Germany Considering Banning violent games, jailing gamers - Page 2

IHateMakingNames · 12-12-2006, 11:46 PM

And you all complain about Jack Thompson.

Karrrrrrrrrrrresche · 12-13-2006, 02:43 AM

I have to say this left me laughing, the idea of cops breaking down a door on a guy playing a round of halo 2 shouting "Put the controller on the ground and step away from the console!" because he was about to snipe someone.

Toast · 12-13-2006, 08:59 AM

Stating that video games activate the flight or fight response is one of the newer buzzwords on the subject. The flight or fight response is activated any time your sympathetic nervous system is activated, which in our society is basically all the time. Any activity from sports to driving to sex to working 40 hours a week all activate the sympathetic system. It's why the rate of heart attacks is so high, diet has little to do with it.

Also, what were those numbers in the study? 44(Reuters), 78 and 500? Hardly graduated samples. That's the major flaw with most of these anti-game/ media violence studies is they employ less than 1000 subjects, which is the bare minimum any study should have to be considered reliable. Studies that use 2000 or more subjects should be the norm, but they aren't. Also most of these studies are correlational, not causal.

Meister · 12-13-2006, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Tydeus

But, yeah, it's probably just a publicity stunt by those particular German politicians.

Well, yeah. See, this is the work of right-wing politicians in their sixties who have no competence in modern media and don't particularly want to. The likelihood of this bill actually passing is very, very slim - a first draft went to the Department of Justice, and they basically said, well, something like this is already in place. That's the truth - excessively violent media can be banned, whether it's a game, a movie or a CD with violent lyrics. Many think this is already going to far, but fact is it's already there.

By the way, that student who went on a rampage left a letter. He gave reasons for his hatred for humanity, which had a lot to do with social issues, the values of modern society and how it judges people by the money and status symbols they have, things like that. You don't see many politicians answering to that.

Mirai Gen · 12-13-2006, 03:10 PM

I had hoped as much. Bills get pushed forward all the time - likelyhood of passing them is slim to none.

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12-13-2006, 08:59 AM	#13
Toast Existential Toast Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 440	Stating that video games activate the flight or fight response is one of the newer buzzwords on the subject. The flight or fight response is activated any time your sympathetic nervous system is activated, which in our society is basically all the time. Any activity from sports to driving to sex to working 40 hours a week all activate the sympathetic system. It's why the rate of heart attacks is so high, diet has little to do with it. Also, what were those numbers in the study? 44(Reuters), 78 and 500? Hardly graduated samples. That's the major flaw with most of these anti-game/ media violence studies is they employ less than 1000 subjects, which is the bare minimum any study should have to be considered reliable. Studies that use 2000 or more subjects should be the norm, but they aren't. Also most of these studies are correlational, not causal. __________________ “How dare you! How dare you stand there acting like your brand of suffering is worse than anybody else’s. Well, I guess that’s the only way you can justify treating the rest of us like dirt.” ~ Major Margaret Houlihan (Mash) “If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Last edited by Toast; 12-13-2006 at 09:09 AM.

12-13-2006, 03:10 PM	#15
Mirai Gen We are Geth. Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 14,032	I had hoped as much. Bills get pushed forward all the time - likelyhood of passing them is slim to none. __________________