Video games do not teach kids good morals, unlike TV shows.

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#1 Drasonak
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Take a game like the Super Mario Bros. for example. All he does it jump on deformed peoples' heads and kill them for being manipulated by a turle rhino hitler Plus, Peach is captured in every single game and is incapable of doing anything on her own. Mario is tasked with saving her. This is sexism at its very core, as it shows that women are helpless and must be saved by the white knight (in this case Italian knight since some racists don't think Italians deserve to be called white, so I am being politically correct (I don't share such sentiments)).

Now, let me highlight the fact that I am pointing towards gaming's most iconic figure, so for this comparison to be devoid of bias, I should also do so for TV shows. System Wars falls into many logical fallacies, and confirmation bias is one of them. For example, they will say that 2012 was the most disappointing year in gaming while choosing to ignore the surprises and refusing to acknowledge prior years have very much the same cases. But I disgress...

Tom and Jerry is, like Mario, the founders of its respective medium. Here we see Tom pursue dangerous activities in an attempt to murder an innocent life. Jerry seems like an underdog in the sense that he is smaller and is known for getting beat up on cats (he is a mouse). However, Jerry is a morally sound person and is able to conquer the violence of Tom and find humor in everyday situations, despite him being at odd's end. Jerry at times also encounters a love interest that equally help to thwart the cat and finds other cats who aren't hostile and very friendly. This displays equally and that not all people of a certain group are bad.

This is why the older generations do not like video games while their parents did not mind them watching TV.

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#2 TrueAmerican007
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you need to get laid.
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#3 rjdofu
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The point of video games is to have fun, morality seeker can piss off. And lol @ the Tom and Jerry analogy.

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#4 SaltyMeatballs
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you need to get laid.TrueAmerican007
Epic quote chain coming?
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#5 Drasonak
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you need to get laid.TrueAmerican007
You have been a member here for two weeks and already have 207 posts. :lol: Okay, buddy.
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#6 Drasonak
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[QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.SaltyMeatballs
Epic quote chain coming?

That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?
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oh_my_god__who_the_hell_cares__by_nzabob.

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#8 SaltyMeatballs
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[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"][QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.Drasonak
Epic quote chain coming?

That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?

Fat? And no, why disrespect TecmoGirl? #1reasonwhy!!!!!!!!!!
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#9 Badosh
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The only good TV show is about selling meth, so yeah, what was that about teaching good morals?
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#10 rjdofu
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[QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.SaltyMeatballs
Epic quote chain coming?

The hell with those ass sigs lately? Christmas is coming?
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#11 TrueAmerican007
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[QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.Drasonak
You have been a member here for two weeks and already have 207 posts. :lol: Okay, buddy.

None of those posts are walls of text like yours tho. Go back to the little hole you crawled out of.
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#12 Drasonak
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[QUOTE="Drasonak"][QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.TrueAmerican007
You have been a member here for two weeks and already have 207 posts. :lol: Okay, buddy.

None of those posts are walls of text like yours tho. Go back to the little hole you crawled out of.

LOL at you trying to validate yourself. You're right, you're not pathetic. :lol:
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#13 TrueAmerican007
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[QUOTE="Drasonak"][QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"][QUOTE="Drasonak"] You have been a member here for two weeks and already have 207 posts. :lol: Okay, buddy.

None of those posts are walls of text like yours tho. Go back to the little hole you crawled out of.

LOL at you trying to validate yourself. You're right, you're not pathetic. :lol:

lol, butthurt cow confirmed.
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What ever happened to subtlety? :(

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#16 TrueAmerican007
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[QUOTE="Drasonak"][QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"][QUOTE="Drasonak"] LOL at you trying to validate yourself. You're right, you're not pathetic. :lol:

lol, butthurt cow confirmed.

Where did you get the idea of me being a cow from? :|

Your mom.
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#17 TecmoGirl
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[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"][QUOTE="TrueAmerican007"]you need to get laid.Drasonak
Epic quote chain coming?

That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?

OMAQ5.gifWell the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

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i didn't read it, but let me say that before i stopped watching TV (it just bores me), some of the cartoons on air were just depressing in how twisted their morals were. and not in a funny, wacky way, it was just a really poor attempt at making a completely unlikable character sound right. though there are some funny ones, and some pretty good ones. /minirant.
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#20 funsohng
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Video games teach America iz good and Russia iz bad Sounds about right.
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#21 meetroid8
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Why is it that System Wars never seems able to recognize joke topics?
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#22 Shinobi120
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LMAO. Like all TV shows (such as Maury Povich, Steve Wilkos, Jeremy Kyle & Jerry Springer) teaches kids good morals more so than Video Games...

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#23 funsohng
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Why is it that System Wars never seems able to recognize joke topics?meetroid8
System Wars is always serious business.
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[QUOTE="meetroid8"]Why is it that System Wars never seems able to recognize joke topics?funsohng
System Wars is always serious business.

Word, yo.

