Kids Kill Over 100k People In Video Games By 18

Each cryo tray you have to safely load on the Mothership when departing Kharak carried 100k souls. As I recall it was pretty difficult to save them all the first time.
 
Amateurs. Play a conquer the galaxy type game and kill billions in a single evening.
 
Well I'm glad to see Jack Thompson took up writing under an assumed name since his ass got disbarred for stupidity. At least now he can make a living that doesn't involve saying "Would you like the hot apple pie?"
 
Kueller said:
Each cryo tray you have to safely load on the Mothership when departing Kharak carried 100k souls. As I recall it was pretty difficult to save them all the first time.
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Was it even possible to save the first one? I only ever managed to save 5.

Regardless, I don't think that counts since its not the player doing the killing.
 
It's really only PC games where killing and violence translate into mental instability. Consoles don't do that because of the difference in control interfaces versus the PC and the fact that the typical PC gamer remains at the PC's controls doing other things after a session of violence has been completed which in turn helps to further drive home the underlying dysfunctions that simulated violence cause because your fingers are still performing the same motions.
 
lcpiper said:
Show of hands, how many of you guys play one of these games where you can choose to be the good guy or the bad guy and just keep finding that you always gravitate toward being helpful and doing the "right" thing?

Come on, be honest :p
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Eh, I do. Mainly because I feel simple evil chaos just makes the entire world go to hell in a handbasket, and even if I'm being self-serving it's just pointless because it hurts me more in the long run. I don't think many games have a good alignment system where there are upsides to choosing "evil" options. That is options that might seem "evil" but are actually in utilitarian sense either necessary or good. Like real good choices that make you truly conflicted. So I just opt for the good guy routes because it makes me feel better anyway. Though I have to say doing a renegade Shepard run in ME1 (and only ME1) was kind of fun because many of the options were just funny... and generally somewhat harmlessly funny.

Well setting aside the fact that judging "right" and "wrong" is just asking for trouble because there isn't any objective morality to begin with. It's just whatever the developers say is good or bad... =\
 
LOL, CNN...
LOL, PolitiFact...
LOL, Half True...

You know how much I know about the number of people I killed in video games? Nothing! Because they're video games and it doesn't matter how many bits and bytes I've killed over the years. I think the only people who do care are those obsessed with their K/D ratios in multiplayer games.

Now that said...
Considering I have played several hundred video games since I was 6, I'm sure it has to be at least somewhere in the millions :D. I don't play any RTS, so I'm lagging behind that potential of killing billions in a single stroke :(.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
The morality police aren't a left or right wing only phenominon. I had to deal with the satanic panic religious nutters growing up in Oklahoma. They're worse.
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Morality policing is usually borne of a genuine feeling of superiority, that doesn't really know any political, religious, economic, or national bias.
 
I killed, really really really really lot of people in a really lot of different ways, from sims BBQ, ladder removal, wall in of a kid and let child services die trying to get it and then baby dies too. There's demon killing in diablo, pvp in CS/UT, trillions of deaths in mass plague simulators, hordes of aliens killed in serious sam. 100k? That's not even start.
 
Does the thousands of SCVs I've killed with my mutalisks count? I think there are some guys inside those SCVs...
 
This kind of supposed "fact" is used to scare the uninformed and ignorant into thinking video games are to blame for the ills of the world so they should be banned.
 
bildad said:
100,000! That's it? Some people need to pick up the pace.
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He talks about people. I only do zombies, robots, demons, and all kinds of monsters. People are way too easy.
 
I have shot 5,469 with the M24 Sniper rifle in America's Army. Doesn't that count for more, instead of spray and pray these were deliberate cross hairs to the Face!? :eek::cool:
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Was it even possible to save the first one? I only ever managed to save 5.

Regardless, I don't think that counts since its not the player doing the killing.
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You're in command.

And no congressional investigation of the surviving captain that "did not survive interrogation"? Coverup?

You can pick them off with salvage corrvettes and use your fighter to draw aggro to slow the destruction, but you have to micro-manage quite a bit.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
It's really only PC games where killing and violence translate into mental instability. Consoles don't do that because of the difference in control interfaces versus the PC and the fact that the typical PC gamer remains at the PC's controls doing other things after a session of violence has been completed which in turn helps to further drive home the underlying dysfunctions that simulated violence cause because your fingers are still performing the same motions.
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I'm killing processes right now in task manager!!!

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

:eek:
 
...yes but all the demons, aliens, flemoids, and evil creatures i've slain clearly counterbalances this
 
FM 3370 said:
I've killed 10 million people alone in Sim City, 2,683 in Microsoft Flight Simulator. :(
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How do you kill people in a flight simulator?

lcpiper said:
Show of hands, how many of you guys play one of these games where you can choose to be the good guy or the bad guy and just keep finding that you always gravitate toward being helpful and doing the "right" thing?

Come on, be honest :p
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I do
 
I destroyed two planets and annihilated several billion people in the same week before using weapons of mass destruction - and I was the hero. What's your study going to say about that?
 
And yet the most violent and murderous people on earth who actually do have no moral compunction about killing anyone they come across live mostly in 3rd world countries and may have never even played a violent video game.

Can we explain this? Not without looking at the real issues of why people kill. I swear this kind of avoidance of an issue is a mental disease. Blame video games because actually facing the real cause just makes these idiots shut down and think about something else.

I propose that the people blaming video games are doing so because in reality THEY are the ones who can not face real life issues.
 
J3RK said:
I'm killing processes right now in task manager!!!

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

:eek:
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See? That's what I mean. Totally crazy cakes! :eek:

Phoenix333 said:
I destroyed two planets and annihilated several billion people in the same week before using weapons of mass destruction - and I was the hero. What's your study going to say about that?
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It means that the game's idea of heroism is slanted in a weird way and that birds so evil that they belong in a sammich. Now hurry up and get friendly with the lettuce and tomatoes.
 
Does this include villains in games?

Sephiroth destroys several populated planets every 2 minutes of combat in FF7
 
lcpiper said:
Show of hands, how many of you guys play one of these games where you can choose to be the good guy or the bad guy and just keep finding that you always gravitate toward being helpful and doing the "right" thing?

Come on, be honest :p
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I do. Every single time.
 
lcpiper said:
Show of hands, how many of you guys play one of these games where you can choose to be the good guy or the bad guy and just keep finding that you always gravitate toward being helpful and doing the "right" thing?

Come on, be honest :p
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I do, as well. My personality makes it extremely difficult to play the bad guy most of the time when given a choice.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
It means that the game's idea of heroism is slanted in a weird way and that birds so evil that they belong in a sammich. Now hurry up and get friendly with the lettuce and tomatoes.
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Even if you could eat me, shortly afterward you'd suffer the worst kind of spontaneous combustion to ever affect a living creature. The first sensation would be akin to being shot with a flare gun from the inside out. You'd writhe in excruciating agony, horribly, as magical fire began to consume your internal organs, starting with your stomach and expanding out slowly in every direction from there. Then you'd suffer a full-body explosion, and I would be standing there in your place, in fine new plumage, surrounded by itty bitty pieces of what's left of your still smouldering corpse.

You don't cook Phoenix. Phoenix cooks you.
 
So basically, the average person below the age of 18 has played 1 or more video game where killing people is possible. Big news!
 
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