tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173268024542080800.post7137643787949914751..comments2023-06-07T15:30:32.365+01:00Comments on The Fishbowl: Virtual InsanityEmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16142033315240523632noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173268024542080800.post-47567892160542847152007-06-21T09:21:00.000+01:002007-06-21T09:21:00.000+01:00Jenny - absolutely, as I say, I understand the pot...Jenny - absolutely, as I say, I understand the potential impact of violent games on kids and would hope that parents are making sure their kids aren't playing them. <BR/><BR/>But a game's a game...This is a game that's going to get released across the pond (if its not out already) and elsewhere...but not here...are all game playing british adults sadists? The games are pretty gruesome but for most gamers it's about the skill factor involved...they don't immediately want to go out and start butchering peeps...Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16142033315240523632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173268024542080800.post-38649160713464885342007-06-20T13:28:00.000+01:002007-06-20T13:28:00.000+01:00Hmmm, not having being a gamer since the death of ...Hmmm, not having being a gamer since the death of the ZX Spectrum and apart from the odd PC game every now and then these days it's difficult to comment directly on the games you've mentioned.<BR/><BR/>My only thought is that sometimes with things like this it has to be a balance of risk. It's very easy for people to say you can't put a price on saving a life etc etc. But clearly people effectively do every day. If cars were banned hundreds of lives would be saved each year. How about banning swimming in the sea? or children crossing the road? These examples have a proven link where as the gaming link is tenuous.<BR/><BR/>Saying that violence for violence sake does seem a little unnecessary. Sometimes I feel like an old man when I tut at some of the explicit content on modern TV.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901853618033139515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173268024542080800.post-72796230842399959052007-06-19T16:46:00.000+01:002007-06-19T16:46:00.000+01:00I am an anti-gamer. Not that I think its bad, but ...I am an anti-gamer. Not that I think its bad, but I just don't play and don't really get the appeal. The only game I have ever enjoyed playing is Soul Caliber and that is b/c I rock at it! I don't like losing, so gaming is a no-win for me...so I just don't do it!<BR/><BR/>As for the violence factor. I think that parents need to be held more accountable for what their children are playing and for how long. I think parents need to inform themselves, maybe pick up a gamer mag now and again, to actually know what their kids are playing. I know that parents can't monitor 100% of the time, but at least some involvment would prevent overly violent games from being played by youngsters. I think that media, tv, and games all have a violent message so we can't point fingers at just video games, we need ot look at society and the way it looks to a teenager.Jenny!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02894594994831955679noreply@blogger.com