http://www.avinashv.net/2007/06/23/violence-in-video-games/

Since Doom was released in 1993, violent crimes in the United States have to 40% of what they used to be. Coincidence? Possibly, yes. However, the year Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were released, violent crimes fell by 4%, and a further 2% when Grand Theft Auto was released.

I don’t take that as mere coincidence.

Not surprising really since it gives people something else to be imaginative and violent with, but I'm sure no matter how you wish to source these articles and look at the data, the anti-Video Game lobby will find a way to reject anything found here.

Just because they happened in the same year, it doesn't mean one caused the other. This is just another poor use of statistics to push an agenda.

You know, last week- every day i ate cornflakes for breakfast, it rained in the afternoon. Coincidence? i think not!

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In latest news an American sailor got jailed for having sex with a 14 year old girl except that the 14 year old girl was 56 year old Police Officer Barry !!!

Discuss.

I think there may be more to that cornflakes thing than you are letting on.

What does chicken have to do with corn flakes apart from the logo?

You know, last week- every day i ate cornflakes for breakfast, it rained in the afternoon. Coincidence? i think not!

keep eating them cornflakes. u have a drought to bust

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/pirates.jpg

Excellent, the first thing I thought of when reading that was the global warming and pirats. :D Good game, my good fellow.

Interesting way to label X-axis...

You guys have sorta highlighted my point with the whole "he plays video games therefore video games caused him to be violent" :)

And yes, I'm a strong advocate of the "correlation != causation" argument, hence why I won't support global warming theories - that there's still no proof of causation, only statistical correlation.

lol @ no proof

i think violent games should be more accessible.

if everyone played violent games, then people would be more desensitised to violence and when someone started a violent attack others would be prepared to take them down.

for instance, if more people had played dead rising at virginia tech, someone would have picked up a lectern and knocked wu chung the f*** out.

hence why I won't support global warming theories

For me, taking global warming seriously isn't about being 100% sure we understand climate change. We don't.

But it's irresponsible to ignore the possibility that global warming is occurring, given the dire and far-reaching consequences if it were true. Hence I assume the worst.

Really you have much more to lose from inaction than action (cutting emissions). Basic logic prevails here.

what's irresponsible, is us not all driving imported cummins diesels so that dodge, ford and gm would see a market and start exporting right hand drive pickups to us

These doomsayers can f*** off. They oversensationalise the issue because they think it's alright to deceive us because it's so important.

Why do we need to be deceived if it's so important?

Australia has real environmental concerns right now, with foreign pests, soil erosion, salt and the urbanisation of our rural areas + over fishing by our neighbours. And that's just some of the significant environmental issues we face right now. A potential 2-5' average temperature rise over 90 years isn't worth shooting our first born over.

Parabol wins.

A potential 2-5' average temperature rise over 90 years isn't worth shooting our first born over.

Besides, you know...the whole icecaps melting raising the sea level and flooding huge areas of the world, leading to all kinds of knock-on problems for the human race.

But hey, so long as your immediate surroundings aren't affected, why give a f***, right ? Just crank up the aircon a bit more!

Those problems you mentioned are very important to be sure, but climate destabilisation is a big problem too, you can't just shrug it off and focus only on our country.

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I reckon Jack Thompson would say "what a retarded thread".

If you're concerned about global warming then drive a V8 like I do. You use my petrol (therefore oil) per km than smaller cars which in turn means we use up all the "limited" oil reserves in the world which in turn stops terrosim.

Haha that is the most bulls*** statistical comparison i have ever seen. I hardly think there would be a correlation between the two. Even if there were it would be insignificant.

A potential 2-5' average temperature rise over 90 years isn't worth shooting our first born over

Haha, nice joke :)

I'm assuming you're not serious, otherwise that would have been the dumbest, most misinformed and self-centred comment of the year.

The game comes out and all the crazy's are too busy playing x violent game. 1 year later they are bored of said game and go on a murderous rampage utilizing the skills he/she acquired when playing the game (LIKE BARREL ROLLS!).

As i just proved, it's the games fault. derrr.

So how much has violence been reduced since WoW came out and how much has welfare dependent ppl increased?!!

so you WOULD shoot your firstborn over it parabol

and how much has welfare dependent ppl increased?!!

Haha - now those would be some interesting statistics.

But hey, so long as your immediate surroundings aren't affected, why give a f***, right ? Just crank up the aircon a bit more!

haha feel free to spend $60k on a prius to feel good about yourself, but remember there are 10x as many moped drivers in china producing 5x the hydrocarbons you just saved

So what you're saying is that we should be spending that money on killing Chinese moped riders?

Please don't kill the Chinese.. where would I buy my gold from?

the koreans

So what you're saying is that we should be spending that money on killing Chinese moped riders?

No, shoot them then charge the families for the bullets, Chinese style!

2. i can pull the shopping trolley out of the storm water run off pond at the end of my street where it's blocking a drain

The 2nd action, when compared to the first, is a significant contribution to improving the health of our earth

What
The
f***.

How does that "improve the health of the earth"?

Actually you know what, don't bother answering that. Your self-centred attitude towards the earth's climate is so f***ed up it it's not even worth arguing with you.

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sorry i removed my rant

how does it NOT fail to completely neglect to improve the health of the earth, is the real question

will someone please think of the bogans

I've come to the conclusion that Jim is really a forum bot :)

Conversations similar to Eliza: http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/

i've met jim irl, he's an attractive guy

jim is dot

Conversations similar to Eliza: http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/

well after 40 minutes of trying to get some sense from her (or it!), I came to the conclusion that it's either an automated chat bot, or whoever is REALLY on the other side making it talk got a bit busy trying to respond to several site visitors at once and had trouble keeping up with that many conversations

well after 40 minutes of trying to get some sense from her (or it!), I came to the conclusion that it's either an automated chat bot, or whoever is REALLY on the other side making it talk got a bit busy trying to respond to several site visitors at once and had trouble keeping up with that many conversations

So I was watching this porn movie the other day and all of a sudden I realised it was my sister jenny. f*** f*** f*** s*** f*** c*** vegimite valley f*** s***

Because qgl could get a monkey jerking off in his boat and pretend hes a lying theiving scum sucking fag.

Didn't the Prius come like 67th on most environmental economical vehicles?

heh typo