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Some myths have more lives than cats and Mario combined. That’s the way plenty of us feel whenever we see someone blaming video games for every new armed atrocity that shocks the world. Look, we get it, computer games are an easy target. It’s far easier to blame them for somebody acting violently than it is to confront the tangled, messy, complex web of interrelated reasons and crappy gun control policies that’s actually at fault. But it doesn’t mean that we should power down our critical thinking, just because we want easy answers.
Donald Trump, the President of the United States, and other politicians recently used video games as a scapegoat to (at least in part) explain the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. However, the internet quickly reacted with a whole slew of gaming memes that hit back against this idea.
Bored Panda collected the best of the best, the crème de la crème, of the best memes showing how even the most violent games don't cause actual violence. Upvote the ones you love the most and leave a comment to let everyone know what you thought of the memes. Keep on scrolling, because the memes at the very bottom of the post get lonely sometimes (just don’t feed them after midnight)!
Professor Andrew Przybylski of the Oxford Internet Institute told Bored Panda that “the idea that violent video games cause real-world aggression has been with us for more than four decades but in this time there has been no convincing evidence that supports it.”
“I’d observe that video games with combat, crime, and war are quite popular in Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the U.K., and these countries do not have the same problems with large numbers of shootings,” noted Przybylski, who is an experimental psychologist and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute. His work is concerned with applying psychological models of motivation and health to study how people interact with virtual environments.
When asked by Bored Panda why he thinks video games keep getting blamed for violence, Przybylski answered that “research indicates that about half of the adult U.S. population plays games, I suspect that as this number rises (i.e., gamers age) this excuse will hold less water.”
The professor also mentioned that video games “might” desensitize people to violence, “but the effects are likely smaller and more nuanced than many assume.”
“I think that games are a complex form of play and that gaming companies should share their data with independent researchers; not because games cause violence, but because they are now an essential part of our lives. It’s their responsibility to our society as good corporate citizens,” Professor Przybylski added.
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Pamela Scott 6 years ago
Have a feeling video games have saved way more lives than we will ever know!!! Able to pretend the character you shot is the idiot that was proving they could take being a bigger idiot than you ever thought possible probably saves many!!!
Darryl Clear 6 years ago
For all game lovers...paid to play. https://69fa3xpny0lxdwcdbkqep4hv75.hop.clickbank.net/
Celtic Pirate Queen 6 years ago
And what's really sad is that most religions teach love, tolerance and peace (as long as you do it THEIR way).
iblowsheep 6 years ago
While I like this sentiment, It's really idiots wielding _insert r******d ideology_ that kill more people
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Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
notice how funny you were (hilarious joke kayla)
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TheNerdyOne 6 years ago
Women were accused of being witches because they were smarter than a man 😑
Markus Holstein 6 years ago
To be fair, we didn't actually burn them alive. We strangled them beforehand
Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
no not probably its obvious that us humans are just pieces of crap
On the 5th of August, Trump condemned “racism, bigotry and white supremacy”, as well as video games for the most recent deadly shootings in the US.
“We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace,” said Trump. “It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence." The 3rd and 4th of August were bloody days for the US: a gunman killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas on Saturday; while another attacker killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday.
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Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
Intolerance and ignorance, of course, have nothing to do with violence... *headdesk*
Bacony 6 years ago
*Fern agrees and combos a brick wall with her face* 1-2-1-2-3 1-*CRACK*-3-4 1-2...
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Shane Chang 6 years ago
Gay married man here... the only thing I'll shoot you with are my very judgy eyes.
Markus Holstein 6 years ago
I've never heard of a stoned homosexual shooting people with a pokemon
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Alaa Bahattab 6 years ago
I am a Muslim and a Saudi, who has been playing shooting games since Heretic came out back in the 80s, and I've played at least 90% shooting games that came out till today. The biggest thing that I killed was a bird that bumped into my windshield on a highway...
Trump wasn’t the only one stating that video games had something to do with the shootings, however. House Minority Leader and California Republican Kevin McCarthy shared similar thoughts: “But the idea of these video games that dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals and others — I've always felt that is a problem for future generations and others. We've watched from studies shown before of what it does to individuals. When you look at these photos of how it took place, you can see the actions within video games and others."
