do feel de-sensitized to violence after videogames? (POLL)

[Perry]

Fake violence vs real violence is purely psychological

If you view death in real life for the first time it will be mind numbing and jarring to all of your senses. However, if your brain thinks it's fake, you instantly become desensitized. Real people who commit war crimes irk are trained to completely dehumanize victims before they kill them so that they don't catch feelings.

In a video game you know it's fake so your brain doesn't get attached unless you really like who dies. They're two completely different fields that rarely influence each other unless you're delusional or mentally ill. The problem with video games and any form of violence is that it creates opportunistic thoughts in mentally ill people. If you have some sort of personality disorder and you are kept in a completely loving and caring environment with no violent video games, th chances of you doing something violent are astronomically low. However, if you're mentally ill and you're constantly exposed to violence and abuse you become influenced by it. This is the most common background for all honor students or Flash Mobers

[Ad Bot]

[Tactical Nuke]

Ya, I remember playing the first Dead Space when it came out and I was really young

Playing other gory stuff wasnt that bad anymore

I preordered Dead Space 2 based solely on the guy's mask on the front cover
I thought it was like an indie space FPS
boy was I wrong

still loved it just don't judge a book by its cover is all

[Eon]

i guess, but also years of browsing websites like 4chan and seeing all that nasty stuff has kinda de-sensitized me as well

doesn't mean i'm gonna do something though so don't arrest me

[e-maxx]

i felt bad after stealing an old womans car in gta so um no

[General]

Yes and no. I do feel that if I have never played video games or watch movies with violence in it then I would be massively more more sensitive to violence

However if I saw violence in real life rather than on a screen, I would still have a reaction to it, just not as strong as it would be w/o video games.

[bestguy22]

Wow. loving psychos

[Superbro11]

Like was said, if your brain knows its fake it thinks its okay.
But when its for real and your actually see it, you start to freak the forget out.
I played lots of gory games but i refuze to watch r/watchpeopledie because i dont want to watch real people die, its disgusting.

[Cheze]

I usually avoid deaths in a game, I've actually become more sensitive to emotions for these  scenarios. (ex. killing a pd officer in gta 5)

[Aces]

It's more than video games. Media in general plays a part.

With that said I can't tell whether games had a definite impact because some people are just more sensitive than others without regard to what media they consume. If I guessed I'd say tv and video games do factor in though.

[Poliwhirl]

i can watch like a character get their pancreas ripped out in a video game and i'll be mostly unfazed but i wince when i see someone cut themselves in real life

[Clownfish]

i played videogames all my life but i never got desensitized to violence of all things
the only desensitization I've suffered from was from seeing shock images like gore n stuff and that has nothing to really do with violence just uh gore I guess

[Rigel]

the only thing I really cringe at is violence or gore that I can relate to. Like someone slicing the stuff out of their hand while sharpening a kitchen knife. Or someone bending their leg the wrong way after landing wierd. [transparent]Or a papercut on someone's snake.[/transparent] That kind of stuff I still feel bad for watching, because I can empathize. But if I watch a video of some poor soul getting his head cut off, or shot, or whatever, I'm not gonna feel that much.

[Drydess]

desensitized sure
following it no

[ultimamax]

I think that I've become desensitized to violent scenarios but not so much gore and things like that. Seeing a dead body would forget me up.

[Outpact-]

Honestly I genuinely am not disturbed by any kind of violence or gore at this point, so I feel if this happens in reality I won't be surprised.