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Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawal! -
01-31-2008, 10:17 PM
Increase in violence predicted from next-generation video games: You thought it was bad now with Grand Theft Auto? Just wait.
01/29/2008
Jury: Dad Killed Baby Over Broken Xbox
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(AP) PHILADELPHIA - A man who spent long hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console. Prosecutors believe Tyrone Spellman pummeled Alayiah Turman, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother napped in another room in September 2006.
Jurors rejected arguments that Spellman confessed to protect the mother and convicted him of third-degree murder and child endangerment. He was acquitted of first-degree murder. He could be sentenced to about 23 to 47 years in prison. Spellman fled the house after the beating, and the mother, Mia Turman, had no reason to go in the bedroom where the baby was found, prosecutors said. "He (Spellman) spent six to seven hours a day in there playing Xbox," Assistant District Attorney James Berardinelli said.
Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, confessed to police the next day, but defense lawyer Bobby Hoof noted that his statement came after 24 hours in custody. "That game controlled me."
An autopsy showed that Alayiah had suffered a broken arm about two weeks before she died _ an injury that city social workers did not see on two visits to the house in late August, when they found the baby well. The city took custody of the couple’s second daughter, born after Alayiah’s death.
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This study shows why this happens:
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VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAN INCREASE AGGRESSION
May Be More Harmful Than Violent Television and Movies Because of the Interactive Nature of the Games
WASHINGTON - Playing violent video games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Mortal Kombat or Halo can increase a person's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior both in laboratory settings and in actual life, according to two studies appearing in the April issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Furthermore, violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive, very engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor, say the researchers.
"One study reveals that young men who are habitually aggressive may be especially vulnerable to the aggression-enhancing effects of repeated exposure to violent games," said psychologists Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., and Karen E. Dill, Ph.D. "The other study reveals that even a brief exposure to violent video games can temporarily increase aggressive behavior in all types of participants."
The first study involved 227 college students who completed a measure of trait aggressiveness and reported their actual aggressive behaviors (delinquency) in the recent past. They also reported their video game playing habits. "We found that students who reported playing more violent video games in junior and high school engaged in more aggressive behavior," said lead author Anderson, of Iowa State University. "We also found that amount of time spent playing video games in the past was associated with lower academic grades in college."
In the second study, 210 college students played either a violent (Wolfenstein 3D) or nonviolent video game (Myst). A short time later, the students who played the violent video game punished an opponent (received a noise blast with varying intensity) for a longer period of time than did students who had played the nonviolent video game.
"Violent video games provide a forum for learning and practicing aggressive solutions to conflict situations," said Dr. Anderson. "In the short run, playing a violent video game appears to affect aggression by priming aggressive thoughts. Longer-term effects are likely to be longer lasting as well, as the player learns and practices new aggression-related scripts that can become more and more accessible for use when real-life conflict situations arise."
"One major concern is the active nature of the learning environment of the video game," say the authors. "This medium is potentially more dangerous than exposure to violent television and movies, which are known to have substantial effects on aggression and violence."
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Let's say that I'm not surprised that this is happening. How long will it be until the next video game related killing? How many people will have to die then?
Hopefully next year's video game burning will have an even greater amount of contributions. The folks at Landover are truly doing the Lord's work by protecting the youth of America from this aweful temptation.
Praise!!
Attached below is an image of the crazed Xbox murderer:
May you be a blessing to every life you touch.
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01-31-2008, 10:56 PM
Sad and disgusting.
I was not surprised to see he was a depraved nigra buck.
I wonder who he stole the X-Box from.
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02-01-2008, 02:39 AM
Goodness, Brother Nobar, that man was only 27 years old?
The horrible things that crack, meth, and XBox can do to a man! Why, he's only one year my senior!
And these "gamerz" claim that their videogames are harmless, indeed!
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02-01-2008, 08:53 AM
Video games are harmless.. destroying an expensive console however, will get you murdered.
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02-01-2008, 04:40 PM
Terrifying. If playing violent video games can lead people to kill babies, how long can it be before fans of Super Mario Gaylaxatives start buggering each other senseless in imitation of the game? Not long, that's for sure.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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04-09-2008, 04:14 PM
Another video game killing:
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Girl dies after being beaten with video game controller
YORK, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend, police said Tuesday.
Darisabel Baez died Monday. Her mother's boyfriend said he beat the 2-year-old but didn't explain why, police said.
