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@ heremes I'm just saying that when you accuse anything of making violence an easier thing for someone to do you're basically accusing it of increasing their probability of committing violent acts.
My question is, why even publicize what she says by writing about it? She's a moron who few have heard of, yet you publicize her message. Clearly she is ignorant and possibly a little delusional, so why even bother giving her a venue to spread her idiocy?
No matter what our stances on this issue are, I think we can all get behind xiaoxiaohan's offer of reasonably priced apparel and fitness equipment.
What do I need a counterpoint for? All you said was you don't understand part of the quote, because you're quite dense, and then you changed the rest of the words to make it sound like what you wanted it to sound like.
So that means Charles Manson, Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Robert Pickton....etc were REALLY good at video games.
MIA is a retard.
remember when she said she was quitting music because she had done all that she wanted to do and now wanted to focus on acting... now shes back with the most violent and irresponsible music video i have ever seen... and shes pointing fingers at video games?
fuck her
remember when she said she was quitting music because she had done all that she wanted to do and now wanted to focus on acting... now shes back with the most violent and irresponsible music video i have ever seen... and shes pointing fingers at video games?
fuck her
While it was a stupid comment, and while I can't say what her life experience has been, I will say that it must be pretty off-putting for someone who has had violence thrust into their lives by others (as opposed to many soldiers who choose to be in the army) to see the glorification of such violence. I'm sure this is most pronounced in video games, where it's always been experienced for the sake of fun. I mean, compare the feeling and messages from the D-Day landing scene in Saving Private Ryan to any WWII game that has completely ripped off that scene.
@ gore on the floor HOW THE F**K DO YOU MISINTERPRET VIOLENCE!?!? WHAT OTHER MEANINGS DOES IT HAVE BESIDES "OUCH"!?!? WHY DOEST THOU RIDE MY NUTS SO!?!?
I totally agree with her. I don't know who she is (I think i heard her bang bang take your money song at Borders once) but she's right. Video games have unrealistic violence that kids seem to think is how violence really is. I can also see how video games are the main target for people looking for a scapegoat because video games actually put you in control of whatever virtual onslaught they're playing.
Video games, movies, books, comics, music, websites etc are full of violence and sexuality but it's the job of the parents to make sure they're kids understand the difference between right and wrong and to to be cautious of what they're kids are doing. EVERYTHING has ratings, use it! I don't know how often I see parents buy COD or GTA for their 7 year olds...
Video games, movies, books, comics, music, websites etc are full of violence and sexuality but it's the job of the parents to make sure they're kids understand the difference between right and wrong and to to be cautious of what they're kids are doing. EVERYTHING has ratings, use it! I don't know how often I see parents buy COD or GTA for their 7 year olds...
don't really like her music ban it from my pandora every time i hear it. but you make a good point Jim, don't need video games to be inhumane.
I'm pretty sure you were the one that first started to call people names. And I've produced a pretty easily understandable counter point. Caps doesn't seem to help yours though.
Everyone who is calling her a hypocrite for the lyrics to Paper Planes:
That song is satirical. It is about the stereotypical way Americans view immigrants and minorities as criminals, it is not about glorifying the gangster life.
And it seems that many commenters and even Jim himself didn't completely read the quotes that he posted. She clearly says that video games do NOT prepare kids for war, and that many of them only think they are ready for it, when they really aren't. I don't know how true that is, but it's important to understand that she is claiming video games desensitize kids to violence and give them a false understanding of it, not that games make kids violent.
That song is satirical. It is about the stereotypical way Americans view immigrants and minorities as criminals, it is not about glorifying the gangster life.
And it seems that many commenters and even Jim himself didn't completely read the quotes that he posted. She clearly says that video games do NOT prepare kids for war, and that many of them only think they are ready for it, when they really aren't. I don't know how true that is, but it's important to understand that she is claiming video games desensitize kids to violence and give them a false understanding of it, not that games make kids violent.
@ Sanious At least I can remember when I have and have not called someone "dense", and am capable of making it clear who I'm addressing (via the trendy "@ addressee" system the kids are Farking their Twitters over, lately). Lern two comoonekate.
Hahaha that's really funny cause I used to play some Bad Company 1 hammered and I would blast "Paper Planes" while I did it.
What Agro said. Spot on. Though I think it's more about immigration into England than America but it works both ways :P
Mario Paint ruined me as a child due to the over abundance of musical violence with cat and dog sounds. :(
a fleeting observation about simulated violence and you all take it like some sort of personal insult? fucking pathetic.
I didn't realize this was twitter. And it doesn't seem like I have to do anything for you to understand that I am speaking to you, looks like you're making some progress. :D
"M.I.A says videogames teach kids to be violent"
Hideo Kojima said the same thing in Metal Gear Solid 4.
I didnt see any comment on it. Not even saying he´s a silly person (although he is, thank God)
"By all accounts, there are some pretty violent bastards out in the Middle East, many of them very young males, and something tells me they didn't get their tendencies from videogames."
Yeah, they got their violent tendencies from entire armies invading their country and killing their families.
Hideo Kojima said the same thing in Metal Gear Solid 4.
I didnt see any comment on it. Not even saying he´s a silly person (although he is, thank God)
"By all accounts, there are some pretty violent bastards out in the Middle East, many of them very young males, and something tells me they didn't get their tendencies from videogames."
Yeah, they got their violent tendencies from entire armies invading their country and killing their families.
