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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/08/bodies.found/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3934277.stm

Two stories recently fuled the debate. I personaly think that video game are an outlet for violence, not a cause. I dunno 'bout you, but when I get angry, I torch Space Pirates in Metroid Prime (best game ever) until I feel better. Video games don't cause kids to murder. If you're twisted enough to almost murder someone, a video game isn't gonna push you over the edge. And in the second case mentioned above, the game the killer played, "Manhunt," has an M rating, therefore the parent's should never have let the kid play the game. Video games don't kill people. Bad parents and nut jobs kill people.

Agreed. The whole discussion about video games causing violence was so overhyped and undeserved. It all depends on the person. The Unabomber swore off all technology besides that which was used to make his bombs. His sick fantasies were not created by technology, and the same is true for the Columbine Massacre and other situations. Sick people do sick things. The tools they use to express their disease (be it animal cruelty, video games, violence, obscenity, or what have you) differ, but the underlying cause is not the tool, but the lives that these people have lived and the choices they have made.

The problem doesn't lie within the accused, it lies within the accusers...in this respected case.

I once saw a t-shirt that said something like "Video games have no effect on how kids act. If Pac-Man had affected us, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

I once saw a t-shirt that said something like "Video games have no effect on how kids act. If Pac-Man had affected us, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

heheh, that can be argued

darkened rooms, goths
magic pills, drugs
repetative electronic music, rap

:D

heheh, that can be argued

darkened rooms, goths
magic pills, drugs
repetative electronic music, rap

:D
err....

But do all three of those things apply to one group of people? And are those people at least mid 20s and older...? I don't know that there are that many goths by the time they get to upper 20s...

Anyway, repetitive electronic music =/= Rap
repetitive electronic music = techno

err....

But do all three of those things apply to one group of people? And are those people at least mid 20s and older...? I don't know that there are that many goths by the time they get to upper 20s...

Anyway, repetitive electronic music =/= Rap
repetitive electronic music = techno
electronic music could be Rap listened through an iPod, no?

I mean...

electronic music could be Rap listened through an iPod, no?

I mean...
Rap = electronic music with lyrics over it (although it isn't always electronic)
Techno = repetitive electronic music.

ahh who the eff cares?

I was just trying to add some humor....YOU HAD TO MESS IT UP!

*searches on the f.a.q. for the appropriate emotion*

:headbang:


actually, there was a better one, but I'm not sure if it is allowed...I mean...it told me "up yours!"

I don't know what you're talking about. Repetitive electronic music is clearly pop music. I mean, you're not even hearing someone's voice anymore, you're just hearing the post-production effects making it SEEM like they can sing.

Leave techno alone... Without techno, we wouldn't have all these excuses to figure out where old movie quotes are from!

The GTA (Grand Theft Auto) serries is a good serries. u can blow peoples heads off with a sniper for gods sakes :sniper:
Also the Unreal serries is fun :gundge:

"Video games have no effect on how kids act. If Pac-Man had affected us, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

Isn't that quote from someone at Atari or some other old arcade game manufacturer?

I don't know what you're talking about. Repetitive electronic music is clearly pop music. I mean, you're not even hearing someone's voice anymore, you're just hearing the post-production effects making it SEEM like they can sing.

Leave techno alone... Without techno, we wouldn't have all these excuses to figure out where old movie quotes are from!
I didn't say techno was bad. But I'm not retarded enough to deny what techno is...

heheh, that can be argued

darkened rooms, goths
magic pills, drugs
repetative electronic music, rap

:D


It's a bloody ironic joke, you halfwits! RAVERS, it's refering to RAVERS. Jesus!

It's a bloody ironic joke, you halfwits! RAVERS, it's refering to RAVERS. Jesus!
I'd believe that if it weren't for the fact that ravers came first.

heheh, that can be argued

darkened rooms, goths
magic pills, drugs
repetative electronic music, rap

:D

Or all of them in one = a rave.

I'd believe that if it weren't for the fact that ravers came first.
Or all of them in one = a rave.
.

For the love of god can we get back on topic here?