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"The opposite of Violence"

'Games create violence' - we all know that old chestnut. I, on the other hand, have a very different view.

Games, in my opinion, create a peaceful atmosphere and even help you to lose all that anger and frustration by taking it out on fantasy based character.

Come home from work wanting to throttle the boss? Why not pretend he's bowser or Dr Robotnik? You can certainly give him a good hiding from the comfort of your own room and not have to worry about losing your job either! Or even better, you could play on-line and defeat a real opponent in Quake III or Unreal Tornament. You could take it one step further and stop wars by letting world leaders sit down and play a game to eradicate their anger. I'm sure russia would probably be quite happy competing in a game of Tetris.

So you can shoot terrorists in a game? Surely this is much better than going down the pub, drinking 10 pints and then smashing someone over the head or causing damage to some old ladies lawn? It has the bonus of getting rid of all that stress and being a fun and fairly safe way to do it too.

There are bound to be a few exceptions. Obviously fights might break out while indulging in multiplayer Goldeneye, but what's a few less limbs among friends?* More often than not you'll all have a good time and the winner will have to provide the next round of drinks, all in the name of entertainment.

So much for violence, computer games are there to make are lives better and prevent us from getting far too wrapped up in the outside world.



* I do not encourage this type of violence, it will only end in tears before beadtime you know!

SNIPER is asking for Ant?

people are thanking Grix? Whats happening around here, this topic has made us crazy! Maybe the effect of playing games!! Lets talk about it!

lol... cheers Grix :)

ant?

well er, i think mine is going to lay this topic to rest for a few months, as it seems never to be stopping and there have been sooo ant gameaday winners from the past for violence and all that.

comeon guys lets change the record,(after reading my opinion.)

He won.

Dont worry Dringo...

Happens all the time... swings and roundabouts and all that...

Same thing happened to me with one of the Insane Bartender posts...

whatever did happen to him?

I haven't won in 4 months, and it's darn strange.

VenomByte wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> Yes well done in winning but i feel a little
> hard done by as i wrote
> a very similar thing about Video game
> violence on saturday in the
> does video games cause violence
> forum but hey thats democracy

Erm.....the democratic principle
> taken literally perhaps - 'One man, one vote' in total rather than
> each.

Erm ok im scared it was more of a dissapointing feeling and anyway i was talking about freedom of speech

I usually write better topics than this, I know. It was a fit of having nothing to do and wanting to post something, mixed with what I said earlier about formatting the post in order to experiment with the type of thing they pick.

Mind you, I haven't won since December because they don't usually pick serious posts as a rule and most of the time I usually let everyone else get on with the original stuff and just respond to theirs. I'm happy just to post on the forum most of the time and listen to what everyone else has to say.

Must have been a slow day, as you say.

Sorry, didn't mean to have a go at you PB, just wondering why when I wrote it (virtually the same) I didn't win for it but when it's retyped at another time (therefore not being original) it wins!

Well done for winning BTW!

I've won 4 games already so I'm not trying to stop anyone else from winning (unless they've copied something word-for-word)