Not a fan of her musics, and talk about intellectually lazy, she ripped a musical loop off "Straight to Hell" by the Clash and got a hit out of it (paper planes). Every time she opens her mouth it's complaining, whining and trying to defame others. She does not deserve her spot in the charts and she's certainly not a voice of reason for the youth. Wait til she gets offered a bunch of cash for the use of her song in a video game, what then...
I agree with her. That's why, at age 10, I had played Doom and then killed my parents. After that I realized I had no life anymore I took my own.
Now I'm a ghost haunting Destructoid.com
Now I'm a ghost haunting Destructoid.com
Well ya see, Sanious: when a later commenter directly cites an earlier commenter in his latest comment, the earlier commenter can easily deduce that a conversation between the two of them has started. From that point on, they assume that all of their following comments are addressed to each other. This isn't "Fark" either, so I'm sure the comoonekationally gifted among us could see I'm listing other trends the aforementioned "kids" are involved with (although I don't think anyone uses Fark anymore).
MGS4 said it best but thats some time in the future.... in a fake world. In the War ecomnomy! haha great fuckin games...so so great.
It makes sense that video games can be used to train people, but her statement that video games desensetize kids to violence (however you want to word it) is completely unfounded. You know how much research you'd have to do to even begin proving that. she needs to shut the fuck up and go make more bang bang songs and killing kids music videos.
oh no her music video made me get used to little kids going thru mine fields so if i saw it in real life i wont care cause i have experience already, thanks for the lesson you cuntwat!!! haha see i did there the USA's worst name to call a bitch and europeans worst name to call a bitch, all wrapped in one. :D
It makes sense that video games can be used to train people, but her statement that video games desensetize kids to violence (however you want to word it) is completely unfounded. You know how much research you'd have to do to even begin proving that. she needs to shut the fuck up and go make more bang bang songs and killing kids music videos.
oh no her music video made me get used to little kids going thru mine fields so if i saw it in real life i wont care cause i have experience already, thanks for the lesson you cuntwat!!! haha see i did there the USA's worst name to call a bitch and europeans worst name to call a bitch, all wrapped in one. :D
I think some people say "video games are bad" simply because it gets publicity. If she said movies did the same thing (which they do, and in my opinion, even worse than video games), no one would care.
We should just ignore her, because she only speaks from her behind. She got angry at some journalist a while back, and posted the journalist's phone number on Twitter.
We should just ignore her, because she only speaks from her behind. She got angry at some journalist a while back, and posted the journalist's phone number on Twitter.
She's entitled to her opinion, but why not blast the music industry?
The music industry injects violence into music where it really isn't needed.
The music industry injects violence into music where it really isn't needed.
I did a double-take when I read the headline.
She wrote the lyrics to Paper Planes, right? Like Timtheterrible said, she's a hypocrunt. Which is also my new favorite word, thanks.
She wrote the lyrics to Paper Planes, right? Like Timtheterrible said, she's a hypocrunt. Which is also my new favorite word, thanks.
I wish when she was in Sri Lanka the violence she experienced was fatal, for her. What? It's the internet.
Good story Jim. She is a gomer. Her paper planes song continues to have gun shots with her saying over and over again "take your money" or some crap liek that. And she has the nerver to say video games teach kids to BE violent. What a crackpot.
Oh look, it's another borderline one hit wonder artist desperate to retain attention by spewing stupid and controversial stuff.
HELLO I AM A GAMER SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING KINDA-SORTA BAD ABOUT MY SILLY HOBBY SO I MUST TOTALLY LOSE MY SHIT!
This comes from the person blindly attempting to flare up race related violence in Sri Lanka? The same one? You know, the one who is living in Brentwood, one of the most sheltered parts of LA?
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@Cherry Ghost
The point is the same people that are stupid enough to be influenced by games to harm people would be by something like that. Many games have the overall viewpoint that violence for the sake of violence is wrong and only serves to hurt people but if you're too hardheaded to understand that then anything would drive to killing somebody.
In fact I've never played a game that just said "Hey killing people is fun!" Maybe games that are overly violent and have a lot of death but never just outright murder.
The point is the same people that are stupid enough to be influenced by games to harm people would be by something like that. Many games have the overall viewpoint that violence for the sake of violence is wrong and only serves to hurt people but if you're too hardheaded to understand that then anything would drive to killing somebody.
In fact I've never played a game that just said "Hey killing people is fun!" Maybe games that are overly violent and have a lot of death but never just outright murder.
I think this was mentioned already but Paper Planes is about Americans views of immigrants. Not meant to be taken literally.
An being desensitized to violence and being MADE violent are two different things. The more violent stuff you watch/play the more used to it you get. That's obvious. Does it mean you're more likely to commit a violent act? Of course not.
I don't really see where there's a story here.
An being desensitized to violence and being MADE violent are two different things. The more violent stuff you watch/play the more used to it you get. That's obvious. Does it mean you're more likely to commit a violent act? Of course not.
I don't really see where there's a story here.
I was at a concert and MIA was the opening act. She is NOT very good. Her music is BORING and samey. She came out to sing about 6 songs, and her set just seemed to go on and on one, for an eternity. I remember talking through most of it, and playing with my phone until she was done. I can't remember who I came to see originally, but I know it wasn't her.
I thought she was popular in England? Anyway, when she'd stop to talk to the audience between songs, she didn't seem to bright.
I thought she was popular in England? Anyway, when she'd stop to talk to the audience between songs, she didn't seem to bright.
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