In most of the world the end has already come, it's just holstered by govts and agencies. the end won't be fun like a game, it will be much different.
This documentary is actually really good, and not nearly as biased as this ad made it out to be, the final conclusion of the movie is basically, there's always be violence and there always will be, and attacking the industry as a whole for violent games is foolish. Parents make intelligent decisions!
I am an adult who has been playing PC computer 'FPS' games since 1994. It's entertainment, a distraction, an escape, and it's fun.
HOWEVER, I would not want my children exposed to violent video games. It is simply not a good idea to expose children to the notion that one is rewarded for killing, and that it is an eventual way of settling differences.
ahahahaha the stupidity of this moral kombat documentary cracks me up.they clearly have no idea about vgames or maybe they r some of the most stupid persons ever...or maybe this is some sort of parody
Dude, they use the same arguments that were used against metal back in the day...Videogames and Metal dont make people kill people, its people who arent mentally balanced who go and kill people for no reason. The only violent urges I get is when someone is in my face and pushing my limits. and Jacky boy there? He has been disbarred, which means he cant be a lawyer pretty much any more, and this was done due to him lying and with full knowledge, presenting false evidence.
I love how obvious i is that all the GTA4 contoversy people never played that game because it is RARE that someone is killed in that game, as the ambulence revives them. Only in the storyline is there killing
cont. researched the matter document that the terrorists had hands on flight training...
-I have not seen this 1st person game you speak of that rewards for killing cops... maybe cause there isnt one
-I don't even know what to say about 1:47 to 1:57, except *gag*
-the only time that a sane and competent person should not be able to distinquish between video games and reality is in the case of substance abuse, sleep deprivation or we finally made games that hotwire straight to our brain.
there is too much wrong with this to list all at once.
-violence is still recognized as a vice by approximately the same ratio of the population as it always has and is not changing.
-Half of america plays video games? Did you pull that statistic out of your ass?
-"you are what you pretend to be" nuff said
-the terrorists did not go from flight simulator to flying into a skyscraper idiot. it is not even recorded anywhere as a fact the exact manner they were trained, but those who--continued-->
I'm personally happy for this film. Artistic freedom is also artistic responsibility; many game creators seem to have forgotten that.
It does seem a bit alarmist, though. The statement at 0:23 is an outright lie or supremely ignorant. Ever read the Iliad?
Video games do play a role in how kids think. They are products of - and an influence on - the imagination. That's how I've seen them since I was 7 years old.
@nestletreb That's because it's JAck Thompson talking, which is the same reason one would probably be better off ignoring this documentary. Google Jack Thompson and pretty much read anything he's said or done and you'll get a good idea about the kinds of opinions being showcased here. If this were a fairly handled doc about game violenceI'd be all for it, but based on WHO is being used to promote the flick, it's pretty clear it's intended to be a hatchet job against the gaming industry.
I didn't realize that was Thompson talking - thanks for pointing that out. Loved Rockstar's parody of that moron in GTA 4; a brilliant moment of social satire.
*Sigh* Why can't you Americans just take video games for granted like us Asians.....
It makes things a lot more understandable. I don't see the kids here shooting people in campuses.........It's not about the violent video games it's about how kids perceive reality and must be taught to tell which is real from not.
@Banzaislacker Asian guy sawed off a dude's head on a Bus a few years ago so.... yeah. Not sure it's a cultural thing so much as it's about ambulance chasers trying to cash in on ignorance and panic.
i think that videogames are ok, a normal kid capable of playing vg should be capable of enjoing his skills and not the "pleasure of murder", i will always oppose to a vg that focuses on violence more than on play, i fear the tamagotchi more than gta also, another wrong thing is a vg aimed for "underage" kids even if it's about teletubbies (btw i hate teletubbies)
@CosmicDestroyer99 really and jack thompson claims to be a school shootings expert when hes blaming video games stupid cuz video games did not cause them they cause them self's when i looked up the report it said that they were bullyed and wanted revenge i've seen that in almost every school shooting but no thompson says it as nothing to with bullying
Kurt Vonnegut is spinning in his grave for that misinterpretation of his quote. Especially considering one of his last interviews was via Second Life of all things.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." is about self-delusion, not playing in a ficticious world. It's the exact same logical fallacy Anselm used to prove God's existence. And that was debunked more than 800 years ago. Read a book. There is a difference between fiction and reality.
People are killers and fucked up because they CHOOSE to be.. NOT because they are made to be! Argg! i play these games all the fricking time and i dont wona go and actually Take someones life... It's probably because those old men dont know how to get past a certain level of game ¬.¬.. GET A GUIDE!
