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Are video games responsible for our actions? Can people honestly say (and I mean honestly) that a video game influenced their behavior? For years people have blamed the music and film industries and now their starting on our beloved video game world. Well to an extent this can be true but lets look at the facts.
To be influenced by Playstation 2’s Rumble Racing you’d need to get a yellow rocket with wheels, launch yourself from a ramp or ditch, perform a double back flip, successfully land on the road, speed off ahead of the traffic and drop an giant novelty snowball on the road then unleash a tornado on the M6. Has anyone ever done that?
Or to be influenced by Mario, you’d need to be doing your plumbing job, you know fixing a toilet belonging to a woman named Peach, spot the pet tortoise Norman in the garden, jump out of the window screaming “hup whoop cookoo” at the top of your voice in and ac-cent that’s anything but Spanish, then land on poor fella with your butt, forcing him into his shell, kick the now petrified turtle over three fences with an aim like Beckham so he lands on a turtle killing them both. You’d then need to pop into you client Peach’s house and nick her Mr. Kipling of the sideboard. Has anyone ever don’t that?
What about the infamous Tony hawk? If someone wanted to press charges on you for performing a human dart grind around their (women in bikini filled) cruise ship then draining the pool, releasing a lifeboat and trashing their museum (causing a terrifying accident where a man cheats death and is flung overboard) all in under two minutes. Then you could say it was the games fault.
Lets not leave out Medal of Honor, has anyone ever tried to re-enact the storming on Normandy beach by running up Southend pier with a cap gun yelling “get to the frontline”, reached the no entry fence surrounding Peter Pan’s playground and planted explosives there, detonated them and then infiltrated the machine room for the Crooked house screaming “I am Jimmy Paterson, bow down before me!” Has that happened lately? No, it hasn’t, and I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime in the near future either.
Or our wonderful friend Solid Snake? Has it been in the news lately that a deranged Mesomorphic man with a extremely deep voice has run through Safeway under a cardboard box, grabbed one of the employed and sedated her then dragged her sleeping body to the ice-cream freezer and stuffed her in it? Did this person then crawl down isle five, retrieve a box of painkillers then attacked the docked trolleys with a S.A.M. missile to defend the world from the new ‘Metal Gear”? No, no he didn’t, because this has never happened either?
And finally has anyone taken Tekken to heart? Has anyone placed the hollowed out head of a leopard on their head and staged a series of fights in places around the world including the slums of China and even a three round fisticuffs match with a polar bear? Or a Japanese sword wielder named Yoshimitsu? No, nobody has done this either!
So none of these crimes (or absurdities) have actually been committed? Then why make the farfetched claim that video games influenced your behavior in a situation? Until REAL proof arises that a video game was responsible for someone committing a crime I will not accept the allegation.
Thanks for reading.
To be influenced by Playstation 2’s Rumble Racing you’d need to get a yellow rocket with wheels, launch yourself from a ramp or ditch, perform a double back flip, successfully land on the road, speed off ahead of the traffic and drop an giant novelty snowball on the road then unleash a tornado on the M6. Has anyone ever done that?
Or to be influenced by Mario, you’d need to be doing your plumbing job, you know fixing a toilet belonging to a woman named Peach, spot the pet tortoise Norman in the garden, jump out of the window screaming “hup whoop cookoo” at the top of your voice in and ac-cent that’s anything but Spanish, then land on poor fella with your butt, forcing him into his shell, kick the now petrified turtle over three fences with an aim like Beckham so he lands on a turtle killing them both. You’d then need to pop into you client Peach’s house and nick her Mr. Kipling of the sideboard. Has anyone ever don’t that?
What about the infamous Tony hawk? If someone wanted to press charges on you for performing a human dart grind around their (women in bikini filled) cruise ship then draining the pool, releasing a lifeboat and trashing their museum (causing a terrifying accident where a man cheats death and is flung overboard) all in under two minutes. Then you could say it was the games fault.
Lets not leave out Medal of Honor, has anyone ever tried to re-enact the storming on Normandy beach by running up Southend pier with a cap gun yelling “get to the frontline”, reached the no entry fence surrounding Peter Pan’s playground and planted explosives there, detonated them and then infiltrated the machine room for the Crooked house screaming “I am Jimmy Paterson, bow down before me!” Has that happened lately? No, it hasn’t, and I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime in the near future either.