McCarthy may have a point about people getting slightly desensitized to violence through consuming media, but it’s unclear what specific studies McCarthy referred to. The general consensus among the academic community is that there is no established link between playing video games and acting violently.
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Daniel Mattock 6 years ago
Exactly. Maybe the easier the access to firearms, the more mass shootings?
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Christopher Chang Peng Yen 6 years ago
Just look at other countries which do not allow the owning of guns, do they have gun violence. The root of the problem is allowing owning guns.
Person McPerson 6 years ago
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Also if someone is going to murder someone do you think they worry about legally obtaining a gun.
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
That doesn't mean that making it easier for any sociopath to get a gun is smart, genius
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vp 6 years ago
Pretty sure both countries you cited have strict gun-control laws. Switzerland also has mandatory military service and makes sure you're both physically and mentally fit to serve. But yea...definitely nothing to learn from, right?
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vp 6 years ago
Yes our diverse culture demands we have loose gun laws and politicians who'd rather watch kids get gunned down than pull the NRA c**k out of their mouth. Our diverse culture demands that it be harder to get a driver's license than it is to buy a gun.
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Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
But that's the point- they don't have guns. Give guns to the lots of people elsewhere and things would be different. So not having an access to a gun does make a difference
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Oathbraker 6 years ago
Just be glad it didn't make you a middle aged man from the Balkans with a dark past.
Red Wyvern Emperor 6 years ago
Playing Skyrim -> I can make a dragonbone armor and swords now.
Alexander Brior 6 years ago
And Splatoon doesn’t make me a squid now and a kid now and a squid now...
Samuel Zhao 2 years ago
To be complete in fair, football games don’t teach you how to actually play football
Furthermore, video games are played all across the globe, and yet, it’s only the United States that has so many instances of gun violence. In 2018 alone, there were 340 mass shootings in the country. 340! 3-4-0!!!
According to CNN, the US also has 57 times more school shootings than “other major industrialized” countries do, combined. Since 2009, the US has had more than 288 school shootings; Mexico is in second place with 8. Clearly, some other factors are to blame for American shootings, not Call of Duty. Hence, why the internet’s very best meme-engineers started working overtime to satirize the very notion that Game Boys and PlayStations create murderers.
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iblowsheep 6 years ago
George Carlin : "THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING A BAN ON TOY GUNS, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP THE F*****G REAL ONES!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssYezFw_Qs
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miniarmour 42 6 years ago
Idk thats how my grandma looks after playing bingo she knocked another granny out for winning once with a chair
Kathy N Mike Chu 6 years ago
someone said "Let's eat grandma"....improper grammar is worse than video game violence!
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DexterDogTheLovey 5 years ago
Me in a video game - "Heck yes! Kill the dude! KiLl HiM!" Me in real life - "So anyways, I'm still waiting for the day that I see a Karen :)"
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Pug Pug 6 years ago
Were there mass shootings under other Presidents. Yes! Have they been getting out of control under the Trump Rein of racial encouraged racism and hatred making it okay for white males to let their rage out in the name of the Orange man. Yes! https://time.com/4965022/deadliest-mass-shooting-us-history/ FYI- I'm Vet, male, white, and straight. This president is a joke that is encouraging violence and segregation in America.
Wyomudder 6 years ago
Thank you for your opinion. Maybe the problem is not the president, but the complete lack of parenting to control children. The idea that everyone is entitled to do whatever they want with little recourse. The fact that it is ok to always point a finger to blame someone else. That we live in a society where the local governments still sweep mental health under the rug...
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Podunkus 6 years ago
If you insist. Wait a day or two. It will just need revising all over again.
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Alaa Bahattab 6 years ago
Yay! Someone finally posts the flag of my people without calling them terrorists!
Red Wyvern Emperor 6 years ago
Oh yeah... what was the difference in all these countries? I kinda forgot. Oh yeah. F*****G GUN CONTROL!!!
Wyomudder 6 years ago
Remember WWII? Where japan refused to fight on USA soil because of the second amendment allowing everyone the right to possess guns, so they had to sucker punch us in Hawaii? Gun control only works for the honest, drugs are illegal, but I'm pretty sure a couple of people who want them for bad reasons can still find them.
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Kia Kääriäinen 6 years ago
My husband play violence video games but he is nicest person in the world.He never hurt anybody
Marci Peebles 6 years ago
And this is from the *hours* between El Paso and Dayton, so it should actually read 250 now ...
