show passing forensic animation off as a videogame
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Agh, my eyes! I was watching a show on A&E about teenage killers and I was just waiting for them to bring out the video game angle. What they showed was a clip from a forensic animation showing a kid on a bike getting shot from a vehicle, they then jumped to a closeup of a kids hands playing with a playstation controller. Basically they just stopped short of saying "look here, you're kids are playing MURDER SIMULATORS!!!"
For those who don't know what forensic animation is, it's a 3D animation created to reinact a crime for a trial.
For those who don't know what forensic animation is, it's a 3D animation created to reinact a crime for a trial.
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It doesn't mean someone will go out and shoot their neighbor. It does mean however, when presented with a real violent situation, they wont react as much. In short, it can makes us less empathic towards real pain.
I guess it could be argued it can devalue the appreciation of a fellow humans suffering outside ones monkeysphere. Some of the responses in the media thread prove this.
I believe I heard claims of other TV stations showing "footage of GTA" and displaying various games with completely unrelated themes (I think one was even a medieval action game, though not God of War). No wonder everybody's bashing videogames, when you keep telling them that Jews are evil they'll sooner or later start the holocaust.
They should throw a few Bible passages on the screen and tell everyone that books make people violent.
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sounds fair
This is similar to those diploma-mill college TV commercials that say "You can learn to program video games like THIS--" and then show a cinematic render that would never appear in any real-time game. If anyone goes looking for a game LIKE THAT, they'll be disappointed.
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Seriously, the book is probably the most dangerous medium available because it can make the reader believe it's reporting real facts and twist them to influence the reader (propaganda).
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I wouldn't blame words printed in a book, I would blame the crazy crack heads who read those words and apply them incorrectly. I could pick up a 99 cent coloring book at Wal-Mart and interpret the pictures to mean something they don't and use it to create a hate filled mantra and use it to spread a message of bigotry and intolerance but that doesn't mean the coloring book is wrong and needs to be banned. It's the freak that reads it and takes what is written out of context. Money is not evil it is what you do with it that can be considered evil, same goes for the bible.
If most of the people that launch holy crusades or do things in "the name of God" actually read more than the 1-2 verses they take out of context. They might actually have to stop what they are doing. Or at least switch thier god, because it's not the same one. But I guess the Bible is open to interpetion and anyone can make up thier own version of god to fit whatever they want. Since they don't have to go by what is actually written they can go by what "they want it to say", it is an open book free to write/rewrite whatever they want.
sounds fair
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Haha! Good stuff man! Did you create that?
An issue that A&E probably didn't cover. There is a sudden rise in violence between teenage girls. It would be difficult to blame video games for that one.
There is a sudden rise in violence between teenage girls. It would be difficult to blame video games for that one.
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They fight over the few boys left that are interested in girls, since most of them have only interest in their violent videogames.
As you see, it's all related!
Even if the Bible wasn't dangerous (there ARE passages in there that are unconstitutional in Germany), books like Mein Kampf certainly are.
Or hell, take Die Leyden Des Jungen Werther, that drove many people into suicide even though it's just a fictional work and not intended to influence the reader like that.