News Study shows violent video games have a real effect

One could turn the argument on its head - people who have a deep-seated violent tendency like to play games where they can act out their subconscious fantasies of killing people violently. Gaming is the symptom, not the cause.

I really worry about some of you people...

 

OK, let's start monitoring really carefully all: soldiers, armed police, any contact sport players, game hunters, gun enthousiasts...

 

Perhaps the lack of a Playstation was the problem? The amish really don't have very many ways to vent their anger and frustration. That makes more sense to me than a tech-savvy kid shooting up a school.

 

Charles Roberts, the killer, wasn't himself Amish.

 

So you lose your ability to concentrate for a while after intense stimuli. I'd like to know how this affects your normal concentration ability. Does playing lower your daily concentration or does it give it excercise? I see a resemblance here to cardio-vascular traning that strains your heart which leads to less strain when not exercising.

Does playing violent games increase your tolerance to addrenaline and aggression or does it make you more sensitive to them?