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Mad Haberdasheress 6 years ago
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! That just made me Joker cackle at work and I'm printing it to hang in the break room right now!!!! X-D
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Lemon Garnished Potato 6 years ago
Me: "builds a nice house and farmon minecraft whilst my brother collects coal for the furnace* Me (according to this spiel): welp ima go murder someone now
Ram Jefferson Velarde 5 years ago
they said to me last time minecraft cause violence but for me that's a fake news
DexterDogTheLovey 5 years ago
Or me, crying because I accidentally killed a pet wolf in Minecraft. Or my friend and me, raising+helping with each other's pets so we can get neons in Adopt Me. Or me, begging somebody to trade me a legendary Pokemon in Pokemon Moon. Or me, being that one person who is a decent non-trained therapist online. Or me, trying to beat stage 132 in Pokemon Shuffle. (I will defeat you some day.) Must I continue?
Spleens the cat fan 3 years ago
But who would forget the joy of looking at my conveyor belt monstrosity in Satisfactory
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Daria B 6 years ago (edited)
The country is literally still at war (officially) and yet it's one of the safest places on Earth to live.
Lisa Chambers 6 years ago
Except for that crazy guy to the north of them firing rockets at will. But yeah totally safe.
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Artemis 6 years ago
The funny thing is as a woman in South Korea you could literally walk alone at night or during the day and feel completely safe. Yet you can’t do that here in America. The culture there is so very different. Never once have I felt unsafe walking alone at night there; when I’m here in my home town which isn’t a major city I have to carry mace and “borrow” my neighbors dog if I have to go somewhere even if it’s close by.
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Navindu Wijewardena 4 years ago
I think this is sarcastic. I mean, he even made a challenge in Far Cry 6.
DexterDogTheLovey 5 years ago
Hmmm. Revolutionary War, WW1, WW2, Civil War, War of 1812, Vietnam War. Should I go on?
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M O'Connell 6 years ago
Never mind the text, the apple really does not fall far from the tree.
Derek Fowler 6 years ago
If by Apple, you mean Applebee's...I won't disagree there.
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Vivaan Samaraweera 4 years ago
DoN't PlAy MiNeCrAfT, iTs ToO vIoLeNt. Wanna watch me bust a cap in come deer's head
Arno Nüüm 6 years ago
No, it's implying that using a real firearm to actually kill a living being is far more violent than using a virtual firearm in the context of a video game, thus exposing the condemnation of violence in videogames as hyprocrisy.
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Ed Souza 6 years ago (edited)
What's surprising about this is the fact that Japan's video game revenue is so low.
Red Wyvern Emperor 6 years ago
You should also add a chart of sold guns. On wait... that's the same as the on right, just higher scale. Never mind.
Helene Kira Håkansson 6 years ago
Seriously... What kind of country Is USA that people end up doing that? 😱😱
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Pamela Scott 6 years ago
Ever notice how you almost always see other students saying how quiet the person was in school. They ignore the person so much they had no clue what the person really was like. Get ignored except when being picked on long enough bad things happen, but we can't blame all the school staff, kids, and parents. Sooooo time to break out the oldy but goody video games of course its video games we blame.
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hispanic! at the disco 6 years ago
cant unsee cant unsee cant unsee cant unsee cant unsee
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typical loser 3 years ago
I wish people would stop saying mental illnes and instead say terrible mental health infrastructure that is shitty in every way and for many, very inaccessible, but yeah.
WillemPenn 6 years ago
Nope. No trotting out "mental illness" as the scapegoat please. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-truth-about-gun-viole_b_8005260
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Oathbraker 6 years ago
That is a surprisingly good photoshop job. I feel bad for up voting Hitler, but here you go.
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CAELYN MORALES 5 years ago
SKYRIMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Neon Petra 6 years ago
Aaand don't forget how Fallout was caused because of the many nearly nuclear wars.
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago (edited)
Fake news and alternate facts from the enemies of the people. Next they'll be saying it's because of politicians yelling about how immigrants invade the country and how gay people and videogamers incite to violence./S ( Oops nearly forgot the /S)
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Republican politians also blame marihuana, same sex weddings, transgenders,open borders and Obama for them. But he actually said it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kevin-mccarthy-blames-violent-video-games-for-mass-shootings/ar-AAFnrlq House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said video games could contribute to future mass shootings when asked about it in a television interview on Sunday morning. Appearing on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, McCarthy was asked about how to understand factors contributing to a shooting.
