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Lintra
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Joined: 23 Apr 2002
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Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
| And yet another anti - game study ... |
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... but this time from Sweden: Click here for the article.
However, with a title like "Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent-Swedish Experts" one has to question the saavy of the author(s?). I mean, if a Pakistani boy plays video games will he *really* become a Fat Violent-Swedish Expert? Of couse, the author does not specify what other kind of Swedes there are or what kind of expert either 
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Val
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Joined: 18 Feb 2002
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Location: Utah, USA |
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Roqua
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Joined: 02 Sep 2003
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I've always been fat, violent, and an expert on swedes.
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Remus
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While i don't obsolutely deny some negative effects, i think some peoples are obsessive (and narrow minded) in believing video games and violent tv/film shows caused violences or crimes among adult and youngster groups.
For example, it's known that the popular cultures of Japan: both anime (cartoons) and manga (comics) often contain violence and sexual scenes. This contrast clearly to the more controlled entertaiments in US (censorship, rating systems for music, film, video game).
You probably thought that many youngsters in Japan would be corrupted by these unhealthy cultures. Yet, the crime rate for adults and youngsters in Japan are much lower compare to US. It's said that (don't remember which year) there are about 4500 juveniles in US were arrested for variety of crimes compare to only about 550 same cases in Japan. Even if you x2 the number (because Japan's total population is only around half that of the U.S), the rate is still excessively high for US. Plus, many crimes commited by US juveniles more often involve various felonies (rape, murder, drug use), while Japanese kids go stealing bicycles and things in shopping malls, etc.
Singapore also has lower crime rate among youngsters, lower than Japan in few crime categories. If i am not wrong, the censorship are quite strict, probably following the US example. I doubt the censorship makes any different though, since the their government are quite disciplinarian. The worst they could do is posting a faked pornography on internet...(LOL!....).
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MageofFire
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Joined: 03 Oct 2003
Posts: 1594
Location: Monastery of Innos |
As far as anti-game studies go, this one seems pretty shallow. Yes, you numbskulls, we know that there are fat kids who sit in front of computer screens all day eating potato chips and looking at porn all day.  Or is this just now happening in Sweden? They could make a much more convincing argument if they got an actual gamer to testify for them. Have you also noticed that most of the people doing this study don't play video games? You can tell by the way they talk about them. And who are they to judge something they know next to nothing about? And about gun-deaths: Japan, where video games are incredibly popular, has about 40 gun deaths a year, whereas the U.S. has about 11,000! Can that all be attributed to video games?
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Lintra
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Joined: 23 Apr 2002
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Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by Val
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Lintra bows
Thanks Val. Nice to see some one caught my flippancy 
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Toaster
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Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 5475
Location: Sweden |
There actually was a documentary about this yesterday on national television, but it only covered the violency aspects of games. It wasn't very objective, though, they used Postal 2 and shooting cops and ambulance personnel in Vice City as an example of how it usually is in games... *sigh*
BTW, I think I fit their stereotype of a video games playing youngster, but I'm neither violent nor fat. Strange, since an excellent Swedish study showed that the consqeunce of me playing violent video games must be the opposite...  *sigh again*
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