Or our wonderful friend Solid Snake? Has it been in the news lately that a deranged Mesomorphic man with a extremely deep voice has run through Safeway under a cardboard box, grabbed one of the employed and sedated her then dragged her sleeping body to the ice-cream freezer and stuffed her in it? Did this person then crawl down isle five, retrieve a box of painkillers then attacked the docked trolleys with a S.A.M. missile to defend the world from the new ‘Metal Gear”? No, no he didn’t, because this has never happened either?
And finally has anyone taken Tekken to heart? Has anyone placed the hollowed out head of a leopard on their head and staged a series of fights in places around the world including the slums of China and even a three round fisticuffs match with a polar bear? Or a Japanese sword wielder named Yoshimitsu? No, nobody has done this either!
So none of these crimes (or absurdities) have actually been committed? Then why make the farfetched claim that video games influenced your behavior in a situation? Until REAL proof arises that a video game was responsible for someone committing a crime I will not accept the allegation.
Thanks for reading.
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It's a fact that people fear or blime things that happen on something/someone/some event because they don't understand it. There was a time a few centuries ago where people were dieing buy some unknow poison so they started to fear it and by doing so they started pointing the finger at someone, in this case people who were a bit different. These people were labeled witchs and were exercuted because of the ignorance of the people. The same thing is happening to gamers and games, people who don't play games or don't like them label them as bad or evil just because there is violence in them.
Another point is there have been many wars and almost endless skermises in Britain since it was colenised thousands of years ago. From before the Romans to the Romans invading then barbarian tribes fighting then Normans and Vikings and the dam world wars, all before computer games were even invented so blaiming computer games for violence is IGNORANCE!
Funny thing is some games aren't violent like sport games and the sims so do computer games cource violence? no they don't.
BTW good post :)
Another point is there have been many wars and almost endless skermises in Britain since it was colenised thousands of years ago. From before the Romans to the Romans invading then barbarian tribes fighting then Normans and Vikings and the dam world wars, all before computer games were even invented so blaiming computer games for violence is IGNORANCE!
Funny thing is some games aren't violent like sport games and the sims so do computer games cource violence? no they don't.
BTW good post :)
yea, infact if somone did that with a special reserve magazine in the shot they might win the extra GAD prize
*puts on wrestler mask, grabs digital camera and SR magazine*
i'll be back in flash!
*puts on wrestler mask, grabs digital camera and SR magazine*
i'll be back in flash!
Yes, but a damn funny crime
Kyz22 wrote:
> So honestly, I think that games do not directly influence bad
> behaviour but they could influence accidents (i.e. people immitating
> wrestling moves or Tony Hawks tricks - but theres arent exactly crimes
> so it doesnt count.
well it would be a crime if someone ran down downing street and 'sleeper held' Tony Blaire until he passed out.
> So honestly, I think that games do not directly influence bad
> behaviour but they could influence accidents (i.e. people immitating
> wrestling moves or Tony Hawks tricks - but theres arent exactly crimes
> so it doesnt count.
well it would be a crime if someone ran down downing street and 'sleeper held' Tony Blaire until he passed out.
Political influences and criminal psychologists who wish to stay in a high position blame music/tv/games when they have no other explaination for some psycho commiting a crime. They visit the home of the offender and see Medal of Honor and assume he was a Nazi biggot, they see Super Monkey Ball and assume he was a fetishist and when they find John Prescott tied up in his loft covered in yoghurt they freak out.
So honestly, I think that games do not directly influence bad behaviour but they could influence accidents (i.e. people immitating wrestling moves or Tony Hawks tricks - but theres arent exactly crimes so it doesnt count.
So honestly, I think that games do not directly influence bad behaviour but they could influence accidents (i.e. people immitating wrestling moves or Tony Hawks tricks - but theres arent exactly crimes so it doesnt count.
Are video games responsible for our actions? Can people honestly say (and I mean honestly) that a video game influenced their behavior? For years people have blamed the music and film industries and now their starting on our beloved video game world. Well to an extent this can be true but lets look at the facts.
To be influenced by Playstation 2’s Rumble Racing you’d need to get a yellow rocket with wheels, launch yourself from a ramp or ditch, perform a double back flip, successfully land on the road, speed off ahead of the traffic and drop an giant novelty snowball on the road then unleash a tornado on the M6. Has anyone ever done that?
Or to be influenced by Mario, you’d need to be doing your plumbing job, you know fixing a toilet belonging to a woman named Peach, spot the pet tortoise Norman in the garden, jump out of the window screaming “hup whoop cookoo” at the top of your voice in and ac-cent that’s anything but Spanish, then land on poor fella with your butt, forcing him into his shell, kick the now petrified turtle over three fences with an aim like Beckham so he lands on a turtle killing them both. You’d then need to pop into you client Peach’s house and nick her Mr. Kipling of the sideboard. Has anyone ever don’t that?
