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Hey man, I don't want to start you off on a negative note, but you might want to consider re-working your topic a bit. Unless you have some more sources that are factual in nature, like an unbiased research study or something, you might have a rough time basing your argument on the opinions of random internet dudes. You might be asking an inherently biased community of people, too, but that's an argument for another day.
I'm just not sure how strict your instructor will be with the term "research," like if they're looking for actual data and hard statistics. Just a friendly heads-up to think about before you get too deep into the project.
Anyyyyway, here are my two cents (27, male): Although I play hours and hours of violent video games, some of which feature executions, limb severing, and genocide as gameplay mechanics, I am still very much repulsed by real-life violent imagery. After watching things like the Nick Berg execution video and scenes from 9/11 in my teenage years, I would feel sick to my stomach, knowing that an actual human just lost their life on film. The fantastical nature of most video games, and the over-the-top absurdity of some of the violence, usually allows me to have a different reaction than with real-life violence.
I'm just not sure how strict your instructor will be with the term "research," like if they're looking for actual data and hard statistics. Just a friendly heads-up to think about before you get too deep into the project.
Anyyyyway, here are my two cents (27, male): Although I play hours and hours of violent video games, some of which feature executions, limb severing, and genocide as gameplay mechanics, I am still very much repulsed by real-life violent imagery. After watching things like the Nick Berg execution video and scenes from 9/11 in my teenage years, I would feel sick to my stomach, knowing that an actual human just lost their life on film. The fantastical nature of most video games, and the over-the-top absurdity of some of the violence, usually allows me to have a different reaction than with real-life violence.
Also, I'm really curious: who are some of the awesome wrestlers that you have grappled with in the ring?
Penn & Teller's Bullshit! did an episode on the subject that's a must-see. Part 1 (of 3) is in the link, but I checked and the YouTube user was kind enough to upload the entire episode. Enjoy!
26-year-old dude here. I've been playing video games since I was four years old. Like most people my age, my first interaction with violent video games came when I first played Mortal Kombat at the Arcade. I loved the game and I loved the blood and fatalities, but I was always well aware that it was fake because it was so over the top. Even as graphics have improved, violence for the most part has remained over the top. Limbs flying, blood splattering everywhere, to me it's nothing because at the end of the day it's just lines of code.
Real violence I cannot handle. I've never seen the Nick Berg or Daniel Pearl videos and I never want to. Why the hell would I actively seek out a video where I watch a real person die. It's even hard for me to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno knowing that it is real video of a real person dying. Remember at the last winter olympics when that guy died on the Luge? I had to watch that working because I worked in the news and it made me sick to my stomach.
I may have been desensitized to fake, video-game violence; but I am still sickened and appalled by real violence and real death.
Real violence I cannot handle. I've never seen the Nick Berg or Daniel Pearl videos and I never want to. Why the hell would I actively seek out a video where I watch a real person die. It's even hard for me to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno knowing that it is real video of a real person dying. Remember at the last winter olympics when that guy died on the Luge? I had to watch that working because I worked in the news and it made me sick to my stomach.
I may have been desensitized to fake, video-game violence; but I am still sickened and appalled by real violence and real death.
49 year old female here. I've been gaming since the very early video games. I don't have an issue with video game violence and usually play FPS or RPG games.
I often tell the story of the rat. I've killed rats in video games... tons and tons of rats and have happily bashed them over the head with my lower level club or sliced and diced them with my level 1 dagger or sword. One year my cat caught a rat and badly injured it's back legs. I put the cat inside and didn't want him eating the rat because one of our cats had been rat poisoned a few years previously. I knew I had to kill the rat to put it out of it's misery as it was alive, but could only crawl. I got a shovel ... and killing that rat was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
Video game violence desensitizes me to video game violence. It doesn't desensitize me to real life violence or even to seeing awful images on the news. I think that my age IS a factor, but only because I've seen so many truly horrible real world events take place over the years (the immages from Jonestown still haunt me). Video game violence can never equal the horrors and evil that real humans do.
I often tell the story of the rat. I've killed rats in video games... tons and tons of rats and have happily bashed them over the head with my lower level club or sliced and diced them with my level 1 dagger or sword. One year my cat caught a rat and badly injured it's back legs. I put the cat inside and didn't want him eating the rat because one of our cats had been rat poisoned a few years previously. I knew I had to kill the rat to put it out of it's misery as it was alive, but could only crawl. I got a shovel ... and killing that rat was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
Video game violence desensitizes me to video game violence. It doesn't desensitize me to real life violence or even to seeing awful images on the news. I think that my age IS a factor, but only because I've seen so many truly horrible real world events take place over the years (the immages from Jonestown still haunt me). Video game violence can never equal the horrors and evil that real humans do.
Thank you guys for your input.
@Char: some of the bigger guys I've worked with over the years are Billy Gunn, Abyss, Al Snow, Tatanka, Chris Harris, and Karl Anderson (New Japan)
@Char: some of the bigger guys I've worked with over the years are Billy Gunn, Abyss, Al Snow, Tatanka, Chris Harris, and Karl Anderson (New Japan)
Also video game spiders, specifically those in the first five resident evils, scare the shit out of me.
I have been gaming solid for over 2 decades, and I must say that video game violence ONLY desensitizes you to video game violence. I have never been in a fight before or anything in real life. I play violent video games because I love them. My favorite violent games are the Soldier of Fortune series, and the Fallout 3/New Vegas. I love blowing peoples heads off, and shooting them in half. I like to see someone struggling on the floor, run over and slice their throat, and while they are still writhing in agony on the floor, I dismember them while they are alive. This is great. I have no problem in video games with this. My wife thinks it is sick. I disagree, it is a video game after all. Now, in real life, and even in video. If someone shows me even a video of someone being killed my stomach turns and I go white and feel really sick, sometimes have nightmares. The difference is my brain knows one is fake one is real.
The real always gets to me, no matter the fact that I play in the entrails of torture victims while bathing in their blood and drinking in in video games. If even 1/100th of that was to happen in real life. I would be shocked and probably scarred for life.
So in the end, I must say that it is probably more like this.
Video game violence will desensitize you to video game violence, while real world actual violence will desensitize you to real world actual violence. Actually.. I am now thinking that it is probably the opposite of what everone says. Real world violence desensitizes you to both real world violence as well as video game violence, but the opposite is NOT true. Video Game violence does not desensitize you to real world violence.
I am pretty sure that I am 100% correct.
The real always gets to me, no matter the fact that I play in the entrails of torture victims while bathing in their blood and drinking in in video games. If even 1/100th of that was to happen in real life. I would be shocked and probably scarred for life.
So in the end, I must say that it is probably more like this.
Video game violence will desensitize you to video game violence, while real world actual violence will desensitize you to real world actual violence. Actually.. I am now thinking that it is probably the opposite of what everone says. Real world violence desensitizes you to both real world violence as well as video game violence, but the opposite is NOT true. Video Game violence does not desensitize you to real world violence.
I am pretty sure that I am 100% correct.
