Topic: Behold! Maturity!

[Artimus]

Hahaha. I love how anatomy is scandalous. If you don't want your kid (I assume daughter) to know what it is, just say "it's a boy part." That's like the woman who protested "The Vagina Monologues" being put on a theatre's marquee because she didn't feel her grand daughter should be exposed to that word. So they changed it to "The Hoohaa Monologues" and she felt that was fine. Because explaining hoohaa is so much better than explaining vagina. LOL People are funny.

[KDR_11k]

I recall in Fight Club there was a scene that originally had the phrase "I want to have your abortion" (or something like that). The fundies complained that they shouldn't talk about abortion in a movie like that so the line got changed to "I wasn't f###ed like this since fourth grade".

[couchmonkey]

That's so much better.

I pretty much agree with the comments here that video games cannot be absolved of responsibility for making people think or act violently.  Of course to claim a video game is the main influence that causes a young person to do something violent is ridiculous, but it's equally wrong to claim that people can play hours of violent games with absolutely no effect on their mental or emotional state.  Heck, any video game will have an effect on your brain, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has visions of falling blocks after playing a lot of Tetris, or cursed a blue streak after getting my butt beaten in Battletoads or Rogue Leader.

[KDR_11k]

An important question is whether it's a long-term effect with actual harmful results or maybe just a short-term effect or harmless. Sure it occupies your mind but so do other media. There's no reason to single out games unless we can show that games are actually harmful and more so than other media. Most videogame censorship is caused by old people thinking the current youth is worse than they were and thinking anything they didn't have back then is the reason for this change (in reality today's youth isn't any worse than it has been since ancient Roman times, these old people just tend to forget that they were total a-holes, too).