Submitted by ChrowX - October 8, 2007 at 9:39 am -050067.163.2.164
Well, beyond the outlandish claim that games make gangs, he made a few good points about parental responsibility.
Simple fact of the matter is, though, too many people in the world (yes, the world) have played video games. The crime rate has gone down since then, and I don't really think that there's that many more gangs, either. Out of the millions of gameplayers out there, a, incredibly miniscule fraction of 1% of them have turned to crime and gangs. Therefore, games cannot be blamed. That many people with different lives and you're going to say that the least important factor in their life is the cause?
Take the nature vs. nurture argument? Do you believe that some people are born crazy and murderous because their DNA says that their brain should be wired in a way that says "Yay killing!"
Or do you believe that children learn everything, including their personality, from the things their exposed to? Videogames can't possibly fall into this since most children in the developmental stages of growth can't even comprehend videogames, let alone play them.
Posted 07/25/08 at 12:57am Artifex: http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/playstation-2-component-incites-african-war/1231745
Posted 07/25/08 at 12:57am Artifex: Yahoo has picked up the "Playstation War" story.
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:57pm gamepolitics: that whole running-for-bar-president was just another attention grab
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:26pm Silencets: Can a disbarred member become President? By the time of the election ol Jacko won't be a lawyo
Posted 07/24/08 at 01:45pm Dark Sovereign: A fitting metaphor lumi
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:21am lumi: their own. Looks like they're arguing with ghosts...
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:20am lumi: Ooh, and to prove the validity of their arguments, they've deleted all the comments from the gamers/outsiders, and just left
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:20am lumi: Wow...there's worse invective and vitriol on that first feminist site's comments than in most gaming forums I've read...
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:19am SimonBob: You guys can read the feminist blogs? One of 'em has over 1400 comments -- my browser locks up when I try to load the page!
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:49am M. Carusi: That's probably the message to describe hardcore feminism in general. :P
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:35am Tom90deg: Meh, it seems like most of the comments are "I'm right, and it you don't agree with me, you're a girl-hating masonogystic pig!"
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:30am M. Carusi: Those comment walls on the feminist blogs complaining about FP are generating some hilarious content.
Posted 07/24/08 at 08:48am E. Zachary Knight: @ lunatic, What you see is what you get. Once a comment gets pushed off it is gone forever.
Posted 07/24/08 at 07:39am sortableturnip: Best...comments...ever: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/07/06/jack-needs-your-help.aspx?pg=5&view=threaded
Posted 07/24/08 at 05:42am sortableturnip: Alteffor: I 2nd that motion. GP you should have a special section for all of JT's correspondence to you
Posted 07/23/08 at 10:13pm GRIZZAM PRIME: Lunatic: Nope. Ever fading if I'm not mistaken.
Posted 07/23/08 at 08:05pm LuNaTiC: is there a way to view old shouts? sorry if its a noob question.
Posted 07/23/08 at 07:07pm gamepolitics: momma didn't raise no sock puppet
Posted 07/23/08 at 06:15pm Rodrigo Ybáñez García: Jack is a repressed man. Don´t be surprised...
Posted 07/23/08 at 06:07pm GryphonOsiris: So Jack admitted paying for gay porn... all I can say is wow... just wow...
Simple fact of the matter is, though, too many people in the world (yes, the world) have played video games. The crime rate has gone down since then, and I don't really think that there's that many more gangs, either. Out of the millions of gameplayers out there, a, incredibly miniscule fraction of 1% of them have turned to crime and gangs. Therefore, games cannot be blamed. That many people with different lives and you're going to say that the least important factor in their life is the cause?
Take the nature vs. nurture argument? Do you believe that some people are born crazy and murderous because their DNA says that their brain should be wired in a way that says "Yay killing!"
Or do you believe that children learn everything, including their personality, from the things their exposed to? Videogames can't possibly fall into this since most children in the developmental stages of growth can't even comprehend videogames, let alone play them.