@Tuckpoint @awake2reality tell that to the dead kids in newtown. you are no different than that stupid mom. so load your kid up with first person shooters instead of minecraft, and teach him to play with AR15s like toys. Great parenting!
@Tuckpoint @botswanky "Impressionable minds are influenced by the parents far more than any comic book, movie or game." Wow, you have a 1950s TV show mentality.
@Tuckpoint @awake2reality NRA does not market machine guns? Too funny. What do you think assault rifles are? Why do you think they make sure the real ones are in games? Automatic or manual makes no difference, be it your finger or a mechanism, it is still a machine gun. You should stop being a pawn for the gun lobby, or maybe just stop accepting their "facts" as fact. And the fact is, the NRA makes lots of money from selling machine guns as toys.
@kozakon @awake2reality Sorry, I don't buy that. If you can't see how many pieces come together - mental illness, guns and yes games, you are blind. Are games the sole reason, of course not. Is the sim part of these games providing an answer to their problems, and preparing them, showing them how... of course. There are many pieces to the puzzle these kids are, and you are foolish to not recognize the game piece. Just as foolish as the NRA pretending that their marketing of machine guns to the general public has nothing to do with it.
Game developers are funny. They want their work to be art, to be impactful, to be part of culture, to mean something... they stand up and say, games are good, they can teach you something.
And I agree with all of this, but I also realize that the power of games can also prepare, train and desensitize a kid and can present a solution to a problem as just "kill everyone". Games can definitely be part of the problem, and you can't look at the Newtown shooting and hide your eyes from that fact.
And there is a huge disconnect between what the public thinks of games and the reality. This is proven by the fact that everyone would not be okay if a toy store sold R rated movies, but M rated games? Hey they are just "games"
What can be done? I don't know the answer. But I do know that until the industry stops shoving NRA like propaganda into society and starts taking a seriously look at their part in this, M rated games will still be sold in Toys R Us as no big deal and more kids will go on finding their answers and getting trained and prepared for more shootings.
@oflow @awake2reality Wow, CoD is "cartoon violence". I'm sure the developers would disagree. And you really think games are not a powerful influence on players? Are you nuts? And if you think that games aren't a factor when a kid decides the answer to his problems is to dress up like a game characters and score some real kids, you are just either stupid, or blinded by the propaganda the game industry feeds you. Use some common sense. Think for yourself. You may find some interesting things about reality.
@Tuckpoint @awake2reality You need to take off your rose colored glasses and wake up to the money involved in all this. The industry loves they can put a letter on a game, and parents don't realize it is equal to an R movie.
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