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Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game

Don't blame the video game. How many kids played that game and didn't kill their parents? Sounds to me like this kid's parents weren't exactly grade A material. Clearly your child had issues and shouldn't have been feeding his aggression in the first place. If they were good parents this kid probably would not have gotten this video game in the first place. They would have realized his aggression issues much sooner.
 
Let's wait til the long term study results come out. :cool:
 
jallman said:
In the meantime, it can remain a non-issue to those of us who don't need statistics to state the obvious.
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If it's such a non-issue why do you keep protestething so much?
 
bhkad said:
Call for long term studies of the link between random violence in this country and video gaming.
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I have no issues with this, I hav issues with your longstanding demand that there is a five year ban on games during this time.

Said nice things about Joe Lieberman.

Said nice things about Hillary Clinton.
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I have no issues with you agreeing with a democrat, I hav issues with your longstanding demand that there is a five year ban on games during this time. I just enjoy seeing you agreeing with someone you'd probably previously call a traitor.

Some people would say that I was being downright moderate and reasonable.
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Your mother doesn't count.

Do extremists have the necessary mindset to be good city planners?
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Well if they played Sim City of COURSE they do! I mean, all it takes is playing a video game and you instantly assume you can immitate anything going on in it with the exact same success and outcome.

Now excuse me, I need to go continue to play Resident Evil. It has taught me that Zombies rising up due to a disease is unequiviocally true and therefore I must learn how to kill said Zombies for the day such a time comes because the Video Games said so.
 
Zyphlin said:
I have no issues with this, I hav issues with your longstanding demand that there is a five year ban on games during this time.

I have no issues with you agreeing with a democrat, I hav issues with your longstanding demand that there is a five year ban on games during this time. I just enjoy seeing you agreeing with someone you'd probably previously call a traitor.

Your mother doesn't count.

Well if they played Sim City of COURSE they do! I mean, all it takes is playing a video game and you instantly assume you can immitate anything going on in it with the exact same success and outcome.

Now excuse me, I need to go continue to play Resident Evil. It has taught me that Zombies rising up due to a disease is unequiviocally true and therefore I must learn how to kill said Zombies for the day such a time comes because the Video Games said so.
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If you are looking for someone to spar with, look elsewhere. I've lost much of my former zeal.

Sorry, I can't accommodate you.
 
americanwoman said:
I kinda agree with Bkhad. I don't share his extremist views, but I do find lots of these interactive violent games a little too violent and real. This kid is 17, I don't know how old he was when it happened, it didn't say, but Halo 3 is most likely an MA game for mature adults- which a 17 year old is not. I just think we have created a violent society where violence is celebrated and we are just reaping those seeds with these things happening almost daily and most people acting like that type of thing is normal. You can't show a nipple on tv without people having heart attacks but violent murders don't blink an eye, what's up with that?
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seventeen is plenty old enough to see something violent on TV without mimicking it in your daily life.

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jallman said:
I'm not. You just keep obsessing so much and so it is response to you. Nice try though.
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My very own stalker, eh?

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57.3% of all statistics are made up. :mrgreen:
 
emdash said:
seventeen is plenty old enough to see something violent on TV without mimicking it in your daily life.

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I think there is a difference between watching something and interactivly playing a game. I am not anti gaming at all, I am more for parents monitoring games and their children more, you know like being actual parents. If you know your kid has problems and can be highly influenced by outside sources, wouldn't it just make sense to be aware of what he is playing and doing?
 
americanwoman said:
I think there is a difference between watching something and interactivly playing a game. I am not anti gaming at all, I am more for parents monitoring games and their children more, you know like being actual parents. If you know your kid has problems and can be highly influenced by outside sources, wouldn't it just make sense to be aware of what he is playing and doing?
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of course. however I don't think this kid's problem had much to do with the specific game and its level of violence. if his parents had taken away his zoo tycoon he might have done the same thing.

my only beef really is that this reminds me too much of people blaming school shootings on guns, when clearly guns are not the issue.
 
EgoffTib said:
So your argument is what? That every kid who plays violent video games and has them taken away by parents will resort to shooting said parents? :roll:
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bhkad said:
The impact of video games on random violence in this country needs to be studied.
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Make that the long term impact.
 
americanwoman said:
I think there is a difference between watching something and interactivly playing a game. I am not anti gaming at all, I am more for parents monitoring games and their children more, you know like being actual parents. If you know your kid has problems and can be highly influenced by outside sources, wouldn't it just make sense to be aware of what he is playing and doing?
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Absolutely. While the pro-gaming crowd don't think certain types, or just all, games should be outright banned generally they are strongly in favor of an informed, intelligent, active parent.

Super Mario Brothers, with mario bouncing on the head of moving mushrooms, is something I may not mind my 7 year old playing. Resident Evil, a horror genre game with Zombies and exploding bodies and blood, is something I'd not buy for them. Grand Theft Auto, complete with prostitutes and gang land beatings, would not be something ever to touch my preteens console.

Parents should definitely know what their kids are playing. Its why you don't find many gaming advocates saying that the rating system absolutely needs to go and kids should be able to buy any game they want. The issue is more with places, like England recently, just outright banning a game from being sold.
 
bhkad said:
Make that the long term impact.
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What long term impact are you expecting research to find?

Again, as has been stated before, most people are normal. Some are not. More often than not, teens who have their videogames taken away are do not end up shooting someone over it. Do you see where I am going with this?
 
video games make me want to kill all humans.


wait...no, that was Bender.
 
Zyphlin said:
Parents should definitely know what their kids are playing. Its why you don't find many gaming advocates saying that the rating system absolutely needs to go and kids should be able to buy any game they want. The issue is more with places, like England recently, just outright banning a game from being sold.
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I think that will start happening more and more with the younger generations. A lot of the people who have kids now grew up with console games and many still play them. Obviously when we were kids games weren't quite as racy. However, if they were I'm sure that at least my parents would have been pretty ignorant about it because they weren't remotely interested in video games and basically classified them as something strictly for the youth. That is changing quite a bit with time and I see it as a positive thing because the games now are racy and parents will be more aware of what their kids are playing.
 
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