the king he is today.
So, that means you would have to be bludgeoned by a sharp object while watching/playing that media in order to be aggressive.
the king he is today???
Yep, zombie Henry the 8th.

oh silly me

JJROCKER · 2012-03-04 13:25:45

Yes, like all those people who play gun games.

maxskywalker · 2012-03-04 13:35:58

coolboy2009 wrote:
This may sound unreleated, but it is, actually.
Henry the 8th behaved quite gentlemanly before a jousting accident. After that, a lobe that affected his behaviour was damaged, and made him the king he is today.
So, that means you would have to be bludgeoned by a sharp object while watching/playing that media in order to be aggressive.

LOL. Um, isn't that about as relevant as sleep kills you if someone kills you while you sleep?

RedRocker227 · 2012-03-04 13:51:04

Yes.

GLaDOS2 wrote:
Guess how many times this is going to get flagged and flamed!

Hm... I'm gonna go with 527 big_smile

pi3 · 2012-03-04 14:00:58

I don't think it always influences violent behavior, but for the few times it does, I think that it is not good to play violent games. I stick to Professor Layton and Pokemon and I'm fourteen. smile

NeilWest · 2012-03-04 14:09:59

Greenatic wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
The trick is to ask the right question!
Well said, well said.

Using a Calvin and Hobbes scenario can cover alot of situations.

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