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psylnt

I stumbled across this article on a site i visit quite frequently. And thought it was quite an interesting read.

http://www.socyberty.com/Society/Video-Game-Desensitization.579259

It is to do with real life shootings and its relationship to calling for a ban of violent video games which has been in the media recently.

tman

Whoever wrote that really needs to work on their "their/there/they're" and "were/where/we're"
Fairly interesting read nonetheless

Ciaran500

http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=670891&forum=22&sp=0
http://www.city-data.com/forum/arizona/587650-video-game-desensitization.html

This guy is just spamming forums.

jim o doom

I don't know how valid it is though - I find gore and violence in video games amusing most of the time - but when I see it on the news or someone injured in real life it tends to disturb the shmidt out of me - so I don't know if it's valid really - and I've been messing with violent games since I was a nipper..

That of course could be totally different for the more easily affected (mentally) ones in society..

K.O.Kiki

The 6 top-selling Xbox 360 games feature guns to a large degree, and have sold 30 million copies between them.

Where is the corollary spike in shootings? Oh wait... :rolleyes:

L31mr0d

anyone ever found it odd that violence and murder in the media is largely allowed, something that is supposed to be inherently wrong and ammoral. Yet sex, which is one of the most natural human acts and the origin of all of us, is so taboo in media and games?

I loved the sketch from the onion movie that had the group of people playing "rape in the dark" instead of "murder in the dark"... how is that we have such a big problem with rape, but we joke about something, much more serious, as murder and it's ok.

I mean I used to play cluedo as a kid, and the fact that someone was murdered in it was never a problem.

Samurai

L31mr0d wrote: »

anyone ever found it odd that violence and murder in the media is largely allowed, something that is supposed to be inherently wrong and ammoral. Yet sex, which is one of the most natural human acts and the origin of all of us, is so taboo in media and games?

wii sex please!

monument

I'll leave this here for now.