Impact of p/s and nintendo games?

**Pwalo** · 27th March 2008, 09:55

There is no conclusive proof. This has been raised before, but to the best of my knowledge there has never been a direct link proen betwen PS type games and anti social behaviour in 'normal' children.

Anyways children have been playing 'make believe' games pretty well since they've been around.

They didn't all grow up to be cowboys, barbie dolls, etc, so I guess it's probably the same with PS etc.

**Number One** · 27th March 2008, 09:59

Originally Posted by Coyote

What I have noticed is those that link video games to bad things don't play video games themselves.

YUP, I'd say you might be right there.

There is also a difference between saying there is a LINK and that games are the CAUSE. I don't accept that any media can be a single CAUSE of anything bad happening.

**Number One** · 27th March 2008, 10:00

Originally Posted by Pwalo

They didn't all grow up to be cowboys, barbie dolls, etc, so I guess it's probably the same with PS etc.

Speak for yourself!!!

I AM BARBIE and my husband IS Action Man!

**Mikkel** · 27th March 2008, 10:15

I grew up on Carmaggedon... Dunno why, sometimes I have this urge to run over pedestrians!

Awesome driving simulation - it teaches you very quickly that the best way to win a race is to drive the opponents off the road.

Something that Senna and Prost has verified in formula 1.

**fireball** · 27th March 2008, 10:20

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

So I best be not getting my gimp suit on and run around attacking people with my double ended dildo then?!

that would be imitating real life..... now where is my gimp mask?

**Number One** · 27th March 2008, 10:24

Originally Posted by fireball

that would be imitating real life..... now where is my gimp mask?

Hee hee - bling.

You're the Mother flippin!

**fireball** · 27th March 2008, 10:31

Originally Posted by Number One

Hee hee - bling.

You're the Mother flippin!

the voice in my head tells me you have a deep dark yet open fettish!

but really video games are for pleasure for me they helpped me get away from everyday life and just go do illegal things i wouldnt dare do for real like kill cops, steal cars, shoot people, skate around and not break bones fly planes etc but some i know can not draw the line between fact or ficton they are the ones that need the medication not ban games all together

everything in moderation

**jrandom** · 27th March 2008, 11:04

There's a difference between real life and video games?

God damn.

Somebody shoulda told me that before I started using the extensive life lessons I picked up from Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, Counterstrike and Enemy Territory to enrich my leisure time once I received my NZ Firearms Licence.

I'm starting to wonder whether I should reconsider my lunchtime plan of camping out on the roof of the Saatchi & Saatchi building and shooting Tamaki Drive pedestrians in the head.

**Mikkel** · 27th March 2008, 11:33

Originally Posted by jrandom

I'm starting to wonder whether I should reconsider my lunchtime plan of camping out on the roof of the Saatchi & Saatchi building and shooting Tamaki Drive pedestrians in the head.

Be lazy - buy an Arctic Warfare Magnum... That way you will still kill them even if you only hit their big toe!

**R6_kid:Me** · 27th March 2008, 11:37

Originally Posted by Number One

Keep in mind they train soldiers and other military personel with these kind of tools....are those guys tools too then for trasnferring the simulated into their reality...how the hell do you think pilots of large airliners learn to land - thank god they have the ability R6_kid clearly lacks!

Totally different... PS2 games and full blown simulations are completely different things. Sure GT2 etc are pretty realistic for games, but that is all they are.

With flight training, simulators are used mainly as a form of cost cutting. And the physics systems they use, as well as the full cockpit setups etc are far removed from what you get on PC/PS2/Xbox. Pilots of large air liners learn to land by flying small aircraft and working their way up.

I resent your comment that I lack 'ability' too... for one you don't even know me, and two you'd better cross your fingers and hope that I don't end up flying you around one day when I am a pilot. The fact that I said 'fucking tool' has no bearing what so ever on my ability to do anything except for using nice words to describe people with little or no grasp on the real world.