NPR segment on video game violence.

[it290]

I'm listening to Talk of the Nation right now and they're doing a show about video game violence... I'm not too terribly interested in that, but they just played a guitar version of Wicked Child from Castlevania (probably the Minibosses or something). That was probably the most awesome thing I've ever heard on NPR.

[Sniderman]

Feh.

Violent video games = Kids planning real-life murders and violence.

Risk = Kids planning world domination and conquest of other countries.

Monopoly = Kids learning that greed is good and bankrupting your friends is how you get ahead in life.

Wack-A-Mole = Kids learn that hitting animals on the head with hammers is fun.


Just as horror comic books, rock-n-roll, The Simpsons, the Goosebumps books, Garbage Pail Kids, Murphy Brown's out-of-wedlock kid, etc. have all been blamed for the corruption of today's youth, "videogame violence" is just the newest scapegoat for shitty parenting and bored politicians needing some kind of platform to bitch about.

[it290]

Yeah, but it's not often discussed with the aid of some bitchin' Castlevania tunes.

[Aswald]

So-called adults make Rambo movies into blockbusters. Middle-aged and (sorry to say) people my age critics go ga-ga over those "Kill Bill" pieces of garbage.

They lie to get us into wars.

They glorify guns.

But, oh, my goodness gracious me- it's VIDEO GAMES that are to blame. I'm not saying it doesn't play ANY part, but without those other components, they would be meaningless.

It's just easy to go after them. Like I said before, they are a bunch of hopeless screw-ups, so they do this to make it LOOK like they are doing something. Just like that baseball/steroid hearing they are having in Congress; of course, that is the biggest problem to today's kids.

[Lady Jaye]

Sniderman, are you reading Masters of Doom right now? I read pretty much what you wrote, this morning (I've been re-reading that great book and am currently just after Doom's release, at the time of the Mortal Kombat airings that led to the creation of the ESRB).

[Sniderman]

Sniderman, are you reading Masters of Doom right now? I read pretty much what you wrote, this morning (I've been re-reading that great book and am currently just after Doom's release, at the time of the Mortal Kombat airings that led to the creation of the ESRB).

Nope, just restating a high school term paper I delivered back when The Three Stooges were yanked from TV and Bugs Bunny cartoons were censored because people were afraid kids would start poking each others eyes out and blowing each other up with dynamite.

And, years later, Beavis could no longer say "Fire" because some asshat of a kid burned his parent's house to the groiund, then claimed he got the idea from MTV.

[GarrettCRW]

And, years later, Beavis could no longer say "Fire" because some asshat of a kid burned his parent's house to the groiund, then claimed he got the idea from MTV.

It wasn't a house, it was a trailer. :D

List of things that were supposed to make me a psycho killer:
Dungeons & Dragons (The cartoon)
G.I. Joe
The Transformers
He-Man
Led Zeppelin
Ozzy
video games
that hardcore gansta shit ;)
GTA
the liberal Jew-run media (Redneck: "Hey! Get off my property, liberal Jew-run media!")
gay people
"Cop Killer"
Natural Born Killers