Comments on: Panel on violent video games next week http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/30/panel-on-violent-video-games-next-week/ The Saviours of Coin-Op Fri, 25 May 2012 18:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: editor http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/30/panel-on-violent-video-games-next-week/#comment-1342 editor Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:23:43 +0000 http://arcadeheaven.wordpress.com/?p=3919#comment-1342 I agree with all the points - but I am still unhappy with the individuals that are carrying out the evaluations and making the claims. When once asked for the qualifications of a spokesperson of one of the committees into children affected by violent stimulus, it was revealed that it was a parent and no more - no back ground in physiology or psychometry. Too many vested interests and too little expertise. Love watching the TV media trying to cover GTAIV! Just look how long it took to get the arcade PAS system! I agree with all the points – but I am still unhappy with the individuals that are carrying out the evaluations and making the claims.

When once asked for the qualifications of a spokesperson of one of the committees into children affected by violent stimulus, it was revealed that it was a parent and no more – no back ground in physiology or psychometry. Too many vested interests and too little expertise. Love watching the TV media trying to cover GTAIV!

Just look how long it took to get the arcade PAS system!

]]> By: Geo http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/30/panel-on-violent-video-games-next-week/#comment-1341 Geo Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:43:25 +0000 http://arcadeheaven.wordpress.com/?p=3919#comment-1341 Movies or Games may fuel violence in some way, but as i said a lot of people dont get it, we humans are sometimes too weak to control our own behaviors, and sometimes people is too dumb to not act in violent acts inspired by the media, we need our mind soul and spirit in the right place....so we dont damage people around us..... Movies or Games may fuel violence in some way, but as i said a lot of people dont get it, we humans are sometimes too weak to control our own behaviors, and sometimes people is too dumb to not act in violent acts inspired by the media, we need our mind soul and spirit in the right place….so we dont damage people around us…..

]]> By: Geo http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/30/panel-on-violent-video-games-next-week/#comment-1340 Geo Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:34:06 +0000 http://arcadeheaven.wordpress.com/?p=3919#comment-1340 The problem with many people is that they don`t make difference between fiction and reality, in my country and i bet in many others beside USA a lot of people act in violent acts inspire by Hollywood movies, is not the movie or the game but our own actions that made us the persons we are... The problem with many people is that they don`t make difference between fiction and reality, in my country and i bet in many others beside USA a lot of people act in violent acts inspire by Hollywood movies, is not the movie or the game but our own actions that made us the persons we are…

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