So what games were the Nazis playing? I mean, a lot of those soldiers were young men. So what games did they play that impelled them to commit murder on the scale of millions?
I'm just saying. I never knew Hitler was a game designer.
Charlemagne. Beheaded 4,500 people in a morning. Why did he kill them? Trying to convert them to Catholicism. Better censor religion, too. It might make you kill someone.
I'm pretty sure the folks who pulled off 9/11 didn't get the idea from MS Flight Simulator. They had a cause.
Kids playing GTA aren't playing it because they want to learn how kill cops, they're playing because it allows them to do things that they would never even consider doing in real life.
First of all, it's the parents fault for letting their nine year old child play a first person shooter. And second of all, not everyone who plays a first person shooter learns how to use a gun, which is what the video was implying.
I'm a single mother and my son only plays video games and he hits me when I tell to stop and this makes me very sad and worried about him and other kids in the same situation, our children are the future BAN video games!
@Aspiret620 Ur son hits you because of the way you raised him, not because of what he does in video games. I've played video games since I could pick up a controller and my all time favorite is Diablo+Diablo 2. Have I ever hit one of my parents? no. Teach you son hitting is wrong. Don't put the blame on something else.
Funny part about it, they include footage of a game about World War 2. We better censor American fucking history, too, 'cause God knows how violent THAT was!
If they just had a clip of 9/11 tossed in there somewhere, I just bet it-- oh, look, there it is.
Every medium of communication or even new style of story telling goes through its phase of haggard censorship that is often lead by people who are furtherst removed and understand the least about the medium, all claiming it will destroy society. Most of these people usually have a stake in their fight too. Here is a short list of these "society destroyers": -Mass literacy -Secular thought -Radio -Moving pictures -Television -Comic Books -Sci-Fi Books -Rock and roll -Rap -Video Games -Internet
@Divertentevids The lies(not lies, actually, but implications and ignorance) in the video or that it's a parent's responsibility to take care of their children and monitor what they're exposed to? There is the ESRB. If my 10 year old wants me to get him a game with "M" on it, guess who's not getting that game?
And the statement "rewards kids for killing cops" is an obvious nod at GTA, which doesn't do that. You're punished for killing cops. It causes more to come who then open fire.
'what happens when a 9 year old plays a first person shooter that rewards you for killing cops'
so its the games fault that american parents are retarded?
'we are what we pretend to be'
i've been playing games for 20 years AND I AM NOT A PLUMBER OR A BLUE HEDGEHOG, nor am i a bounty hunter, a jedi, a vambire, a werewolf, a knight, a soldier, a car racer, a bandicoot, and the list goes on.
people who think videogames will have negative effect on children are ignorant and likely havent played much
So, terrorists got the idea to use planes as weapons to attack people. They took this idea and fleshed it out by using video game simulations to pull their plan together and practice it. They already had the terroist idea in their head BEFORE they started doing the simulations. They simply used video games as a tool in their own plans. I don't see how this means that a child with no violent-intent would play a video game and be swayed into commiting violent acts.
Not everyone in this world is sane and takes video gaming with a grain of salt and for the fun it (is supposed to) give(s).
Yet we are all pointed with nothing to defend ourselves. I kill aliens, americans, etc on a daily basis yet I never had the urge to go outside and do it "with better graphics"
This video just proves how an handful persons with notable social standing and minimum knowledge of gaming can totally mislead the older generations because they don't understand why games do exist.
LOL, just use the most violent, bloody edgy videogames you can find, talk shit about them that EVERYONE already knows, say games caused 9/11, and call it a day :)
So...playing videogames is gonna help me commit the worse terrorist attack in American history? BULLSHIT. And last i checked the hijackers also received training from flight schools...get your facts straight retards that made this video
The violent game clips they chose are an accurate representation of mature rated games, but they're presented without context. Is the guy with the "Hate" ski mask the protagonist or a goon?
If I am what I pretend to be, I should have been lord of the Thundercats at age 5, negating the need for college and an 8-5 job.
Im so tired of these people saying every single killing is because of the media or video games. You know why people shoot up schools and people because of there lives there lives are scum and ether have prob with there family or other people oh they play violent games so what its not like oh look at me im killing aliens i feel like shooting up a school today NO people need to stop being idiot and see the big picture
wow more video games bullshit ive been playing these types of games since 2 or 3 and do i kill people do i beat up someone for no reason no these people are as random dce puts it morons!!!!!
it all honestly depends on how your parents raise u. ive played violent video games all my life. i remember playing mortal kombat since i was 9. look at me now, my grades r great,i have an amazing job, i go 2 ucla, and ive definitely never thought about killing someone LOL.
