UK PM 'worried' about games - Thread in Speaker's Corner

Violent Games = Violent Players = Violent Community = Violent Towns = Violent Countries.

All crime within the last 24 years can be attributed to video games.

FACT!
 
~J~ said:
Violent Games = Violent Players = Violent Community = Violent Towns = Violent Countries.

All crime within the last 24 years can be attributed to video games.

FACT!
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Come off it, no-one has said any such thing. Oh and first person to say something along the lines of "I've been playing violent video games since I was 3 years old and I haven't killed anyone" gets a prize :p
 
Yep. Games have been around a lot longer which was clearly the reason for 2 World Wars, the American Civil War and the French Revolution.
Video games were also behind the incident in Chernobyl I heard.
 
scorza said:
Come off it, no-one has said any such thing. Oh and first person to say something along the lines of "I've been playing violent video games since I was 3 years old and I haven't killed anyone" gets a prize :p
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I have a feeling ~J~ was being silly ;)

Anyway, I've been playing violent video games since I was 3 years old and I haven't killed anyone!





Today
 
I happened to turn on BBC 1 at the wrong time and caught "Newsround". They were saying how they want to teach boxing in schools. I really don't understand this country one bit. I would say Nanny Britain but it's becoming a Natty state in other places as well.
 
So, his problem isn't that we're becoming violent by playing these games. It's that we're becoming violent but at the same time learning the skills to avoid detection! :p
 
At the risk of being shot down in flames, I do think there needs to be a greater deal of caution with games now, than when I/we grew up. I think there is a bigger sense of immersion and realism with violent games - just compare GTA1 to GTA4. Even GTA3, in 3D and far more realistic than GTA1, had a cartoony edge that I felt was lost by GTA:SA.

I don't believe violent games turn children into killers, but where I was allowed to play GTA1 before I was 18, I wouldn't let my children play the latest incarnation of it.

It just takes common sense off parents, surely? Along with responsible retailing.
 
Jihad said:
I threw down a Groovitron in town the other day and proceeded to kill the people stuck dancing.

True story.
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Shoulda turned them into penguins first and got animal rights involved lol!!

There was some kinda survey being done by the goverment a while back asking for gamers feedback on some questions, wonder if this has anything to do with that?
 
Its always the same, blame something/someone else rather than the parents/society. Its worrying now pretty much every stabbing or murder you see in the scandel rags has a picture of a game with it (this week they used manhunt) If people are so influenced by games why dont we see people jumping on mushrooms and collecting floating coins, it seems only the violent games are the ones which these morons alledgedly copy. Which says something about their state of mind in the first place
 
scorza said:
Come off it, no-one has said any such thing. Oh and first person to say something along the lines of "I've been playing violent video games since I was 3 years old and I haven't killed anyone" gets a prize :p
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I've been playing Mario since I was 3, you don't see me getting violent, running around, eating mushrooms, growing big, destroying any hovering brick blocks, throwing fireballs at tortoises and stepping on migets / mushroom people.

Pfff.
 
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