I don’t know about with, but *over *? Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever played Mario Kart with all 4 players on the same couch but… shit goes down, man. I swear to god, the moment that first blue shell goes out, it is on.
All those hours playing Civilization ever did for me was make me want to build temples everywhere.
They’ll have to pry the controller out of my cold, dead hands.
In fact, I wouldn’t give up my PS3 even if it would guarantee that there would never be another video-game related massacre in the United States.
See! This is the kind of thing I’m talking about. Video games encourage wanton violation of wildflower regulations.
How many games are you allowed to just wander into anyone’s house you want without knocking? Take items out of chests that are clearly not yours? Encourage you to mine and gather every bit of natural resources that you can with no thought to the effects on the environment?
Oh, who will stop the scourge of wannabe world-conquering dictators inspired by Civilization and Europa Universalis? :mad:
If the zombie apocalypse happens, Call of Duty players are ready.
I’ve played Grand Theft Auto, all of them, and Saint’s Row 3. Never had the urge to beat people to death with a huge purple dildo. I did, however, hit a friend of mine with the ET game after he convinced me to buy it. Does that count?
I see what you did there! 
I’ve seen lots of nonsense posted on this board that was merely on the level of believing in voo-doo magic – and now here’s an OP based on literal belief in the voo-doo magic principle of manipulating images in order to cause corresponding changes in the real world.
What next? Banish evil from the world with the power of rainbow crystals? :rolleyes:
Left 4 Dead and Resident Evil players will be prepared as well.
How politicians can do it is quite easy to explain:
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Politicians who are on the side of the gun lobby find it useful to toss out a smoke screen until the current storm blows over.
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Politicians who have some personal prejudice against video games, or are pandering to voters who do, find it useful to take advantage of any even remotely plausible opportunity to demonize them.
Heck, if you could be that clear and persuasive, you could go from town to town collecting money to start up a band even if you didn’t know jack squat about music.
That explains it – our politicians and business leaders have obviously been corrupted by video games.
It has hundreds of units gibbing and covering the battlefield in blood and cinematics that portray shootings and stabbings. The first game has a cinema where a guy gets impaled through his face.
Exactly. And if this doesn’t look like a child to you, you’re not trying hard enough.
And more seriously, StarCraft is not a violent game. Most things splat in a cartoonish way, and one guy in a cutscene meeting a sticky end isn’t a big deal when you think about such scenes in PG/PG-13 movies.
Come on, please. We really don’t need congress or commitee’s or any legislation-We need alot LESS gov. control on ourselves.People will do the Right thing when they’re good,wrong thing when they’re Evil.Do you really thing banning anything (gun,vid’s,porn)would’ve stopped that fuck from killing innocent’s?
So your theory is that laws can’t do anything?
Banning guns might have, yes - but that’s sort of a dodge because guns aren’t going to be banned.
I think the nature vs. nurture debate is pretty darn settled on “nurture” by now when it comes to right and wrong, good and evil, ethical and unethical, and the predominance of one over the other among individuals.