Link between violence and Video Games?

Dalmoth_IO · Post by **Dalmoth_IO** » July 29, 2005, 12:31 pm

Short read, interesting article.

http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/violence.htm

I knew a guy that killed someone while "acting out a game". He was out on bail after his arraignment and before his trial. None, of us knew him until we saw on the news one day about them arresting him to take him back to trial.

That night it started to make a lot of sense about the questions he'd been asking us about, do we feel like doing this stuff etc. Pretty much we all felt there was no way any game would make us feel like acting out this stuff. You'd have to already be a bit "out there" to start this line of thinking. Kinda felt like after the fact it was a fishing expedition for a plea attempt to shift the blame for killing someone.

Always felt we (gamers) kinda got the shaft because of a few folks with loose bolts that happend to be attracted to the same thing.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » July 29, 2005, 12:49 pm

When you think about, you can link violence to anything.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » July 29, 2005, 12:51 pm

I blame TMNT

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 29, 2005, 1:14 pm

What a suprise: kids who play video games are most likely to be couch potatoes.

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » July 29, 2005, 1:53 pm

Show me some kid who's getting fat playing the shitty video games that are out right now, and I'll show you a kid who can't move fast enough to hurt anybody.

Lor · Post by **Lor** » July 30, 2005, 4:31 pm

It's funny how they want to blame video games for how people act, most people can't fathom that perhaps there may have been something wrong way before the game was even bought.