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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:07:06 PM EDT
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No more than The Walking Dead, Star Wars, the A Team, etc. TV shows.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:07:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:08:00 PM EDT
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No more than The Walking Dead, Star Wars, the A Team, etc. TV shows. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:08:37 PM EDT
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Well there you go. Mod's delete the post, the science is settled. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Been playing fps's for about 20 years. No murders on my end. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:08:49 PM EDT
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How many copies of Club Murder Simulator 9000 do you think sold last year? Popular FPS games include Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. All are war games. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1. Are first person shooter video games just mass Murder Simulators? 2. Is this behind the rise in mass shootings in this generation? 2. No idea. Maybe. It could also give people who fantasize about murdering people a release, and then they never act on their fantasies. 2. No. The rise in shootings is more recent than the popularity of shooters Popular FPS games include Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. All are war games. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:09:16 PM EDT
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No, my dreams are more vivid.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:09:32 PM EDT
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How many copies of Club Murder Simulator 9000 do you think sold last year? Popular FPS games include Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. All are war games. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1. Are first person shooter video games just mass Murder Simulators? 2. Is this behind the rise in mass shootings in this generation? 2. No idea. Maybe. It could also give people who fantasize about murdering people a release, and then they never act on their fantasies. 2. No. The rise in shootings is more recent than the popularity of shooters Popular FPS games include Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. All are war games.  GTA 5 - Strip Club Killing Spree! |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:11:14 PM EDT
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lol
Only in the same way the classic old Westerns are genocide porn. BTW there is no rise in mass murders. Statistically they have been going down for a while. The media just pushes a BS narrative for gun control politics. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:12:14 PM EDT
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Prove there is a rise among Americans.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:14:53 PM EDT
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I only ever played Mario Brothers, not first person shooters.
So I just stomp the fuck out of every turtle and mushroom I see. And serial squat in storm drains. Don’t judge me, it was the video games that twisted my poor delicate mind. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:16:03 PM EDT
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I don't believe games will make you a killer but I do wonder how the 4 and 5 year olds that play gta online will turn out by the time they're 18. Young kids like that, I have heard, can't really separate reality from fiction.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:21:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:25:32 PM EDT
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Wasn’t there a kid involved in a shootout with the police a few years back that claimed he learned what he was doing from grand theft auto?
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:29:39 PM EDT
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that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard 
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:30:23 PM EDT
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Read "On killing" by Dave Grossman
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:32:55 PM EDT
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Games like "Pong" are to blame.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:36:33 PM EDT
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FPS games are my favorite. I've been playing for years and I've racked up zero real life kills.
YMMV
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:41:52 PM EDT
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Oh, OP is a 13-er. They never disappoint.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:47:19 PM EDT
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Oh, OP is a 13-er. They never disappoint. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:48:58 PM EDT
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Iirc "The Rifleman" had around 125 confirmed kills...
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Posted: 11/27/2018 10:52:37 PM EDT
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Oh no. OP is tarded.
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Posted: 11/27/2018 11:02:15 PM EDT
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Crazy is crazy. I grew up on violent movies and video games and I never hurt anyone. Maybe it had something to do with the morals my parents instilled in me.  Guns aren't enabling mass shooters, FPSs aren't training mass shooters. |
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Posted: 11/27/2018 11:51:05 PM EDT
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Incidentally one of the most anti-videogame idiots is a former Democrat legislator form CA named Leland Yee....
That’s right, the same guy caught smuggling real guns to Muslim terrorists was one of those idiots wanting to ban video games for making folks killers. 
Folks, the problem is parents. I worked in a GameStop for a Christmas season, just for some spare cash. I lost count of the people buying M rated games for their kids with no thought about it. Not all games are designed for 10 year olds.
