Video games are EVIL! The sims online has 8 million subscribers... and other "facts"

[MrFun]

LotM -- lighten up

[st_swithin]

Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people. Guns just make the bullets go really, really fast.

I like the idea that maybe I helped terrorise the self-esteem of youths around the world through video game production. I would have been a really ineffective schoolyard bully.

[Japher]

I like the idea that maybe I helped terrorise the self-esteem of youths around the world through video game production.

Really? In that case I blame video games for much of the violence on the planet! Maybe the reason for this war on Iraq is because GW is a Civ junkie and, like all of us who play any middle east civ, hates the Persians!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by MrFun
LotM -- lighten up

If somebody had said something stupid that was anti-violent game, wouldnt you have challenged it? It was stupid. Lighten up yourself.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Japher


Really? In that case I blame video games for much of the violence on the planet! Maybe the reason for this war on Iraq is because GW is a Civ junkie and, like all of us who play any middle east civ, hates the Persians!

raises another issue - is civ a video game? look at any game or site about "video games" its almost always about console games. Issues with violent games are usually about FPS'. One of the things that annoys me is that the reputation of games like Civ or even the Sims suffers in the public eye cause of console games and FPS'.

[Jack_www]

That is a great hoax.

[Whaleboy]

lotm, three posts without mentioning Judaism! I'm impressed!

[Japher]

I hate FPS', they are mindless and idiotic... IMO

Still, I don't think the video is game is responsible for violence, if anything it allows kids to vent in a much less destructive manner. If there is a corrolation between games and violence I think the core issue is lack of parental intervention, to be there to help kids to discern between reality and imaginary. Even before console popularity this was an issue with kids thinking they are superman, and now that consoles are used to "babysit" they are absorbed more into the imaginary than ever before. Thus, it isn't the games, the movies, whatever... It's bad parentening, and that is something that is becoming more and more the norm.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
lotm, three posts without mentioning Judaism! I'm impressed!

May hashem bless you my son.

Have a good shabbos.

[Whaleboy]

lotm: Its wednesday

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
lotm: Its wednesday

yeah, we i'll be traveling for this holiday we have here called Thanksgiving, so i thought id bless you now.


Im sure you could use some more blessings.

http://www.uscj.org/Thanksgiving_2002700.html

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


If somebody had said something stupid that was anti-violent game, wouldnt you have challenged it? It was stupid. Lighten up yourself.

Technically one cannot "lighten up" in simply a split second. One must go through a labourous process of purging and dieting before they can even begin to see changes in weight and it's disturbution in the body.
LotM, get informed before you start speaking about something you don't understand.

Sims suffers in the public eye cause of console games and FPS'.

Oh yeah, the Sims is reallly suffering

[MrFun]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


If somebody had said something stupid that was anti-violent game, wouldnt you have challenged it? It was stupid. Lighten up yourself.

He was obviously JOKING -- which meant that his JOKE was not to be taken seriously.
Otherwise, yes, it would have been a fallicious argument.


Now lighten up, damn you.

[General Ludd]

Oh gods, Lord of the Mark and MrFun in an argument over perceived humour?

[Japher]

I can't believe my humor was not perceived...

LotM has been moody all day, and MrFun, well, that's just him