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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: deadly7 on March 09, 2006, 11:05:26 pm
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/09/1912240&from=rss
And that's why.
(21:43:31) deadly7: What the fuck?~
(21:43:36) C2Talon: ?
(21:43:38) deadly7: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/09/1912240&from=rss
(21:44:17) C2Talon: Finally.
(21:44:42) deadly7: ...
(21:44:48) deadly7: What is wrong with you?
(21:45:25) C2Talon: We'll finally know for sure.
(21:45:39) C2Talon: For 90 Billion dollars.
(21:45:48) deadly7: HAHAHAHAHAHA.
(21:45:59) deadly7: I should have seen that coming. :\
(21:46:54) C2Talon: I don't even think Sony makes that much money off of games.
(21:47:12) C2Talon: Yet, that's what it'll take to do a study on it.
(21:47:17) deadly7: No kidding.
(21:47:26) C2Talon: I'll do the study for 90 billion dollars.
(21:47:39) deadly7: Here's results from a study I recently conducted: Hillary Clinton needs to get the sand out of her vagina.
(21:48:46) C2Talon: Indeed.
(21:50:53) C2Talon: My study would go such as, no, you dumb motherfuckes, of course video games don't do that to people. There is a "but" to that though, and that is, if they're already messed up in the head, there's no telling what can influence them as such.
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Studying how video games mentally affect people sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe they can prove once and for all that games are not (or maybe are) related to kids killing people.
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Read the quote I edited my post with. I <3 C2Talon.
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Sounds like a couple ignorant children who are more worried about attacking the individual than actually thinking. Typical, I suppose. :P
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They've done minor studies of this before, and the results have all come out the same: a fucked up murderous kid was a fucked up murderous kid before he played video games.
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Find me another study about how video games affect children mentally, then? I don't remember ever seeing one.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/1359208
the Seattle Times article changed links, and you now need an account to view it (WTF kind of news site is that?! :()
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/1359208
the Seattle Times article changed links, and you now need an account to view it (WTF kind of news site is that?! :()
Ok, there's an article about it. Now how about a study?
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http://www.apa.org/releases/videogames.html
That study neglects to mention the background of the participants, however.
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That study seems to
provedemonstrate that games DO affect people psychologically. Doesn't that hurt the point you're trying to make?
<edit> "prove" is a bad word.
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That study seems to prove that games DO affect people psychologically. Doesn't that hurt the point you're trying to make?
Yeah, but I was lazy. It was the first link. >.>
Let's use me for an example, since finding articles is too much work.
Now, if you know me at all, you'll know I love video games. I've always loved them. You'll also know that I'm a nice guy, more or less. While I might be fucked up in thinking movies like Saw II and movies with lots of blood, gore, and death are cool, none of this was influenced by video games. I've played my fair share of violent video games, many with stunning graphics that make me feel like I'm really there. Now, let's look at my record. At school, I have never gotten into any fights. Whenever I am forced to work with people that I absolutely hate, I don't think about ways to kill them, no matter how much they piss me off. I simply grit my teeth and work through it. That's been my entire standpoint since as far back as I can remember: "Life sucks, deal with it and move the fuck on." Now, if you know me, you also know that I can't stand ghetto people, and I can't stand ghetto black people even more. I don't think about ways to commit genocide. In sixth grade, I was probably like how the study says people would be after video games, but not because of video games. Video games to me are a release and allow me to do things I can't do in real life. I can't commandeer battlecruisers, I can't shoot people, I can't fight Nazis. In sixth grade, I played the LEAST amount of video games I possibly could. I thought back then that I had a "life" because I was involved in sports. Yes, I would want to do things possible in video games -- who doesn't? I mean, isn't part of playing a video game imagining yourself in that position? The point is that I wouldn't ACT on it. And I've always wanted to do things bizarre even before I started playing Duke Nukem (first video game ever!!).
Wow, I kind of rambled.
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You're only one person. Statistically insignificant, so to speak. This is why studies are done, and as your link seems to prove, it DOES affect some people.
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Yes, but the study doesn't describe the peoples' tendencies beforehand. It doesn't say if any of them were violent, agressive, etc. And also, my little story proved that it affects a lot of people. Some for the good, some for the bad. A lot of people I know that play video games do it because they're like me -- they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
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they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
You sound like the type of person this study is after. ;)
I agree, it could affect people, but it's stupid to say everybody who plays violent games is going to shoot up their school.
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they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
You sound like the type of person this study is after. ;)
I agree, it could affect people, but it's stupid to say everybody who plays violent games is going to shoot up their school.
I already admitted I was fucked up...
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Yes, but the study doesn't describe the peoples' tendencies beforehand. It doesn't say if any of them were violent, agressive, etc. And also, my little story proved that it affects a lot of people. Some for the good, some for the bad. A lot of people I know that play video games do it because they're like me -- they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
Ah, the study doesn't take all factors into account. So it sounds to me like another study would be useful. And that's exactly what's happening.
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Yes, but the study doesn't describe the peoples' tendencies beforehand. It doesn't say if any of them were violent, agressive, etc. And also, my little story proved that it affects a lot of people. Some for the good, some for the bad. A lot of people I know that play video games do it because they're like me -- they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
Ah, the study doesn't take all factors into account. So it sounds to me like another study would be useful. And that's exactly what's happening.
A study like this does not need a $90 billion pricetag. You're a smart man, tell me what that 90 billion would be used for in this study. Also, tell me why Hillary Clinton wants to waste 90 billion when there are far better things it could be used for (i.e. education, security, intelligence, the huge deficit we have).
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Yes, but the study doesn't describe the peoples' tendencies beforehand. It doesn't say if any of them were violent, agressive, etc. And also, my little story proved that it affects a lot of people. Some for the good, some for the bad. A lot of people I know that play video games do it because they're like me -- they can't do this stuff in real life but have wanted to do it.
Ah, the study doesn't take all factors into account. So it sounds to me like another study would be useful. And that's exactly what's happening.
A study like this does not need a $90 billion pricetag.
Do you know how much it would cost? Or what they have to pay for? I sure don't.
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Haha, holy shit. What happened there, iago? :P
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... come again?
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... come again?
I don't know if you were talking to him or to me, but just in case:
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I was talking to him.
Also, allow me to correct myself.
"$90 million"
I have dyslexia, get used to it.
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I was talking to him.
Also, allow me to correct myself.
"$90 million"
I have dyslexia, get used to it.
Dyslexia doesn't constitute the off-estimate of numbers by factors of 1000. :)
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Dyslexia doesn't constitute the off-estimate of numbers by factors of 1000. :)
I'm the only exception to that, cause I rule.
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I'm the only exception to that, cause I rule.
You vaugley reminded me of an old friend of mine there...
deadlyexia.
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Haha, holy shit. What happened there, iago? :P
Dunno, something broke. I knew it happened and meant to go back and fix it, but something else happened and I got called away for a few hours. It's fixed now, go back and read it for my proper answer :P
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All right, maybe I'm asking the wrong questions then.
If you were to conduct a study on the same topic, list everything you'd need. What video games, computers, consoles, participants, etc.
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Not to mention brain-scanning equipment, scientists and doctors who know how to use it, probably mathamatical analysts, and other people like that. I have no idea what types of equipment they would need, but I couldn't see it being very cheap.