A huge percentage of gamers these days are over 40 and a market that will be catered to... I’ve been playing video games for decades and I’m not out murdering folks... |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 6:22:05 AM EDT
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1. Are first person shooter video games just mass Murder Simulators? 2. Is this behind the rise in mass shootings in this generation? 2. No idea. Maybe. It could also give people who fantasize about murdering people a release, and then they never act on their fantasies. 2. No. The rise in shootings is more recent than the popularity of shooters Popular FPS games include Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. All are war games.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEqpfLEYv4You can also play tennis, which I'm sure has influenced that sport as well. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 6:24:58 AM EDT
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Are first person shooter video games just mass Murder Simulators? Is this behind the rise in mass shootings in this generation? |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 6:49:06 AM EDT
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There’s this book that’s like 5000 years old that’s filled with rape, murder, incest, genocide, and rape but everybody reads it without blaming it for problems and violence that we face in the here and now. Obviously it’s the vidya games.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 7:05:09 AM EDT
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lol Only in the same way the classic old Westerns are genocide porn. BTW there is no rise in mass murders. Statistically they have been going down for a while. The media just pushes a BS narrative for gun control politics. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 7:30:01 AM EDT
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Honestly, I'd be lying if I said I didn't believe they have at least some desensitizing effect. But that is NOT a 'cause', nor does it mean they should be banned. Nor are video games the only or even worst offender.
Anecdotal evidence: extremely graphic violence (think first 10 min of Saving Private Ryan) used to make me physically feel sick. It no longer does. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 7:31:13 AM EDT
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Are first person shooter video games just mass Murder Simulators? Is this behind the rise in mass shootings in this generation? A.W.D. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 7:40:39 AM EDT
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To normal people no. To little twig autistics like that sandy hook kid..probably.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 7:55:23 AM EDT
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Yes they are, and they should be banned.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:04:50 AM EDT
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Paintball.
Airsoft. Laser tag. Fucking stupid premise OP. Evil exists without sensory input. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:16:06 AM EDT
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My friends and I played a shit load of them and have murdered zero people.
It probably did contribute to more profanity use in younger people
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:24:11 AM EDT
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that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:24:25 AM EDT
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It has nothing to do with the prescription of drugs known to have drastic side effects on the emotions of their consumers. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:26:38 AM EDT
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They are video games.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:27:30 AM EDT
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Bad parenting, and the demise of the "nuclear family" is what is causing/creating all of these kid shooters. If they new the different between right and wrong, life and death......they would not be shooting up schools. It has nothing to do with the video games.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:34:01 AM EDT
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Don't breed OP. We don't need those genes clogging up the gene pool.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:34:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They are definitely related, and pornography in itself could be a sex crime depending on the circumstances. I think there is a correlation, because often people can't get enough. I think an argument could be made when you combine violent video games, violence in the home, medwications and mental illness, and walk backwards from a mass shooter and find a lot of contributing factors. I think the video games take the morals out of killing people, so everyone comes back at the end of the game. Problem is some people don't know the difference between a video game and real life. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:38:23 AM EDT
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Sure, just like playing army was too, and cowboys and indians was a genocide simulator.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:49:24 AM EDT
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Um, no.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:50:05 AM EDT
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That is as dumb as saying marriage is the number one cause of divorce.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:52:11 AM EDT
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The answer is not as easy as a binary yes OR no.
In 99%+ of people, FPS are just fine. Forms of entertainment. In the sub-1%, they do desensitize and, in a sliding scale of the remainders, someone may end up completely desensitized to violence, especially when combined with other bad factors. But banning an object that is misused by the distinct minority is BS. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:54:00 AM EDT
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Oh wait, you're serious.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:55:32 AM EDT
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No, they are games.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 8:56:32 AM EDT
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That's why Cain killed Able, because video games. No such thing as hate or jealousy or......
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Posted: 11/28/2018 9:02:25 AM EDT
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Boomer posting incarnate. Before it was muh violent vidya, it was music. Heres the redpill, some humans are just plain broken, and some have naturally poor impulse control, some are broken by others... but at the end of the Day, GTA, Classic Doom, Marilyn Manson, or Hollywood didn't pull the trigger. Just like the gun didn't do it either. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 9:03:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryHow many AR15s are in the peoples hands? How many rounds of .223/5.56 are in the peoples hands? Your argument is invalid.
Video games do not cause people to kill nor are they "simulators" for such things anymore than gun ownership and or marksmanship training are for mass murder. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 9:04:46 AM EDT
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Almost 100 votes for yes.
Holy fuck. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 9:12:44 AM EDT
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Stop looking for something to blame and start blaming the person who murders.
"This made them do it" is a cop out and a blame shift. It doesn't matter why, it matters what they did. We need to focus on the action, not the cause. |
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