RWS Is Back!

UO Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 524 Location: Atlanta

Also contained in this edition of The Urinal is a very humorous editorial about the "legal vultures" that "continue to circle" around violent video games. A very entertaining read, I strongly encourage all gamers to check this out. Only RWS has the brass to write something like this:

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I think that people should start taking responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming an art-form for their problems.

If FPS games can train or make you into a complete killer then RTS games should make you into a brilliant general..... not to mention that microsoft should be sued because they supply card games with certain versions of windows. These make people better at winning in casinos and also make people addicted to gambling.
Following the logic of the people how portray videogames as bad and very psychologially infulential, then all the above is plausible..... as well as fighter pilots trained from people who played F117 etc.

Psychological problems stem from many different sources and are only enhanced by certain conditions - such as stress or maybe even a game. They are not instantaneous and what people forget is that those people who do go on to kill and maim would probably have done so without playing a game. It's funny how we had all these sick people before the advent of games and it's only in the last 20 years or so that games have been condemned because of their presence in a number of cases.

I would like to see stats on the number of killings that were blamed on a videogame compared with those that weren't for the period of a year and within a certain age bracket. And then again compared with the stats of killings in the same age bracket before videogames were called to account - say the mid '80's.