I don't understand why the media always presents video games as forcing you to play as the bad guys. Most games are just like Hollywood movies good vs bad- and the player takes the role of good guy. But, they always show out of context clips of nazis and terrorists to give the impression that video games put the player in the bad guy role. Without even entering into the argument of whether games change peoples behavior in any way, it's clear that in most games you play as a good guy.
I think it's called a "moral scapegoat", a reasoning for why bad parents cannot control or guide and recognize their children's malevolent, anti, or simply violent behavior. Because really, let's say we lived in an ultra-religous period (Amish) and electronic media such as video games WEREN'T allowed, that's not even many centuries back. Why would children behave negatively? They were POSSESSED, so they had to be "saved". Now, it's video games, it's a modern double standard for negativity.
What the hell, at 1:20 it says that the 9/11 hijackers never touched an airplane before the attack? They were in flight school! At least check wikipedia before your interview.
When your 9 year old kid is mistaking the game for reality, you don't blame the kid, you don't blame the game, you blame the school and the parents for not teaching the kid the difference between reality and fantasy.
You know, they won't learn anything about firing actual guns from a Shooter, unless its a sim like ARMA.
And with the fact that most kids play Halo and Call of Duty, and not ARMA, and that if they do play ARMA, that ARMA would not be the same as actually firing a gun themselves anyway.
"What do you think happens 9 a nine year old boy sits down and play first person shooters?" Well I think that his parents are failing because its pretty sure that the game is rated M, and yet they don't care that he is playing. Also I think that in the event that he goes and tries to kill people he will fail, because fps doesn't teach you how a gun is handled in real life.
video games have nothing to do with people being violent.
If a child doesn't have someone to guide them of course they're more likely to end up bad, even if they never played video games their entire life.
I personally played violent hack n slash and fps games as a kid yet i never had guts to kill that bastard who beat me up in 1st grade. wonder why? obviously because i know such thing is wrong.
this piece of shit is just plain, vain propaganda.
what is funny is that most of the child suicides are due to parents taking away a child's video games. what i am wondering however is how many suicides we will have on our hands when they ban all violent video games. now i do not agree with children commiting suicide over games but seriously, this is like a mass genocide hahaha. by the way you just lost the game
fucking stupid documentary just trying to make money at the expense of our rights. Fuck those who think video game violence leads to real life violence, humans are naturally violent. god damn this makes me so angry.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" is the moral of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. In the book, he means that what we pretend to be in front of people--in this case, a Nazi Propagandist--is how they view us. It doesn't matter what you're really like if you present yourself as a bigoted dick or a bluetooth wearing douche.
@ZergRushJohnny ...This does NOT mean that playing a game with a murderous protagonist makes you a murderer. This guy apparently thinks "You are what you eat" is literal, and the You Tube commenters shouldn't try taking morals so literally, lest they wish to look like they had trouble understanding Aesop.
Has anyone else noticed that videogame opponents tend to be completely batshit insane? First we have Jacko here, who talks about videogames the way Ann Coulter talks about liberals. Then we have Linda Sanders (Columbine widow) who tried to sue the game industry for an obscene amount of money (how DARE they exercise their 1st Amendment rights!) and says completely outrageous things like "videogames turn kids into MONSTER KILLERS!!!" Hating games makes you a psycho, not playing them.
This video was already hysterical when I watched it the first time (almost four years ago?!), but Youtube Audio Transcriber has rekindled that sense of hilarity by being marvelously BAD at what it is supposed to do.
I love you, Audio Transcriber. Please never leave Beta.
If you're fucking retarded enough to think that you're in real life when you play, say, Saints Row, or some other famously violent game, despite the fact that you're, you know, holding a controller, than I think you're at that level where you forget to breathe.
I've heard that the film is actually very rational, this trailer's probably just to get attention. However, I find it hilarious that they dropped a clip from Myst IV in here, given what they're discussing.
though I may not be a christian (like him) ,as I'm not an american I don't know exactly what he did but if he wanted less violent video games.What's wrong with it? Games don't have to be violent to be fun.
Games have rating systems, like movies. They tell if their is violence, sexual content, or otherwise, which for mature and intellecutal audiance can help enhance the storytelling experience. It is now up to parents to take the initiative to read thise warning and determine if their kid is mentally ready for the content it presents, just like books or movies.