Darisabel Baez's mother overheard the beating Sunday but did nothing until she realized the girl was unconscious, police said. The girl was pronounced dead late Monday at Hershey Medical Center, police Lt. Ron Camacho said. Homicide was added to the list of charges against Harve L. Johnson on Tuesday; he was already in jail on counts including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
The girl's mother, Neida E. Baez, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. It was clear from the bruises and other injuries on the little girl's body that Sunday was not the first time she had been abused, Dauphin County coroner Graham Hetrick told WGAL-TV. He said it was one of the worst cases of child abuse he has ever seen.
Baez, 19, called for an ambulance Sunday and said Johnson had brought the unconscious child to her, limp and wet from an attempt to revive her in a bathtub, a police affidavit said.
Johnson, 26, acknowledged beating the girl with a video game controller but did not say why, police said. Baez said that Johnson had abused the girl in the past and that she heard the girl scream after Johnson beat her Sunday,
according to the affidavit.
Detective Dana Ward said Baez was charged because she did not intervene or try to get help for Darisabel. Johnson and Baez remained in custody Tuesday. His bail was set at $200,000; hers was $25,000. Through police, family members declined requests for interviews Tuesday. Court officials said they did not know whether Johnson and Baez had lawyers to speak for them.
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
04-10-2008, 08:01 AM
This also brings to light the fact that there are what? At least some 80 million people playing violent video game? (This statistic is grossly under-rated considering that some mmorpgs have 5 million subscribers alone).
Just because a couple unbalanced retards do something unchristianlike and against moral fibers, doesn't mean that the whole lot is bad. Just because someone gets food poisoning from eating an undercooked steak doesn't mean that cows are out to get us.
Just because one religious fanatic decides that someone did something wrong and deserves to be killed doesn't mean the religion is wrong. (IE, someone decides that Baptism is wrong because one Baptist doesn't think that you should put women on their time of the month into a tent isolated for a week; doesn't mean that Baptism is wrong.)
Just because one gamer does something atrocious doesn't necessarily mean that games turned him that way. Maybe he was naturally drawn to violent games because he was violent in nature to begin with.
Peace from Christ,
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04-10-2008, 08:46 AM
And just because you like to ramble on in a pseudo-intelligent manner doesn't mean that we should pay any attention to you. Unless you choose to include Scripture to back your statements, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
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Thank you Jenny.
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Seems like Pastor Billy ought to have thought a bit harder before making that move. It looks like TC status is just being handed out these days.
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
04-10-2008, 03:09 PM
Because we just through common sense out the window then, right? How about you suck up a little bit more to get the ever esteemed title. Your inane reply just shows what little common sense you have.
You think I really even care about what mine is? It's not like this website will even be here in 20 years.
P.S. Good post Shalifi, but prepare to get flamed and called anything from a "nigra, homer, jew, catlick, fag, ect," before anyone even bothers reading your post. Because you have to look beyond what the title is and instead at the post someone makes. But it'll be a while before that happens. ( if ever, and yes, I'm eyeballing you, Ezekiel ).
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
07-13-2010, 04:19 PM
antoher reason why pcs are better. you can child proof them and you can play more good games
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07-13-2010, 04:39 PM
its not normal people who do this. why should we all have to suffer because a guy cant get his "drug"(games enduce endorpahsn when you do feel good) and he sudenly cant get it. there should be mental screning for this, to make it so that only the loonies have to pay, not the normal folk
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
07-13-2010, 04:48 PM
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its not normal people who do this. why should we all have to suffer because a guy cant get his "drug"(games enduce endorpahsn when you do feel good) and he sudenly cant get it. there should be mental screning for this, to make it so that only the loonies have to pay, not the normal folk
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Friend, I have read ever post you have written here, and you are FAR from being anywhere close to a normal person
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
07-13-2010, 06:51 PM
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its not normal people who do this. why should we all have to suffer because a guy cant get his "drug"(games enduce endorpahsn when you do feel good) and he sudenly cant get it. there should be mental screning for this, to make it so that only the loonies have to pay, not the normal folk
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Considering how much you are willing to argue about games, I would say you are one of the addicted. All you've done since you've come on here is searched out video game threads and told us how wrong we are and that you should be allowed to rape and murder in peace.
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
04-26-2011, 07:12 PM
Brothers and Sisters, I'm bringing this thread back up because I am seriously concerned about the hatred and death threats we have received over the "supposedly" innocent game of Portal 2.
Brother Cranky gave us one of his wonderful critiques of the game here. Look at the threats we've received!
