Where do these crack pots come from?

[�io]

Originally posted by BLuE_ZeRO
Mothers Against Chronic Masturbation

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... .....!!!!

[Navaron]

/pats self on back for passing up like ten mother/masturbation jokes

[BLuE_ZeRO]

You're not supposed to hold them back. Let all the jokes fly!

[SandTrout]

Danger: Do videogames teach people how to kill?
Yes. When videogames were linked to the Columbine high school shooters, a frenzy of new research was launched, in which, one team of researchers discovered that first person shooter games do indeed teach gamers with the basic knowledge of how to kill. This research arrived be so conclusive that the U.S. government Army developed a free videogame to be used as a virtual boot camp and killing simulator.

In the entire "frenzy of new research" only one team came up with results that games can teach the basic knowledge of killing. This statement when looked at closely proves that they are doing a half-assed job of research. Any real researcher would try to have their results confirmed by someone else. This is a propaganda effort, and a poor one at that. If only one research team came up with links between violence and video games, then our point has been proven that video games are not linked strongly with human violence, or at least, not the way they are trying to portray the link.

Have they looked at the news lately?! TV gives the basic knowledge of how to kill. The real world does emulate video games, video games emulate the world. Thas why there are similaritys between killing in a video game and killing in real life. A video game doesnt teach you how to hold a gun, or swing a knife.

[SandTrout]

Fact: Health studies have found that even those casual gamers suffer from low self-esteem and self-pride compared to their athletic and more socially accepted peers in their same age group. Young gamers were found to be more likely to become lifetime gaming addicts and becoming social outcasts.

... or maybe social outcasts are more likely to play video games. They offer a relaxed atmosphere without the stresses and preasures of what caused them to become social outcasts. At least these messed up people are in their room fraging simulated people than running around killing real prostitutes.

I'm a serious gamer, yet I still have a decent social life, I go to the movies with my friends, hang out, and joke around.

[Navaron]

You know, anytime someone kills someone the killer plays video games thats the reason. I wonder how many of the firefighters, police officers and passengers on those planes on Sept. 11 played video games. I bet that the arguement could be made that if one of those passengers had played Flight sim 2003 he could have at least steered the plane away. What about the strategy and leadership games promote? I'm not tarnishing any of their memories, but games have more good virtues than bad.

[Shiver]

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Well I played top gun doesn't mean I'm able to fly a F-14 into combat.

This whole thing about video games being the root of all evil is bs. Angry families of people who were killed for one reason or another are looking for some rational explanation for people's insanity. They may have a right to be angry but they should focus on something a little more productive than taking down the gaming industry.

These are the same kinds of people that bitch about how christmas in schools aren't fair towards their children because they don't celebrate it. For the most part those are women with too much time on their hands. Not saying it's only women but a hell of alot of them are hence the Mothers against (insert useless crusade here).

The time spent on bullshit research like that could be better spent solving real problems. They need to find something worthwhile to spend their time on rather than trying to prove how unfair the world is to you. That's what makes this country a laughing stock at times. It's not the corrupt politicians it's the people that don't get what they want so they form these retarded coallitions to force the government to do what they want. Politicians aren't going to say no because they want to get re-ellected. They're put in positions where there really isn't any other choice but to cave in and agree to their terms. We need to ship people like that to Australia or something.

[Navaron]

I'm just sayin.... damn you guys.

Seriously though, I have my PPL and if you can land a cessna in that game you are a hell of a lot closer than you would be sans that knowledge. Aww fuck it. I don't care, games suck and can kill us all.

[SandTrout]

Its a hoax, Penny Arcade (gotta love those guys) did a trace on the server and found a Clan website. Whats more, they found this:http://a.parsons.edu/~dyoo/2002-3/interactivity/mavav/

[Sandtaco]

Originally posted by BLuE_ZeRO
Mothers Against Chronic Masturbation

Leave it to Zero to say something like that.

[Airlift]

On one hand it is pretty funny, sounds like something I would do. On the other hand, what kind of College Professor would actually make an assignment where his students are supposed to contribute to the amount of bullshite on the web? Perhaps the kind that gets unlimited free bandwidth and isn't interested in the overall health of the network? Or maybe he just wanted to teach 30 students a lesson about trust and the internet by encouraging them to lie to 30,000?

After further consideration, Zach Lieberman is my kind of arshole.