Comments on: “GTA made me do it!” http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Asbed http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26595 Asbed Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:49:57 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26595 Sounds like a publicity stunt from rival companies. believe it or not these companies would do anything to dirt each others names.......... I wonder who paid the bail :) Sounds like a publicity stunt from rival companies. believe it or not these companies would do anything to dirt each others names………. I wonder who paid the bail :)

]]> By: Rhesus Minus http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26592 Rhesus Minus Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:00:58 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26592 too bad tyrone sucked at GTA. you need to drive your car to a car-paint to lose the cops , or if your wanted level is low enough, hide somewhere out of sight. cops spawn all around you continually so running is not a good option. too bad tyrone sucked at GTA. you need to drive your car to a car-paint to lose the cops , or if your wanted level is low enough, hide somewhere out of sight. cops spawn all around you continually so running is not a good option.

]]> By: cliche http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26591 cliche Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:26:20 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26591 Actually, I think the games *are* getting pretty close to being too realistic to distinguish from reality. It's not a stupid concept. On a growing mind of a child playing 3 hours of videogames and thinking about that game in sleep (yes, we all did that at one point), it could have a subliminal impact--and the impact is getting more severe as games get more realistic. Doom 3 on a 60" plasma is more realistic than the original wolfenstein on a 14" CGA monitor. In the (near) future, we may have games with perfectly realistic holograms to kill (star trek style). We all know that slapping an age restriction or parental control don't work... I don't know the solution so it's getting a bit scary imagining kids playing something like that. Actually, I think the games *are* getting pretty close to being too realistic to distinguish from reality. It’s not a stupid concept. On a growing mind of a child playing 3 hours of videogames and thinking about that game in sleep (yes, we all did that at one point), it could have a subliminal impact–and the impact is getting more severe as games get more realistic. Doom 3 on a 60″ plasma is more realistic than the original wolfenstein on a 14″ CGA monitor. In the (near) future, we may have games with perfectly realistic holograms to kill (star trek style). We all know that slapping an age restriction or parental control don’t work… I don’t know the solution so it’s getting a bit scary imagining kids playing something like that.

]]> By: Ryan Parman http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26590 Ryan Parman Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:51:53 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26590 Love the Calvin and Hobbes reference. :) Even at that, if the person doesn't know the difference between real life and a video game, the person belongs in jail. Saying that "Games of late have become too realistic that some people just couldn't distinguish between what is real and not" is one of the lamest things I've heard in a while. Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own actions? This guy is an idiot. Love the Calvin and Hobbes reference. :)

Even at that, if the person doesn’t know the difference between real life and a video game, the person belongs in jail.

Saying that “Games of late have become too realistic that some people just couldn’t distinguish between what is real and not” is one of the lamest things I’ve heard in a while. Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own actions?

This guy is an idiot.

]]> By: ProfeXorGeek http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26589 ProfeXorGeek Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:58:00 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26589 I'd like to shoot the idiots who think this stuff affects me :P I’d like to shoot the idiots who think this stuff affects me

:P

]]> By: Wali http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26587 Wali Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:55:02 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26587 Yeah, the game wasn't the reason he did it. It was the reason he thought he could get away with it. Which is the very hilarious part of this story, the idiot didn't blame the game for making him do it, he blamed it for making him think he could do it. So now perhaps as long as you were inspired to do your crime because it looked so easy in game (or perhaps on tv), you would then act out the crime and perhaps get away with it? Much doubt. Yeah, the game wasn’t the reason he did it. It was the reason he thought he could get away with it. Which is the very hilarious part of this story, the idiot didn’t blame the game for making him do it, he blamed it for making him think he could do it.

So now perhaps as long as you were inspired to do your crime because it looked so easy in game (or perhaps on tv), you would then act out the crime and perhaps get away with it? Much doubt.

]]> By: ScottyWH http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26586 ScottyWH Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:55:37 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26586 people of late have become too stupid as they can't make the distinction between games and reality people of late have become too stupid as they can’t make the distinction between games and reality

]]> By: Glenn http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26585 Glenn Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:01:24 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26585 GTA did not make him do it...it just made him think he could get away with it GTA did not make him do it…it just made him think he could get away with it

]]> By: Jedeye http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26584 Jedeye Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:58:15 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26584 Sounds like an excuse to me. Sounds like an excuse to me.

]]> By: Matt http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/gta_made_me_do_it/comment-page-1/#comment-26583 Matt Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:32:10 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2899#comment-26583 tricky distinction - video game / life. what a chimp. tricky distinction – video game / life. what a chimp.

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