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  • Poll [46 votes]: Are Videogames Messing up Kids Heads
Subject: Flamethrower-Burn
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Poll: Are Videogames Messing up Kids Heads  [closed]
Watch it or I will set you on fire!!!!:  11%
(5 Votes)
No no! Liar liar pants on fire!:  4%
(2 Votes)
You mess kids up!:  7%
(3 Votes)
Yes, its true. MUahahahahahah (just kidding):  9%
(4 Votes)
Yes:  0%
(0 Votes)
Don`t know:  0%
(0 Votes)
No:  43%
(20 Votes)
Cheese:  26%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 46

The Flamethrower or feurwaffer as my friend so exitingly calls them, are becoming a major concern of mine. After playing on the computer (halo,bloodgulch), despetaratly trying to set fire to a three, he snaps, and sets fire to my hair with his lighter. During the next days he sets fire to :

*47 candels
*2 bushes
* a pile of clothes
and a band of lego figures.


And people say Videogames are Harmelss.

  • 04.13.2004 2:15 AM PDT
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I think it depends on the person. If you are not able to relize the difference between a game and real life, then you are the problem. I've never had problems with that happening to me.

  • 04.13.2004 2:59 AM PDT
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me eather but ive heard of wakos doing it and hell in this day in age when you can just blame something on some one elce maybe. forsay i kill 3 peopl with a grenade I could say the vido game made me do it. and maybe if i was a real good actor i could get away with it. so i serusly dought it will happen with most. just the dumb ones or the ones just looking for something to blam thare actions on.

  • 04.13.2004 6:38 AM PDT
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and your friend is a real DUMB ASS that is probly going to get him self kiled by vido games maybe he sould not play em =) or he just is a menise by natcher and want to blam his piro maniac atitude on the game i dont know nore care but I dont ever wan to se your frind set fire to my CAT agen! just kidding on the last one

  • 04.13.2004 6:41 AM PDT
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some people are influenced by video games but only the weak minded that have no control over their life

  • 04.13.2004 10:10 AM PDT
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I would recommend reading up on the study done my MIT's "Department of Comparative Media Studies". Yet even with all of this research into the topic, people still believe that there is a connection between violent media and violent bahavior. Of coarse, there are also people who believe in Santa Claus and the Lock Ness Monster... go figure.

  • 04.13.2004 11:00 AM PDT
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Everyone is forgetting the TRUE meaning of video games. Its to have fun with your friends! Then some jackass used Halo to go on a killing spree and ruined the games reputation among the parents.

  • 04.13.2004 11:29 AM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

Video games are not the problem. These thing happened before video games. The problem is jackasses with no self control/ the criminally insane BLAME their misdeeds on video games or movies, so then they are somehow less responsible. Look at the sniper blaming his killing spree on watching "The Matrix" lobby scene.

  • 04.13.2004 12:10 PM PDT
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It doesnt mess up peoples heads.

  • 04.13.2004 1:31 PM PDT
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cheese is good

  • 04.13.2004 4:28 PM PDT
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How would it

  • 04.13.2004 5:45 PM PDT
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no video games do not influence, peoples minds. television does not influence peoplese minds. the only thing that influence peoples minds are other people. our society has not gotten any more violent now then it has been millions of years ago. if anything it has gotten less violent. overall theft has gone down. there is less pain and suffering in the world. the world is a better place. look, in the age of the romans, people were fed to lions and tigers and bears. now people have digital people to feed to digital lions and tigers and bears. videogames are healthy. especially games like dance dance revolution where you can be up and active while you play.

  • 04.13.2004 6:56 PM PDT
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It may modivate people to do stuff though.

  • 04.13.2004 7:36 PM PDT
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Did you hear that someone did some serious crime because of Grand Theft Auto?
Now my mom won't let me get the game!


THIS IS MY FIRST POST!

  • 04.15.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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i think it depends like if i had a kid i would not let him play max payne or quake and it also depends on maturity

  • 04.16.2004 5:34 PM PDT
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I know all the parents are worried and stuff... but really if they are that immature that they would do stuff similar to their fav. mature rated game, then they are prolly too young to play it. and you never know man maybe your buddy is just a pyromaniac.

[Edited on 4/16/2004 6:20:20 PM]

  • 04.16.2004 6:15 PM PDT
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and also i am only 14 yet i have so many shooters and games like vice city that you may think thats all i would do is imitate that stuff. I did hear that a kid beat the living -blam!- out of another kid because the victim stole a pokemon card from the... whats the word... oh hell ill make one up... victimizer

  • 04.16.2004 6:19 PM PDT
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Me myself i think if u cant tell whats real and whats game stop playin. Also tell his parents so he cann go to a shrink or somethin.

  • 04.16.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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spelled "chief" wrong lolz

  • 07.21.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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Maybe they should make it so you can set stuff on fire in Halo 2, so the guy will be able to vent his "I wanna set sumtin on fire" urges to a video game!

  • 07.21.2004 9:28 PM PDT