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Posted by: SIX SIX SIX
Source!

Playing violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Halo, Mass Effect, and Skyrim (just to name a few) change your behavior and make you an aggressive, obnoxious person! Studies have proven that playing violent video games will make you a more violent person and tend to be aggressive around other people.

If any of you need help quitting violent video games you should contact me, I can help you!

So?

  • 01.01.2013 9:48 AM PDT

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Rose! You changed your avatar for once.

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Well then I should be a serial killer.

  • 01.01.2013 9:48 AM PDT

no you cant have my gamertag

While the OP is a terrible troll, this is a pretty standard conclusion.

That won't stop idiots who don't understand these kinds of things from running in this thread claiming video games aren't bad because they haven't personally disemboweled anyone.

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Reporting for duty

Troll

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Pure Insanity
The point of war is not to die for one's clan, but it's to make the other bastard die for his
Right before you die, there is always a chance to save yourself, sieze that chance and live to fight another day
The best way to kill someone is to fight them with the same weapons they use and make them know you are better than them, not because of superior weaponry, but because of superior skill.
Hidden in the shadows, Clothed in camo, Armed to the teeth. Hunting.

That's not what the source says at all.

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Stop making such bad threads.

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Posted by: CEASARSALAD7
Troll


Except hes absoutley right. Playing violent video games DO have an effect on us.

  • 01.01.2013 9:50 AM PDT
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As soon as I see a stupidly dressed person trying to kill me with a hadoken, I'll believe you.

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LOL... research.

The way I see it unstable people will be unstable, whether they play video games or not.

EDIT: "hardware-wielding brain boffins have pried into young men's heads" - this research is sexist and therefore I find any findings from it unreliable and wrong.

[Edited on 01.01.2013 9:52 AM PST]

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Posted by: cameronm98
LOL... research.

The way I see it unstable people will be unstable, whether they play video games or not.

  • 01.01.2013 9:51 AM PDT

More of an effect if you are already have something wrong with you. I'm able to play violent games without going insane.

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You don't deserve your name.

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Posted by: cameronm98
LOL... research.

The way I see it unstable people will be unstable, whether they play video games or not.
And said unstable people will be more likely to play violent video games. It seems to me people are getting the cause and the effect the wrong way round here.

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Posted by: SIX SIX SIX
Studies have proven that playing violent video games will make you a more violent person and tend to be aggressive around other people such as shoving or punching people.


I can attest to the fact that with normal functioning people, no ill effects are to be had from playing violent video games. Now if someone has a screw loose to begin with, I can see how any violent medium could push one like that in a bad direction.

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“Strange,” mused the Director, as they turned away, “strange to think that even in Our Ford’s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.”

The Black Chapter!

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Posted by: CEASARSALAD7
Troll
Except hes absoutley right. Playing violent video games DO have an effect on us.
Not quite. The study shows that violent video games decrease activity in the parts of the brain associated with empathy and emotional control. That isn't the same as making a person obnoxious or damaging their mental health, as the OP claims.

[Edited on 01.01.2013 9:54 AM PST]

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Posted by: Telec
Posted by: DatDudeBV
Posted by: CEASARSALAD7
Troll
Except hes absoutley right. Playing violent video games DO have an effect on us.
Not quite. The study shows that violent video games decrease activity in the parts of the brain associated with empathy and emotional control. That isn't the same as making a person obnoxious or damaging their mental health, as the OP claims.


Isnt becoming less empathetic detrimental to your mental health?

I sure think so

  • 01.01.2013 9:54 AM PDT

Posted by: Billygoat456
I'll bring the tritium laser cutters if you bring the beer!

Funny story.

I'd be more interested in knowing whether it has to be video games or not. Does any kind of exposure to violence do this? Films, life experience, etc.

  • 01.01.2013 9:55 AM PDT


Posted by: Telec
Posted by: DatDudeBV
Posted by: CEASARSALAD7
Troll
Except hes absoutley right. Playing violent video games DO have an effect on us.
Not quite. The study shows that violent video games decrease activity in the parts of the brain associated with empathy and emotional control. That isn't the same as making a person obnoxious or damaging their mental health, as the OP claims.


^. Making our behavior pattern parallel a sociopath's does not make us violent, but it instead just dumbs us down.

  • 01.01.2013 9:55 AM PDT


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Posted by: cameronm98
LOL... research.

The way I see it unstable people will be unstable, whether they play video games or not.
And said unstable people will be more likely to play violent video games. It seems to me people are getting the cause and the effect the wrong way round here.


Is that me?

So wait, unstable people play video games. Unstable people may* become more unstable. Unstable people do bad things. Video games blamed.

'Stable' people play video games. Stable people are fine.

*Obviously not all "unstable" people will be affected by video games.

^The way I see it.

  • 01.01.2013 9:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: Telec
Posted by: DatDudeBV
Posted by: CEASARSALAD7
Troll
Except hes absoutley right. Playing violent video games DO have an effect on us.
Not quite. The study shows that violent video games decrease activity in the parts of the brain associated with empathy and emotional control. That isn't the same as making a person obnoxious or damaging their mental health, as the OP claims.
That and it doesn't make any statements regarding the test subjects BACKGROUNDS and if it has had any impact associated with their behavior. I hate how these "studies" never ask that.

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- Batman

I haven't read your source, but I wouldn't be surprised. I know personally I am more aggressive the more often I play really violent video games. But more often than not it is playing online that makes me aggressive, so I wonder if it is linked with the competitive nature of the games rather than the violence itself.

I'm open to what ever the studies show though.

  • 01.01.2013 9:57 AM PDT


Posted by: monitor 16807
I'd be more interested in knowing whether it has to be video games or not. Does any kind of exposure to violence do this? Films, life experience, etc.


Of course it does.

Thats why many soldiers come home with PTSD

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Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

I'll just leave this right here.

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