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The only good TV show is about selling meth, so yeah, what was that about teaching good morals? Badosh

Wow I actually agree with you on something. Hmm.

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#26 conkertheking1
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TV is mind control, you have been brainwashed.

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#27 everythingcasua
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tv teaches kids to be candy asses
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#28 everythingcasua
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same with new video games
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[QUOTE="Drasonak"][QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"] Epic quote chain coming?TecmoGirl

That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?

OMAQ5.gifWell the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.
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#30 everythingcasua
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[QUOTE="TecmoGirl"]

[QUOTE="Drasonak"] That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?mems_1224

Well the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.

bald is better that ps3 should grab that kid by the emo hairdew and slice their neck.
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="TecmoGirl"]

Well the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

everythingcasua
what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.

bald is better that ps3 should grab that kid by the emo hairdew and slice their neck.

What was that? Was that even English?
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#32 everythingcasua
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="everythingcasua"][QUOTE="mems_1224"] what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.

bald is better that ps3 should grab that kid by the emo hairdew and slice their neck.

What was that? Was that even English?

everyone in army has emo hairdews
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[QUOTE="TecmoGirl"]

[QUOTE="Drasonak"] That girl in your signature is fat... and most probably ugly. Is it TecmoGirl, by any chance?mems_1224

OMAQ5.gifWell the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.

Lets just say I might've put it on him a little too good. It was a one night thing. I was more amazing than he could've ever imagined. But I didn't want anything to do with him afterwards. Now he seems to be going out of his way to make me look bad. *sigh*

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#34 PhazonBlazer
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Anyone up for a Spiderman thread?

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Anyone up for a Spiderman thread?

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#36 nervmeister
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Some games do indeed teach good morals. For instance in Hitman: Absolution, the game penalizes you for not cleaning up after yourself (by disposing of bodies).
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#37 Zophar87
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Hmm.. Suddenly I find myself not caring. Imagine that.

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The Tc is going to cry about GS SW users being virgins again.:lol:

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[QUOTE="everythingcasua"][QUOTE="mems_1224"] what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.mems_1224
bald is better that ps3 should grab that kid by the emo hairdew and slice their neck.

What was that? Was that even English?

Ignore him.

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#40 jg4xchamp
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Tom and Jerry>Videogames I approve.
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#41 deactivated-5d6e91f5c147a
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The only good TV show is about selling meth, so yeah, what was that about teaching good morals? Badosh
That building empires and sticking to them is a good lesson?
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#43 Namgis
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If this is fat,

EyE14.gif

what's average size?

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#44 verbtex  Moderator
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Uh, what?

Because Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, The Simpsons, MAD, Regular Show, and all the other cartoons on the TV today teach kids good morals?

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#45 GeoffZak
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Video games DO teach kids good morals. The games I played as a kid helped shape who I am today.

Kingdom Hearts? Tales of Symphonia? Harvest Moon? Ever try playing games like those?

In Tales of Symphonia, the main character, Lloyd, earns the title "Idealist" at one point. That's because of his vision of a Utopian society in which there's no war and everyone gets along.

Plenty of games teach good morals. The three I mentioned teach good morals about being nice to others and being tolerant.

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#46 Rocker6
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Why is it that System Wars never seems able to recognize joke topics?meetroid8

I'm sad to inform you, but this isn't a joke topic... :(

Also, TC, you speak of logical fallacies in your OP, yet you know nothing about debating. Why even bring it up, are you trying to sound smart, throwing up big words?

Have you already forgotten how you denied me any sort of factual evidence last night, in that little exchange about forum post count correlating to "real life" traits? ;)

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#47 the_phenom_
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I have to admit, I had a pretty good laugh reading this thread.
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#48 Drasonak
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="TecmoGirl"]

OMAQ5.gifWell the ass certainly looks like mine -- but i'm definitely not ugly in the slightest. Stop the hate hun. It's not healthy troll.

TecmoGirl

what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.

Lets just say I might've put it on him a little too good. It was a one night thing. I was more amazing than he could've ever imagined. But I didn't want anything to do with him afterwards. Now he seems to be going out of his way to make me look bad. *sigh*

16 year old girl am confirmed. It's not cool being a prostitute, honey. Don't worry, you have a chance of growing up and learning that when you respect yourself, others will also real respect you. For now, stop watching Victoria Justice and those other Nickelodeon ****s.
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[QUOTE="TecmoGirl"]

[QUOTE="mems_1224"] what did you do to him? he seems to have some weird hate boner for you.Drasonak

Lets just say I might've put it on him a little too good. It was a one night thing. I was more amazing than he could've ever imagined. But I didn't want anything to do with him afterwards. Now he seems to be going out of his way to make me look bad. *sigh*

16 year old girl am confirmed. It's not cool being a prostitute, honey. Don't worry, you have a chance of growing up and learning that when you respect yourself, others will also real respect you. For now, stop watching Victoria Justice and those other Nickelodeon ****s.

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#50 balfe1990
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jeeeez, what an assbutt