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Dec 24, 2017 9:42 PM

In other news.... Fox News isnt even real news. Who would have thunk it !!!

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I often envy that 3rd world countries don’t try to hide this from society

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Violence; if it doesn't solve all of your problems, you're not using enough of it.

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Even music contains violins.

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I saw The Slaughter of the Innocents a few months ago, it's fucking brutal.

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Forgot books, also music.

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It's like everyone has asked the question "What if I could kill people with no consequences?" and answered that by writing a story.

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It's like everyone has asked the question "What if I could kill people with no consequences?" and answered that by writing a story.

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It's like everyone has asked the question "What if I could kill people with no consequences?" and answered that by writing a story.

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Dam. That's deep

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Oh hey, the thing Video Gamers have pointed out since forever was depicted by a gaming comic... M'kay then.

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Violence begets... oh nevermind.

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This is a good way to describe how Europeans panic at the sight of violence in their media.

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Massacre of the Innocents is hardcore

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Awww humanity! You're tearing me apart! ;)

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We all played counter strike at 10 years old upwards but I don’t think we shoot people up because we know it’s a game

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My favorite. They will show terrible tragedies and horrific violence but bleep profanity, even on cable news.

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Not to mention the fetishistic detail they go into whenever a spree killing happens.

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Especially the news! Though they try to take it back in every newscast with a YouTube video of a Cat sorting mail or something...

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Iirc they try to tell one feel good story, To make it seams that the world isnt shitty.

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There is def some kind of a difference in video games when you choose/commit the violence, but if that's better or worse we have not studied

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Yes we have. A LOT. Video games don't make people violent. PERIOD.

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That is not what I am contending. I agree with your statement though.

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Wait! The internet has violence! Say it isnt so!

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The FCC thinks it does.

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I mean it does. Red rooms and whatnot

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What does Red rooms mean?

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Its a deep web live stream where you send money in to have someone torture someone else in a specific way.

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Does anyone actually complain about video games causing violence?

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they used to fo sho

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Every time a new GTA comes out

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My mom...

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Playing FIFA2018 didn't make me any better at soccer...

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Yep, had a professor who believes this.

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It was all the rage when Mortal Kombat and GTA first came out.

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There is a study that connected terrible play control to increasing violence in immediate behavior, but that's it. Not violent content.

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These days it's all about making them sexists and nazis. Get with the times man!

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My Aunt did yesterday

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Not since avocado toast

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Yeah, my mum..

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now days they are said to cause violence, misogyny, autism, and anger issues. only one of those are actually true

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They moved on to "video games cause misogyny". Same story, different accusation.

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gamergate and that one sarkissian chick right?

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Yeap. Just because gaming journalism was caught with its pants down.

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Welcome to Germany...

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Shot in the dark here: you're in your early 20s or younger? Because holy shit that was all they blamed after Columbine.

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Not as much as the 90s to early 2000s.

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Hoo boy, you must be a young one. Let me sing you the Ballad of Jack Thompson.

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Have you lived under a rock?

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I've seen so many people talk about it but only ever "omg everyone thinks videogames cause violence when then don't". Never seen anyone

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actually say they think it does to my face.

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yes. i know people who wont let their kids play any games because they believe this.

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That could make them violent

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that will definitely make them violent

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In the 90s it was a huge political issue manufactured by the media saying that games make kids violent, but then science said no and a ->

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-> nutjob lawyer took up the cause, so everyone eventually got sick of it and when the nutjob was disbarred it more or less ended.

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Nt since we killed them all

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Incredible violence is always the answer!

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"Violence is not the answer. Violence is the question, and the answer is yes: -Gandhi

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In further news, memes also contain violance

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We will use violence to seize the memes of production!

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That green frog is more sinister than it appears

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Especially the comments on the meme.

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Violance: a violin lance

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Cool cool violence. All the cool kids are doing it. And drugs. They do drugs too.

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*violins

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And the comments even! Oh Mary mother of jesus cover your eyes children!

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Yes but videogames are the dangerous ones because they're newer

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Newer than real life and the news?

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It’s like parents are blaming new things for how shitty their kids turn out to avoid the responsibility or something.

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You've just established actual violence is the least dangerous because it's the oldest!

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It's because the people moaning don't play the games, like the way the people moaning didn't watch the films.

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Almost like it suits them to blame other peoples hobbies for the ills of society.

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Ok if some kid plays COD or GTA then thinks it's ok to go grab a weapon and kill people it's not the game, the kids insane to begin with.

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Also the parent's fault for giving them a game they aren't mature enough to handle.

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And letting them have unfettered access to firearms, which is always suspiciously unmentioned in the news articles.

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This.

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Seriously, "the 7 year old set down GTA5, picked up a gun, then shot his grandma." The game should NOT be the focus here.

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Ackchyually the core of their argument revolves around the fact that to perform the virtual violence there is a requirement of direct

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involvement from the player rather than passive observation. Its a fallacious argument responded to by we in the industry with the fact that

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You could say the same for everyone involved in the creation of movies.

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those guys are retarded.

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Sounds like more of a hypothesis than an argument. As does your contention. Got data?

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only those with pre-existing mental instabilities lack the capability to discern the differences between virtual and real world actions.

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I kinda see it like how kids used to pretend shoot each other playing Cowboy & Indian only there's a screen & less imagination & racism. Lol

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My thoughts always been then why aren't there dozens of columbines every day if that's the case.

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Violent video games are directly correlated with increased god damn time to myself

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Holy shit I feel smarter now

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And yet when I tell people I know shit about games design they give me that stupid fuckin ron burgundy meme with the cig. Bitch. I know.

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There are however many other health risks. Usually only from excessive use. Like most things in life.

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Whereas when played in moderation, gaming can improve memory & hand/eye coordination.

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Yeah, heh, Ive read those stories about guys whove played WoW for days non-stop and then died. The thing about that is not what they were

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Same arguments were made against tabletop games such as D&D also

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Well, lots of satanic complaints there. Witchcraft and so forth. Likewise against Harry fucking Potter as well.

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Graphically violent books also require direct action by you turning the page and no one gives a shit...

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My mom says video games cause those

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Im sure she does young person, but as far as I know its chemical inbalences in the brain that causes the imbalance, not outside activity.

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