...Do have anything to prove this, or is this just an assumption? Because this seems like quite the conclusion to leap to.
Besides, as I've mentioned before, video game violence is so separate and distinct from actual violence that you'd have to be disturbed in the first place to confuse the two. I'm not usually one to link to Jim Sterling, but he made a video that tackled the topic pretty well.
Yeah, I don't buy this.
First of all, do you have any proof that children are more engaged with online gaming than with their parents? I don't doubt it can happen in some cases, but claiming that it's a consistent, nationwide trend requires some evidence.
Secondly, if this is producing people more prone to violence... well, why is violent crime still on the decline? If your claim was true, shouldn't we be seeing more violence, not less? Here's just one graph illustrating this point.
As awful as this crime was, I think it's worth remembering that it's an increasingly rare exception, not the rule.
Why do we have threads like this on a gaming / tech forum? I don't get it.
Yeah, rape's bad but goddamn. Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't care about this, but I don't visit GBAtemp to read about real world events :V
Exactly. All the ESRB/PEGI ratings, all the cut-out content due to censorship, all the draconic online restrictions for minors in video games (me being directly affected as my PSN Sub-account cannot be used to play 18+ games online due to an automated content manager based on game ratings and the registered Date of Birth wheras there used to be a Parental Controls Content Manager available on PSN not so long ago - it's even mentioned in the PS3's manual. Thankfuly the Master Account is perfectly fine, but it's still upsetting that the option to choose was taken away from Master Account holders.) are caused by shifting the blame on everybody and everything else other than the parents.The governments job isnt to raise your kids. Its yours.
Yes, because he could've killed his mother JUST AS EASILY with a steak knife, right? He totally could've thrown the steak knife with the same deadly precision and speed at mom from a far distance, right? *facepalm*I had guns when I was a kid, and access to more guns. Whats the big deal? Oh, you're not American so you wouldn't understand. The kid could have used a steak knife, the tool he used is not the question here, it's what he did.
If he had used a steak knife or ball bat would you be asking the same question?
But alas,I have ADD,ADHD,BIPOLAR,RAD,and many other things and I take meds but do not see them as drugs but a means to help me control myself AND I have yet to even think about killing my mother.Yeah I'm quite sure that's all you need to read to realize how fucked up that family was.
inb4 it doesn't matter it's all vidya's fault
Yeah, this is what happens when the media fucks around with these "diseases". ADD is such an excuse to drug kids it's stupid.
Yeah, didn't you know that steak knives travel faster than bullets?Yes, because he could've killed his mother JUST AS EASILY with a steak knife, right? He totally could've thrown the steak knife with the same deadly precision and speed at mom from a far distance, right? *facepalm*
You have to take into account that those are all disorders, not diseases. From a medical standpoint your body is perfectly healthy - you just have personality quirks.But alas,I have ADD,ADHD,BIPOLAR,RAD,and many other things and I take meds but do not see them as drugs but a means to help me control myself AND I have yet to even think about killing my mother.
Yes.It amounts to neglect to let a child play Call of Duty for 8 hrs a day.
When, where and by whom? Show me the scientific evidence derrived from years of research please.It's basically a killing simulator that's been proven to have negative effect on developing brain, desensitizing this child to the act of murder.
Children are not retarded - they differentiate the real world and the virtual world, no matter how "realistic" a game is.Do I play game like this? Sure I do but I don't let any children in my family play them. This kid was acting out something he had been practicing for hundreds of hours on a game much the same way our military prepares for battle.
So the root of the problem is the child's psyche, not the game. The same could happen if the kid watched a violent Cartoon Network cartoon, except then he'd take a mallet to her head.Through simulation the act of killing is made automatic and instinctual, something you don't have to think about. Exposing a child to this is bad enough but add to that an emotionally unstable child with out the ability to rationalize and by not paying attention to what is going into that child's brain you've created a monster.
The parents are to blame, yes, but not necessarily the content. Seeing that I spent my childhood throwing dollar bills at prostitutes to make them flash for me in Duke Nukem and chainsawing through hordes of soldiers in Doom and haven't killed anyone yet, I find it hard to believe that the content is a huge factor here.Now I don't blame the game but I do blame the parents lack of common sense supervision. There are some things that are not good for all people or all ages.
Most people choose quantity in a "quality versus quantity" situations - an ARMA skirmish takes forever, a COD match is fast-paced. Moreover, ARMA requires actual thinking rather than killer instinct, so COD is actually catering to the lowest inctincts more so than ARMA, regardless of accuracy.How are you calling CoD a killing simuator? That game is so inaccurate it hurts. I could see if he was playing ARMA or Red Orchestra, those are genuine killing sims. But CoD?
Of course not. I never said what happened was okay. It's absolutely sick. I'm just saying that that a far more accurate title would be "13 Year Old Kills Mother for Taking Away Call of Duty and Almost Rapes Her"Is that a fact ? how do they differ ? I can see our UK version has my sons running round shooting other ppl , almost frenzied gameplay . What else is included in the US version ? Subliminal "shoot yer mom" messages ?
If anyone started to rape you , would it be ok if they stopped ?
*facepalm*u... i... wot ... m8.... this is why i don't play call of duty.
¿? i just meant it doesn't help my already low opinion of it.*facepalm*
So you honestly think there's any merit to Call of Duty making this kid kill someone?¿? i just meant it doesn't help my already low opinion of it.
"i just meant it doesn't help my already low opinion of it"So you honestly think there's any merit to Call of Duty making this kid kill someone?
Alternatively, using it as an excuse to hate the game is pretty stupid too