The Energon Pub

Air Raid wrote:I think that blaming videogames is a bit of a cop out. I'm not a big fan of violent games. I dont want to take them away from the people who like them. Besides, there are a lot of worse things out there. Take mainstream hip-hop, You listen to 85% of any rap song made in the last ten years you hear about gang violence, materialism, and how they treat black women, those uncut videos are the worst, its pracically pornography. It also condones a lot of stereotypes about black people. Its just another ugly part of african american culture that we'll have to clean up.

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:

Tammuz wrote:i've played some very violent video games, hell i remember when Mortal Kombat came out and the red pixels cuased a stir(even though you had to use a cheat to make them appear). i played through most of the resident evils, killed millions in the dynasty warriors franchise, my parent's didn't beleive in age restrictions so i got to see Alien(and it's sequels), pretty much every Arnie film (total recall rules), Robocop(verhoeven again), the Mad max trilogy, and gremlins when i was maybe half as old as the age restrictions.

I'm never killed anyone in real life, i've never handled a weapon, the only proper fight(i.e. ones that don't involve me holding people back) i've been in was a mugging where i really wasn't in the mood for a 5ft crackhead to steal my wallet.

i think video games can make people angry and frustrated and that people of a violent dispotion will vent this anger and frustration violently, if someone's been brought up to lash out when angy then of course they are going to lash out when angry.

if a child can't tell the difference between vido games and real life then the pearent has really **** their child

I was raised the same way. I had no age restrictions. I watched violent movies, violent cartoons/anime, read violent books, listened to 'objectionable' music ( GWAR rules! ), played violent games, and played with toy guns that actually looked like guns ( including toy guns without the faggy orange tip ), and guess what folks, I think I came out alright.

No criminal record, not even a traffic ticket. And this was BEFORE they started treating the sales of video games like the sales of booze.

The ones to get hurt, killed or arrested are often the ones that get sheltered and censored all the time. Look at Rodd and Todd Flanders on the Simpsons. Like Lisa said, "Those two will get eaten alive in middle school." In real life, Rodd and Todd will either end up machine gunning their classmates after getting their asses kicked on a daily basis, have a meth lab in the basement, or hang themselves at 17.

*goes to play some Hexen*

Shadowman wrote:

Air Raid wrote:I think that blaming videogames is a bit of a cop out. I'm not a big fan of violent games. I dont want to take them away from the people who like them. Besides, there are a lot of worse things out there. Take mainstream hip-hop, You listen to 85% of any rap song made in the last ten years you hear about gang violence, materialism, and how they treat black women, those uncut videos are the worst, its pracically pornography. It also condones a lot of stereotypes about black people. Its just another ugly part of african american culture that we'll have to clean up.

Also, they use terrible English.

I'm a grammar prick!