C-Span Video Game "Report Card"

[bryanthompson]

Holy crap, so I'm flippin' through the channels a few minutes, and saw full frontal nudity on C-Span... didn't see that one coming.

basically a bunch of uptight liberals are showing clips from Halo, Leisure Suit Larry, and "The Guy Game" (need to look that one up... looks like fun ), then talking about how much it hurts kids, "don't buy these for kids if you don't know what's in them" sort of things... blah blah blah.

Aaaanyway, does anyone know of independent research that's been done that shows whether or not violent games have any affect later on in life? Yeah, I'm biased, I think it's a joke, but I want to see what "experts" say.

[Clowd]

Isn't it usually the conservatives that do this sort of thing?

Either way, I agree with you (?!) it's absolutely STUPID how these idiots think games affect kids like that... Seems to me that these people can't, or are too lazy, to look after their kids, so they blame it on a video game.

[ubiquity0]

Originally posted by Clowd
Isn't it usually the conservatives that do this sort of thing?

hmm.... calling for censorship of nudity & violence? Are you sure those were 'liberals'?!?

'Anti-video game wackos' is probably the only label you could really apply.

Or do you label anyone who disagrees with you about anything is a 'liberal'?

[bryanthompson]

Take a look for yourself: http://www.mediafamily.org/research/report_vgrc_2004.shtml

Video at:
http://www.cspan.org/

Not everyone who disagrees with me is a liberal, but it's a pretty good start!

[bryanthompson]

I'm gonna send Joe Lieberman a thank you letter for introducing me to this great game
http://media.xbox.ign.com/media/639/639863/imgs_1.html