Flight Simulators Caused 9/11... Wait what?

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The basic argument is creating conflict with a media medium, to stop the media medium from being a medium for conflict.

If you get that... kudos to you.
 
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The basic argument is creating conflict with a media medium, to stop the media medium from being a medium for conflict.

If you get that... kudos to you.
Translation: shifting the focus from the Media to our media (games)

Games don't create psychos, games make psychos more creative.
 

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I miss the days before video games, T.V. or any other media exhisted. It was so great, there were no murders, no violence at all back then. Good times.We're preaching to the choir you know
 
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They need to make a Holocaust-Tycoon game.
 
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And sex. Don't forget sex.
Can never forget sex. Or drugs for that matter.

Because there isn't any sex drugs or violence on T.V.

I agree with hybrid, I want to live in the 1950's again.
 
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There was no sex before video games. True story. Ask your parents.
 
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Well remember how we banned Rock and Roll for causing violence after all the hearings on it? Oh wait we didnt.

Well how about when we banned comic books for the same thing? Oh right that never happened either.


Well uhh they will get it this time!
 
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I know for a fact that if all video games were banned, this country's crime rate would plummet.

I base this on mountains of evidence, mind you.

But seriously, most people can differentiate between real life and fake violence. I hear gun shots in a shooter or GTA, I look around for the person to shoot. I was once within 50 feet of two real gun shots and ran my ass out of there. When games get to the point where they completely mimic real life, well that's a different story...

But I do believe, that in the hands of the mentally unstable, that video games can negatively influence them some how. But they shouldn't be playing with them anyway.
 
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Look guys, they are making a strong point here. Violence was CREATED by the game companies. I know a guy who stormed the beaches of normandy and he said the nazis tried to tickle them off the beaches. When the journalists got a hold of the guys afterwords, they laghingly said, "Oh man, it was hell." And the press ran with it and started making games like Call of Duty. The media is right, if it wasn't for games, the idea of having sex and killing people wouldnt even exist in the human brain, which desires only to tickle with fingers, not bullets.
 

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There was no sex before video games. True story. Ask your parents.
In entertainment, yes, there was sex, but only if you were looking for it. The first video game was made in the mid to late 1960's, but there have been pornographic movies, magazines, etcetera, prior to that date.

I know for a fact that if all video games were banned, this country's crime rate would plummet.

I base this one mountains of evidence, mind you.
Can you provide this evidence?
 
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Can you provide this evidence?
Pffft hell yeah.

Guy gets murdered on 15th street because of a dispute.

I have seen people fight over a video game.

Therefore, that MUST mean the fight started because of a videogame. However, the person got the idea to use a gun in a fight from GTA. How do I know this? Because you can do the exact same thing in GTA that the murderer did. Chances are, if the murderer never played GTA, he would have never even considered using a weapon.

Oh, and forget anything about "nurture and nature" behavioral effects. Video games are the source. It's so obvious.

I hope you know everything I said without saying "but seriously" is sarcastic, right?
 
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In entertainment, yes, there was sex, but only if you were looking for it. The first video game was made in the mid to late 1960's, but there have been pornographic movies, magazines, etcetera, prior to that date.


Can you provide this evidence?
MC, I invite you to google the word sarcasm. It would do you wonders, especially in this thread. ;)
 

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MC, I invite you to google the word sarcasm. It would do you wonders, especially in this thread. ;)
I have difficulty noticing sarcasm when it's used over the internet, but to me, Chakra-X's sarcasm wasn't obvious to me. Not to mention that there has been studies that concluded that violent video games have caused a rise in the crime rate, but from what I last read, that was proven false, and that violent crimes have actually declined.
 
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I have difficulty noticing sarcasm when it's used over the internet, but to me, Chakra-X's sarcasm wasn't obvious to me. Not to mention that there has been studies that concluded that violent video games have caused a rise in the crime rate, but from what I last read, that was proven false, and that violent crimes have actually declined.
It's actually quite easy to find sarcasm. o_O

This entire thread is one giant piece of juicy sarcasm.

They're not going to ban games, they're not going to limit them. The crime rate will sky rocket if games are banned. Where else are we going to vent our anger. If someones mentally unstable and they play a video game. That's completely different then someone who is actually sane.

I've heard a real gun shot before. And let me tell you, I was deaf for 5 minutes afterwards. It's loud, it suprises the **** out of you.

There is a very very very large line between RL and games.
 
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Heh yeah no one really takes this argument seriously. Even in the government they laugh this stuff out of court and what not.

When your headed by crazy old men no one takes you too seriously.



Also food for thought

They did studies for video games causing violence in kids and the studies found that the kids who played video games had less violent tendencies then kids who did not.
 
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"You are what you pretend to be"

Ah hell yeah. That' means I'm currently a punk rock bard who can control wind and wears pink power ranger armor. **** yeah.
 
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Is it windy in here, or was it just that link? Seriously, if these people didn't have something to complain about (TV, video games, pornography), their heads would explode.
 

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