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by The Legion of War » Sat May 04, 2013 9:08 pm
by Des-Bal » Sat May 04, 2013 9:17 pm
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by The Corparation » Sat May 04, 2013 9:19 pm
Des-Bal wrote:I remember the first time I committed an act of violence because of a game. I was six and I headbutted another boy because he was cheating at Uno. The lesson here is that the catalyst is irrelevant, the issue is a lack of supervision and parenting in general.
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by Des-Bal » Sat May 04, 2013 9:23 pm
The Corparation wrote:I think we can all agree here that the bets lesson to draw from this is that we should ban Uno. And card games in general.
Cekoviu wrote:DES-BAL: Introverted, blunt, focused, utilitarian. Hard to read; not verbose online or likely in real life. Places little emphasis on interpersonal relationships, particularly with online strangers for whom the investment would outweigh the returns.
Desired perception: Logical, intellectual
Public perception: Neutral-positive - blunt, cold, logical, skilled at debating
Mindset: Logos
by United Kingdom of Muffins » Sat May 04, 2013 9:26 pm
Saint Jade IV wrote:Gauthier wrote:
The gladiator games were just a quick fix to cover up how the whole empire was rotting. The term "bread and circuses" comes from the habit of giving away bread and having gladiator games to keep the public distracted.
You would think people would actually know their history before posting "facts".
by The Corparation » Sat May 04, 2013 9:30 pm
Des-Bal wrote:The Corparation wrote:I think we can all agree here that the bets lesson to draw from this is that we should ban Uno. And card games in general.
Not before we ban monopoly. I have seen exactly two people get their noses broken and both times were during games of monopoly. I would wager Monopoly is right up there with crack and rabies for "reasons people bite other people."
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by Qazox » Sat May 04, 2013 9:47 pm
by Liriena » Sat May 04, 2013 9:56 pm
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by Liriena » Sat May 04, 2013 9:56 pm
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by Grocery Store Music » Sat May 04, 2013 10:02 pm
by Rationallia » Sat May 04, 2013 10:13 pm
Tells you a lot about that kid's parents, huh?
by Des-Bal » Sat May 04, 2013 10:14 pm
Rationallia wrote:
Who's parents are you talking about? The slasher's or the victim's?
Either way, it doesn't tell us lot's about them.
Cekoviu wrote:DES-BAL: Introverted, blunt, focused, utilitarian. Hard to read; not verbose online or likely in real life. Places little emphasis on interpersonal relationships, particularly with online strangers for whom the investment would outweigh the returns.
Desired perception: Logical, intellectual
Public perception: Neutral-positive - blunt, cold, logical, skilled at debating
Mindset: Logos
by The God-Realm » Sat May 04, 2013 10:14 pm
Grocery Store Music wrote:Probably won't be the last victim of that kid's rage.
by Ragnarsdomr » Sat May 04, 2013 10:18 pm
Des-Bal wrote:The Corparation wrote:I think we can all agree here that the bets lesson to draw from this is that we should ban Uno. And card games in general.
Not before we ban monopoly. I have seen exactly two people get their noses broken and both times were during games of monopoly. I would wager Monopoly is right up there with crack and rabies for "reasons people bite other people."
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by Rationallia » Sat May 04, 2013 10:22 pm
by Rationallia » Sat May 04, 2013 10:32 pm
Ragnarsdomr wrote:Des-Bal wrote:
Not before we ban monopoly. I have seen exactly two people get their noses broken and both times were during games of monopoly. I would wager Monopoly is right up there with crack and rabies for "reasons people bite other people."
Not before we ban Diplomacy. It's my expert opinion as a Board Game Violence-ologist that Diplomacy has caused at least 132% of all wars waged since its inception, and that 54% of all civilian murders can be brought back to conflict between Russian and Turkish players. 96% of STI transmissions can be attributed to 'enhanced bargaining' during intermissions, and 67% of all illegal weapon purchases later used in at least one murder have occurred within 24 hours of the purchaser losing to Austro-Hungary.
That's before we get into its later-life influence on rates of fraud, blackmail, incest, bestiality, and incestuous bestiality used to commit blackmail against fraudsters.
by The Sector Union » Sun May 05, 2013 12:15 am
by Nationalist State of Knox » Sun May 05, 2013 12:24 am
The Sector Union wrote:Another story that makes me afraid of human beings even more. Seriously, what's with the usage of a knife in Britain?
If guns were legal in the UK, would these crimes most likely involve a gun?
