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Aussie R18+ Debate Hysteria

[Mar 01, 2010, 11:13 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Gamers-Underground.com has an outrageous clip from an Aussie news report that unequivocally states "Gaming causes more harm than smoking," claims that in "Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 2" (in case you were wondering about their level of fact-checking) "gamers plot terror attacks against civilians," and says "psychologists say that regular exposure to games like these actually rewires a child's brain making them more amenable to violence." It's official: The Aussie R18+ debate is generating more BS than a cattle ranch.

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Re: Aussie R18+ Debate Hysteria

Mar 1, 2010, 18:51

If you're going to troll couldn't you at least come up with something juicier like 'Prisoners shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games'? But blatant trolling aside, I really don't like censorship at all. Granted, I was brought up to know how to keep things in their place. If I'm frustrated I'd rather take it out on some virtual characters than real living ones. I can then sleep soundly at night knowing nobody will be after me. It is healthy to blow off steam, and video games can be one such outlet. Keeping it in and not being able to express it somehow is what leads people to taking it out on regrettable things. Back to Fallout 3. Trying out a vampire mod I downloaded. Then I'll go out for a nice snack...

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