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Overnight, the Federal Government issued a review of existing research into whether people who play violent computer games are at greater risk of aggression. Their conclusion? The same as mine. There is no link.
I’m not violent at all. Though I guess I am a murderer.
I’ve ruthlessly ended roughly 500 lives this week. Tall. Short. Loud. Quiet. Hairy. Fast. Slow. I’ve knocked ’em all off. It was mostly in self defence. A few were just for kicks, though. But seriously - you should have seen them. They were asking for it.
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This Friday the Attorneys General of all our states and territories will decide whether to create an R18+ category for computer and video games.
We’re often told it is indisputable that a child watching the very occasional 30-second McDonalds’ advertisement will have their eating habits irrevocably changed. They are headed for a life of junk food. The games industry has of course lobbied hard, but if the attorneys decide in favour of R18+ games they will owe Ronald McDonald a huge apology.
Because amazingly the attorneys might decide this week that hours and hours of playing computer games with highly simulated and even interactive violence and sex won’t affect children in any way.
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LC says:
I don’t recall Barry asking to revoke Wallace’s right to free speech. Wallace has every right to publish his opinions and thoughts, but in turn we all have the right to disagree with Wallace and debate his “points”. It should be noted that the man you’re defending is not only… Read more »
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LC says:
If Jim was having “such an easy time” arguing against this I doubt he’d need to: - Employ personal attacks (“It makes you wonder whether the techno-heads that inhabit the games industry missed too many primary school English classes on the way there”, “With more McDonalds’ – type – logic,… Read more »
A woman in her late thirties leaps out of her seat in a muggy Sydney Entertainment Centre, screaming as if she were a teenager again as a larger-than-life Lady Gaga, wearing skin-tight black leather, gyrates her genital region over the upper thigh of one of her female dancers.
Good for her. She’s just letting her hair down, getting away from it all for a night, the house, the husband, the kids.
Oh, my mistake, the kids are right next to her, cheering along to the hyper-sexualised live spectacle, and even doing a little gyrating of their own.
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Nicole says:
I don’t understand why the concert didn’t have an age-rating. It might be a bit nanny-state like but Big Day Out is 18 and over and no-one seems to really mind that… and from what I saw of both evenings, Lady Gaga’s concert was far more inappropriate for young minds.… Read more »
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Amber says:
I don’t think these are naive, uninformed parents - I think this is in the same vein as parents letting their 13-year olds smoke and and 16-year-olds, drink. I think they just don’t see a problem with it. Sadly. Read more »
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