| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202797 is a reply to message #202662] |
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The idea behind all this hype is that people are constantly trying to find new scapegoats to place the blame on, instead of themselves. It isn't video games they should be worried about, it's the people who play them and can't distinguish between reality and a game. Those are the people that make the headlines, and those are the ones that get overblown by the media.
Do we see anywhere in the mainstream media about the POSITIVE effects of videogames? Is the media interested in the story of a 13-year-old who was able to save his brother's life, due to him playing as a medic in America's Army? Do we hear about Child's Play, which last year alone raised $605,000 to buy toys for children's hospitals? Do we hear that because of videogames, normally shy and timid gamers are now becoming more open, since they now have a community that does not shun them away like regular society?
No. Because if it bleeds, it leads.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
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