Author Topic: Violence in Video Games (Read 2969 times)

e-maxx · March 08, 2018, 08:05:09 PM

Quote from: plexy on March 08, 2018, 07:48:43 PM

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us tribal, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a stuffty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

spoken like a true gamer

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Mr Queeba · March 08, 2018, 08:32:57 PM

when the government tries to convince people that video games are violent by cherry picking scenes straight out of youtube videos without any context
really makes you think, i thought we had settled this debate back in the 1990's. apparently you wish to ignore the fact that the ESRB exists, and that studies show that video games don't have a correlation with actual violence. quit using video games as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong and actually fix the root issue.

Fire Vine · March 08, 2018, 08:33:26 PM

Quote from: Mr Queeba on March 08, 2018, 08:32:57 PM

when the government tries to convince people that video games are violent by cherry picking scenes straight out of youtube videos without any context
really makes you think

HellHound · March 08, 2018, 08:35:23 PM

I'm not really sure what this video's purpose is, though I'm curious how it was discovered

Fire Vine · March 08, 2018, 08:38:09 PM

Quote from: HellHound on March 08, 2018, 08:35:23 PM

I'm not really sure what this video's purpose is, though I'm curious how it was discovered

maybe the video was gonna be used in a meeting or a confrence or something, i really have no idea

still have no idea how it was descovered, maybe someone just found the url but im not sure how the hell that would happen

two and a half limericks · March 08, 2018, 08:43:39 PM

it was probably public at one point

Ragequit · March 08, 2018, 09:29:21 PM

this stuff mega tarded

Snoop Da Dogg · March 09, 2018, 02:34:58 PM

We Are Gamers.

We will never back down. Heh... I'd like to see Annoying Orange ban video games. We gamers will riot through the streets toward the white house, killing anyone in our path to true gaming freedom. Your move, Trunp. We are Coming