Critical Miss: Gamer Science
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My issue is with the scientists that say games will turn ordinary people into murderers and rapists, not the scientists who say that people with pre-existing mental conditions may be more likely to do such things, that's pretty damned obvious. To be fair though, it's the same of any medium, if you're a nut job and you watch a gory horror movie you're probably gonna get as many ideas from that as you would a gory horror game.
The way that's written makes me wonder if you once went on a murderous rampage but don't normally do so.martyrdrebel27 said:
So...half of you think this comic is totally the truth, and half of you think it's total rubbish...
Is anyone else reminded of Inception?
Is anyone else reminded of Inception?
I love this comic. I love it even more when it validates my opinion!
Serious answer: take both sides seriously. Try to find flaws in all studies, question there methods, try to resolve the conflicting conclusions they draw. Most importantly, think about what it would mean if one side was right. Violent games cause violence? Time to make less violent games!
It could even be a good thing, if it gets us past the whole brown and grey (space) marine/soldier phase we're in.
I think the happy medium in this case would be, "Games cause violence and laser vision".Kakashi on crack said:
Serious answer: take both sides seriously. Try to find flaws in all studies, question there methods, try to resolve the conflicting conclusions they draw. Most importantly, think about what it would mean if one side was right. Violent games cause violence? Time to make less violent games!
It could even be a good thing, if it gets us past the whole brown and grey (space) marine/soldier phase we're in.
BUT MY LASER VISION!? IT WAS A LIE!?
I've said this before, but I got flamed into the ground. You guys are braver than me.
I've said this before, but I got flamed into the ground. You guys are braver than me.
I think it's about the research that's done. The ones linking games to violence is more made in psychology, which is mostly non-science. The ones linking games to enhanced memory and learning is in neurobiology, which is actually science based. I'm more biased though since I'm in the biology field.
I thought all sorts of violence tends to make people more indifferent to more violence since you've been exposed to a small amount of it, giving you a foundation to take more in. It's like all emotions, they tend to build on itself and makes it easier to keep feeling that emotion.
That's because the American Psychological Association has called BS on Anti-Gamer studies and refuses to take any of them seriously. When the highest authority in someone's profession says they're full of shit, I don't think I can take them seriously anymore.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
lol sadly true in most cases, mind you it kind of even the score, most people ignore the studies saying the other side, it just means that people aren't unbiased. I don't really think those studies are BS, its just early years stuff, if parents would do their damned job and pay attention to what their kids are playing (its not that hard, all you have to do is look at the box) then they wouldn't be exposed to it until they are grounded adults and it wouldn't have an effect. But nobody likes to think about being responsible for your own action so its those damned murder simulators.
sorry, rant completed, I'm done now
sorry, rant completed, I'm done now
