Ouchyfish wrote:You can't honestly say that video games are not playing at least some part in the downfall of America's youth. Honestly, I believe 90% of the blame is parents being forced to work and leave the kid unsupervised but I am telling you these fuckin video games are getting so real so fast and so violent that kids today are becoming as numb to grotesque violence as your typical combat vietnam vet. Sure, it is the same as a rated R movie that kids have been watching for years, but how many rated R movies let YOU control the action and let YOU commit the crimes in the virtual world they create for you?
Don't forget crime figures are about as accurate as Ronald Reagan's memory was. (See campus rape for instance.)
You're fucking retarded if you believe any of that.
Ouchyfish wrote:You can't honestly say that video games are not playing at least some part in the downfall of America's youth. Honestly, I believe 90% of the blame is parents being forced to work and leave the kid unsupervised but I am telling you these fuckin video games are getting so real so fast and so violent that kids today are becoming as numb to grotesque violence as your typical combat vietnam vet. Sure, it is the same as a rated R movie that kids have been watching for years, but how many rated R movies let YOU control the action and let YOU commit the crimes in the virtual world they create for you?
Don't forget crime figures are about as accurate as Ronald Reagan's memory was. (See campus rape for instance.)
You're fucking retarded if you believe any of that.
I do not expect a message board made up of 100% video game players to give an unbiased opinion on the video game industry. As for the bureau of statistics, go to fucking college and learn something about reported crime.
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Ouchyfish wrote:I do not expect a message board made up of 100% video game players to give an unbiased opinion on the video game industry. As for the bureau of statistics, go to fucking college and learn something about reported crime.
Would you mind terribly telling us why you think video games are the cause for teen violence?
Forget the chair or the gas chamber. Throw this girl into a 20x20 room with all the relatives and family members of the girl she helped murder. Close the door and come back in 24 hours.
I do not expect a message board made up of 100% video game players to give an unbiased opinion on the video game industry. As for the bureau of statistics, go to fucking college and learn something about reported crime.
So how do you know youth violence is on the rise, and it isn't just an increase in media coverage?
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If you kill them right away, you can't punch them in the face and see them bleed every week
How fucking sick. I honestly feel ill thinking about this shit. I think my level of tolerance for being able to read and hear about things like this has drastically changed due to some recent events, I feel sick to my stomach when I read about shit like this now, I can't just look it over with a indifferent eye anymore and move on.
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I had an idea once of taking all murderers, rapists, etc. and making a pay-per-view channel for them and letting the country pay to watch them fight lions with pocketknives, or even each other, to only get a life sentence rather than being killed.
Ouchyfish wrote:You can't honestly say that video games are not playing at least some part in the downfall of America's youth. Honestly, I believe 90% of the blame is parents being forced to work and leave the kid unsupervised but I am telling you these fuckin video games are getting so real so fast and so violent that kids today are becoming as numb to grotesque violence as your typical combat vietnam vet. Sure, it is the same as a rated R movie that kids have been watching for years, but how many rated R movies let YOU control the action and let YOU commit the crimes in the virtual world they create for you?
Don't forget crime figures are about as accurate as Ronald Reagan's memory was. (See campus rape for instance.)
I agree, but I think it makes a very minor impact. There's so many levels to this arguement. Bottom line is, video games do contribute a tiny bit.
The fact is that anything can have an influence on any mind. Music, paintings, the nightly news...these are only a few things that people are exposed to everyday. I believe it is up to the parents and the schools to make sure children can distinguish reality from entertainment.
We have to stop letting the media raise our children and dictate our lives.
Another fact is that we have been slaughtering people since time began. Murder is nothing new.
I have to say that I feel terrible for Adrianne and her family. I feel for her friends and for the teachers who cared about her. I can't help but feel sympathy for anyone going through this kind of crisis. It is horrifying. I can't even fathom the pain.
Sarah Kolb cut her hair off and left her bangs. I don't know if she is trying to get sexy for the dykes in prison or just trying to look hard. I don't know if she took pleasure in what she did. I just wish that I had been at Taco Bell that night. If I see a fight going on, I jump in every time and make peace. Oh well. We can't sit around wondering all day about the "what ifs" of anything or we would never get anything done so I will finish this drawn out post with this:
One of the first things Sarah Kolb did after being convicted Wednesday in the murder of Adrianne Reynolds of East Moline was to visit the barber at the Rock Island County Jail.
I'm absolutely convinced that disposition to impulsiveness and cruelty in some young (and adult) people is not a new phenomenon in the slightest. All you need to do is look at history to see that people have done absolutely crazy and horrific shit to eachother since civilization began.
For you older people, I'm sure you can remember seeing how viscious bullies could be with their targets. They didn't have video games, but they routinely did very violent and harmful things completely unprovoked - probably worse than they do these days.
I'm pretty certain that there were school kids who killed other kids via stabbings for quite a many years - on a statistical level probably at least comparable to the occurence of modern problems. I think the difference was that media was MUCH more localized (ie, only major events made it to national news - youth murders didn't make statewide news), and it was generally seen as something shameful and not to be talked about back in those days.
Simply put, some kids are statistically going to be sociopaths with very low impulse control, and some are going to be psychotic with violent tendencies. Even in a 'better' society it would happen.
Just so yall fuckas know....I went to a locan b ar tonight and Sarah Kolb's picture was on the dartboard. That bartender told me that she had takien it down once. They keep putting it up.
She cut up a bitch because she showed interest in her boyfriend. I say that's dart throwing material right there.
I finally read the article in the original post. The ex threatened to kill her, her family and her cats if she told. Her cats! Hahahaha
Video games aren't the problems. It's lack of beatings, too much indulging in homosexual tendencies like EMO, the fact that alpha males aren't allowed to run around school beating ass and keeping all the turds in check, the whole hip-hop agenda.
Thats the shit that is fucking kids up.
The first day some little faggot showed up to class with one of those trendy emo-swoops and his sister's pants on they should have let the entire Varsity defensive line beat the piss out of him. Same thing with those dungeons and dragons guys who shot up columbine.
Parents and teachers allow kids to be huge pussies and then those pussies get stupid ideas and no one is around anymore to totally regulate on their asses.
Oh, and don't get me started on this whole rap thing. Back in the day, cool kids had like two choices of types of people to aspire too: Cowboys and Pirates. Or you took Karate.
There was none of this gayassgay hip hop gangster shit happening and cars getting stolen because if you showed up dressed like fucking Kid and Play the cowboys and karate guys would issue an obligatory supreme recess asskicking and the teachers would promptly turn their backs or maybe you get detention at worst.
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