Don't tell her about Project Reality

[superhunty]

Tell her just to play singleplayer where the US will certainly win....

[epoch]

I remember back in the early 80's when Frogger came out.

Everyone was up in arms that it de-sensitised drivers to roadkill.

[killonsight95]

i still have froger somewhere, awesome game full of lulz.

[Sir.Grossi]

I remember back in the early 80's when Frogger came out.

Everyone was up in arms that it de-sensitised drivers to roadkill.

Along with the Space Projectile Liberation & Independence Front (S.P.L.I.F)

[Epipen]

Omg, it's just a game...

get back to the kitchen...

[superhunty]

Omg, it's just a game...

get back to the kitchen...

So well said... not that I condone sexism or anything...

[weixman]

So well said... not that I condone sexism or anything...

x2
who cares about this stupid old hag anyway.

[-=TB=-Tobakfromcuba]

just checked if there any dead ppl behind my monitor. you know, ill check anyday.
none there ->lets hit PR button.

[otom24]

Always the same arguments, we had a rampage in a german school last year and all those discussions cooked up again because on this kids computer was Counterstrike. For my opinion you can find a game like that on almost every private computer. Its just a game and nobody is killed for real, thats why we like it.

Somewhere i read a statement like "we should ban bread, because every franzied attacker ate bread before he shot innocent people". Useless statement, for real, but it holds up a mirror for everybody how useless that killergame discussion is.

Maybe some of you remember that internet joke a few years ago "why you should not take a picture of you online" ( http://mehr-licht.uw.hu/bilder/bledsinn/warum/warum.htm ). And when i watch this video it is itching me to start photoshop

[OkitaMakoto]

I expect(and hope for) about two or three warns/bans incoming in this thread...

Keep it civil and respectful or do us the favor and don't post at all, guys.

[Dunehunter]

Epipen got an Attitude Problem infraction and weixman got a week long vacation. Superhunty, consider yourself warned. How hard is it to disagree with someone without being disrespectful?

Sexism will be treated the same way as racism here.

[Web_cole]

Moral Panics:

Novels are "corrupting our youth!"
Cinema is "corrupting our youth!"
Rock and Roll is "corrupting our youth!"
Television is "corrupting our youth!"
Vidya games are "corrupting our youth!"

And I'm sure in 60 years time not a few people here will talking about how Virtual Reality or whatever is "corrupting our youth!"

[NyteMyre]

similar to this: YouTube - Morden und Foltern als Freizeitspaß - Killerspiele im I-net

"Hey, we like to record some footage of you playing Call of Duty"
- "sure"
"Yeah...that's not violent enough, could you shoot the corpses too after you killed them?"

[sell]

I can, understand this mom, she lost her child, and she did not grow up, with this type of media.
But it is stupid, give the *** card, to the video games.

[superhunty]

Epipen got an Attitude Problem infraction and weixman got a week long vacation. Superhunty, consider yourself warned. How hard is it to disagree with someone without being disrespectful?

Sexism will be treated the same way as racism here.

Fair enough sorry for that... Been watching too much Top Gear lately...

[Infantry4Ever]

This has been an ongoing controversy. Video games are always blamed for whatever reason. To the normal person it shouldnt be offensive. If there is torturing and rape in that sort of game then yeah i can see it being offensive. But playing as the taliban or whatever is just in pure fun in the video game. We need some variety, instead of we,the players, always being the "Good Guys"

[karambaitos]

Fair enough sorry for that... Been watching too much Top Gear lately...

OMG Top Gear has corrupted you

its funny actually because EA is not going to do anything and people fail to understand that they are getting free publicity, why pay for a commercial when you can get it for free on the 6 o'clock news, you can complain to the president they are still going to release the damn thing and go do this to everyone.

i know it seems harsh especially since that woman lost her son and all, but its the truth, EA doesnt care how disgusting or immoral it is as long as it promotes their product and sells it.

also Based on real soldiers???
is the guys name you pick in the MP Carl Johnson Private 1st class??? nope he is Leetkiller12371532

[Warno000]

In fairness, I can understand this woman's point, and the reason for her disgust. But her point is a broader one, about portraying violence as entertainment. An argument which has gone on for a very very long time and isn't going to go away any time soon. My question to her would be: What about the Taliban? Won't they be offended and disgusted that we are killing them in this game?

The answer to all of this is personal taste. She views any consumption of this game to be a slap in the face to her and her son (R.I.P). You won't ever see me type in Allah hu akbar to global chat when a Big Red takes down an M1, because for me, its too far. But you also won't see me start yelling at people who do. If you're comfortable with chanting that, fine, go ahead. My point, again, is that people shall choose what their limits of humanity are. Apparently, more than a few people are fine with pretending to kill someone (as evidence by the countless FPS made over the years and the billions raked in by EA and its peers).

[Mongolian_dude]

Following the logic of this woman, all future training exercises should be cancelled on the basis that they are too akin to the real thing. Infact, scratch that. All future conflicts from this moment onwards are to be cancelled, the reason being that are far too much like, well, conflict!


...mongol...

[SchildVogel]

Well in a game like America's Army (made by the US Army), no matter which team you are on you see yourself as the US and the other team as the terrorists. Sort of philosophical if you think about it...

Anyways I'd say adults are what's corrupting our youth, TBH .