Games = Violence ?!

[lord.jeff]

To be fair to him like 80% of games revolve around killing and every game that's advertised on TV shows off the combat more then anything else, not every game is violent but games are more violence orientated then any other medium and by a fair margin.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

So's Niko Bellic, he's an immigrant doing what he must to survive. All he needs is a duster and a horse.

 

[Fappy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

So's Niko Bellic, he's an immigrant doing what he must to survive. All he needs is a duster and a horse.

The different is that John McClain is an American-born-white-man-killing-Germans where as Niko fits far fewer American hero requirements. He's also Bruce Willis.

 

[The Funslinger]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

 

[Fappy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

 

[The Funslinger]

Please tell me this counts as irony, because I need a word for it, because it's delicious.

Spoiler: This image shows the irony levels of your friend's statement.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

So's Niko Bellic, he's an immigrant doing what he must to survive. All he needs is a duster and a horse.

The different is that John McClain is an American-born-white-man-killing-Germans where as Niko fits far fewer American hero requirements. He's also Bruce Willis.

Roll the years back to Wild West times, swap the semi's for revolvers, replace the cars with Horses, roll some cameras and BAM you have a western. Niko Bellend Bellic is an american hero. or anti-hero.

 

[The Funslinger]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

 

[Fappy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Yeah, think about it. He wields a sword and bow and matches into battle playing music. He's a fucking Bard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

 

[Vausch]

I remember telling my dad about Silent Hill and he thought the concept of Pyramid Head raping a mannequin monster to be horrible and something you shouldn't put in video games. He said this as he was watching Basic Instinct. I don't think he got the irony.

 

[SweetShark]

Never in my life I met this kind type, and I hope never will.

 

[The Funslinger]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Yeah, think about it. He wields a sword and bow and matches into battle playing music. He's a fucking Bard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

Fair enough.

He's basically God in my eyes.

In his retirement, he was on a train, when he alarmed everyone by throwing his briefcase out of the window. When asked about this, he stated that the train had passed by his back garden, and he'd thrown it over the fence so he wouldn't have to carry it from the station.

 

[lacktheknack]

I get the same prejudice, but in an entirely different way. They always ask me what I thought of the new war shooter that came out.

I hate war shooters. All my favorite games are non-violent/have non-violent options (except Just Cause 2).

We need Cyan Worlds to come back and finish what they started with Myst Online.

 

[Fappy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Yeah, think about it. He wields a sword and bow and matches into battle playing music. He's a fucking Bard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

Fair enough.

He's basically God in my eyes.

In his retirement, he was on a train, when he alarmed everyone by throwing his briefcase out of the window. When asked about this, he stated that the train had passed by his back garden, and he'd thrown it over the fence so he wouldn't have to carry it from the station.

He's the kind of crazy that's just plain charming. How come we never hear about any eccentric characters from any modern wars? There was that French priest in WWI who merced an entire trench full of soldiers after soloing no-man's land. Like a boss.

 

[lacktheknack]

The annoying one I get when I tell someone I play video games is "so you play Call of Duty?" NO! The last Call of Duty game I owned was Call of Duty 2!
It used to infuritate me but now it just depresses me as the majority of people who don't know games wil just think of Call of Duty. I preferred it when it was Halo, or back in the old days when it was Mario or Sonic or Tetris. At least then there was variety to the generalisation!

I typically say "Naw, I play GOOD games."

Tends to get some double takes.

 

[The Funslinger]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Yeah, think about it. He wields a sword and bow and matches into battle playing music. He's a fucking Bard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

Fair enough.

He's basically God in my eyes.

In his retirement, he was on a train, when he alarmed everyone by throwing his briefcase out of the window. When asked about this, he stated that the train had passed by his back garden, and he'd thrown it over the fence so he wouldn't have to carry it from the station.

He's the kind of crazy that's just plain charming. How come we never hear about any eccentric characters from any modern wars? There was that French priest in WWI who merced an entire trench full of soldiers after soloing no-man's land. Like a boss.

My great grandfather, for whom I am named, fought at the battle of the Somme. Lived through WW1, WW2, and remained a total bro until the end of his days, at which point my mum was 20.

I like to think he did some cool shit during the war.

 

[Delsana]

Well games are violent.. especially strategy games where you lead armies to go kill off other armies in various ways. People who enjoy those games probably are violent in some capacity, and those with a high violence can be accelerated to more crazy feats by those games, but this isn't common and is generally not the case.

Games are a representation of violence though, no doubts there.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Yes, someone got pissy at me, and said they bet I played CoD, and loved killing things with guns.

To which I replied, "No, of course not! If I want to kill things, I would use a knife, or my bare hands, so it lasts longer."

Proabably not the best thing to do to get rid of the steriotype, but he was a dick, and wouldn't have belived me anyway...

 

[Fappy]

Heh. My dad once said something to me about Grand Theft Auto just being mindless, pointless violence - while he was watching Die Hard. Was funny.

Well I mean... John McClain is a true American hero after all. Can't deny that.

My hero is John 'Mad Jack' Churchill.

Wikipedia him.

So he was the last true Bard? What a fucking boss.

Never heard him described as that, actually. Are we talking about the same guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Yeah, think about it. He wields a sword and bow and matches into battle playing music. He's a fucking Bard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

Fair enough.

He's basically God in my eyes.

In his retirement, he was on a train, when he alarmed everyone by throwing his briefcase out of the window. When asked about this, he stated that the train had passed by his back garden, and he'd thrown it over the fence so he wouldn't have to carry it from the station.

He's the kind of crazy that's just plain charming. How come we never hear about any eccentric characters from any modern wars? There was that French priest in WWI who merced an entire trench full of soldiers after soloing no-man's land. Like a boss.

My great grandfather, for whom I am named, fought at the battle of the Somme. Lived through WW1, WW2, and remained a total bro until the end of his days, at which point my mum was 20.

I like to think he did some cool shit during the war.

My step-grandfather fought in Korea and was haunted by it until his death. He had some crazy-ass stories but took most of them to his grave. In one of the only stories I know there was an airstrike on the ship he served on. He leaped off of the ship to dodge a shell and was knocked unconscious. He woke up beached and alone only to find out later he was the only survivor of the attack.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

In PDC once (for those who don't know that learning how not to go on killing sprees and have sex without getting HIV) my teacher said "Okay, so who could think of an extreme headline about violent videogames for children?" I put my hand up and suggested "Children play computer games, are totally unaffected by cartoon violence which is about as realistic as Lord of the Rings performed by gazelles." I was excluded for not realising that my teacher was right and VIDEO GAMEZ R BAD. And yet I later found out his favourite movie of all time is Saw VI. Not only is that full of far more gruesome things than video games, but it's also the worst of the series. I can only hope he got fired.