Jaffe-"Dear @ErinBurnett : you, ma'am, are at best an idiot that @cnn should be ashamed to have as an anchor. At worst, you are the worst kind of American: one who has allowed the healthy desire for success to morph into a capitalistic cancer that makes it ok to ignore the facts in order to make your product more appealing, regardless of the consequences. To make matters worse, your own views about video games- which you seem to have no problem sharing with your hundreds of thousands of viewers- clearly have not been formed by any actual research or real life experience with the medium.
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Theres a difference between lashing out and and making a sound counter argument. Jaffe tends to get over-emotional. The mainstream media believes that gamers are angry, violent immature brats. Jaffe's tantrum only solidified that stereotype.
NLV- Did you SEE the video? She was dead set on making the psychologist say out right "Games make people kill." How in your mind is that something that should be on television? How come no one says that all the tv shows about cops and shootings on national tv don't cause people to kill?
I agree with David, yes he says stuff that makes no sense sometimes but in this case I agree with him 100%...she is trashing his way of living and I bet she would do the same if he trashed hers in a video game.
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Sometimes someone needs to lash out. You can as eloquent as possible and get nowhere. So when trying to remove a wall sometimes you have to use a sledgehammer. If news channels had any class this wouldn't have been a story. But few people in the business do anymore. They use witch hunts to make a profit. It's not about addressing real issues.
People have always been violent. And the US congress has a lot of nerve speaking out about anything. But any reporter will give far more weight to that congressperson than they will to a developer. If you want to look at who causes violence look at a school shooter and a congressman. A school shooter just happened to play games. Or watched a movie. Before those things existed, people still did a lot of killing. Children were taken to executions as a day out. So there is no evidence that games cause violence.
Look at a congressperson. They vote for declarations of war. They vote for money to continue wars. They buy the weapons. They know that enemies hide within the civilian population and they bomb them anyway. It's estimated that as many as a million Iraqi civilians were killed during the war. And since congress allows tens of thousands of armed contractors to remain you can bet many more Iraqi civilians still die.
Video games win on the amount of deaths caused a million to 0 compared to a US congressman. SO to blame a developer should make them lash out when so many are still stupid enough to put any weight behind the words of members of the media or congress.
my aunt took me to see horror movies at the age of 4, and i've been playing games since then and not once till this day (now 39) have i wanted to go out shoot people or kill anyone. i knew all that stuff was just fantasy.
what about "slander" or "libel" issues when it comes to the media outlets spewing erroneous rhetoric concerning the issue and showing game play footage/images of the various shooters? Should the likes of Activision and EA be outraged???
I'd be pissed if they were tossing my product around with such associations and inaccuracies!
So y'all can blame all your issues on games yet not looking at anything else but when Jaffe says something it's regarded as he is not coming across right?
Killing on name of religion
Killing for sake of killing
Killing because you have s sick mind
Killing because you are mentally ill or retarded
Killing in useless wars on terrorist
So I am sure when someone raises a gun to shoot someone it's because they played GTA or COD. In new Orleans where I live people are shooting each other left and right so is this on gaming too?
And what happened in that school shooting is all fake anyway. How could it be that the so called kids who died never existed? Those names belonged to already dead senior citizens?
How could it be that Facebook pages were created for those kids 3-4 days before the shooting actually happened?
How could it be that one of the dead kids who was a hired actor mt Obama but she was suppose to be dead?
All this shit is done to blame 2 things
Controlling guns
And blaming entertainment media such as games
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I'm not sure what makes your argument look more ignorant: the fact that you don't back up your idiotic statement by showing a correlation to the current health of America's agriculture sector with the popularity of Farmville OR the fact that the sick, deranged evil loser who killed those poor kids in Norway had picked such a poor 'training' tool that after 700 hours of play, he was only capable of hitting little kids with his bullets versus the well armed pretend terrorists and highly skilled virtual soldiers that he was battling in the game
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And fluoride is used by the government for mind control.
Jaffe is right that games do not make you a better shooter. After all COD isn't the EST 2000. But games do allow you to train tactics which is a wholly different beast from shooting. And if Jaffe doesn't think that violent games and Hollywood do not factor into these shootings then he is wrong.
Notice I do not say that violent games and Hollywood are to blame. No, not at all. The individual is to blame. Period. And the individual should be executed swiftly in a public, gruesome manner. But violent games and movies do desensitize a person.