Stop shifting the blame to the gaming industry, im pretty sure they dont want killer kids either.
I would expect nothing less of a country that still thinks FOX is a credible news source.
Still though, time has proven that all of the 'concerns' of this video were utter bull. People thw world over (not sure about jesusland, any yanks want to fill in?) who use video games as a motive or corruptive influence are smacked in the face and told to get back to law school.
@xxslayer66xx Actually violent video games makes a the section of your brain that controls violent behavior less active so people will tend to be more violent in the future. Though becoming murderers and very aggressive from video games is BS. That usually depends on how people are raised.
at 0:15 the old dude brings up a interresting point: the bible, the most read "bestseller" :) has more murder, death, rape, betrayal and jezus in it than most of the games and it's legal!
Hmm where this medium is in 4 years? The teaser is from 2006 man we ar getting closer and I dont see people running around with guns more often. Maybe you were wrong?? (for those who dont know that was sarcasm ; )!
15 seconds in you have Jack Thompson uttering a lie. Violence has been a virtue throughout human history...as long as it's in service of one's god, king or country. That the filmmakers are willing to use inflammatory remarks from a disgraced ambulance chaser shows that they are either cynical jerks or ignorant fools. Youth violence has has trended steadily DOWNWARDS as video games have become more pervasive and more graphically intense. I.e. violent video games REDUCE real world violence.
I don't mean the last sentence literally, but it's a heckuva lot more valid than the reverse claim. The correlation between more violence in games and less violence in the real world is irrefutable, but that is not sufficient evidence to claim a causal link.
Hm... so, I'm an Italian plumber, A green-clad elf, an anthropomorphic animal, a galactic Bounty Hunter, a smart-mouthed badass, a musclebound twat, a woman, and a legend of rock among other things...
Film Makers are just angry that games are a threat to movies. They said rock music was bad, they even said movies were bad, dont filmmakers remember that? Everyone just wants something to pick on. If my son's playing Call of Duty, I know he's not getting in to trouble
*sigh* I went into this with an open mind, hoping that it would be a balanced opinion, But when you show Columbine High Massacre next to Halo, your obviously being biased.
AKA: WTF does columbine have to do with video games?!
Therfore video games must be their sole motive for shooting up a school.
Fuck these guys, i doubt half of them have ever even played a video game. They make it sound like the amount of video game related crimes are off the charts, when in reality we only hear about them once and a while.
In most of the world the end has already come, it's just holstered by govts and agencies. the end won't be fun like a game, it will be much different.
rhombusskullvsteal 1 month ago
This is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
Griies 1 month ago
This documentary is actually really good, and not nearly as biased as this ad made it out to be, the final conclusion of the movie is basically, there's always be violence and there always will be, and attacking the industry as a whole for violent games is foolish. Parents make intelligent decisions!
cclay899 2 months ago
Scorpion disliked this.
CharmieKid 3 months ago
I'm 12 and what is this?
TheStargateGeek 3 months ago
I am an adult who has been playing PC computer 'FPS' games since 1994. It's entertainment, a distraction, an escape, and it's fun.
HOWEVER, I would not want my children exposed to violent video games. It is simply not a good idea to expose children to the notion that one is rewarded for killing, and that it is an eventual way of settling differences.
rired48 4 months ago
ahahahaha the stupidity of this moral kombat documentary cracks me up.they clearly have no idea about vgames or maybe they r some of the most stupid persons ever...or maybe this is some sort of parody
itachiitachi1946 5 months ago
Seeing this video makes me want to play these games even more.
stupidmofo408 5 months ago
i read a review of this but this is shit there is no balance just unrepresentated statements
mattsayshalo 5 months ago
Dude, they use the same arguments that were used against metal back in the day...Videogames and Metal dont make people kill people, its people who arent mentally balanced who go and kill people for no reason. The only violent urges I get is when someone is in my face and pushing my limits. and Jacky boy there? He has been disbarred, which means he cant be a lawyer pretty much any more, and this was done due to him lying and with full knowledge, presenting false evidence.
MorbidDeathSaint1 5 months ago
Why would they be showing scenes from oddworld? That game isnt even violent and it has a great message to it!
BreakOutOfYourTrance 6 months ago
@BreakOutOfYourTrance
i love oddworld .... but think back and play it again lol
ypu could die 1 million different ways and it was dark as hell
mattsayshalo 5 months ago
@BreakOutOfYourTrance they had a guy playing soccer on the poster with the exagerated kid.
Brickman274 3 months ago
Responsibility of the parents to teach their kids the difference from reality and game.
