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Ars Technica, brings us word of a study conducted by the British Board of Film Classification that comes to the conclusion that watching violence on television or in films has a much greater effect on people than playing a violent game, at least in the realm of flipping the hell out and murdering innocent people. According to the BBFC; there is an appeal in being able to be violent without being vulnerable to the consequences which similar actions in real life would create, gamers are aware that they are playing a game and that it is not real life.
The study goes on to state that due to the inherently poor story-telling in games (compared to film and television), gamers feel less of an emotional connection to their chosen form of entertainment, and are thus less motivated to carry over the fictional prostitute-strangulation to their real lives. That's all well and good, but I think the BBFC is overlooking the true threat to our society: deadly, deadly tigers. They are responsible for almost half a million human deaths every year, and our hospitals are rapidly filling with formerly stout young men who have been laid low in the prime of their lives by the voracious claws of hungry tigers. Neither our games, nor our television programs can properly prepare you for the day when you awake from a nightmarish dream only to gaze in horror out of your window onto your once green yard, now choked black and red with the blood of your entire family. On top of a macabre monument to its insatiable bloodlust crafted crudely out of the still-warm bones of your parents, will sit a tiger; and in his eyes you will see only darkness.
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tosses JT in front of me to run from the Tiger
Why didn't you use the Dtoid Captain Obvious poster?, lol
amen to the title. amen
I need look no further than the title lol.
tigers scare me...
What about bears? where do they fit into this dance macabre?
what about orly owls? =o
There was a news report about a robbery yesterday morning. The robbers ran in wearing masks of various presidents. And this reminded me of movies right off the start. I thought to myself - seeing things like this on the news, why do they continue to blame Video Games but not movies/television.... Just another reason of why I consider the media so backwards.
Kennigit is right, bears are Godless killing machines.
Ah, there’s that Nex humor that was absent in the post about the NYC event. Glad to see it again, it’s refreshing.
@ BB:
I know, it's such a bitch when I have to be serious, isn't it?
nex,
what if tigers played video games?...
then we would just be fucked :(
"good game everyone, thanks for playing."
Tigers, serious business.
And imagine the terror if it's THIS kind of Tiger...
absolutely brilliant!
Dude, just the fact that they're trying to prove that there's a connection is stupid.
ANYTHING for a story... I swear that the only reasons videogames or movies cause someone to be violent is simple: Because they won't stop saying that they're related so much so, that it makes you want to punch them!!!
I'd also like to mention... SHARKS... SHARKS with LASERS.
I'M A TIGER
So I'm reading through very interested until I hit: deadly, deadly tigers, and then I burst into WTFH!?!? Nex, your sense of humor rocks.
But seriously, if I ever meet you I'm gonna kick you in the nuts. I scared the crap out of a girl next to me and I think I'm now on the library's black list.
Only film violence will protect you from tigers!!
@ Crono:
Glad you approve. It's always my goal to cause you readers to make total asses of yourselves in front of women.