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Originally posted by Slylee true. but i can't stand watching UFC or boxing. i hate violence like that in the flesh...video games are different though obviously.

Yah, UFC does nothing for me at all, I don't need to see guys beating the living shit out of each other. Boxing I don't really watch either, half the time you are just staring at two half naked guys in a ring hugging each other which to me is not entertainment lol

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Originally posted by Slylee that's not true at all. my mom did a pretty good job of explaining that stuff to me, but i was hypersensitive as a child with an extremely wild imagination. so yea...sometimes ur just born weird and fucked up. lol

lol yes i agree. not saying that EVERYONE will take to the molding the same way. its a generalization and of course there are always exceptions to them. your a great example!

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Originally posted by XaNaX Really the question to ponder is why do we as humans find it entertaining to watch movies and play games where the main theme is killing and hurting other people? I dunno...I'm just as guilty as anyone of goin on a shooting rampage with the minigun in GTA and killing a bunch of innocent people lol. Maybe its a way for us to live out things that we know are wrong and would normally never do.

this has always been an interesting phenomenon to me too. dont get me wrong i have fun playing the shoot'em up games. i just dont really understand that either.

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Originally posted by Slylee true. but i can't stand watching UFC or boxing. i hate violence like that in the flesh...video games are different though obviously.

overall UFC is boring to me...but once in a while i like to watch it..although its hard to because im not a violent person.

Well I certainly can't speak for any of the sweet ladies, or perhaps for any of the duderinos either, but fuck - well before the days of GTA and Manhunt, PS3 and Xbox360, I had a sandbox, and I used to spend hours with my friends reenacting some pretty violent shit in the backyard with yoy guns and action figures.

I really don't think video games are bringing much to kids that they haven't been exposed to for years already - and at the risk of sounding utterly redundant, if parents are actually parenting their kids, we shouldn't have any issues here.

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I wonder if Rockstar sent Jack Thompson a pre-release copy for reviewing purposes.

i used to smash Matchbox cars with huge rocks and set fire to my barbie's hair when i was 7 years old, and look at me... i turned out alright.

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yea ur right. it's all in the parenting now that i think about it.

but i mean, that just gives the video game industry a free ticket to keep creating these really disturbing, weird, violent games for teens to play? i dunno, i'm torn.


lucid, i wish we had been friends during our barbie days. i used to make them do it, and u used to set her hair on fire. hahaha

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

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Originally posted by Slylee but i mean, that just gives the video game industry a free ticket to keep creating these really disturbing, weird, violent games for teens to play? i dunno, i'm torn.

How is that any different than allowing authors to write about what they want to, musicians to sing about what they want to, or allowing any other kind of artist to express themselves however they care to?



I don't know, for me as an American, the issue is one over the first ammendment. I'm not familiar with UK civil rights, so I don't know what applies to this situation there.

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Originally posted by Slylee lucid, i wish we had been friends during our barbie days. i used to make them do it, and u used to set her hair on fire. hahaha

lol, i was never huge into Barbie, but i was obsessed with My Little Pony. my best friend when i was a kid had a huuuuge Barbie collection, so she used to bring all her barbies over to play with my ponies.

i know that sounds wrong, but it was totally innocent.

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Originally posted by RJT How is that any different than allowing authors to write about what they want to, musicians to sing about what they want to, or allowing any other kind of artist to express themselves however they care to?

touche'

i hate saying that, but yea, u have a point. nevermind.

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

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Originally posted by Slylee touche' i hate saying that, but yea, u have a point. nevermind.

Dude - I don't mean to imply that I thought it was weird you didn't already think that, I think a LOT of people still don't necessarily think video games are an artform.

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Originally posted by RJT How is that any different than allowing authors to write about what they want to, musicians to sing about what they want to, or allowing any other kind of artist to express themselves however they care to?

Yah, the only difference I can see is with video games the kid is the one playing it and is the one doing all those acts of violence. With movies, books, etc they are watching or reading about some character doing it

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Originally posted by XaNaX Yah, the only difference I can see is with video games the kid is the one playing it and is the one doing all those acts of violence. With movies, books, etc they are watching or reading about some character doing it

I guess, but it's rarely the individual controlling the game who is actually engaging in the activities, much in the same way that when one reads a book, what they "see" is their own interpretation of events the characters are engaging in.

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