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- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70THIS STORY IS ***** I WILL ***** CAP ANY MOFO WHO PEREPTUATES THESE LIES!!!1
-JACK THOMPSON - 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32I knew it, crazy kids should not play violent games...just give them sonic the hedgehog and they will live a sane life...
- Tempest811, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34An sentence that seem to have many errors
- SpectralSounds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28This article is not sensationalist enough for the general public. The article is nothing more than common sense. The problem is, common sense doesnt matter to the masses of idiots who have their blame sticks pointed already.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21New study suggests most intelligent people with an understanding of common sense already know the results of studies such as this one.
- terribly1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21You guys have it all wrong - it's not the videogames, it's the (pick: television, music, movies, mainstream media, homosexuals, schools, peer pressure, drinking water, drugs, laser beams from space)!
duh! - Tempest811, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Video games only make me want to dive into pipes and jump under flying bricks - otherwise, I am rather docile.
- gnawph2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14They should spin the title a little:
"Study finds stable personalities unaffected by killing police and beating hookers!" - etempest, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17An study that seem to have logical sense.. wow.
- molobolo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Video games have made me into the demented kid I am today....Oh and having a drunk uncle, but lets not blame adults.
- Vanle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11 this is why I play pac man
- mythicflux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I am shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
-Philip J Fry - VermiciousKnid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10crazy german kid anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pR1rZZHEs - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Kids should go back to traditional nonviolent playtime activities like playing cowboys and Indians, shooting each other with cap guns, and blowing up frogs with firecrackers.
- Dipster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I have an urge to go out and chomp pellets, power pills, and ghosts myself.
- whalefarmerjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Kids with stable personalities don't shoot up their classmates in the first place.
- SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8In other news... a new study shows that air is breathable.
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yup. Correlation != Causation
- pacslash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dugg for "the populous on hand love".
- NikoKun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6So I guess this means that if JT were to play a violent video game... it would make HIM violent... guess we DO need to pass a law... a law to keep him away from our games...otherwise he might go crazy... i mean crazier...
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We will have the last laugh when we save the world from the impending alien invasion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6rebrad, you've got it the other way around.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5At least you didn't develop an obsessive compulsive urge to stack things in neat rows.
- zookee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Video games are a good way to release anger, irl anger is totally different.
- inajeep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is this because all your friends are sad or is it just you who are sad, so very sad? You are pull stats out of your butt because most if not all people I know who game are normal & well adjusted.
- Chizzibah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been thinking there was some sort of answer along the lines of this study.
I remember going to California for a family vacation and being at a diner one night for dinner. My brother and I were around 10 years old so we had to waste some time at the tiny arcade they had there. We got our quarters and played Area 51, one of the early, more violent light gun games in the arcades. So we both die in the game, move on to something else, and then this kid comes in and starts going nuts. He's screaming at the top of his lungs at the screen. This kid was completely unstable. He was our age (again, about 10) and he was screaming things such as "Take that you f***er" or "You did not just shoot me you piece of s***"
I've definitely played more violent games than this kid and here I am perfectly fine.
This should just be common sense. The people that are blaming video games for the violent downfall of youth should probably play some video games themselves. - skywake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think that most people here are well over 12.... although sometimes I wonder
I am 20 (the demographic of most Digg users I think) and use games as something fun to do when I have spare time
I remember when I was in school I played WAY too much pokemon, C&C, GTA, Halo...
whatever I could play in my spare time... and I turned out fine
I mean, I got into UNI.... I have a stable group of friends
and we play multiplayer DS games during lecture breaks
games are an "escape" to me just as much as music and work is
if anything is to blame for how ***** up society is today it would be political correctness
people like you who think filtering everything helps society - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't play games to "escape." I play them for what they are, entertainment. Usually during the couple hours a week I play video games, I play them in a living room or online with my friends (from real life, surprise, surprise). Now i'm pretty sure you're going to brand me as unstable since anything over -2 hours a week is "to a large degree," but I don't really care. Just my two cents.
- bixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is pretty interesting stuff. I am glad some actual critical thinking is being used in this investigation as whether violent video games triggers actual violence rather than a gaggle of parents blaming their faults in parenting on their kids and/or video games that their kids play.
Maybe some games should come with a warning. Advised Not To Play If You Are A Freaking Brat! - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh man, because of digg, I'm going to have to get a larger "No *****" drawer to file all of this obvious crap under.
- Shroomie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+515 teenage girls already familiar with Quake II? Buried as inaccurate.
- Sultana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Always amazes me when I see studies done on things that should be considered common sense.
*sigh* - vanquishx2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Come on! Everyone knows that violent video games take out frustration rather than build it up. Besides only a freakin idiot, or mentally ill person, would even attempt to recreate the violence in real life.
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -1/+4Wouldn't a video game making a person go out and act violently be the very definition of "unstable"?
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh shut up, Jack!
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This story should be covered by mainstream media so when the election gets closer we can throw it in the face of whichever candidate tries to squeeze a few votes out of the video game violence issue.
- magealita, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Violence and violence in games are two separate things. Un-related. And yes it's common sense, and no the populous on hand love to have something to blame for their children acting out. If it's not drugs, then it's violence in video games, movies, television.
- spiffytech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I did a paper in school recently about video games and their tendancies to increase aggressiveness. Out of six papers that I analyzed, all of them had flaws in the research method, and they didn't have consistent results. This is a very unsurprising report for me, but it's encouraging to see that we're beginning to understand why results can conflict.
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Think about the kid you know that plays the most video games.... is he the most violent kid you know?
No way, not even close.
Case closed. - naonao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I know like the fact that we have something to source when some left wing lunatic says that video games turn kids into killers. This is what sane, rational people have been saying all along but I am pleased that some research has been done that is actually on the developer's side.
- goldenbrowngod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wow, we needed a study to tell us what anyone with any common sense already knows
- drougnor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent games" - While, in a related study, Water was found to be wet and Fire, believe it or not, is Hot.
But, regardless of the 'Duh' factor of the study, it's results will be buried by whacko's like Jack Thompson who are convinced that it's kids who game who are going to end the world. - mlfoley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Another "study" that simply restates the obvious.
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3All you're doing is stereotyping gamers into having abusive parents, and being fat. None of your stereotype applies to me...Or any of my real life friends, who are the people I normally like play games with. If so many gamers are unstable, then why aren't there more shootings? Because you just made ***** up.
Take your personal problems elsewhere. - txrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Check the url. Not 4chan.
- Cultist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd say that a very important variable is missing in this study, but I'm going to take a guess and say that the kids that got angrier kind of sucked at Quake.
"Argh. This sucks. I'd kick your ass at UT. INSTAGIB, BITCH." - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Or Football.
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