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by Sedikal » Sun May 05, 2013 12:25 am
by The Sector Union » Sun May 05, 2013 12:33 am
Sedikal wrote:Honestly why would you buy a 13 year old an M rated game? Expecislly with the content gears has. It not a bad by a long shot but yeah young kids are impressionable and will try stupid things because they saw them and this is not the games fault as a whole but only a part of it. That said the parents should have noticed something I mean there must have been some sort of mental issues around before hand. But again it may have not be prevalent enough to notice right away. There was probably a lot going besides the game and the argument that would have lead to this event.
by Saint Jade IV » Sun May 05, 2013 12:39 am
Soldati senza confini wrote:Saint Jade IV wrote:
Negative outcomes can run a whole spectrum. Some people don't even realise it's happened to them. Some people grow out of the problems.
Negative outcomes also don't mean that one is a bad person, you know.
You really think it makes someone a bad parent to not allow a 13 year old to pretend to kill people in realistic ways?
You really think that parents shouldn't inform themselves about the nature of the games their children are playing, and consider whether they are age appropriate or not?
I know plenty of parents who won't let their kids watch movies like "Saving Private Ryan" or "Three Kings" for example, but have no issue with them playing video games which are just as violent, because they are unaware of the content, the improvements in graphics over the last 20 or so years, and the level of interaction that players are now capable of. Their argument is, "They're just games."
I think my parents would have been aware of any negative consequences videogames would have brought to my lifestyle.
Soldati senza confini wrote:And negative outcomes, in all cases, it usually means it has warped a person's mind in a negative way. So would you kindly explain how that isn't a bad outcome? And how wouldn't that be discernible?
Soldati senza confini wrote:No, I just think it's stupid to think videogame violence = real life violence. It doesn't work like that if the parents educate the child about the games. I would let my children play any kind of games, but I would have a talk with them to not be idiots and attempt these things out of videogames, which is what a parent should be doing anyways, fucking educating their children instead of thinking their children can do nothing wrong.
Soldati senza confini wrote:I have watched and played violent videogames and movies since I was a child, and there is still not that correlation, so I don't see what the point is of saying "oh no! We should ban all games from children's consumption!" Please, like children are stupid.
Soldati senza confini wrote:Also, as for your snarky comments, I know I am not very social. Do you really think I care? Absolutely not, but I don't blame my lack of social skills to playing videogames, I correlate them to my bad experiences with people.
Soldati senza confini wrote:And I am not so shallow as to think I am perfect, which is of course, another thing you should be teaching your children anyways. I am humble enough to not think I am perfect unlike some people in here.
Soldati senza confini wrote:However, I can't think of a single negative correlation between videogames and IRL violence in my case, and I have asked the same thing to other gamers who say the same thing, therefore it isn't just a group of us who turned out to be fine.
Soldati senza confini wrote:As for the "life" inference, you may think that, however nobody is entitled to have life just handed to them. No way in the history of the world has it been that way that we can be efficient at everything we can possibly do. We are just better at certain things and we suck at others but that's life. We don't live in this fairy-tale world where candy canes and blankets are there for us whenever we need them. Life is cruel, and we just have to work around the bad things and move on.
by Saint Jade IV » Sun May 05, 2013 12:40 am
Gauthier wrote:Ifreann wrote:Really, people need to be a less sensitive about suggestions that the content of games can be bad for younger kids instead of jumping right to "Oh, well I didn't turn into a homicidal maniac!" shtick, as though someone somewhere was actually saying something that absurd.
It's like someone complaining about showing porn to kids and then someone else jumping in with "I watched porn when I was a kid and *I* didn't turn into a rapist!"
by Grocery Store Music » Sun May 05, 2013 12:41 am
by Saint Jade IV » Sun May 05, 2013 12:44 am
Costa Alegria wrote:Saint Jade IV wrote:It's not necessarily the fact from fiction. I just think it's somewhat unnecessary to expose them to the ultra-realistic violence in these video games so young.
Oh please. You've got kids going around stabbing other people and pretending to be gangsters at that age without the help of video games. Violence is something kids will inevitably see and experience at any time of their life and sometimes commit it themselves.
by Vitaphone Racing » Sun May 05, 2013 12:49 am
Saint Jade IV wrote:Gauthier wrote:
It's like someone complaining about showing porn to kids and then someone else jumping in with "I watched porn when I was a kid and *I* didn't turn into a rapist!"
It's like that's the only possible negative outcome from viewing age-inappropriate content.
That's the problem with some people. They think in extremes.
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