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Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
ah yes "shooting video games is a problem" its called "shooter game" for a reason BUT video games dont cause violence... VIOLENCE CAUSES VIDEO GAMES!
Moo Moo Futch 6 years ago
Did he legit say there are no video games in Japan?? Like really said that??
Alexandra Davis 6 years ago
It's like she's never left America and thinks every other country is oppressed because they're not 'free' and so don't have such 'luxuries' as video games? OR she thinks because Japan is in the East, it must be a third world country because in her head only the West are first world countries and so all of Japan live in wooden shacks and barely have any electricity or money to buy none essentials?
The Random Merp 6 years ago
(For those who don't know, that's a nickname for this character. No onslaught of angry comments, please, XD)
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Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
i did that when a fortnite kid opened my door like there were zero locks
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Red Wyvern Emperor 6 years ago
Holy c**p, they're going full Red Alert 3 on our asses. Prepare my Tesla towers!!!
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
Some people [even elected turds] _do_ have a difficult time distinguishing between an entertaining movie and a documentary film.
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Todorokie-dokie 5 years ago
Remember, people hear with their eyes. Cover your eyes, you can’t hear. (Joking, obviously.)
Jacob Rinker 6 years ago
I mean I could see social media having links to mental instability, have you see how much time Trump spends on Twitter?
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Carol Anne Benoit 6 years ago
I think it's a degenerative brain disease from an untreated STD.
Load More Replies... Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
oh is that why my mom "was" on the ground shaking for the past 10 years?
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the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
excuse me but what the HELL do bananas have to do with sewerslide
Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
guys heres the plan... step 1: bring all the bananas into one place, step 2: someone bring some matches (or more than 1) step 3: BURN THEM ALL TO BANANA DUST
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Monday 6 years ago
I remember as a child I used to make sim versions of people I was angry at and then lock them in a room to starve......never did anything to the person and I felt a lot better.
Alexander Jacobs 3 years ago
ive been playing them since i was 4 and still havent killed anyone yet... (out of shock)
M O'Connell 6 years ago
I remember as child, my video game empire was consistently defeated by northern barbarians. Thankfully that hasn't happened yet in real life.
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DexterDogTheLovey 5 years ago
Times that my brother wants to play Minecraft without starting a world in creative? ZERO
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Giuliano Di Staulo 6 years ago
“F*****g Matt! You’re making me wanna shoot up a school in the future!”
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Kelly Hartle 6 years ago
Just because I've played Plants vs. Zombies doesn't mean I spit acid at everyone.
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Scott Lloyd 6 years ago
The hell you can use VR stuff when every other person is using controllers?
Derek Fowler 6 years ago
It's not just a stock image.. there are a couple games on PSVR like The Playroom for example, that allow up to three others to go up against the one player in VR. It's actually quite fun. They use the TV and have their perspective, while the VR user only sees what they see inside.
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Daria B 6 years ago
I liked what Marilyn Manson had to say about that. Although I never was a fan.
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Helyn Hughes 6 years ago
Quit blaming Boomers. That’s age discrimination. We are not all stupid.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
The average age of a mass shooter is 34. Wouldn't that make them millenials?
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Monday 6 years ago
I mean...that's a dangerous game to play...second only to monopoly of course.
Kelly Hartle 6 years ago
I've seen some pretty dangerous situation when someone gets all the draw fours.
typical loser 3 years ago
nah uno actually does cause violence. I've wanted to stab people over that game.
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miniarmour 42 6 years ago
I know for sure when i get angry with stupid oomans i play video games to CALM DOWN
John Montgomery 6 years ago
Exactly. They are a way to get aggression out BEFORE it escalates into actual violence.
Load More Replies... Blue Cicada 6 years ago
On the days after a new video game release, violence actually goes down in major US metropolitan areas.
Noah Kaufman 5 years ago
video games keep us from committing war crimes in real life because we're busy committing them in games.
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Carol Anne Benoit 6 years ago
My 14 year old son uses 'Boomer' as a pejorative. Thankfully, he's talking about my older brother and not me.
