I have a hard time totally agreeing with these types of studies. I for one have been playing MANY different types of video games throughout my entire life and never once have I had the urge to go out and commit the same acts in real life as I have in video games. I understand that no study is absolutely perfect and I'm sure it takes into account those "gamers" who have no problem separating the game world from the real world, but I just wonder who all these people are who continually try and pull some of these things off. I mean things in video games nowadays are so outlandish who would even think of trying to act out after playing them. Even the most realistic of games allow you to do things that I would hope any sane person can realize as unacceptable in the real world. Who are these people who keep giving video games a bad rap?? I personally think they are troubled individuals who go and do some stupid things and then get caught and look for anything to blame instead of themselves for their actions. So they simply come up with the excuse, "The video game made me do it." Please.
On a somewhat related note...I would be interested to here if this problem was more prevalent in males or females. I would venture to guess that this is almost overwhelmingly a male issue based solely on the fact that more young men play games (especially the more violent games in question) than young women.
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I have a hard time totally agreeing with these types of studies. I for one have been playing MANY different types of video games throughout my entire life and never once have I had the urge to go out and commit the same acts in real life as I have in video games. I understand that no study is absolutely perfect and I'm sure it takes into account those "gamers" who have no problem separating the game world from the real world, but I just wonder who all these people are who continually try and pull some of these things off. I mean things in video games nowadays are so outlandish who would even think of trying to act out after playing them. Even the most realistic of games allow you to do things that I would hope any sane person can realize as unacceptable in the real world. Who are these people who keep giving video games a bad rap?? I personally think they are troubled individuals who go and do some stupid things and then get caught and look for anything to blame instead of themselves for their actions. So they simply come up with the excuse, "The video game made me do it." Please.
On a somewhat related note...I would be interested to here if this problem was more prevalent in males or females. I would venture to guess that this is almost overwhelmingly a male issue based solely on the fact that more young men play games (especially the more violent games in question) than young women.
August 4, 2009 - 5:17pmThis Comment
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