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"DO VIDEOGAMES MAKE YOU VIOLENT"

Do videogames make you violent??? The media always tell us that videogames somehow warp us, and make us violent people.
Its true everytime I play Goldeneye on the N64 I just want to go down the road shooting anything that moves, headshots being desirable..but sarcasm aside.. do videogames make you violent,

This is a particularly relevant topic with so many of you playing GTA, so do you all feel like being a major Drug Baron, earning money on the side through prostitution, loan sharking, and selling Playstation2s on the black market???

Do videogames make you violent??? The media always tell us that videogames somehow warp us, and make us violent people.
Its true everytime I play Goldeneye on the N64 I just want to go down the road shooting anything that moves, headshots being desirable..but sarcasm aside.. do videogames make you violent,

This is a particularly relevant topic with so many of you playing GTA, so do you all feel like being a major Drug Baron, earning money on the side through prostitution, loan sharking, and selling Playstation2s on the black market???

some games make me more aggressive, but it's not games where I kill other people it's usually games like Zelda and Diddy Kong Racing, when i can't get past a certain challenge, this challenge might take me about an hour to finish, thats what makes me angry, it's all part of playing those type of games I guess.
Your thinking about Americans, they see people getting shot on games and get their dad's gun and take it to school, over here we just play games and laugh. well I do, don't know if you have any first hand experience on this.

It's true that when I see Hari Krishna's I want to mow them down with a Jugular XJ6, but then who doesn't? I always have this irrepressible urge to bounce on crabs when I'm walking on the beach and paint myself blue and put spikes on my back when singing "Five gold rings" at Christmas time too, but then that's not really violent. I suppose the worst inclination is to shout "Who's footprints are these?" when it's snowing and then to sneak up on people and snap their necks, especially if they are wearing white Parkas and carrying AK-47 rifles and a few grenades, but I've never quite got around to doing it because there's never enough snow. Does that answer your question?

no, that comes from playing too much 'Barbie Race and Ride.'

Must......killllll......Barbie.....aaaaaaarghhhhh!

That's a stupid question to ask jim!
How can games make you violent when it's virtual reality!
You can do whatever you want in it, nobody will stop you except a few guards and some policeman but never will it make me violent.

We get into a virtual world everyday, it's just some ideas, people try to put in, which you can't do in real life.

Annoying pubecent boys make me want to hurt them.


Games don't. So don't believe any of that pap that "scientists" have "researched throughly".

The idea is that the adrenyline from playing games can add to an already violent nature to excite the person enough to commit violence in real life. I believe that only naturally violent people (i.e those who have a problem keeping their anger inside them and end up inflicting it on others) would normally be affected by such games, and even then it would have to be at a time that they were already feeling violent anyway.

But that's just one opinion.

that is so true, but then the ordinary person has been known to have on the spot homicidal impulses, i dont know if violent games can be blamed...ah hell lets face it they cant, they are designed with fun in mind, not maliciousness.

well, its been fun, but i must go, byebye all