View Full Version : Maryland gang authority blames games
ChaosLex
01-30-2008, 09:47 PM
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26187500&sid=6185335&om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;5
That guy is an idiot..... IMO of course.
Pushmonkey
01-30-2008, 10:27 PM
Not addressed by the Assistant State's Attorney was the fact that Salisbury is known as "Crack City" and that US 13 that runs through that city is a major drug corridor to move crack. However, it is just easier to say uh...it's the Video Games.
The Wedge
01-30-2008, 10:38 PM
The video games make the kids wanna do crack.
Not, you know, the sheer boredom that is the majority of Wico County.
Camden_yardbird
01-30-2008, 10:43 PM
As Jay Z says with some truth to it...rappers and video games are blamed to avoid solving the real problems behind crime.
PeteCanes
01-31-2008, 01:02 AM
"In the '80s and '90s, you didn't have video games, you didn't have the violence in the media"
This statement pretty much sums up how stupid this guy is.
"In the '80s and '90s, you didn't have video games, you didn't have the violence in the media"
This statement pretty much sums up how stupid this guy is.
Yeah, thats what I said to myself when I read it.
In 1971, Computer Space was released and was the first commercially sold, coin-operated video game. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, it used a standard television and game generated video signal for display (the game was featured in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green). It was followed in 1972 by the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. Modeled after a late 1960s prototype console developed by Ralph H. Baer called the "Brown Box", it also used a standard television and game generated video signal.[4][8] These systems were followed by two versions of Atari's Pong; an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogames)
MurphDogg
01-31-2008, 08:44 AM
"In the '80s and '90s, you didn't have video games, you didn't have the violence in the media"
This statement pretty much sums up how stupid this guy is.
Yeah, video game violence as an epidemic complained about in the media is generally agreed to have started in 1992. Mortal Kombat, Lethal Enforcers, and Wolfenstein 3D. That is a murderers row of violent videogames that got people's panties in a bunch. For the last 16 years we have been having the exact same debate.
wirenutz
01-31-2008, 09:42 AM
It's the easy thing to do!Like in the 80's with the PMRC blaming music for everything!
The Wedge
01-31-2008, 10:30 AM
People have been blaming music for everything long before Tipper Gore reared back and roared in the 80s, man.
This doesn't exactly help the argument, but there was a quote by someone, which I can't remember who, and I can't remember exactly when, but it was definitely while rave culture was "hot." The quote was basically: if video games as children had any effect on us, right now we'd be in dark rooms eating magic pills listening to monotonous repetitive music.
I'm fairly certain it was supposed to be an ironic comment, but it's still funny.