Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:04:35 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Manuel_Molina_Pascual?=" <raistlinmolina@gmail.com> To: "william rockt" <williamrockt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ Interactive, Are Video Games Good? A Non-Gamer's Perspective Message-ID: <bdd6c4b90802131204p76ebf356s6cec2e928df15615@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1ff813d0802080114w1996a19dq82566f58d356b746@mail.gmail.com> References: <1ff813d0802080114w1996a19dq82566f58d356b746@mail.gmail.com>
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I almost completely agree with you, I'm not a gamer today but I was a moderate gamer during the late 80's and 90's. As you, I don't think that playing violent games does not increase violence, in fact, if you compare the units sold of games such as Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty against the violent actions motivated by them I'm sure that the conclusion will be that there is no relation between both issues. I preferred playing (and still like) simulators but I also enjoyed (and enjoy) shooters, hence I played Castle of Wolfstein, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, GTA, GTA 2, GTA 3 and now I steal my wife some minutes a week to play COD 4. I'm totally opposed to weapons and I don't think that I'm a violent person (or at least not more violent that before playing :) ). In fact I think that the games we can can enjoy now are very good to avoid violence, they are very real and you can see all the damage, destruction and pain that those acts carry with them, I think that some years ago it was not the same and you could not appreciate the hard life of a soldier (just take Operation Flashpoint or COD 4) and the effects of a war. What I think is that the media has to publish something, they earn money making news where news do not make themselves, so, if one individual takes a knife and kills one another and there's the fact that this former guy played COD 4 a week ago the media will say that COD 4 is the "factor". The other arguments, where, as you say, I have a desk job and have some extra pounds (not many) that I didn't had before I began to work, and I played computer games much more than know, as you say, balance and moderation is the key. -- The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. (Robert Ingersoll). Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Edward Gibbon)
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