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Lotta_Drool wrote:

MADD is now going after GTA4 for Drunk driving.

Link http://www.dailytech.com/MADD+Thompson+ … e11660.htm

Excerpt:

MADD released a statement saying, "Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke.  Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable."

The organization is also trying to convince publisher Take-Two Interactive and developer Rockstar Games to stop distribution of the popular game "out of respect for the millions of victims/survivors of drunk driving."

In GTA IV players can "drink" at bars and then afterwards have the option of hailing a taxi, walking off their intoxication, or throwing caution to the wind and driving drunk.  When driving drunk the view blurs and its harder to steer.  Players recover from intoxication after several minutes in-game.



So the million dollar question is " Does Violence in Games, Lyrics, T.V., and Movies desensitise people from violence "?

Well I say the answer is obviously YES.  Especially in people with brains that are still developing.  I know some people are going to flame me and say I'm wrong and that if that was the case then people would be going around shooting each other all the time, well look at the paper 'cuz there are a significant number of people who are attracted to needless/pointless violence and stupidity.

If you are a parent think about this, what if instead of a game where murder and mayhem was simulated and to an extent glamorized, it was Suicide that was simulated and glamorized.  Would you want your son/daughter sitting around playing that game for hours and hours.  Do you think suicide would go up among teens?  Would it make you uncomfortable and realize it is unhealthy and dangerous for your kid.  If this is the case why would it be ok to give your kid a game in which the object is to go around hurting other people?  Are you willing to risk your kid hurting someone else but not himself?

Honestly I think that a lot of games, music, and movies are out of control nowdays and poisoning society.  There are so many worthless peices of shit raising more worthless pieces of shit that it makes me want the US to enact sterilizing people based on criminal record, drug use, and education.  I still remember when the people on Jerry Springer weren't mainstream yet I have been meeting these people more and more.

So what do you say, Is there any correlation between societal decay and what we turn to for entertainment.

Last edited by Poseidon (2008-05-01 20:22:18)

Volatile wrote:

Poor parenting leads to violence, nothing else.

Last edited by madmurre (2008-05-02 08:01:02)

.Sup wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

Don't blame the videogames, blame the stupid parents letting 10 years old kids play M rated games.

Last edited by The#1Spot (2008-05-02 13:30:07)

Lotta_Drool wrote:

So the million dollar question is " Does Violence in Games, Lyrics, T.V., and Movies desensitise people from violence "?

Honestly I think that a lot of games, music, and movies are out of control nowdays and poisoning society.  There are so many worthless peices of shit raising more worthless pieces of shit that it makes me want the US to enact sterilizing people based on criminal record, drug use, and education.  I still remember when the people on Jerry Springer weren't mainstream yet I have been meeting these people more and more.

So what do you say, Is there any correlation between societal decay and what we turn to for entertainment.

Lotta_Drool wrote:

Ok, here is your prof that you are all wrong.  I was 17 and decided that the world sucks, I was poor, and had not future.  So I came up with the plan of going into the AirForce for Air traffic control so I could get the GI bill and learn a trade that I could apply in my Civi life while in college.  Well then when I turn 18 I kept seeing a comerical for the Army with a M1 tank hauling ass and jumping a creek.  This gave me a great big hard on and I said to myself " self, that is some bad ass shit and if I go into the Army it will be a bunch of hot roding around in a fuck an Aye tank jumping shit and then there is the partying in the bar like on the Movie Stripes ".  So not only did I convince myself to throw away my well layed out plans and fuck up my life, but I convinced my best friend to also.

Fast forward 4 months to an extremely large black man in a brown round who is very racially insensitive toward me having what he referred to as a "Niggerism on my stupid white ass" because my boots aren't shinny enough.

Fast forward 4 more months to me freezing at 3am in a mud puddle during a downpour providing security for an defensive position that is clearly surounded by the friendly state of Texas while I have zero visability, will to live, or warmth.

Fast forward 4 years to where I get out of the military and find out that there is little demand for Tank Commanders in the civilian work force.

So my shattered life is prof that one dumb ass commercial played over and over was enough to scew my reality of what the Army is to throw away reality for a shit sandwich with extra shit.

FatherTed wrote:

How does that relate to games in anyway?

FatherTed wrote:

Lotta_Drool wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

How does that relate to games in anyway?

You're not really a priest, are you?

google it.

Kid's are impressionable yeh, but where that takes them depends on the quality of parenting, end of discussion.

Lotta_Drool wrote:

I would just like to point out that everyone who has posted in this thread, other than me, is wrong.  I also would like to especially point out Poseidon's post because he was the most wrong.

Lotta_Drool wrote:

Ok, here is your prof that you are all wrong.  I was 17 and decided that the world sucks, I was poor, and had not future.  So I came up with the plan of going into the AirForce for Air traffic control so I could get the GI bill and learn a trade that I could apply in my Civi life while in college.  Well then when I turn 18 I kept seeing a comerical for the Army with a M1 tank hauling ass and jumping a creek.  This gave me a great big hard on and I said to myself " self, that is some bad ass shit and if I go into the Army it will be a bunch of hot roding around in a fuck an Aye tank jumping shit and then there is the partying in the bar like on the Movie Stripes ".  So not only did I convince myself to throw away my well layed out plans and fuck up my life, but I convinced my best friend to also.

Fast forward 4 months to an extremely large black man in a brown round who is very racially insensitive toward me having what he referred to as a "Niggerism on my stupid white ass" because my boots aren't shinny enough.

Fast forward 4 more months to me freezing at 3am in a mud puddle during a downpour providing security for an defensive position that is clearly surounded by the friendly state of Texas while I have zero visability, will to live, or warmth.

Fast forward 4 years to where I get out of the military and find out that there is little demand for Tank Commanders in the civilian work force.

So my shattered life is prof that one dumb ass commercial played over and over was enough to scew my reality of what the Army is to throw away reality for a shit sandwich with extra shit.