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[Deathlicor]

yea but that is for the .org site, this .net site is the website that .org is making a joke of.

orly?

Isn't the .net site their forum?

personally i dont see how, some of the stuff i seen on the .org was meh and amusing, where as on .net there is nothing but idiots who are convinced that everyone worships the devil but them and that they are all powerful. (spent 2 hours rummaging through the damned thing thinking how ignorant humanity is)

[Nexus Set]

personally i dont see how, some of the stuff i seen on the .org was meh and amusing, where as on .net there is nothing but idiots who are convinced that everyone worships the devil but them and that they are all powerful. (spent 2 hours rummaging through the damned thing thinking how ignorant humanity is)

Click here --> http://www.landoverb...org/boards.html <-- and see where it takes you.

[darkprodigy4u]

Click here --> http://www.landoverb...org/boards.html <-- and see where it takes you.

Hmm, then this means that the .net site and the .org site are run by the same lot of ....well, yknow.

[Nexus Set]

way to go, captain obvious!

[Vinze]

Captain obvious! Always verbalising what we all think of!]

...See the next episode, where captain obvious will tell you that people who vote on American Idol are lower lifeforms than parasites...

[darkprodigy4u]

Captain obvious! Always verbalising what we all think of!]

...See the next episode, where captain obvious will tell you that people who vote on American Idol are lower lifeforms than parasites...

Was that really necessary? I was simply making an observation.

[David Brasher]

There is the eternal debate about catharsis. There are two main schools of thought.

(1) Video games make you act more and more like your character. You practice violence so much that it starts to seem like the normal way to solve problems. In real life you may find yourself wanting to physically harm those who aren't doing everything just the way you like it.

(2) Video games provide catharsis. You can purge your soul. You can blow off steam. You can act out your darkest, most violent fantasies. Because you have acted them out this way, you won't ever actually do those things in real life and end up on Death Row.

I am not sure what to think. I suspect it is somewhere in the middle, and that video games make some people more evil in real life, just as they make some people more righteous.

[darkprodigy4u]

There is the eternal debate about catharsis. There are two main schools of thought.

(1) Video games make you act more and more like your character. You practice violence so much that it starts to seem like the normal way to solve problems. In real life you may find yourself wanting to physically harm those who aren't doing everything just the way you like it.

(2) Video games provide catharsis. You can purge your soul. You can blow off steam. You can act out your darkest, most violent fantasies. Because you have acted them out this way, you won't ever actually do those things in real life and end up on Death Row.

I am not sure what to think. I suspect it is somewhere in the middle, and that video games make some people more evil in real life, just as they make some people more righteous.

May I offer a third option???

(3) Video games are a form or electronic entertainment, akin to movies, television, your ipod, ect. You don't see people shooting up schools because they watched a violent movie...(which, you have NO control over, and is oftentimes MORE realistic than your most visually intense RPG,) or because they heard a violent song or, even more rarely, because someone on tv told them to.

I'm more likely to do something I shouldn't if my game DOESN'T work properly, like lag or slowdowns or CTDs. But if it's running smooth, (which would make me happy to begin with), I'm usually calm as a tree while my character is murdering people in their sleep. And I usually don't go around murdering peoplein their sleep. In life, or in Oblivion.

[Deathlicor]

i have to agree that playing video games in general is a release. and for the people that want to blame video games, music, tv, movies and such it comes down to people dont want to take the blame or they have to make someone/something the bad guy to make themselves feel better. *sigh*

[Nexus Set]

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(1) Video games make you act more and more like your character. You practice violence so much that it starts to seem like the normal way to solve problems. In real life you may find yourself wanting to physically harm those who aren't doing everything just the way you like it.
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This is could be possible. But for it to happen, something's got to be wrong with that person to begin with.