Stable people unaffected by violent games

Mark Dygert

Or so says a new study, about time.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...lent-games.html

I also liked the article they linked about why society finds it comforting to blame games for violence.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070301-8959.html

Thegodzero

sadly kids are not mentally stable. Just a part of growing up...

On the other hand this is a "duhh" kind of article, as we all already knew that was true.

Asmuel

I guess I shouldnt be playing them then J/K

flaagan

Kids are perfectly stable... it's the parents that worry me.

HonkyPunch

Parents tend to ruin good children.

aesir

sometimes prefectly good parents just have fucked up children. I'd know...

CheapAlert

woah, I read that as "stab all people unaffected by violent games". Kinda ironic :S

EarthQuake

It would be interesting to see a study like this applied to something that is *actually dangerous* like driving a car, i would bet the stresses of that or any other brain stimulating activity would produce similar results.

This just in: Crazy people are fucking nuts!

[Edit] It really is refreshing to see something like this that isnt just a blatant *for games* *against games* arguement tho.

Nilium

It goes like this...

PC:
Hi, I'm stable.

Mac:
And I'M GONNA STAB ALL THOSE FUCKERS.

Linux:
I'm gonna stand by and watch you two duke it out while I debate the politics of open source software. Might masturbate to a kernel build, too.

(Edit: Hm, I should note that you can swap around PC and Mac as you like. Linux stays, though, as it's completely un-fucking-necessary. It's just a familiar setting to point out the differences between groups of people.)

(Edit 2: Could even change it to the US and Germany, with Linux being some neutral country or something.)

Toomas

This study is not a good thing imho. Soon they will link it to some study that sais that 75% people are unstable..