Violent video game is now linked to 4 teenage deaths
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Recently been playing Far cry 3 quite a bit. I still don't have the temptation to tattoo myself and run round a jungle offing pirates and injecting home made drugs into my arm.
Also still play skyrim quite a lot, I do have the desire to become the dragonborn and to have to ability to shout people into oblivion, so perhaps they have a point.....
It's all too easy to blame a game instead of just saying these kids had their own mental demons that would come to the surface without any media stimulation.
Also still play skyrim quite a lot, I do have the desire to become the dragonborn and to have to ability to shout people into oblivion, so perhaps they have a point.....
It's all too easy to blame a game instead of just saying these kids had their own mental demons that would come to the surface without any media stimulation.
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I have just watched EastEnders and I now and to kill myself, help.
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To say video games influences kids' behaviour is ridiculous. If that was true my generation would have spent their youth milling about darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music....
Oh, wait...
Oh, wait...
No of course it is rubbish to expect there to be no impact. There are actually proven massive educational and social gains to be had from people who game.
Look up TED talk on gaming for the piece I am think of.
The average gamer will have spent 10,000 hours playing games where they are encouraged to discover the following:
a) They personally are capable of achieving Epic Wins, which is shown to be incredibly positive to their goal setting and drive.
b) They collaborate with others and understand how to subdivide challenges to achieve goals.
c) They have the ability to commit large amounts of time to specific projects to achieve their goals - far from the insta-reward culture that has been feared these people are happy to grind to get what they want.
d) It has now been scientifically proven that a gamer is over 1100 times less likely to commit suicide than their peers.
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Which of course couldn't have anything to do with them having a low blood sugar level. Or not having been given a goal driven environment at home, or the adults around letting the get away with having a strop after being told to stop doing what they were enjoying doing. Try taking any kid away from what they want and chances are they will be stroppy for a few minutes.
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My wife has been a teacher specialising in the age group from 10-13 for 10 years and is currently doing her masters on Game use in teaching. People have been learning through games since the invention of Chess. So gaming in general terms is an excellent idea. Of course there can be negative effects too - but I think most of these are largely down to a cultural shift where Parents largely both have to work and are using TV and games as a baby sitting tool without having any understanding of what is happening or what the risks are. This makes it prime Daily mail territory. Where it's readers don't understand the subject matter, can't be bothered to find out the facts and can be easily made afraid by scaremongering extremist nazi loving grrrrrr.
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That's the only kind of journalism these days? everyone seems to have an angle
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tosh, bet you they have facebook accounts, a quick trawl through those might shed some light on the situation.
violent videogames doesn't nessecarily correlate with real violence, although it may act as a channel for the already unstable, there were violent murders and suicides before computers were invented and there will be [sadly admittedly] many more to come.
i do somewhat agree with the age rating though, to stop people getting too far into these things before they're old enough to clearly establish boundaries between whats real and whats not. i recall once seeing a kid in a game store with his grandparents asking for san andreas, he wasn't even old enough to be able to pronounce it properly and that aint right.
as a point of interest it seems to me, even within my lifetime, that age ratings have been getting more slack. i recall watching the evil dead 3 as a kid and compare that with its puppet skeletons to for example skyrim and it's draugr. one's 18 and the other's 15.
violent videogames doesn't nessecarily correlate with real violence, although it may act as a channel for the already unstable, there were violent murders and suicides before computers were invented and there will be [sadly admittedly] many more to come.
i do somewhat agree with the age rating though, to stop people getting too far into these things before they're old enough to clearly establish boundaries between whats real and whats not. i recall once seeing a kid in a game store with his grandparents asking for san andreas, he wasn't even old enough to be able to pronounce it properly and that aint right.
as a point of interest it seems to me, even within my lifetime, that age ratings have been getting more slack. i recall watching the evil dead 3 as a kid and compare that with its puppet skeletons to for example skyrim and it's draugr. one's 18 and the other's 15.
I totally forgot about Sonic on the news back in the 90s. Wasn't there stories of them complaining it was causing seizures/epileptic fits? One thing I did notice when I was playing it around 10 - 12 and friends, we all became really hyper after a few hours on it. Like too much coffee.
Don't be daft!
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Can't we make an official ***Daily Mail Moaning thread*** so it can be condensed into one abomination of hatred, rather than having to think your about to read something interesting, only to find it's dross produced by that cesspit of a tabloid.
I would say yes for most newspapers, which is the main reason I never read any of them. If you source your news intelligently from multiple sources then you can cancel out the opinion journalism side. For example. You see something on BBC News TV. The BBC is normally pretty neutral and reliable, but if you're in doubt, a quick google search will throw up the same story from different perspectives. By doing this you can usually get closer to the truth. Newspapers though are the last place to look for the actual truth.
(Yes I realise it doesn't quite work like that)
But you do realise that in order to make a news story, it does work like that.