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Watch the video in this article. Jaffe is right Erin Burnett is an embarrassment to the way journalist should act. I've seen her sometimes in some of these issues & she really is annoying all the time.
Good on Jaffe to speak his mind & not stand for someone who clearly has no idea what she is talking about.
I can't say positively if there's an underlying connection between violence and video games as I would have to do more research. What does appear to be possible is that many people who do go on these wild shooting rampages usually have some mental/social condition which has some effect on their cognitive and decision making skills. Bullying, social awkwardness, feeling isolated, etc are often social factors which can play a part in these things. Not implying that these are constant factors, but some of these conditions can be underlying factors. I guess more research has to be done for any sound reasoning to be made.
Either way Jaffe is such a Badass @_@ <3
We have taken this sh%$ long enough! It is about time we said something. This man is sticking up for YOU.
...OR he should be, or else my next question will be "why are you here?"
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What "facts" was she talking about? There's no proof that games cause people to be violent.
Some people will see only what they want to see.
Take this picture of this sexy woman, for example.
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DOWN WITH VIDEO GAMES AND THEIR POINT GRABBING PROSTITUTE KILLERS!!!
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She's an annoying bitch who sold out her journalistic integrity to get a top spot on a major news show. Raise your standards a bit.
I wouldn't touch someone who is as much of a c**t as that with a barge pole. I do have standards.
Its a shame they seemed more concerned for the ones that make the guns.. But since guns dont kill ppl!
Why doesnt anyone mention big pharma? You know... Those drugs that have a football field size of side effects! I know you heard the commercials.. The hole damn clip is about hey you have this disese? Try this but if any of this happens.
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STOP USING IT!
and then it has a 3 page letter at the bottom in small print on other sh!t that might go wrong..
And thats for over the counter meds! What makes you think big pharma is doing any better with the other drugs..
This is the man who created a car combat game where Sweet Tooth is a serial killer who murdered his own family. And if he wins a contest being held by satan, he will get his one dream, the ability to murder his daughter over and over again, in hell, for all eternity. (And why his daughter? Because she was the only one who fought back when he killed his family, and that somehow made the killing more pleasurable for him.)
This is not the man to be defending our hobby. Not at all.
I agree with you about most of the other stuff you said. These media whores always need a scapegoat. It's easier than actually producing quality, informative journalism and sensationalism always gets more viewers. Sad but true.
It's actually guys like that needing to be on the frontline pssionately arguing for their right to free storytelling and graphic depiction , violent , disturbed or not ... in a mannered and polite way or not .
No point from the likes of jaffe in hiding out . They are blamed either way , so they should just go for the jugular .
Guns reps have no fear or shame doing it after all
By the way do those two other forms of entertainment get blamed for stupid sht any more? No, because time and time again, the media has failed to link any sort of violence to them. It used to be rock n roll. It used to be comics. Now they're trying to use video games as a scapegoat.
Regarding your opinion over David Jaffe, unless he actually has any sort of violent record AT ALL, you have no point to make. This is simply a man who won't let censorship hold him back. Our favorite forms of entertainment shouldn't be pussified just so we can have a "valid" excuse to stand up against the media.
2)If governments were providing everything the people need there will be less reasons to do these things. they also need to have and give a reason or a goal to all people in the country . to focus doing it instead of fight for stupid things. for example providing jobs to all the poor people ..
3) People need to learn there childrens to respect every living person even if they disagree with them. learn to share there money/feelings to the poor . that way all sides will respect each other and no one will ever think about killing because they wouldnt need these things . they will think about something greater..
Games does effect us but not that way. if we raised good we wouldnt even think about it . you need to open your mind for everything whether it's bad or good . aknowledge the bad and good so that you dont get effected of the bad and recognise it in anywhere ..
Please tell me there's someone else out there with a brain adding to this?
You want to fight for your rights as a consumer? You can count on corrupt gaming media to shout you down, put you down and bad mouth you into oblivion.
You don't like these new EULA clauses? You can count on corrupt gaming media to enforce it.
You don't like those skyrocketing prices? You can count on corrupt media to support it.
All my lols.
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I don't get the why there is so much hate towards video game?
When there are media, movie, tv industries promoting more violence everyday than the video games, and then there is the thing called "Internet" People could probably find "How to" on many subjects that could endanger others.
Should we all talk about banning them as well?
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