Violence And Video Games

http://kotaku.com/5976733/do-video-games-make-you-violent-an-in+depth-look-at-everything-we-know-today

Take a shot of whatever may be nearby, could be bleach for all I care, when I say something about Video Games and Violence. I guarantee you won't make it HALF WAY through this blog post!

Oh boy, here we go again with Violent video games and causing violent actions, this however is the research done on the subject, rather than entirely blaming the video game developer. Now this might incite the thought of "But didn't you make a blog last week fighting against the violent games?" Yes godammit, I did, now LETS DELVE DEEPER INTO THE SUBJECT!

So the French across the lake have been doing some research on the subject matter of, "Do Violent games cause Violence?" My short answer would be "No." The long answer is "No, but maybe if people weren't ignorant and use video games as a scapegoat to justify the fact they can't bring themselves to say, 'Okay, I snapped because of certain emotional problems.'"

Excuse me while I take a drink of Rum before I start again.

MOVING ON, So the test they did was that they had one group of players play a violent game, while the other half played non-violent games. They were then asked to write an ending to a randomized story, After that they would compete in a game where they had to respond to a visual cue faster than the other player, the loser recieved a horrible noise that, "Sounded like a combonation of fingernails on a chalkboard, dentist drills, and ambulance sirens.The student could determine the intensity and duration of the noise their opponent would have to suffer through." SCIENCE! Anyways, those who played violent games wrote more aggressive stories and  dished out a higher, more unpleasant noise. Concluding it affects aggression.

Now if I was the one of those who played the non-violent game, after a while they'd probably go, "Screw you, here's an ear-wrenching noise for you for 30 minutes straight with variable intensities!" Wonder where that half of the testing is. Now officially I will say this begrudgingly, but yes it does cause aggression, But it's only one factor that plays into violent acts. While there are people that lose their sense of reality every once in a while, theres a vast majority that says "There's no and/or minimal affect on me." And those are the ones less likely to go "GRAAAGGHL!" and spaz out with their internal 'Sprint' button while mashing X and Y to bludgeon and slash anything that gets in the way. Violent games may cause aggression but their entirety can't be blamed for making people go completely bonkers and go "GRAAAGGHL!" and spaz out with their internal 'Sprint' button while mashing X and Y to bludgeon everything. The human mind is STILL a strange and vast land of things that we know nothing about, but we know enough that the cause would be some form of emotional problem. They might be bullied a lot at school and they do noting about it, or someone's mother who rarely sees their son and spends more time at a school and becoming jealous. NOT because of Video games and their brainswashing scheme of pretty and exaggerated violence.

Now, think of it this way, what would happen if there were no video games whatsoever, would people be more likely to snap? Probably, why? They don't have any kind of release to some fantasy realm where they can do anything at all, thus having no stress releif. (this is my theory of the matter, not fact.)

Now I counted 18 times I mentioned violence and games here, If you made it this far Congradulations! You are either Irish or Scottish! If not, well, you wouldn't be reading this now would you?

Andrew Biskupski