What about the infamous Tony hawk? If someone wanted to press charges on you for performing a human dart grind around their (women in bikini filled) cruise ship then draining the pool, releasing a lifeboat and trashing their museum (causing a terrifying accident where a man cheats death and is flung overboard) all in under two minutes. Then you could say it was the games fault.
Lets not leave out Medal of Honor, has anyone ever tried to re-enact the storming on Normandy beach by running up Southend pier with a cap gun yelling “get to the frontline”, reached the no entry fence surrounding Peter Pan’s playground and planted explosives there, detonated them and then infiltrated the machine room for the Crooked house screaming “I am Jimmy Paterson, bow down before me!” Has that happened lately? No, it hasn’t, and I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime in the near future either.
Or our wonderful friend Solid Snake? Has it been in the news lately that a deranged Mesomorphic man with a extremely deep voice has run through Safeway under a cardboard box, grabbed one of the employed and sedated her then dragged her sleeping body to the ice-cream freezer and stuffed her in it? Did this person then crawl down isle five, retrieve a box of painkillers then attacked the docked trolleys with a S.A.M. missile to defend the world from the new ‘Metal Gear”? No, no he didn’t, because this has never happened either?
And finally has anyone taken Tekken to heart? Has anyone placed the hollowed out head of a leopard on their head and staged a series of fights in places around the world including the slums of China and even a three round fisticuffs match with a polar bear? Or a Japanese sword wielder named Yoshimitsu? No, nobody has done this either!
So none of these crimes (or absurdities) have actually been committed? Then why make the farfetched claim that video games influenced your behavior in a situation? Until REAL proof arises that a video game was responsible for someone committing a crime I will not accept the allegation.
Thanks for reading.
To be influenced by Playstation 2’s Rumble Racing you’d need to get a yellow rocket with wheels, launch yourself from a ramp or ditch, perform a double back flip, successfully land on the road, speed off ahead of the traffic and drop an giant novelty snowball on the road then unleash a tornado on the M6. Has anyone ever done that?
Or to be influenced by Mario, you’d need to be doing your plumbing job, you know fixing a toilet belonging to a woman named Peach, spot the pet tortoise Norman in the garden, jump out of the window screaming “hup whoop cookoo” at the top of your voice in and ac-cent that’s anything but Spanish, then land on poor fella with your butt, forcing him into his shell, kick the now petrified turtle over three fences with an aim like Beckham so he lands on a turtle killing them both. You’d then need to pop into you client Peach’s house and nick her Mr. Kipling of the sideboard. Has anyone ever don’t that?
What about the infamous Tony hawk? If someone wanted to press charges on you for performing a human dart grind around their (women in bikini filled) cruise ship then draining the pool, releasing a lifeboat and trashing their museum (causing a terrifying accident where a man cheats death and is flung overboard) all in under two minutes. Then you could say it was the games fault.
Lets not leave out Medal of Honor, has anyone ever tried to re-enact the storming on Normandy beach by running up Southend pier with a cap gun yelling “get to the frontline”, reached the no entry fence surrounding Peter Pan’s playground and planted explosives there, detonated them and then infiltrated the machine room for the Crooked house screaming “I am Jimmy Paterson, bow down before me!” Has that happened lately? No, it hasn’t, and I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime in the near future either.
Or our wonderful friend Solid Snake? Has it been in the news lately that a deranged Mesomorphic man with a extremely deep voice has run through Safeway under a cardboard box, grabbed one of the employed and sedated her then dragged her sleeping body to the ice-cream freezer and stuffed her in it? Did this person then crawl down isle five, retrieve a box of painkillers then attacked the docked trolleys with a S.A.M. missile to defend the world from the new ‘Metal Gear”? No, no he didn’t, because this has never happened either?
And finally has anyone taken Tekken to heart? Has anyone placed the hollowed out head of a leopard on their head and staged a series of fights in places around the world including the slums of China and even a three round fisticuffs match with a polar bear? Or a Japanese sword wielder named Yoshimitsu? No, nobody has done this either!
So none of these crimes (or absurdities) have actually been committed? Then why make the farfetched claim that video games influenced your behavior in a situation? Until REAL proof arises that a video game was responsible for someone committing a crime I will not accept the allegation.
Thanks for reading.
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