Video Game violence

[Chisox08]

Warning the video does have some graphic content:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/6692-Desensitized-to-Violence?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Jim makes a great point about the imaginary violence in video games not desensitizing gamers to real life violence.

[Glassunion]

1. I used to play Mike Tyson's - Punchout all the time.

I was hitting the heavy bag in the basement and fractured a bone... That game did not desensitize me... It hurt like hell.

Am I the only one who partially plays games to simulate doing things that I cannot or should not do in real life?

When the hell am I ever going to land a 747 at night in the rain in Tokyo?

When am I ever going to steal a car and drive on an elevated subway platform and walk away from the explosion?

When am I ever going to jump off the roof of a building and pull a 180 quick-scope and nail my best friend in the head with a .50?

When am I ever going to respawn after he respawns and gets me back?

When am I ever going to perform a flying knife kill in early Colonial America?

When the hell in my life am I going to look at the number of times I died and still measure it good if I killed more?

[Chisox08]

2. Anybody who blames games for real life violence is just looking for a scapegoat

[SilveryMoon]

4. +1 n/t

[Riftaxe]

5. For it!

It was my music in the '80s that ticked off the blue bloods like tipper gore, my gaming habits in the 70's that ticked off the other prudish church ladies.

In my time it has driven me to become a fire department volunteer, an EMT and other hideous things...the sooner we ban it the better.

[Posteritatis]

3. That explains the terrifying epidemic of violence in Canada oh wait.

Same stuff people have been saying since comic books in the thirties and before. Meh.

[HDCowboy]

6. Sandy Hook Shooting Game - GOP Only Outraged At Bonus Level Where NRA Officals Shot AT

I would have made this an entirely new topic but the site says I dont have enough posts to create one, maybe someone else can post this for me under its own topic........

Some programers have begun creating a video game based on The Sandy Hook School Shooting where you go kill school kids..........

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https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.se/threads/sandy-hook-shooting-spree-fps.11767/

and the only thing the GOP has taken notice of and posted on FOX and other news outlets is that of a sub game in it that allows NRA officals to be shot as that is all that fits thier political agenda..........

http://www.examiner.com/article/unhinged-violent-online-game-lets-players-murder-nra-officials-by-shooting-them