Poll: Are you Desensitized?

[dudesrug]

i thinks it's 2 different things really, can't say i'm a massive fan of horror movies, but violent games and that are just the norm, extraordinary things you couldn't/wouldn't want to see in real-life. nobody really playing with a full deck relates the 2 do they?

 

[OverlordSteve]

Schadenfreude is not my strong point.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

I don't get squeamish when it comes to violence (spines being torn out of backs? Ps'haw!), but when it is exceptionally gory or gruesome (i.e. Saw), it gets me.

 

[Ruffythepirate]

Movie/game violence doesn't affect me, unless it is very extreme (like saw movies). But real life violence does affect me...

 

[Caliostro]

I was desensitized long before I started playing games. Real life did it, not games. Games are just a nice way to ensure I can let it all out by putting a virtual bullet through my fellow man's skull and have it all be laughs and giggles instead of a real one that ends up in tears and jail time.

 

[PersianLlama]

Yes but I cant blame video games for it.

 

[Easykill]

Dude, I was born desensitized. Hell, I only started up videogames like... What, four years ago?

 

[searanox]

It's odd. I can take all the virtual gore in the world, but anything on television, film, and in reality still gets me.

 

[bad rider]

Fuck there's no: Yes. Assuming that Bambi doesn't exist option.

Note: I wish i was joking but it honestly kills me, yet i could easily watching Hotel Rwanda

 

[insectoid]

I'm somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't blame games though for being desensitised to stuff, more other forms of media. Movies are the worst. Games still look fake enough not to really affect me.

 

[varulfic]

I don't think video games are violent enough for me to be affected. No seriously. Compared to movies, video games really aren't that bad. Most of the time when you kill an enemy, there's just a splash of blood, the guy falls down, then fades away after a few seconds. If I was going to be affected, it would require screams of pain, more gore, and a permanent corpse.

 

[TaboriHK]

I've never seen real life violence on the scale that I do in fiction. I would guess 99% of people here haven't either. So this isn't really a question we can answer. Am I desensitized to the concept of violence? Absolutely. Am I desensitized to the execution of violence? Most likely not.

 

[Graustein]

Hard to say. Yes I can look at endless TV/Game gore and not be phased, and yet the sight of someone getting a needle in their arm (real, film, or otherwise) still makes me cover my eyes. Real life gore I don't take well to either, but it's not a thing about being desensitized. I simply know what's real and what's fake, and fake rarely phases me.

This.
Am I desensitised to video game violence? Mostly, yes.
Is video game violence the same as real life violence. Not by a long shot.

I can cheerfully detonate corpses in Diablo 2, but show me someone getting a needle and I'll look away

 

[foxboysirus]

This is a question that has always bothered me, no one in this world can say their desensitized to violence unless you've actually seen a major violent thing happen around you. like TaboriHK says, desensitized to the concept, but not the execution most likely.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

I'm not traumatized by more or less anything I see. I'm not so sure it's because I'm desensitized though; experience does play a part, but it's more a matter of my psyche. It can just handle stuff like that.

 

[Altorin]

I'm going to have to say somewhere in the middle

There are scenes of horrific graphic gore that still hurt me to watch.

But I get a real thrill watching a movie where a guy shoots a rocket up a guy's butt.

So, in closing, I like action movies, not horror movies, although I did like Halloween 2 and Saw 1

I'm not traumatized by more or less anything I see. I'm not so sure it's because I'm desensitized though; experience does play a part, but it's more a matter of my psyche. It can just handle stuff like that.

your psyche is built by experiences

 

[silentsentinel]

I thought I was. Then I watched that video of the Indian commuter falling off a train. I was horrified.

 

[Wellby]

For the most part, i am thoroughly desensetized. This doesn't mean i'll take violent actions against others. I feel great guilt when it comes to harming REAL people. See i can understand whats real and whats not. I'll curb stomp a puppy into hell if its made up of pixels, but i won't so much as throw a melicious glance at a tree.
Watching terrable things also seems to have a dulled feeling on me. I can watch just about anything, even if its real, but i'm always aware when something is wrong.

 

[pieeater911]

When I know the violence is fake (ie, video-game, movie, T.V.) it doesn't affect me.

But If I see real life violence it is still rather disturbing.

I can see people get vivisected and decapitated, and see blood and guts and bloody little meats chunks fly everywhere in a video-game or movie and it doesn't bother me in the slightest since I know that it's fake.
But if I see footage of a war-torn zone on the news or some kind of documentary or something and I see people being mangled, it does make me quite uncomfortable.

 

[stompy]

No, not really. I mean, I can't take it when someone in front of me (in real life) gets punched. Though, in fiction, I'm generally alright with violence and language... atmosphere is a different thing.