'nuff said
thegeneralpie 6 months ago
umm where the fuck is scorpion and sub-z.. oh oh moral kombat i see i see dislike !
darthvenom30567 6 months ago
I love how obvious i is that all the GTA4 contoversy people never played that game because it is RARE that someone is killed in that game, as the ambulence revives them. Only in the storyline is there killing
Laughtraxx 6 months ago
cont. researched the matter document that the terrorists had hands on flight training...
-I have not seen this 1st person game you speak of that rewards for killing cops... maybe cause there isnt one
-I don't even know what to say about 1:47 to 1:57, except *gag*
-the only time that a sane and competent person should not be able to distinquish between video games and reality is in the case of substance abuse, sleep deprivation or we finally made games that hotwire straight to our brain.
isettledforapint 7 months ago
there is too much wrong with this to list all at once.
-violence is still recognized as a vice by approximately the same ratio of the population as it always has and is not changing.
-Half of america plays video games? Did you pull that statistic out of your ass?
-"you are what you pretend to be" nuff said
-the terrorists did not go from flight simulator to flying into a skyscraper idiot. it is not even recorded anywhere as a fact the exact manner they were trained, but those who--continued-->
isettledforapint 7 months ago
265,789 people clicked on this video thinking it was something about Mortal Kombat. lol
shade1978x 9 months ago
@Legonoob3214 Comments like that really don't help our side in this thing... lmao
BoomtaxRISEtrons 9 months ago
what is this propaganda?
BisonFTW 9 months ago
2:24 He can't fathom what the medium is in 4 years from 4 years ago? I can.
PaintedLadder 10 months ago
I'm personally happy for this film. Artistic freedom is also artistic responsibility; many game creators seem to have forgotten that.
It does seem a bit alarmist, though. The statement at 0:23 is an outright lie or supremely ignorant. Ever read the Iliad?
Video games do play a role in how kids think. They are products of - and an influence on - the imagination. That's how I've seen them since I was 7 years old.
nestletreb 10 months ago
@nestletreb That's because it's JAck Thompson talking, which is the same reason one would probably be better off ignoring this documentary. Google Jack Thompson and pretty much read anything he's said or done and you'll get a good idea about the kinds of opinions being showcased here. If this were a fairly handled doc about game violenceI'd be all for it, but based on WHO is being used to promote the flick, it's pretty clear it's intended to be a hatchet job against the gaming industry.
BoomtaxRISEtrons 9 months ago
@BoomtaxRISEtrons
I didn't realize that was Thompson talking - thanks for pointing that out. Loved Rockstar's parody of that moron in GTA 4; a brilliant moment of social satire.
(PS - new Mortal Kombat out today!!)
nestletreb 9 months ago
My expression throughout the whole video:
ಠ_ಠ
superduperluigi676 10 months ago 23
"you are what you pretend to be."
That has to be the shortest sentence ever spoken that contradicts itself. ever.
kevinrecor 10 months ago 9
*Sigh* Why can't you Americans just take video games for granted like us Asians.....
It makes things a lot more understandable. I don't see the kids here shooting people in campuses.........It's not about the violent video games it's about how kids perceive reality and must be taught to tell which is real from not.
Banzaislacker 10 months ago
@Banzaislacker Asian guy sawed off a dude's head on a Bus a few years ago so.... yeah. Not sure it's a cultural thing so much as it's about ambulance chasers trying to cash in on ignorance and panic.
BoomtaxRISEtrons 9 months ago
1:30 Seeing that they don't know the difference between an FPS and a Third-Person Shooter really says something.
RupeeLord 10 months ago
@RupeeLord Lol Exactly what I was thinking. ^^ Well they said this movie wasn't for gamers anyway, it was supposed to be for Non-gamers. :P
But I can see the problem non-gamers don't understand about violent games these days. :P
Banzaislacker 10 months ago
i think that videogames are ok, a normal kid capable of playing vg should be capable of enjoing his skills and not the "pleasure of murder", i will always oppose to a vg that focuses on violence more than on play, i fear the tamagotchi more than gta also, another wrong thing is a vg aimed for "underage" kids even if it's about teletubbies (btw i hate teletubbies)
Terminchiator 11 months ago
wow. im autistic and play video games but i dont go on rampages (well, i do in gta).
explain that Thompson
dannylamb456 11 months ago
video games have nothing to do with how kids think it's the parents fucking fault for not taking a part in their lives.