Meami 6 years ago
I'm over blaming stupid stuff on boomers. It's a cop-out. Boomers are just like any other group - they are all different!!
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rhyan lumilay 6 years ago
I play shooting game where I have to gun down or stealth every enemies, horror/bloody games where my character sees nightmarish things and events that wants to kill me but these games doesn't affect my personality in real life instead help me to think when what if this things happens in real life someone starts a shoot out? Can I defend myself? Can I apply it for my or someone else's survivability?
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Katchen 6 years ago
Most murderers are not mentally ill, and the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
The thought never crossed your mind that if there are so many reports on the total nonsense that tangerine turd and other Republican politicians said, that it might be true? Take a look at Breitbart which is known as a very republican minded newschannel... Even they say the same thing about the dotard and the rest of the GOP. Only difference is that Breitbart fully supports the nonsense.
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Brandy Grote 6 years ago
Look, you can either afford primo gaming systems and games, or you can afford guns and ammo.
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EtherealSponge 6 years ago
Git gud you say? Hmmmm... I like the reference Makes sense for this series of posts
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EtherealSponge 6 years ago
The feeling of anger as you accept defeat while a block descends over your badly placed tower
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Dark Pearl 4 years ago
I don't know how to drive responsibly in real life. Luckily real life is nothing like Forza...
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Oathbraker 6 years ago
"Mass pettings"- isn't that just Sunday morning in Catholic church? (I know it's awful, but I had to.)
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Neon Petra 6 years ago
It's not the dinosaur game that's the problem. It's WHY they had to play the dinosaur game that is...
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Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
If the president shouts hate, racism and don't really condone violence- yeah.
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What do you think ?
Daria B 6 years ago
Koreans are literally world top pro-gaming champions and they have 0 shootings. Also, gamers are too busy staying at home playing video games to be bothered for a shooting spree.
Monday 6 years ago
Not to mention too broke from spending money on games to afford a gun and all that ammo.
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Falcon 6 years ago
I would laugh at these, but at this point I'm so tired of this c**p. It's the same old "let's blame video games so we don't have to do anything about the real reasons like mental heath or gun accessibility". It's complete stupidity from people you'd think would be smart. 😑
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
I get the point but the newest gunman's don't seem to want 'fame', they just go for the kill nowadays because they can- kind of thing. Before they'd boast about being famous etc but now it seems like hate and kill as many as possible.. Sad.
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CP 6 years ago
The only thing that bothers me about this thread is that when people say media they really should be specifying Foxnews. I haven't seen the other channels or websites really pushing the video games nonsense. Also politicians means Republican politicians that one is obvious, but again should be specified. It's as if people are playing the bothsides card on this issue.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Breitbart is a heavy supporter of this nonsense too. And there are more rightwing channels blaming everything except the easy availibility of guns for the shootings.
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Teresa McGrath 6 years ago
Hey!! #26 is offensive to me (said sarcastically). I am a middle aged white woman who plays video games (i.e, assassin's creed, crysis).
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Ok, so the FBI now has declared you a future mass shooter. Don't you go walkling into Wal Mart in camo-dress and in body armor and armed with an assault gun. /S
Load More Replies... Miklós Nagy 6 years ago
It's still double-standard, that you can be a mass murderer in video games withut problems, but if there is any nudity in your game you got AO rating and no one will sell it.
Alex Bailey 6 years ago
One aspect probably progresses the game and the other... is irrelevant.
Load More Replies... Oathbraker 6 years ago
Well they do cause violence. So far for around 20 years my victims are a few mice and a lagging wireless router. And the mice died of old age.
Virgil Blue 6 years ago
I killed a few controllers out of sheer rage while playing dark souls.
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Filipe Vieira 6 years ago
If video games are affecting US citizens the most, someone should create a game called "World Without Guns Simulator" for them.
