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Subject: Do violent video games promote violence?

Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun

I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.

I don't think they do, and I'm pretty sure I've read studies saying that they don't, but this seems to be an argument thrown up every time there's a gun-related catastrophe where young people are involved. I feel like it's just reactionary rabble-rousing, but what do you think?

  • 12.17.2012 4:01 PM PDT
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Why So Serious?

"I'm gonna go America all over everybody's asses!"
-Charlie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Even for you, jay, this is just uninspired.

  • 12.17.2012 4:03 PM PDT

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Nope.

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Because the answers to this wont be biased.

  • 12.17.2012 4:03 PM PDT

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power" -- Abraham Lincoln

Promote? No. Desensitize us to it? Perhaps.

  • 12.17.2012 4:03 PM PDT

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GTA 4 inspires me to go and beat hookers, and spawn helicopters on top of cars with my cell phone.

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  • 12.17.2012 4:04 PM PDT

Posted by: IrIsHmAn04
no its legit, i used coordinates, set weapon timers the works.

Can we please stop with the gun control and anti-violence threads?

Do you people have any idea what you're doing? All you're doing is encouraging government to intrude on your liberties. Some of you rant about banning guns and banning whatever else, but when they come for your video games, you want to start WWIII.

Guns, games and movies do not kill people. People kill people. It's just that simple. Every time a terrible incident happens that involves guns, there are these looney tunes that go around trying to brainwash people that guns, violent movies and violent games are bad.

Shut up and start educating people instead of trying to get government to take away everything.

[Edited on 12.17.2012 4:06 PM PST]

  • 12.17.2012 4:04 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Playing Mario makes me angrier than any violent game.

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There is a lack of proof proving the connection between violent video games and massacres.

There's more proof for Catcher in the Rye and mental disorders doing that.

  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: jaythenerdkid
I'm pretty sure I've read studies saying that they don't


Well then, what is there to argue about?

  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

I can play a video game like Halo and take out all the anger of my real life on evil aliens instead of on other living humans.

Also, coming from an A-student, who has been playing M-rated game like Halo, Max Payne, etc. since I was five, I am not really violent at all, so I don't think the games themselves make the person violent.

  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

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If someone is crazy and watches violent films or video games, of course... That's obvious.

  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

Wheres Meh Sniper?

Youtube page

Depends on the player.

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  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

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No that's stupid

  • 12.17.2012 4:05 PM PDT

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Not at all. Definitely no more than any other form of media affects us (film, music, literature, television, etc.)

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  • 12.17.2012 4:06 PM PDT

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I wrote a ten page paper on this last year, and my final answer ended up as no.
But that (should) be common knowledge.

  • 12.17.2012 4:06 PM PDT

I take it you're here for a reason?
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  • 12.17.2012 4:06 PM PDT

Posted by: IrIsHmAn04
no its legit, i used coordinates, set weapon timers the works.


Posted by: Blaze of Storm
I wrote a ten page paper on this last year, and my final answer ended up as no.
But that (should) be common knowledge.


You would think that, but there are some idiots on this forum and regurgitate main stream media bull -blam!- to no end.

  • 12.17.2012 4:07 PM PDT

The research team at Brock University in Canada said their results were "concerning" and argued that violent games could "reinforce the notion that aggression is an effective and appropriate way to deal with conflict and anger."

Evidence suggests that long-term players of violent games may become more likely to react aggressively to unintentional provocations such as someone accidentally bumping into them, they added.


"But I play violent video games and I don't respond violently to small things at all! Obviously that study is wrong."

"React aggressively" doesn't mean "react violently". It means that people who play violent video games a lot might think that violence is a better way to deal with conflict and therefore might get into more conflict than people who don't play violent video games.

  • 12.17.2012 4:08 PM PDT

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Any legit peer reviewed study that you find in journals will tell you the same thing. No.

  • 12.17.2012 4:08 PM PDT

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They SHOW violence.It's how the person takes it and decides how to react.

So not entirely.

  • 12.17.2012 4:08 PM PDT
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In someone who already has a predilection for violence? Probably.

In society as a whole? No.

  • 12.17.2012 4:09 PM PDT

Boltshot = mini shotgun


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Posted by: Blaze of Storm
I wrote a ten page paper on this last year, and my final answer ended up as no.
But that (should) be common knowledge.


You would think that, but there are some idiots on this forum and regurgitate main stream media bull -blam!- to no end.

Sadly, you're right, which is why I put should in my answer.

  • 12.17.2012 4:09 PM PDT
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It promotes stupidity but not violence.

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