LetChickenzLive 1 year ago
Yeah, I bet it'll be awesome in forty years
papercamm 1 year ago 2
lame.
slayyer000 1 year ago
OH MY GOD, VIDEO GAMES CAUSED 911? WE MUST BAN ALL VIDEO GAMES!
Divertentevids 1 year ago
I love how they blame Doom for Columbine *face palm*
CosmicDestroyer99 1 year ago
@CosmicDestroyer99 really and jack thompson claims to be a school shootings expert when hes blaming video games stupid cuz video games did not cause them they cause them self's when i looked up the report it said that they were bullyed and wanted revenge i've seen that in almost every school shooting but no thompson says it as nothing to with bullying
optimusN64 1 month ago
Kurt Vonnegut is spinning in his grave for that misinterpretation of his quote. Especially considering one of his last interviews was via Second Life of all things.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." is about self-delusion, not playing in a ficticious world. It's the exact same logical fallacy Anselm used to prove God's existence. And that was debunked more than 800 years ago. Read a book. There is a difference between fiction and reality.
Solario392 1 year ago
wait? video games caused 9/11? what?
SuperSamio64 1 year ago
wow, classy enough to bring 9/11 into it...
Frub8 1 year ago
"what do you think happens when an nine year old boy sits down and plays a fps shooter videogame that awards him for killing cops?"
Nothing fucking happens if their parents check the ESRB rating before buying the damn game!
ice7250 1 year ago 2
Some fringe muslims think that any music that does not praise the lord is evil because it corrupts the kids...
This movie is just filled with the same crazy people... It's always something new...
Books were evil, burn them!
Music is bad, silence it!
Video-movies create violence, ban them!
...doesn't ANYONE see how retarded these guys look making claim after claim, with no credible science what... so... ever.
ydyammo 1 year ago
308 people are the old people in that video.
marcster1994 1 year ago
People are killers and fucked up because they CHOOSE to be.. NOT because they are made to be! Argg! i play these games all the fricking time and i dont wona go and actually Take someones life... It's probably because those old men dont know how to get past a certain level of game ¬.¬.. GET A GUIDE!
MolyMcG 1 year ago
watched the full thing on hulu it's actually balanced very well
nicold89 1 year ago
Is that a clip from oddworld?
misterGmanrulez 1 year ago
So what games were the Nazis playing? I mean, a lot of those soldiers were young men. So what games did they play that impelled them to commit murder on the scale of millions?
I'm just saying. I never knew Hitler was a game designer.
PaulThePretentious 1 year ago
@PaulThePretentious
he designed wolfenstein xD
0132stabby 1 year ago
@PaulThePretentious lol they probaly play cod roflmao
darthvenom30567 1 year ago
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DJdJital 1 year ago
HURR DURR 11TH SEPTEMBER HAPPENED BECAUSE OF VIDEOGAMES, NOT BAD AIRPORT SECURITY
Mojito133 1 year ago
lol
lostenmusic 1 year ago
the ancient greeks told stories about heroes who went around raping, pillaging and murdering each other for the slightest reasons
there was a very limited amount of killing outside of war in this era
darthmongoose2 1 year ago
the clip of Abe being zapped cracked me up
notEisiger 1 year ago
Wow, this is all kinds of stupid.
TokyoSeventeen 1 year ago
These people are retarded as fuck.
MasterGir 1 year ago
OMG! I AM WHAT I PLAY? Can I be Ryu? i wanna shoot firballs!
khaosxxx 1 year ago
@khaosxxx yea tottaly agree with u on what that guy said hey i wanna be scorpion and rip my enemies heads off ps those people in the video are morons
darthvenom30567 1 year ago
Charlemagne. Beheaded 4,500 people in a morning. Why did he kill them? Trying to convert them to Catholicism. Better censor religion, too. It might make you kill someone.
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deusopisxyz 1 year ago 2
I'm pretty sure the folks who pulled off 9/11 didn't get the idea from MS Flight Simulator. They had a cause.
Kids playing GTA aren't playing it because they want to learn how kill cops, they're playing because it allows them to do things that they would never even consider doing in real life.
Also, GTA is anything but a simulator
IncompetentManChild 1 year ago 2
First of all, it's the parents fault for letting their nine year old child play a first person shooter. And second of all, not everyone who plays a first person shooter learns how to use a gun, which is what the video was implying.
restorecop99 1 year ago
>Freedom of Choice
>Social Responsibility
>BAN ALL VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES
hurp durp de derp
thatguy1337ftw 1 year ago
I'm a single mother and my son only plays video games and he hits me when I tell to stop and this makes me very sad and worried about him and other kids in the same situation, our children are the future BAN video games!
