Watching the garbage on television is probably worse for a child than an FPS. They should just ban everything and make playing outside compulsory. Vote MDJ for WA Senator 2016

AssyrianKing

Australia2115 Posts

December 20 2012 00:10 GMT

#104

Its the parents responsibility tbh

Ingenol

United States1328 Posts

December 20 2012 00:12 GMT

#105

Control, control, control. Until people stop arguing the pragmatic (that video games don't encourage violent behavior) and start arguing the idealistic (the purpose of government is not to decide what its citizens can and cannot view/read/believe/think), freedom will always lose.

Banchan

United States179 Posts

December 20 2012 00:13 GMT

#106

I bet the killer played terran. If I had to play TvZ I'd want to kill people too.

Hrrrrm

United States2081 Posts

December 20 2012 00:19 GMT

#107

Look at Canada and the US. Pretty much same types of entertainment enjoyed by both societies at practically the same percentages. Yet you don't see mass killings by the Canadians. The people who commit those types of acts might get some ideas from video games but then again they could get the same ideas reading certain books or watching certain movies. All about Universal Healthcare in the US and making sure everyone has access from the day they are born to the day they die to catch anything that is abnormal and try to treat it. We can't be surprised when we neglect the poor or mentally unstable and then they shoot up "normal" people. We reap what we sow.

CajunMan

United States823 Posts

December 20 2012 00:20 GMT

#108

Some politicians are so stupid on both sides this is something only the most stupid conservative and most controlling democrats do. They have time to study whether 10 years for SC and CSS makes me want to kill people but not time to fix the economy or the debt. The fucking country.

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

December 20 2012 00:23 GMT

#109

People need to realize that the fact that a killer playing violent video games is not a cause, its a correlation. This person is obviously messed up and desensitized to violence as it is, so he plays violent video games. The video games did not cause him to shoot up an elementary school. If they did, we would have a hell of a lot more school shootings then we already do. And of all the games to label a culprit, Starcraft? Really? Maybe Grand Theft Auto or some of those ridiculously bloody games out there but blaming Starcraft is a ridiculous notion.
I don't get it. I play Starcraft all of the time and I've never had any inkling to go shoot up a school. The only thing I've wanted to do recently is shoot myself from watching all of the American media's ridiculous coverage and explanations of the event.

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

December 20 2012 00:24 GMT

#110

On December 20 2012 09:10 PiPoGevy wrote:
Its the parents fault, it always is

That's exactly as narrow minded and simplistic as most other attempts of explaing such tragedy. Shame on you, it's a shame to read some comment like that on a quality forum.

Kenpachi

United States9908 Posts

December 20 2012 00:25 GMT

#111

remember that guy who got pissed at playing SC and stabbed a woman across the street? yeh ban the game it causes serious rage.
or ban cheese

peekn

United States1152 Posts

December 20 2012 00:25 GMT

#112

Here we go again...

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

December 20 2012 00:27 GMT

#113

This picture is a pretty good demonstration of why the argument that violent video games is the cause is ridiculous.

japro

172 Posts

December 20 2012 00:29 GMT

#114

On December 20 2012 05:29 ddrddrddrddr wrote:
Gee, we played starcraft. Anyone feel like going on a murdering rampage? Instead of scrutinizing gun laws which is the most blatant issue, we're looking at video games which has been the subject of witch hunts for about a century now?

Yeah, those 1912 video games caused WW1!

Cheerio

Ukraine3178 Posts

December 20 2012 00:30 GMT

#115

On December 20 2012 06:21 Pursuit_ wrote:

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Most of my friends and I play video games a lot and none of us are fat or even overweight. We all did multiple sports in high school and maintain healthy lifestyles in college. From my experience I don't see any link between obesity and video games, anymore than there is a link between driving cars and obesity, watching tv and obesity, ect.

There can be a general weak correlation between video games and obesity. But competitive video games aimed at multiplayer like SC are a very different thing. Generally I have noticed people who are into it are also into sports, which has a reverse correlation with obesity. Look at the progamers.

On December 20 2012 09:29 japro wrote:

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Yeah, those 1912 video games caused WW1!

lol it all makes sense now!

MountainDewJunkie

United States10344 Posts

December 20 2012 00:32 GMT

#116

On December 20 2012 09:27 Darkhoarse wrote:
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This picture is a pretty good demonstration of why the argument that violent video games is the cause is ridiculous.

Go Netherlands lol

ragz_gt

9172 Posts

December 20 2012 00:33 GMT

#117

Every country does this though... it's a pretty convenient distraction.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

December 20 2012 00:34 GMT

#118

On December 20 2012 09:27 Darkhoarse wrote:
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This picture is a pretty good demonstration of why the argument that violent video games is the cause is ridiculous.

is there a similar graph for just murders and video game consumption? because guns are illegal in many countries on that list.

CodECleaR

United States395 Posts

December 20 2012 00:35 GMT

#119

I once killed a man over a ladder match.
This game causes unbridled rage and must be stopped in its tracks before it devastates our youth.
...
Hopefully the study is conducted correctly and nothing changes

Inside.Out

Canada569 Posts

December 20 2012 00:36 GMT

#120

i think this is probably the best thing that could have happened. think about it. they're giving the entire investigation to the national academy of sciences, which is far better than if they would have made a congressional panel or giving it to the house science committee (fyi several members of the house science committee don't believe in climate change or pregnancy through rape, (remember todd akin? legitimate rape guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_akin#Committee_assignments))

all in all, we knew it would take an official government report to once and for all end the 'debate' on whether video games make you crazy or not, and i think this report has the best likelihood of coming back in our favour of any that were due to come out eventually. We knew this was coming, and we knew all along that all we needed was just a fair trial, and i think this is actually a good thing, as once the report is finished it will end this debate once and for all, and we won't have to deal with this shit every time someone goes crazy.

also lol that while this is going on r/gaming only cares about WarZ being taken off steam.