What is wrong with Connecticut?

[DoomYoshi]

Connecticut is fucked up.

Why? Oh Why?

[Symmetry]

I'm not sure how to stop spelling it.

[DoomYoshi]

I wish I lived there so I could trade some crappy violent games I have (like Dark Rift).

[Symmetry]

I wish I lived there so I could trade some crappy violent games I have (like Dark Rift).

You own an N64?

[DoomYoshi]

2 actually. I only ever play the games on emulators though, because Goldeneye fully modded is better...

[Symmetry]

2 actually. I only ever play the games on emulators though, because Goldeneye fully modded is better...

Played on my old console after New Year. I think I won multiplayer based on muscle memory.

[Army of GOD]

This is such a stupid idea.

I wonder, what video games influenced Hitler to be so evil?

[thegreekdog]

I think it's pretty weird to hear about liberal folks burning video games when conservative folks were the ones burning comic books and rap albums.

[BigBallinStalin]

Let's assume people who are naturally disposed to some degree of violence tend to play violent video games.

Would we rather...

(1) allow them to play such video games?
or
(2) prohibit such video games, which in turn would induce them to seek other means for satisfying their alleged violent disposition?


(Also, this $25 deal which was most likely financed through taxation is morally egregious).

[BigBallinStalin]

I think it's pretty weird to hear about liberal folks burning video games when conservative folks were the ones burning comic books and rap albums.

With the power of politics, anyone can fulfill their fascist desires!

[Army of GOD]

also, THIS is a bigger problem than the existence of the video games:

the program’s founder is Max Goldstein, a 12-year-old who, while attending the funeral of a boy murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, resolved that the violent games he loved were just too real to take after Adam Lanza’s shooting spree.

why the f*ck would a 12 year old's parents allow him to get these violent video games in the first place? RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH THE FUCKING PARENTS WAOEIRJWAEOIRJAREIAWJERAWER

[BigBallinStalin]

How did the Chamber of Commerce agree to this $25 deal?

How did they secure the money, and where is the money coming from?

I've no idea, but I doubt this event is motivated by 100% altruism.

[AAFitz]

How did the Chamber of Commerce agree to this $25 deal?

How did they secure the money, and where is the money coming from?

I've no idea, but I doubt this event is motivated by 100% altruism.

It never is, though, it is very possible, they felt they just had to do something.

Personally, having played some of those games, I absolutely think no child should be exposed to many of them. As an adult I respect your right to expose yourself to whatever you want(assuming its not an unsuspecting stranger), but feel there is substantial psychological evidence to suggest a child's mind is too easily corrupted by such games.

I think any parent allowing it is stupid bordering on negligent, and in some cases, well beyond negligent, if simply out of ignorance.
I also think raising them to be racist morons that think the world is 6000 years old is equally negligent, but it is absolutely a personal opinion.

Is there reason enough to continue study on violent games and their impact on youth? Absolutely. Enough to educate parents as to the possible dangers? Absolutely. Beyond that, I have no further suggestions.

[AAFitz]

I think it's pretty weird to hear about liberal folks burning video games when conservative folks were the ones burning comic books and rap albums.

Indeed, though as I pointed out before, they probably just felt they had to do something. My gut reaction though is that $25 is insanely too large a figure, since one could easily go on craigslist and buy them and sell them back for a profit....which as speculative as that may be...has to have happened already.

[pimpdave]

You guys know there's a truther movement forming around the idea that the Newtown massacre was staged by the government to grant a reason to ban assault rifles? Look on YouTube.

So if we're going to be asking what's wrong with people, maybe we should worry about those guys, instead of a grieving, traumatized child. You know the shooting was broadcast over the PA system, right? Every kid heard people screaming and dying.

So obviously it's fake.

[thegreekdog]

I think it's pretty weird to hear about liberal folks burning video games when conservative folks were the ones burning comic books and rap albums.

Indeed, though as I pointed out before, they probably just felt they had to do something. My gut reaction though is that $25 is insanely too large a figure, since one could easily go on craigslist and buy them and sell them back for a profit....which as speculative as that may be...has to have happened already.

My initial reaction was "Why not sell the games and use the profit to give to the grieving families?" And then I realized we live in the United States.

[DoomYoshi]

pimpdave, how is it that you are always so up-to-date on truther notions?

[AAFitz]

You guys know there's a truther movement forming around the idea that the Newtown massacre was staged by the government to grant a reason to ban assault rifles? Look on YouTube.

So if we're going to be asking what's wrong with people, maybe we should worry about those guys, instead of a grieving, traumatized child. You know the shooting was broadcast over the PA system, right? Every kid heard people screaming and dying.

