Video Games are poison(interesting article)

[Tai-2]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1061732p1.html
I was researching one of my favorite games and this came up as one of the searches.

[expat]

If that was the words of anyone else, then it could (possibly) be taken seriously, but Chavez    Poor Alex starts foaming at the mouth every time his name comes up

Matt

[machineman9]

"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison" I stopped reading there because Playstation is the platform, not a game.

When he knows what he is talking about, maybe I'll listen. Fallout 3 anyone? Maybe it's not poisonous seeing as I am playing it on an Xbox. 

[Tai-2]

[quote]"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison" I stopped reading there because Playstation is the platform, not a game.

When he knows what he is talking about, maybe I'll listen. Fallout 3 anyone? Maybe it's not poisonous seeing as I am playing it on an Xbox.

[Rich H]

This bit made me laugh: "Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
Ha ha, bet that didn't make him happy. I just start to think of Tropico though.

[BFMF]

Maybe Its really just a market ploy to attack Sony's Playstation. He didn't mention Xbox or PC games...

[The Ruptured Duck]

Although the research on violence and video games may be contradictory in some areas, there is quite a bit of evidence from the human factors side of psychology which suggests that video game use can improve visual attention, situational awareness, and performance on visual search tasks.

Suck on that Chavez

[BFMF]

If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...?

If only Risk had been around a few thousand years, than we could blame that for people like Hitler, Stalin, the Romans, muslims, communists, ect....

[Tai-2]

If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...?

Water gun fights
or for video games, this
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp

[HarvesteR]

PC gaming FTW!! 

They're supposedly alright according to mr. Chavez 

Cheers

[beaky]

If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...?

If only Risk had been around a few thousand years, than we could blame that for people like Hitler, Stalin, the Romans, muslims, communists, ect....

Seriously! Risk always leaves me with this terrible urge to conquer the world... and Pinky and the Brain didn't help much, either.   ;D

[Alejandro Rhodes]

[quote]If that was the words of anyone else, then it could (possibly) be taken seriously, but Chavez