Mad Haberdasheress 6 years ago
For those of us old enough for this: remember when all of our parents were terrified of Dungeons and Dragons because it would make us "devil worshipping killers with no grip on reality"? Good times. It should, however, leap to mind when we see this kind of unmitigated pig $#!÷ applied to video games. Take a deep breath, because this is a deep dive: in mentally stable people, heavy metal music does not cause killings (mass hysteria largely began in the 60's and still around today), fantasy role playing games do not loosen our grip on reality and cause us to kill, and violence in movies and video games do not cause violence in real life. Mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and institutionalized support of extremism and idiocy, however, absolutely does cause all of these things. Stop blaming things that are easy to target and start doing the hard work it will take to truly address the real causes. I know, not going to happen, but I like to live in hope while I build my newest D&D character. :-)
Moo Moo Futch 6 years ago
I'm a 37 year old female (I had to double check my age as I swore I was 34) and I play Battlefield 4 DAILY for 45 mins while I relax in the evening. I'm yet to pick up a gun and shoot up a night club, shopping mall, public transit terminal etc etc but according to moron republicans it's possible that I will.... makes sense.... NOT NO
TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
I feel like the GOP has been so strongly supported by older people in the past they’re missing that their new younger voters smoke pot, play video games and aren’t very religious lol
Daria B 6 years ago
Koreans are literally world top pro-gaming champions and they have 0 shootings. Also, gamers are too busy staying at home playing video games to be bothered for a shooting spree.
Monday 6 years ago
Not to mention too broke from spending money on games to afford a gun and all that ammo.
Load More Replies... Falcon 6 years ago
I would laugh at these, but at this point I'm so tired of this c**p. It's the same old "let's blame video games so we don't have to do anything about the real reasons like mental heath or gun accessibility". It's complete stupidity from people you'd think would be smart. 😑
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
I get the point but the newest gunman's don't seem to want 'fame', they just go for the kill nowadays because they can- kind of thing. Before they'd boast about being famous etc but now it seems like hate and kill as many as possible.. Sad.
Load More Replies... CP 6 years ago
The only thing that bothers me about this thread is that when people say media they really should be specifying Foxnews. I haven't seen the other channels or websites really pushing the video games nonsense. Also politicians means Republican politicians that one is obvious, but again should be specified. It's as if people are playing the bothsides card on this issue.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Breitbart is a heavy supporter of this nonsense too. And there are more rightwing channels blaming everything except the easy availibility of guns for the shootings.
Load More Replies... Teresa McGrath 6 years ago
Hey!! #26 is offensive to me (said sarcastically). I am a middle aged white woman who plays video games (i.e, assassin's creed, crysis).
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Ok, so the FBI now has declared you a future mass shooter. Don't you go walkling into Wal Mart in camo-dress and in body armor and armed with an assault gun. /S
Load More Replies... Miklós Nagy 6 years ago
It's still double-standard, that you can be a mass murderer in video games withut problems, but if there is any nudity in your game you got AO rating and no one will sell it.
Alex Bailey 6 years ago
One aspect probably progresses the game and the other... is irrelevant.
Load More Replies... Oathbraker 6 years ago
Well they do cause violence. So far for around 20 years my victims are a few mice and a lagging wireless router. And the mice died of old age.
Virgil Blue 6 years ago
I killed a few controllers out of sheer rage while playing dark souls.
Load More Replies... Filipe Vieira 6 years ago
If video games are affecting US citizens the most, someone should create a game called "World Without Guns Simulator" for them.
Mad Haberdasheress 6 years ago
For those of us old enough for this: remember when all of our parents were terrified of Dungeons and Dragons because it would make us "devil worshipping killers with no grip on reality"? Good times. It should, however, leap to mind when we see this kind of unmitigated pig $#!÷ applied to video games. Take a deep breath, because this is a deep dive: in mentally stable people, heavy metal music does not cause killings (mass hysteria largely began in the 60's and still around today), fantasy role playing games do not loosen our grip on reality and cause us to kill, and violence in movies and video games do not cause violence in real life. Mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and institutionalized support of extremism and idiocy, however, absolutely does cause all of these things. Stop blaming things that are easy to target and start doing the hard work it will take to truly address the real causes. I know, not going to happen, but I like to live in hope while I build my newest D&D character. :-)
Moo Moo Futch 6 years ago
I'm a 37 year old female (I had to double check my age as I swore I was 34) and I play Battlefield 4 DAILY for 45 mins while I relax in the evening. I'm yet to pick up a gun and shoot up a night club, shopping mall, public transit terminal etc etc but according to moron republicans it's possible that I will.... makes sense.... NOT NO
TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
I feel like the GOP has been so strongly supported by older people in the past they’re missing that their new younger voters smoke pot, play video games and aren’t very religious lol
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