General/Random Discussion Topic

[MsRowdyRedhead]

No clue, none at all..


On another note...
http://fortheargument.com/2013/02/15/no-your-ps3-is-not-making-you-crazy/

No, Your PS3 Is Not Making You Crazy
February 15, 2013

by J. Andrew Zalucky

I’ve argued a couple of times, once in my rant against censorship, and again in my article on the Sandy Hook massacre, that the scapegoating of violent video games and other media is unjustified and misguided. Some people, particularly those in the media, will often say that if a young man constantly plays violent video games and watches violent movies, there must be some effect on his behavior and consciousness. I do not deny this, and as someone who’s played plenty of violent video games and seen plenty of horror movies, there is no denying that exposure and immersion in this type of media can get you very riled up. But this does not mean that there is causation between the popularity of violent media and overall violence in society.

In fact, a recent New York Times article makes the opposite point:

    The proliferation of violent video games has not coincided with spikes in youth violent crime. The number of violent youth offenders fell by more than half between 1994 and 2010, to 224 per 100,000 population, according to government statistics, while video game sales have more than doubled since 1996.

So is the problem the games themselves? Or is it much more likely due to obsessive behavior on the part of the individual? How do we account for the innumerable instances of children who grew up playing video games and turned out fine? I don’t have all the data in front of me, but I can make a few assertions from my own experience. What it essentially comes down to is guidance and honesty on the part of parents that imposes reasonable limitations on kids until they reach a certain level of maturity, and the ability of those parents to make the understanding of fantasy vs. reality clear to their children. Of course, the onus inevitably falls on the individual to grow and mature and be able to say, “Ok, this game is pretty sweet, but I think 2 hours is enough for now.”

The persistent urge to blame violent media for the ills of society is nothing more than a dodge of real questions of mental health. It comes from the desire of those who see things about modernity they dislike, and choose to throw their alienation on the face of larger forces of culture like music, film, and gaming. As Ronald Bailey put it in his recent article in Reason, “Killing pixels is no more a cause of juvenile crime than reading comics turned out to be.”

[The Truth]

[Jade]

Awww Apparently I missed my 5 year Anniversary.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Happy Anniversary!

[The Truth]

Osik. Under the DMCA, the Trinity University anime club is prohibited from showing any anime unless it is as part of a lecture on Japanese culture.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

That is just... counter intuitive. 0_o

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Ya think??

[Trijhak]

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Blade emoticon. It represents all of his attributes and interests, and it even includes the probable cliche insane eastern asian media hair.

[Canama]

Only half-true (page 209). The Cap Trafalgar was disguised as the Carmania, but the Carmania was not disguised at all.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

[The Truth]

[MsRowdyRedhead]

lolz

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Wow. xD There are no words for how insane that guy is.

[The Truth]

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Awesome!! Wish I had a TomTom...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I must say, this laptop wasn't built for gaming or so(I blame the Radeon 9000 in it. =P); but the screen on it is amazing, and the sound card is rather well for a laptop of it's age. =)

[MsRowdyRedhead]

I spent a bunch of money on both a laptop and a sony tabletS and rarely use either..
the tablet was bought for the bedroom, but it does not maintain a wifi connection well in there.. tho the lappy does. 

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Eh. I use my dad's Blackberry Playbook every so often, when I want to quickly look something up, and I don't have either my desktop or laptop, or my 3DS, handy; but I don't really get the idea of a tablet all that well still. I mean, sure, touch screen devices are awesome, and I'll be the first one to say it, but I think the technology still needs some accuracy. Granted, it's miles ahead of, say, the old DS, but tablets still aren't totally accurate. Way more than I give it credit at times, but... Let's take Wikipedia's site for an example, I want to go to, say, LEGO's wiki page, that doesn't mean I want to go to the page of the new LEGO Wii U game. No matter how cool that game seems. =P

Meanwhile, my laptop reminds me of my old desktop, but in many a ways, that's a good thing. No matter how much I said otherwise back two or three years ago, my old desktop was a good computer; it just didn't age well in terms of graphics. But now that I have what's basically a dedicated gaming machine, I don't really care about that aspect TOO much for my laptop, except when I'm away from my desktop, then I start to wish that it was slightly better. =P But for browsing, and listening to Youtube in a tab of it's own, it's perfect. granted, some of the problems might be because I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 on a 10 year old computer, but still. =P

[The Truth]

Unless your laptop can play SWTOR, I will not acknowledge you as a human.
Of course, I myself am nothing more than a highly-advanced spambot, but that is beside the point.

Wait...I don't think I was supposed to reveal my true identity. Pretend I never said that.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

It can barely handle Minecraft. I'll let you figure out what it can and can't play based on that. =P

And it's okay, the humans haven't realized that I am simply a robotic turtle in disguise, who hides that fact by sometimes saying that he is programming a turtle to say 'lol' while away from the virtual keyboard I have installed in myself. =P