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Originally Posted by ZOMGITSANATHEIST
i've seen this site before (gay sex with jar-jar binks, anyone?) and nothing has made me more angry than the blatant disregard for facts that this guy is expelling out of his fingers.
everyone is sex crazed, except you loving, caring christians.
thirdly, stealing credit card information?
i, personally, have purchased over $500 worth of games via Steam
(Basically an admission that he used mom's credit cards)
(VALVE MADE A GAME ABOUT ANAL BUTTSECKS)
'Insulting GOD with techno-magical mumbo-jumbo.'
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Repeated "what's wrong with anal sex" postings (I won't link, they're in the thread) **shudder**
Even the fuzzy bunny Christians think we should be killed. Now exactly who are they worshiping?
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Originally Posted by osakamitsu
I would like to clear somethings up as well. And I am a Christian, and a VERY big portal fan.
The cake is a lie is from the first game not the second...A very small detail but it just shows the poster does not know what he is talking about.
(So the Fuzzy Bunny's don't even think lying, one of the 'big 10' they claim they still follow, is a big deal? Why am I not surprised)
This game promotes lying? Since when?
(Didn't you just say 'the cake is a lie' not that lying is a big deal according to you)
This game is about sex? How? ... one person is having oral sex with himself does not mean that the game promotes it.
We just do not do it to honor God like we are supposed to.
I agree most things do not promote God. Portal does not promote God, but it also does not promote anything you claimed it did. If anything the only Evil thing portal does is not promote God.
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Scary He admits it's evil, he admits it doesn't promote God, but hey, he's going to play it anyway. Sounds like an addiction to me.
This one here Basically claims a Jihad on our heads.
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Originally Posted by Beyondthesmegma
Lol. you stupidity represents the epitome of Christianity's progress. Your crusade against Portal 2 ends here and now. The song I posted has rhythm and actually mentions still alive abut 10 times. Not a million, ten. Learn to count next time.
Your song attacks Portal. You are a disgrace. You have insulted a masterpiece in storytelling, action and innovation. If Hell existed, I'm sure you would be there.
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See, he's threatening to send our good brother to Hell, for "daring" to insult his game.
Anyway, there are many more results, if you go through Brother Cranky's reviews. And this is supposed to be a "peaceful game" not one of the first person violent shooters or anything. If they get this violent over a game rated for kids, no wonder so many actually kill their parents over the more violent games.
Should we join forces with Jack Thompson? He doesn't seem that active anymore. I know they're banned in Freehold, but what about the rest of the US? If liebrals won't raise their children properly, perhaps it's time that we stepped in and started doing it ourselves!
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
04-28-2011, 05:25 AM
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Originally Posted by BelieverInGod
Brothers and Sisters, I'm bringing this thread back up because I am seriously concerned about the hatred and death threats we have received over the "supposedly" innocent game of Portal 2.
Brother Cranky gave us one of his wonderful critiques of the game here. Look at the threats we've received!
Repeated "what's wrong with anal sex" postings (I won't link, they're in the thread) **shudder**
Even the fuzzy bunny Christians think we should be killed. Now exactly who are they worshiping?
Scary He admits it's evil, he admits it doesn't promote God, but hey, he's going to play it anyway. Sounds like an addiction to me.
This one here Basically claims a Jihad on our heads.
See, he's threatening to send our good brother to Hell, for "daring" to insult his game.
Anyway, there are many more results, if you go through Brother Cranky's reviews. And this is supposed to be a "peaceful game" not one of the first person violent shooters or anything. If they get this violent over a game rated for kids, no wonder so many actually kill their parents over the more violent games.
Should we join forces with Jack Thompson? He doesn't seem that active anymore. I know they're banned in Freehold, but what about the rest of the US? If liebrals won't raise their children properly, perhaps it's time that we stepped in and started doing it ourselves!
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I believe this is one of my favorite posts here yet, even although all of them are great from the Brothers and Sisters of this forum. Pointing out the safety of True Christianity™, not to mention our personal safety from these threats! Excellent.
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Re: Warning!! Video game addicts more violent during withdrawl! -
04-28-2011, 12:23 PM
I believe the problem is reciprocal:
1. Playing video games makes you stupid and unable to use your brain properly.
2. Being stupid makes you want to play video games because you aren't capable of thinking adequately enough to do something more productive.
Not surprisingly we don't allow video games in our home. My three boys are all the better for it and won't grow up to be rampaging retards.
Daniel 5:16-18 "Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation."
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