Aspiret620 1 year ago
@Aspiret620 lol troll xD
skolvold 1 year ago
@Aspiret620 I'll kill you!
MOUPIMOUPI 1 year ago
@Aspiret620 Ur son hits you because of the way you raised him, not because of what he does in video games. I've played video games since I could pick up a controller and my all time favorite is Diablo+Diablo 2. Have I ever hit one of my parents? no. Teach you son hitting is wrong. Don't put the blame on something else.
reegaan 1 year ago
@Aspiret620
Did you teach him about run-on sentences? Breathe, honey. Breathe.
nestletreb 10 months ago
I play STALKER
Now i am an ukranian Scavenger, Trespasser, Adventurer, Loner, Killer, Explorer and Robber
Makes sense right?
simonalamona345 1 year ago
@simonalamona345 isnt he russian?
skolvold 1 year ago
Fucking hell america...
Razgrizzle27 1 year ago
Funny part about it, they include footage of a game about World War 2. We better censor American fucking history, too, 'cause God knows how violent THAT was!
If they just had a clip of 9/11 tossed in there somewhere, I just bet it-- oh, look, there it is.
SpadeHand 1 year ago 2
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superkrux 1 year ago
Oh god that title, its brilliant!
johnrskie 1 year ago
PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!!
I thought that was the job of parents. But I guess I'm just responsible with my kids.
lietz13 1 year ago
@lietz13 Do you honestly believe these lies?
Divertentevids 1 year ago
@Divertentevids The lies(not lies, actually, but implications and ignorance) in the video or that it's a parent's responsibility to take care of their children and monitor what they're exposed to? There is the ESRB. If my 10 year old wants me to get him a game with "M" on it, guess who's not getting that game?
And the statement "rewards kids for killing cops" is an obvious nod at GTA, which doesn't do that. You're punished for killing cops. It causes more to come who then open fire.
lietz13 1 year ago
Videogames ruined my life man, this video likes, speeaakkks to meeeee.
Video Games make me like , jump on turtles man and eat all these like strange mushrooms man...And play with like, FIRE!
And then yesterday I like, totally fucked a Peach! Shit was INTENSE man.
Then I chopped up like, a racooon thiiinng in wooore it on my heeaad maaan.
And stapled it's tail to my ass.
Then I like, Jumped off my room to like, fly man.
And then I like, totally died.
True story bro.
Redfield224 1 year ago 39
@Redfield224
That was Deep shit bro :,]
thehumanbirdie 1 year ago
@Redfield224 life is a game and its fun.
TheLovesoul1 9 months ago
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Darkmetal 1 year ago
The Bible has more violence within single passages than every single video game I've ever played.
Sejuhasz 1 year ago 6
@Sejuhasz
1 Samuel 15:3 is pretty good
nestletreb 10 months ago
What an intelligent and thoroughly researched video.
I am off of work in 2 hours, my kids are in for a rude awakening when I confiscate their violent video games!
jomckellan 1 year ago
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@jomckellan Again, do you honestly believe these lies?
Divertentevids 1 year ago
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I play video games every single day, both violent and non-violent.
I also take care of my sickly, handicapped little Brother and Mother.
Clearly, I am a serial killer.
Sejuhasz 1 year ago
'what happens when a 9 year old plays a first person shooter that rewards you for killing cops'
so its the games fault that american parents are retarded?
'we are what we pretend to be'
i've been playing games for 20 years AND I AM NOT A PLUMBER OR A BLUE HEDGEHOG, nor am i a bounty hunter, a jedi, a vambire, a werewolf, a knight, a soldier, a car racer, a bandicoot, and the list goes on.
people who think videogames will have negative effect on children are ignorant and likely havent played much
reyeko 1 year ago 2
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I play video games every single day, both violent and non-violent.
I also take care of my sickly, handicapped little Brother and Mother.
Clearly, I am a serial killer.
Sejuhasz 1 year ago
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Sejuhasz 1 year ago
Vidya did 9/11
KittyMonster13 1 year ago
"A 9 year old playing a FPS" Where the fuck are the parents?
thatonec00lguy 1 year ago
you must be fucking joking
this is the rewards of christianity
Skulletman5300 1 year ago
So, terrorists got the idea to use planes as weapons to attack people. They took this idea and fleshed it out by using video game simulations to pull their plan together and practice it. They already had the terroist idea in their head BEFORE they started doing the simulations. They simply used video games as a tool in their own plans. I don't see how this means that a child with no violent-intent would play a video game and be swayed into commiting violent acts.
voodizzle 1 year ago 2
Not everyone in this world is sane and takes video gaming with a grain of salt and for the fun it (is supposed to) give(s).
