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New Study on Violent Video games

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TMRNetShark:

--- Quote from: bloody000 on June 06, 2011, 12:54:51 PM ---Kids growing up these days are bombarded with realistic shooters, I don't think it's far-fetched that a higher than before percentage of teens are desensitized to violence and death.

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Oh? And who bombards their kids with these realistic shooters? I sure as hell couldn't buy a video game that was rated M until I was 18. Those were the days when I hoped fun shooters would be rated T, but never were. I never nagged my parents to get me those games either (my parents never bought me any games). So when PARENTS are complaining about video games being too violent, I laugh and say "Did you buy those games for them? Oh you did! So YOU'RE to blame for how they are... not society."

Then again, we have freedom of speech and that covers video games. So studies may try to link violent behavior in young people with video games, at the end of the day, the parents are ultimately responsible for what their kids play.


I actually lied about the second sentence... I just had my older brother (who was 20 when I was 14) just get my M rated video games. When I turned 16, I just grew out my beard before a release of an M rated game I wanted. :P

x5ga:
Dumb parents are eager to accept any idiotic study that says they are not responsible for their children's misbehavior.

TMRNetShark:

--- Quote from: x5ga on June 06, 2011, 01:24:22 PM ---Dumb parents are eager to accept any idiotic study that says they are not responsible for their children's misbehavior.

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I laugh at that statement! Not that I'm laughing at you, but you are so painfully correct that parents are blind to their own control over their kids. So they'll continue to buy the M rated games for their kids and so "Oh, I didn't know!" The rating is right there on cover and on the back, there is no way to miss it.

Then again, developers should never be sued over the content of their games, but the stores who sell kids M rated games should DEFINITELY be sued (cause it will cause problems later down the road with angry misguided parents).

nstgc:
Seems to me that the rating systems should be abolished. Parents don't really care about those ratings until after they have found something objectionable. I feel that kids intentionally buy games rated M because its cool.

fohfoh:
I wasn't even fucking allowed to watch "The Simpsons" till I was 13. Fucking kids nowadays in elementary school talking about how their siblings or parents watched Texas Chainsaw massacre and shit with them and it gave them nightmares.

Internet and moronic guardians make kids grow up so fast these days. Yet society still treats them like moronic fucktards. I wonder why they're all getting fucked up...? /rhetoric

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