Clinton: a threat to all gamers !

I would say it decreases the change of aggressive behaviour.
When I get irritated driving in traffic GTA can help me not to ram that little old lady slowly crossing the road.
Just go home and ram as much little old lady’s as you want.
Gets it all out of my system.

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Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

:knight: *challenges Viking to a Medieval jousting duel*

How am I a threat? :inquisitive:

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You get exposed to unhuman violence, and sometimes even Hot Coffe. If you continue to expose yourself to such, I see no other choice than to shut down the gaming industry. :stupido:

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Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

I'd hardly call that an agenda against video games. The ratings exist for the reason they're supposed to be followed. If you're against the ratings, vote for a party that is against ratings, not for a party that supports ratings but are too lazy/incompetent to make sure their laws are followed. Having a law but being too lazy/incompetent to make sure it's followed is not the same as being against that law.

What one can hope for is that more knowledge about how games affect people will make the ratings institutes let through some mature games as 12years rating or similar in the cases where the ratings are currently too harsh. For example it's quite ridiculous with the current system that a violent game can become 12 years instead of mature by adding a parental lock which replaces red blood with green blood.

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I support ratings as guidlines, not as law. Strict ratings will just lead to companies making games that specifiaclly don't break the rules but are totally unfit for the audience they're being sold too. The green blood instead of red blood is a good example. Look at movies, they can be plain rancid but deemed 'okay' because they don't include four letter words. :oops:

EDIT: I admit the title of the thread is a but too extreme, but I wanted to start a Clinton bashing thread for once !

I wish Lieberman would quit trying to be a Democrat and join the Republican party already.

Maybe we can do a trade: we'll take McCain. ~;)

Heil Hillary! Für immer mein Fürher! SEIG HEIL!

[/sarcasticantihillaryrant]

I hate her. With a passion.

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In fact, some time ago I heard a story (didn't try to confirm it) that Harvard did a similar study, showing violent movies to schoolboys for two hours, then released them and observe them acting, well, violent. Yale, in order to nitpick Harvard, did the same study, except with kiddy shows you'd expect from PBS being shown for 2 hours, and observed the very same behavior from schoolboys. Or so I've heard... ~:P

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So neither "study" had a control group? Fascinating.

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Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Yes, I created a topic with plenty of examples of meaningless correlations, for example the more plastic waste scrap you import, the more murders by firearms your country gets. There, the correlation was something like 0.8. In the study quoted above, the correlation was something like 0.3. Simplifying things, you could say that a 0.3 correlation means there's 30% chance that it would be true that videogames would cause more aggressiveness or more aggressiveness would cause more videogame playing, or a combination.

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Experimental studies demonstrate a causal link.

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I do not think she has any real beliefs except that she will be president in a few years, and she probably will. She will leave this alone if something else appears for her to exploit.

I only read some of the First Page,but

jesus Chirst,oh my god!!

some 8 year old kid shot his teacher,lets go blame GTA for it!!!!
*gets lawyer*
it like come on.if a 15 year old kid gets a sniper rifle and starts shooting at people with his friend off of a bridge and kills 1 or 2 people (it did happen,I read it in Gameinformer) that lets blame GTA, cuz the Kids did.. the Kids,I highly doubt they got the Main idea from. they probalby did it on the Game, but they thought it was "cool" to do that, not cuz the Game infulcene it.

it just like if someone murders someone else. that guy would Plead Insane..
ok, it like if some RTW guy gets Mad and Shoots my Clan, and I kill him in revange with a Sword that my Brother Has (real Civil War one), ok, people will say "it cuz of him playing RTW or watching Civil War toy solider/games/movies" and I can always blame it on RTW..


what u think??

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

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Eh? :inquisitive: