Well, I'm gonna pretend to be a Lamborghini owner then. Be right back.

"Last week a young man in Kansas rolled up his entire school."

XD Looks like we're all Katamari terrorists now...

[“Last week a young man in Kansas rolled up his entire school.”

XD Looks like we’re all Katamari terrorists now… ]

I lol'd.

Video games are manufactured and developed all over the world, not just the US and Japan. You've got Canada, Korea, China, and a good chunk of Europe all contributing to the video game industry.

I think the true problem is ignorance and fear.

But shit, like Spunky said, if we are what we pretend to be (!? Paradox, anyone?) then I'm to go out and pretend my little Escort in the garage is an '83 280 Fairlady Z.

haha

“We are what we pretend to be ? ”

that wouldn't be pretending now would it?

"we are what we pretend to be"

Well i guess they all take that to heart because they all pretend to be experts on games and violence. hell, Jack has been pretending to be a good lawyer for years. Maybe he also pretends he wins some cases. I honestly pretend these people don't exsist. lets see if that takes a foot hold.

"The trailer sensationalizes the danger, and not everyone who sees the trailer will see the documentary, and could quite easily just come away with the “Games are to blame"

Sadyl, I think youy're right, since hti country likes to summarize from book covers.

I guess I'll use the Bully debacle as an example. It was called Bully, so people like, and I hate to bring him up, THompson assumed, you were the bully beatign up helpless kids, instead of battling bullies and tryign to stop it.

I cannot believe that this man who has serious ties by way of his brother to the video game industry would allow someone to invoke a link between the 9-11 terrorists using flight simulators and video games. Like I have said before, flight simulators are just that, SIMULATORS! Designed to give as close as possible an experience to trainee pilots as to what it is like in an actual cockpit. Linking normal video games to machines like this is like saying ID Software invested millions of dollars in creating a training simulator to give people as close an experience as possible to what would happen if demons came through a portal and proceeded to kill everyone.
As we all know, Doom is a fantasy game, just like GTA, Half-life, Counter-Strike, Halo and every other game that violence has been blamed on. There is no possible way that a person can gain the knowledge to load, care for and use a firearm from these games.
I would greatly hope that this position is advocated by some interviewees in the course of this film. If the only people they listen to are crazy John Bruce Thompson and his pet Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, then this is an incredibly one sided documentary. I would hope that he is only using these people's sound-bytes and quotes to further debate and interest in his film, than release it to be an unbalanced piece of work.

With all respect to Mr. Thompson and Lt. Grossman, entitled as they are to their opinions, their opinions are not fact. Opinions only become fact when backed up by solid findings from unbiased research, something which does not exist in regards to video games and violence. Correlations have been found between aggressiveness and playing video games, but i have seen the same aggressive behaviour apparent in people who play soccer, gaelic football, boxing and any amount of other physical sports. How far would a politician go in his state if one of his opinions was "College footballers have raped women and beaten people in the past, to alleviate the beating of people and reduce the risk to women, I suggest we ban college football."

Jack Thompson quotes the APA as saying they have found direct evidence that video games cause violence, but the APA it'self (when questioned by GP) has said that this is a flagrant misinterpretation of their findings. It's like me looking at findings that state "I am wearing a blue shirt and it is raining today, therefore, whenever I wear a blue shirt it will rain".

Should this filmmaker entertain the whims of people who believe that video games cause violence, then he is just pandering to these people's opinions and not adhering to the facts.

"With all respect to Mr. Thompson"

Hehehe...Hahahaha....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I wanna make a documentary on how badly Whacko Jacko misrepresents facts about games and violence, how much he lies, and how misguided he truely is.

Better yet, get Penn & Teller to do a "Bullshit" episode on him.

There's enough material for 45 minutes of material (add 15 minutes for commercials, that's a sunday night special!)

@MaskedPixelante

You gotta get me a link to that video.