So obviously it's fake.

There are as many truther movements as bowel movements. Its one of the great things about the internet, and the saddest.

[AAFitz]

pimpdave, how is it that you are always so up-to-date on truther notions?

He's a double agent. He also goes by the name of ____________.

[thegreekdog]

You guys know there's a truther movement forming around the idea that the Newtown massacre was staged by the government to grant a reason to ban assault rifles? Look on YouTube.

So if we're going to be asking what's wrong with people, maybe we should worry about those guys, instead of a grieving, traumatized child. You know the shooting was broadcast over the PA system, right? Every kid heard people screaming and dying.

So obviously it's fake.

Since the truther's aren't looking to ban anything right now and don't have the power to ban anything in any event, they really don't worry me all that much. But if you want to put credence into truthers and worry about those guys, go right ahead; you're just wasting valuable time that you could use to pursue justice against TPDS, an organization that, unlike the truthers, has the power to control government right now.

[AAFitz]

You guys know there's a truther movement forming around the idea that the Newtown massacre was staged by the government to grant a reason to ban assault rifles? Look on YouTube.

So if we're going to be asking what's wrong with people, maybe we should worry about those guys, instead of a grieving, traumatized child. You know the shooting was broadcast over the PA system, right? Every kid heard people screaming and dying.

So obviously it's fake.

Since the truther's aren't looking to ban anything right now and don't have the power to ban anything in any event, they really don't worry me all that much. But if you want to put credence into truthers and worry about those guys, go right ahead; you're just wasting valuable time that you could use to pursue justice against TPDS, an organization that, unlike the truthers, has the power to control government right now.

True, but you have to admit.....its fun to mock them.

[DoomYoshi]

The group’s action is not intended to be
construed as statement declaring that violent video games were the cause of the shocking
violence in Newtown on December 14th.
Rather, SouthingtonSOS is saying is that there is ample evidence that violent video games,
along with violent media of all kinds, including TV and Movies portraying story after story
showing a continuous stream of violence and killing, has contributed to increasing
aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and is desensitizing our children to acts of violence including
bullying. Social and political commentators, as well as elected officials including the president,
are attributing violent crime to many factors including inadequate gun control laws, a culture of
violence and a recreational culture of violence.

These are some great platitudes.

[AAFitz]

The group’s action is not intended to be
construed as statement declaring that violent video games were the cause of the shocking
violence in Newtown on December 14th.
Rather, SouthingtonSOS is saying is that there is ample evidence that violent video games,
along with violent media of all kinds, including TV and Movies portraying story after story
showing a continuous stream of violence and killing, has contributed to increasing
aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and is desensitizing our children to acts of violence including
bullying. Social and political commentators, as well as elected officials including the president,
are attributing violent crime to many factors including inadequate gun control laws, a culture of
violence and a recreational culture of violence.

These are some great platitudes.

Given the tragedy and others like it, they are outright inspirational, IMHO.

[BigBallinStalin]

The group’s action is not intended to be
construed as statement declaring that violent video games were the cause of the shocking
violence in Newtown on December 14th.
Rather, SouthingtonSOS is saying is that there is ample evidence that violent video games,
along with violent media of all kinds, including TV and Movies portraying story after story
showing a continuous stream of violence and killing, has contributed to increasing
aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and is desensitizing our children to acts of violence including
bullying. Social and political commentators, as well as elected officials including the president,
are attributing violent crime to many factors including inadequate gun control laws, a culture of
violence and a recreational culture of violence.

These are some great platitudes.

Given the tragedy and others like it, they are outright inspirational, IMHO.

Do you feel inspired to contribute aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and desensitizing children within this continuous stream of violence and killing within a culture of
violence and a recreational culture of violence? It's a bit sensational, don't ya think?

Let's compare this alleged culture of violence in the US to.... children in Rwanda who survived during that genocide in the 1990s. Which event seems more aptly described as a "culture of violence"? The US with its video games, or Rwanda during and after the 1990s genocide?


(When someone says, "X is violent, and culture of violence, and blah blah blah,"
We must ask: "compared to what?")

[DoomYoshi]

Compared to Canada where we don't play violent video games.
Compared to Germany where they don't listen to violent music.
Compared to Japan where they don't watch violent movies.

The reason there is violence in the United States is because of retardcunts like the ones behind this movement. The fact that people who take anti-rational positions are glorified in the United States is what makes people angry, and therefore violent.

A quick fix to violent crime would be to incarcerate all Young Earth Creationists, Mormons, Evangelicals, gangstas, hippies and most importantly Yuppie Moms. No people making other people angry = less violence.