Video Games/Violence

No. Video games don't have an effect like that. Not on their own. When used in conjuction with being raised in a bad environment and being abused and whatnot, it might have an effect. But I doubt even that.

 

Nah. I'm a teen who plays Prince of Persia & the likes & it don't have no affect on me. I guess it depends on the person, but video games don't make a person kill or rape.

 

This is a speech I wrote for my oral communication class:

 

Or you can blame it on the advertisements & the strip clubs. Besides, there are teenagers who beplaying E games & E+10. How in the world games like those twist people's minds to be violent?

 

I'm not a mod but wasn't that a little over the top? I'm certain by your post you know what you were talking about.


Anyways, i play a lot of violent games. Yay violence. Do i act out violently? Heck no.

 

And plus, video games allow the player to work out transgressions or stress that they otherwise wouldn't be able to in real life. I've had many a day where I just go full on cheat mode in GTA and destroy everything in sight.

 

Well I believe that the video games don't actually cause you to do the violent things that could have you sent jail. But they can influence your mind. I know this for myself. When I was in my early teens i used to play the violent and non-violent video games. And i never thought that they could effect me in any way except as Moogle has said relive stress. Needless to say i was a rather angry teenager when i was younger. I never thought it was games it just always occurred to me that the reason i was always angry at my younger siblings was because they would push me over the edge. Which to me made a hell of alot of sense.

I was talking to my father about it one day and he told me that he had looked into it and found that a study had been done on the exact subject. He told me that the studies showed that people who played video games were more likely to become aggressive when a situation showed itself to the person. And then he challenged me to not play video games for two weeks and see if i noticed a character change within myself. Me been one who loved video games thought it to be a rather stupid challenge but been the sucker for them that i am accepted. At first i found it somewhat difficult but then just substituted video games for reading or spending more time with friends and my personal favourite weights. The two weeks had passed and when my dad asked me had i stuck to it and if i noticed and change i thought about it.

I was generally getting on better with my family and friends, i had alot more patience for the small things which would usually set me off into a blind rage.

So my answer is no video games can't make you do stupid stuff that would get you thrown in jail in moderation.
But overplaying any video game can effect the mind in ways you might not even notice.

 

No, Toph wasn't wrong for using 'Dumb Ass.'

To be fucking honest, every time I poke my head into the Open/Closed Minded thread or the 2012 thread, I feel like using that terminology EXCESSIVELY.

Anyway. Society teaches and forces most boys to grow up playing with cars, little toy men with ripped abs and guns, so the violence in games is a newfound way of continuing those market patterns. Does it lead to real life violence? If they have a shitty home life where there's a lot of abuse, then the game might provide a potential outlet or whatever.

But there are also significant differences when you blow someone's brains out in a game, where everything's okay, opposed to having a human life dripping off of your hands when you shoot them in the mouth.

 

Please refer to my first post. Inside the quote, paragraph two.

You're fathers challenge is a nice thing, however results are going to vary from person to person.

 

i think video games make some ppl want to do things in the games. like have guns or like bombs and hurt things or ppl.

 

Autopsy is mean. Xd

I think it really boils down to the person. If you have a lot happening and you take it out on games, you might find yourself taking it out on other people to. When you get really stressed you become a lot easier to influence, so violent games could make you think unconsciously, "Man i wish i could do this to the people that ticked me off."

But if you aren't really stressed, and you're just playing for the fun of it, then i can't say that you would be easily influenced by it. Basically, for fun is just for fun and nothing comes of it except some killed time.

 

Well, I don't think that video games have a strong impact on the mind. I doubt that a Team Fortress 2 addict would start throwing jars of his own excrement at his friends. However, I believe that video games can build positive skills on people.

In many RPG's and MMORPG's people can learn about money management, in some FPS that reward players who live longer (Modern Warfare 2 as an example) players can learn about survivability and leadership.

Besides, this argument can and has been raised with just abot anything. Does D&D effect peoples minds? Does horror films effect peoples minds?