• Study Finds Violent Games Reduce Violence – Hmmmm
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Yeah no fuckin shit. The idea that someone who plays violent videogames would be more likely to beat someone up is just retarded.
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;39585276]Yeah no fuckin shit. The idea that someone who plays violent videogames would be more likely to beat someone up is just retarded.[/QUOTE] But the opposite doesn't hold necessarily true either.
Violent video games can be a great way to take out your anger in a way that wont get real people hurt/yourself put in jail.
I play violent games and the only thing I'm thinking is that I really, [B]really[/B] wouldn't want to experience this for real.
I'm really getting tired of the whole "When you look at charts of X and Y over time they match sometimes! X causes Y!!!" It works in some cases but when it comes to videogames=violence I'd like to see some actual tests, like take a couple hundred people as a population sample and have half of them play violent video games, then follow up with psychological tests and such. Also look at how fucking chilled that guy who's getting beaten up looks, doesn't even give a shit [t]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/13/feb/lence1.jpg[/t] must've been playing them battlefields and sniper elites, that one
Why is this still a topic Video games have nothing to do with violent behaviour in real life, its just being mentally insane that makes people do these things If they ban all violent games then insane people will look to movies, books or just history
[QUOTE=Nemisis116;39585750]Why is this still a topic Video games have nothing to do with violent behaviour in real life, its just being mentally insane that makes people do these things If they ban all violent games then insane people will look to movies, books or just history[/QUOTE] old men, running the world.
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