Comments on: Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:39:31 +0000

HA! Violence my ass. I’ve played video games since I was a baby. An Atari Joy stick was my pacifier. According to you, I should be a huge bundle of anger, ready to unleash onto anyone who annoys me. Best part? I make excellent grades. Oh and it’s not the video game. It’s because you can’t raise them properly, telling them what’s right and what’s wrong, not teaching them responsibility. You, MAVAV or whatever it is. You guys are FAILURES as mothers.

By: mikie

mikie — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:32:04 +0000

http://a.parsons.edu/~dyoo/2002-3/interactivity/mavav/ there you go, dipshits.

By: mikie

mikie — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:23:58 +0000

that site is a joke. saw it over at halo.bungie.org a while ago. some guy crocked it up for a web class.

hahahah.

By: Pimp master J

Pimp master J — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:26:34 +0000

Dont let jerry win

By: Strife_Clou0

Strife_Clou0 — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:48:26 +0000

SCREW THAT VIDEO GAME ADDICTION IS GOOD AND SO IS THE VIOLENCE. LAST YEAR OVER 30 THOUSAND TEENS ADMITTED THAT THEY GOT A VIOLENT GAME LIKE GRAND THEFT AUTO AND STOPPED THEMSELFS FROM HURTING THE PEOPLE BULLYING THEM BY RELEASING THEIR ANGER ON UNSUSPECTING PIMPS!

By: bobby

bobby — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:22:36 +0000

you suck moms shut the fuck up

By: Elvis

Elvis — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:21:33 +0000

Lolz sif/.
Games dont kill people.
Rappers do.

Sonic the hedghog promotes wrong thinking about what hedghogs actually do.they cannot catch and collect rings for you, i found out the hard way.

But otherwise games are good.
Mothers should leave me alone and go back to the kitchen.

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:27:55 +0000

one coment:
Violent video games don’t kill people
Bad parenting does
so focus on not beating ure kids and leave us gamers alone (I’m uber pissed cause I got carded for the 3rd time in 2 months)

By: Matt H.

Matt H. — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:24:39 +0000

Total agreement with the Ramdom Contributor

By: Random Contributor

Random Contributor — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:48 +0000

Ha… ha ha… ha ha ha…
STFU!

By: Heathcote

Heathcote — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:34:35 +0000

You are all sick sick people, and too belive that mine and the girls sit ewas a fake.

Bloody cult gamers

my son had lost to you

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:22:25 +0000

Sorry Brett, I saw that earlier but forgot to edit it. I must have gotten distracted by the irresistible urge to go out and kill people!

By: brett

brett — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:27:53 +0000

I’d have forgiven the apostrophe in this entry’s title if you were simply copying their mistake, but on their site they use the correct punctuation. That’s right – I’m from ‘Videogamers Against Improper Punctuation And Grammar’ (VAIPAG).

By: uninvited

uninvited — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:27:43 +0000

Did a quick lookup.. it were them! I remember too many useless facts :/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-12-30

By: uninvited

uninvited — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:23:14 +0000

Heh yeh, very much last year. But a lot of people believed it too back then. Think it were the people on the Penny-Arcade forums who found out (could be totaly wrong about this tho).

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:24:26 +0000

If I had a “Welcome to last year” picture, I’d post it here. ;)

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:42:18 +0000

Yeah I had a feeling it was fake. Especially since all the articles are down for “editing” they probably just didn’t want to write that much content! :)

By: Brian Behrend

Brian Behrend — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:38:49 +0000

I used to be an IGN Insider and on the fourms there was quite an uproar over this site a long while ago. A couple days later it was “learned” that it was actually a couple of gamers behind MAVAV. They were just mocking the Lieberman’s of the world.

Someone will have to do a little more research, but I swear that was the case.

By: Aaron Ross Powell

Aaron Ross Powell — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:37:22 +0000

Just to be fair to the mothers, the statement about hardcore gamers doesn't need to be backed up with research for one very simple reason: they never explicitly advance a definition of "hardcore." However, such a definition is, in fact, given in the very statement you quote. Granted it ends up as a tautology, but try reading the statement as follows:

Hardcore gaming [is defined as gaming that] not only leads to video game addiction and abrupt lifestyle changes, but to crime and felony as well. Hardcore gamers [are defined as gamers who] never buy computer video games.

Seen that way, there is no need to back up what they are saying with studies or evidence primarily because there are bound to be at least some people who meet the criteria. The mothers have merely created phrases that mean what they want them to mean and then used those general sounding phrases in misleading ways. Not that this makes them any less silly...