How disturbed where you when you saw todays Jimquisition?

[FFHAuthor]

Games never had any affect on getting me used to actual death. I became an EMT in my early 20's and I was a lot bigger gamer then than I am now. To be honest, seeing fake death, seeing fake killing, seeing fake blood, and hearing fake cries and fake screaming...that doesn't do anything. It's fake, it's fantasy, it's just not real. A healthy human mind knows it, a psychologically healthy person knows it. Sure, conditioning a person do to something is a different thing. But doing something and being used to it are far different.

But to be honest, it doesn't take much to get used to death.

Doesn't take much at all.

 

[maninahat]

It bothered me a lot, though not really for the reasons Jim mentioned. Jim put it down to how Hollywood/games glamourize and cartoonify violence, whereas real life violence is cruder and more abrupt. Just the knowledge that it was real was enough to make me feel bad - that knowledge was what made the difference, not the actual appearance or details of the death (though they hardly helped). If I was told the footage was just that of a practical joke, I probably wouldn't have had a problem.

 

[Biodeamon]

Sooooo you actually gon' do somethin' 'bout it or are you just here to see how horrified everyone is?

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Probly not as much as I should have been. However, that has less to do with "Because videogames desensatised me" and more to do with "Researching military history for 6 years desensatised me." Dont get me wrong. If I was to watch that happen in real life it probly would have made me lose it, but with that actual video as it is, its no worse than watching someone get shot on a WW2 film reel, and is not anywhere close to as bad as watching someone get roasted alive by a flamethrower. Or sometimes its not even what is happening, but what you know HAPPENED, like looking at the shadows burned into the walls in the aftermath of Hiroshima.

But compared too all that, my brain catalogs it as "just another guy getting shot on video/in picture"

 

[deathzero021]

meh didn't disturb me at all, but it isn't the first time i've seen a REAL death anyway. this video was so blurry i could hardly tell what i was looking at. Meanwhile on the internet, i've seen high-quality real life headshots. Why? because it's the internet and we all stumble upon some bizarre shit.

 

[Edwardo Sosa]

I never really get affected seeing violence in vidoe or picture form, but yes violence I see happening right
in front of me freaks me out. like once my cousin gashed the back of his head while skakeing and blood
was everwhere.....I was 11 but am pretty sure I'v never said "OH FUCK, HOLY SHIT AHHH NO NO NONNONO,FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!" more at one time in my life.

 

[mitchell271]

That was pretty uncomfortable. The death itself was bad enough but the build up to it, the "Turn away if you think this going to affect you" stuff that he was saying was even worse.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I'm actually amazed at people who say they were shaken or seriously disturbed. We're constantly surrounded by violence. By now I would expect not video games but real life should have desensitised you.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I wasn't overly disturbed, but it has stuck in my mind quite a bit.
About a year ago I went to BCT (Basic Combat Training) in teh US army. My asthma led to me not being able to pass the 2 mi run test so I didn't graduate. Anyways, in the field first aid section I saw the first footage of actual injuries. I remember an "oh shit that is real" moment, but it didn't overly bother me. Not much does to be honest, I think that is more attributable to my almost certain mental issues but I can't afford a therapist even if one was close.

 

[Cedric Rolle III]

I feel terrible for saying this but I don't care. I feel like I am desensitized against violence. Trust me I'm a monster.

I get the feeling I'm a bit more disconnected to it than some other people here too. At least we can both be monsters together.

I don't play violence video games or anything though, so who knows where that comes from?

When I say I'm monster trust me. So I went to my Grandmother's funeral and didn't cry then I walked over to a complete stranger's funeral wedding. I feel like a jerk.

 

[Baneat]

Oh fuck...

Yeah not watching that clip again fuck that. You don't need to bloody demonstrate the argument!

 

[Rose and Thorn]

It didn't really bother me. That probably isn't a good thing, right?

I guess if a man chooses commits suicide, this doesn't bother me. Death doesn't bother me either, I do like how Jim used this footage to prove his point however, it leaves an impression on a lot of people, I agree with what Jim said for the most part on violence.

If it had been someone I liked or loved, this might have bothered me a great deal however. One video I saw a year back was of a man commiting suicide in at a trial. He had just been sentenced to life in jail and he pulled something out of his pocket and swallowed it. His death was slower lasting about 20-30 seconds and it was all caught on camera, that was much more difficult to watch than a gun in the mouth for me, but not by that much. I guess I have grown up with death like many others, I am used to it.