Hey what's good Robots... I really don't have a Fanboy class. I am too old for that bullshit to have a favorite console... Cough Nintendo Cough.. Anyway I don't own a motherfucking thing beside debt. The only thing i own that is remotely cool is my Wii and my car.. I am a broke ass college student that is finally graduating this year. I am going for News reporting.. I would like to be a host on a cool Gaming Network.. So if Mr. Niero or Mr.Ron "I fuck Sheep while Drinking Paps Blue Ribbon" Workman want to venture out to televison give me a call.. I am black so I know you guys can dig free labor...
I am really diggin the 360 alot more... So I might have to do some nude modeling for art students to get one...
I don't know how hardcore I am when it comes to gaming. I have a terrible habit of playing a game and not beating it all the way.. I just beat Metroid Prime last year and I bought it two years back..
But recently with the Wii. I been beaten games like I do my Meat.. Good shit huh!! The games I own on the Wii are Red Steel, Zelda TP, Harry Potter OOTP, ..
IIght Robots i am out...
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Also, beat the living snot out of his kid on teh Xbox. That should be worth it alone.
Also, beat his kid at xbox, it will provide many lulz for sure
I'll post a recap on how this shitplays out
It sounds to me like you aren't assigned to declare video games the bane of humanity and go all Fahrenheit 451 on them. I think you could use this project to educate the class, and the prof, about the misconceptions regarding video games and their connections to violence.
You could cite the media coverage of the VA shootings; how everyone was so eager to blame his behavior on video games (especially Capt. Buzzkill himself, Jack Thompson) and it turned out that the most violent game the kid played was Sonic the Hedgehog. I'd bookmark the past stories about Jack Thompson that we have here on D-toid, and make that about 1/4 - 1/3 of your speech.
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I agree, you should totally find out the kid's gamertag when you "observe" him. Frag Party!
As brosef pointed out, you don't necessarily have to decry video games as a medium. Simply prove otherwise and you'll be fine. Problem is, you have to do it in a way that's informative and convincing to those who normally don't play games.
We have look at it from people who don't play and those who do. And prove how that might be looked at as a violent behavior just because his son is competitive..
Don't take this assignment as a betrayal of your love of games, take the high road, do a bit more research and work, and present a paper that says the exact opposite. It's not that hard to do AND you may end up teaching some people a thing or two (your teammate included).
Good luck.
What Rockvillian said could help, but you have to be careful to not make it sound like a cheap "if everybody else is doing it, then it's ok to do it" type of argument. Also don't assume people know certain things, you could use your partner as a test subject to make sure your not forgetting to mention something that appears obvious to you.
I think you could inflate JT's value and present him as the "most recognized expert", mention all his appearances in TV and all that and then just mention a lot of his claims and prove they are false, i think some websites have done this, so you could use that as a base and just check their sources.