Thing is though, all the argument about "oh violent video games make people violent" is really a load of crap, it's all down to the individual that's playing them, I've been playing violent video games, and watching violent tv all of my life and I personally don't like violence (in real life that is, I'm quite happy to spend hours beating old ladies to pulp with a baseball bat in GTA games).
And what REALLY annoys me is when they say stuff like "little jimmy killed his younger brother after playing [insert violent game here]" and the parents try to sue the companies, it doesn't occure to them that the age rating is there for a reason.....dumb parents really.
What I find really funny though is when they contribute all of the violence around down to tv and games as if violence is a new thing "ZOMG!! wurld wor 1 an 2 wer du to violent games being made in da future!". That's right folks, violence didn't exist until games were made, you heard it here first at ESF-News, breath taking revealments at affordable prices.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-12-01&res=l
The comic is from last year but shows how stupid people can be.
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In fact, it's amazing what people try to pin on video games, even if it's not violence. At one point there was this thing about a guy dying after playing video games, he was a known epileptic that had fits from watching tv sometimes, and he died after having a rather bad fit after
having played whatever Nintendo console he had for over 24 hours straight! There's even a warning in the front of every manual that says to take 15min breaks every hour! Clearly his fault. What's his mother go and do? tries to sue Nintendo.....yes....like that would ever have worked.
I apologise if I went on a bit and maybe a bit off-topic but I really hate the whole games = violence thing.