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Movies games and videos

  • 25-06-2013 10:21PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭


    anyone remember that show? anyway...

    DESENSITATION to violence thats what they do really isnt it. I remember playing a sniper game sometime back, and when you shot someone in the head from a long range the camera would actually follow the bullet from the gun all the way to the exploding head on the other end, it was actually a shock first time I saw it happen, but then it became fun to try and get that shot again [mostly for that follow the bullet camera which didnt usually happen], so something which was :( starting out became :) :cool: and really had me trying to get those cool shots :pac:

    and I could actually see myself being a sniper even :eek:
    there is no two ways about it, seeing violence desensitises our minds to violence we see later. its all fun and games............till someone 'actually' gets hurt. I mean why would you want to see someone get murdered grusemely on screen in a film it makes zero sense :confused: . its fupduck when you think about it! could never understand horror movies, and peoples desire to see people cut to pieces in them. they are 100000 times more dangerous to society than porn ever will be too I think


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Stop being so much fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    It's fun to shoot people in a video game. Or to watch a film with violence.
    Doesn't mean I'm actually gonna go out and do my own version of the human centipede.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Im an evil messed up phychopath let me have my fun :(

    fixed :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    IM0 wrote: »
    DESENSITATION to violence thats what they do really isnt it. I remember playing a sniper game sometime back, and when you shot someone in the head from a long range the camera would actually follow the bullet from the gun all the way to the exploding head on the other end, it was actually a shock first time I saw it happen, but then it became fun to try and get that shot again [mostly for that follow the bullet camera which didnt usually happen], so something which was :( starting out became :) :cool: and really had me trying to get those cool shots :pac:

    Sniper elite? Quality game.



    But yeah, i didnt even bat an eyelid when they showed that guy falling off the tightrope on sunday, iv seen too many videos of deaths to be shocked by it anymore.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    I might say that videogame, films and tv will desensitize you to violence IN videogames, films and tv (news too) but it won't desensitize you to real world violence. If it did, you'd have hundreds of shootings everyday. Pulling a trigger in Half-Life is different to pulling a trigger on a person. The kind of people who do go on rampages are not well in the first place. Before videogames they did bad things if they hadn't gotten professional help, like the guy who shot Lennon or the man who committed the Bath massacre.

    Does anyone think that the Catcher in the Rye should be banned? It was a possible 'motivator or influence' for Chapman. Tbh, I don't even think the media blames shootings on videogames anymore because its very obvious it isn't the massive influence people like Jack Thompson thought it was.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    People's bloodlust for gore goes a lot further back than Movies, Games and Videos. To the dawn of time, in fact.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    It's fun to shoot people in a video game. Or to watch a film with violence.
    Doesn't mean I'm actually gonna go out and do my own version of the human centipede.

    true but the problem is it gives people ideas no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Yeah, cos there was never violent or sick fcuks before tv was invented.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    People's bloodlust for gore goes a lot further back than Movies, Games and Videos. To the dawn of time, in fact.

    true, but thats not how we live now. we society decided that killing each other wasnt allowed anymore


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah, cos there was never violent or sick fcuks before tv was invented.

    How old are you Micky?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    How old are you Micky?


    22 and 3 quarters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Scylla wrote: »
    Sniper elite? Quality game.



    But yeah, i didnt even bat an eyelid when they showed that guy falling off the tightrope on sunday, iv seen too many videos of deaths to be shocked by it anymore.

    bingo!, couldt remember the name, class game.

    and news is full of death, I find myself going. did they yeah? meh....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    I used to watch Bosco years ago. Not once have I wanted to stick my hand up a ginger midgets ass until its cheeks turned red.

    Or do crazy drugs that made every door magically bring me to the zoo or a creamery.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    They won't make people go out and carry out violent acts, but people are definitely able to stomach far more sadistic stuff than in the past. The Exorcist is tame now, and had people traumatised. The 1950s Dracula and the like just looks silly now, like The Count from Sesame Street - yet people were terrified by it at the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Playing lots of Civilization has turned me into a war mongering despot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    IM0 wrote: »
    true but the problem is it gives people ideas no?

    No.
    If someone is gonna go out and kill people then that's what they'll do regardless. People don't need films to give them ideas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    IM0 wrote: »
    true but the problem is it gives people ideas no?

    Yeah but if ya think about it.........it's people that have the idea to put it into the film in the first place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Playing Angry Birds made me kill pigs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Yeah but if ya think about it.........it's people that have the idea to put it into the film in the first place.

    exactly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    IM0 wrote: »
    exactly

    Excellent


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Great show, had a cheats segment as well. WCW on afterwards, brilliant!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    IM0 wrote: »
    exactly

    You never made the debate team in school, did you?

    :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    You never made the debate team in school, did you?

    :p

    no debating was for nerds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    IM0 wrote: »
    no debating was for nerds

    Can't argue with that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    Can't argue with that!

    touche!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    IM0 wrote: »
    touche!

    French is for nerds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    French is for nerds

    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    French is for nerds

    ah you missed the english irony lesson didnt you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    IM0 wrote: »
    ah you missed the english irony lesson didnt you

    No, it was delicious.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,189 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I remember there being an episode of Bullsh!t about violent games. They got a young lad who played a lot of Call of Duty and the likes and gave him a shot with a real gun. He wasn't too happy about it. The real thing is very different and the noise and recoil can put people off long before they start their career of murder.


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