Out of Pod Experience

Number 2 represent

+1

I remember when D&D used to catch all these accusations.



plus ça change .....

I love people, we truly are the masters at adapting.

I knew about the drug cartels using it to communicate but not the hits... truly evolution in progress.

Maybe the next (uncrappy) hitman game should have 47 getting messages from WoW private chat.

"LFM > We want you to go kill these elite boss mob in Windy City. He drops some epic loot."

The transition into EVE: "Honestly, why wouldn't gangsters use online games to communicate? Other than the fact that they might run into people who are even more devious than themselves, which brings us to ..."

Blame video games for violence in society?

Close, I blame violence in society for our video games

and thus the age old question, which came first the chicken or the egg?

Oh wait, that's not the one. Does the chicken imitate the egg? Or does the egg imitate the chicken?

Double damn that's not it either... I'll get it here in a minute, somehow I got hung up on poultry.

I'm going to say it again, although for the first time here >>

If you try to say video games are the cause, then equally books, movies, television, and any form of entertainment has to fall into the same boat.

More importantly, however, just like with the Newtown shooting, it boils down to the individual person. If they are or become mentality unstable and make the twisted decision to pick up a weapon and go all-out, then the fault lies squarely with that individual. Sure, events of the individual's life has led them to that point, but ultimately something causes the chain of reaction. The catalyst can simply be a psychotic meltdown without a real explanation or something else in their life that has brought them to a breaking point that could still be because of a flaw in the mind.

It's easy to point fingers at video games, gun control, and etc., but unfortunately, doing anything about those things would probably not have changed anything. If someone wants to do something vile and psychotic, they will do it whether a gun is around or not.

And as for video games, some people handle them fine from a young age, easily separating fiction from reality. And some people cannot. But, it's not the games themselves at fault. There's really no easy solution unless you can jump inside a persons mind and qualify them before they purchase a gun, are near guns, play video games, watch movies, or anything else in life. I think society is scared of admitting that we are powerless to the unpredictability of nature and reality.

These fowl events and actions have happened before in human history and will continue to do so until we become more than human at the very least. You can "control guns," and police entertainment's influence, but it really won't change anything except give a nice fuzzy feeling that's ultimately empty and vanishes once another horrid event reoccurs.

There's really no way to prevent armed violence completely without simply controlling minds of others 100%. And even if you remove all weapons and questionable entertainment, the intent will still exist and horrible things can and will still happen.

Amen to that, brutha.

By the way, if games affect us so much, I should be jumping on turtles and eating pellets while running from ghosts and driving a go-cart everywhere with a mess of banana peels behind me while holding things above my head and shouting "DUN DUN DUN DUN!" zelda-style.

I blame humans for humans.

because humans, that's why.

Video games will also end violence.... it begins