Report: Effects of Gaming Worse Than "Smoking on Lung Cancer"
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Hahahaha, best. line. ever. I don't smoke but that doesn't mean I don't find 100%, distilled hilarity in your comment.SikOseph said:
OT: Although I'm the first to admit that exposing young children (emphasis on young) to shoot-em-ups and stuff can cause them to become desensitised to violence, to think that anyone with the emotional maturity of a 9 year old or higher can be influenced by games is stupid. And to compare videogaming, which is a Past-time!, to a serious illness!? It says more about the emotional instability and lack of social experience of the writer than it does about the actual content of the article.
My, my god, YOU'VE FIGURED IT OUT! It fits all of the evidence, and I don't believe any country would be stupid enough to hire politicians with psychological conditions. But Australia may be dumb enough to hire 8 year olds.Premonition said:
(Not talking about the Australians here, or any other sensible ones)
Yeah, you can tell how much time they invested into that study. They didn't even get the name right, and how hard is that? And they want to be taken seriously. These guys remind me of Fox News idiots.ultrachicken said:
Completely anecdotal evidence, but I've played video games since I was 6, including playing stupidly violent games such as carmageddon at around the age of 11. I have never been involved in a fight, I have never tried to harm someone, I've never robbed anyone, vandalised anyone's property, or done anything "violent" in the real world. The only major effect in my life from gaming is playing too much and wrecking my sleep pattern every few weeks, but that's not even exclusive to gaming (internet forums tend to do that to me as well lol).
It is offensive and wrong to label all video gamers as violent criminals.
It is offensive and wrong to label all video gamers as violent criminals.
Oh boy... we're feeding the fire by actually taking in consideration what some journalist says about something he has zero knowledge or expirience of. He's just doing something in the lines of "I BELIVE VIDEOGAMES ARE BAD...FURTHERMORE I ACTUALLY AM IMPORTNAT IN MY LINE OF WORK AND WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO INFORM THE PUBLIC. AND I AM NOT USING VIDEOGAMES AS A MEANS TO PROPEL MY POPULARITY". He's just doing the same thing as Hillary Clinton, Jack Thompson, Michael Atkinson or any other person for whom popularity and credibility are important to be sucesfull in their line of work.
It's all a platform, to show something that they "stand for", in other words complete bullshit.
It's all a platform, to show something that they "stand for", in other words complete bullshit.
Someone should send them a copy of the Byron Report that basicly said, yes its not good for kids, but the ones that arn't good are 18+ games, that parents should be responsible for NOT BUYING THEM.
How can Australians even do this research anyway? All the really violent games are banned!
How can Australians even do this research anyway? All the really violent games are banned!