Yet we are all pointed with nothing to defend ourselves. I kill aliens, americans, etc on a daily basis yet I never had the urge to go outside and do it "with better graphics"
This video just proves how an handful persons with notable social standing and minimum knowledge of gaming can totally mislead the older generations because they don't understand why games do exist.
Wtfouk 1 year ago 2
Video games did 9/11
OrdoMallius 1 year ago
GUYS I JUST PLAYED DDR FOR 10 MINUTES AND NOW I'M A PROFFESSIONAL DANCER HOLY SHIT IT'S ALL TRUE.
foxmcloud555 1 year ago 4
>implying i wouldn't murder anyone who bans videogames and blame it on the media ;)
ManlytearsUK 1 year ago
True story man I slaughtered my entire family with an electric razor man just because of those gosh darn video games.
HELMETGOD 1 year ago 2
VIDEO GAMES DID 9/11
Dostwyn 1 year ago 2
1:59, Oh snap, I gotta play Abe's Oddysee again.
serarity 1 year ago
because movies and TV don't show that people actually kill without video games.....the army
0132stabby 1 year ago
@0132stabby Nope people only kill because of video games and you damn well know that as a fact man.
HELMETGOD 1 year ago
@HELMETGOD
nazi's killed many people,video games did not exist in the 1940's
0132stabby 1 year ago
LOL, just use the most violent, bloody edgy videogames you can find, talk shit about them that EVERYONE already knows, say games caused 9/11, and call it a day :)
deadRoden7 1 year ago
we are what we pretends to be? What total BS
workingclassbum 1 year ago
its simple you tone down violence in games you have to tone down films TV etc
joshuax298 1 year ago 2
EVERYTHING IS EVIL! DON'T LET YOUR KIDS WATCH TV, GO ON THE INTERNET OR BREATHE!
...m'kay.....
mikebrightman 1 year ago 2
So...playing videogames is gonna help me commit the worse terrorist attack in American history? BULLSHIT. And last i checked the hijackers also received training from flight schools...get your facts straight retards that made this video
LittlePikachu 1 year ago 2
i like the fact that it said freedom of choice and then they are going on bout banning video games
also can someone tell me what the hell is wrong with star wars: KOTOR 2 (2:00)
if you do what u can do in video games in real life, im a boxing champ, a hero of a land, hero of our galaxy and 1 far far away, a jet pilot etc
oh and the flight sim is also used to train pilots, even if they didnt have it im pretty sure they would of found another way
MrAgod92 1 year ago 2
The violent game clips they chose are an accurate representation of mature rated games, but they're presented without context. Is the guy with the "Hate" ski mask the protagonist or a goon?
If I am what I pretend to be, I should have been lord of the Thundercats at age 5, negating the need for college and an 8-5 job.
elvee79 1 year ago
Talk about grandstanding...
someguy3sg3 1 year ago
Another view of gaming ad morality:
youtube.com/watch?v=ExgTtr_mst8
potterama 1 year ago
Im so tired of these people saying every single killing is because of the media or video games. You know why people shoot up schools and people because of there lives there lives are scum and ether have prob with there family or other people oh they play violent games so what its not like oh look at me im killing aliens i feel like shooting up a school today NO people need to stop being idiot and see the big picture
bestgamer2112 1 year ago
wow more video games bullshit ive been playing these types of games since 2 or 3 and do i kill people do i beat up someone for no reason no these people are as random dce puts it morons!!!!!
darthvenom30567 1 year ago
it all honestly depends on how your parents raise u. ive played violent video games all my life. i remember playing mortal kombat since i was 9. look at me now, my grades r great,i have an amazing job, i go 2 ucla, and ive definitely never thought about killing someone LOL.
hnm4321 1 year ago
comense the bashing!
Berzerkerevl 1 year ago
heres my idea:people who assimilate video games to real life only do 2 things:
1:be a IDIOT
2:make money for news channels
ps:sorry about my bad englysh:)
hodoupmer 1 year ago
I don't understand why the media always presents video games as forcing you to play as the bad guys. Most games are just like Hollywood movies good vs bad- and the player takes the role of good guy. But, they always show out of context clips of nazis and terrorists to give the impression that video games put the player in the bad guy role. Without even entering into the argument of whether games change peoples behavior in any way, it's clear that in most games you play as a good guy.
LordGothmog 1 year ago
I think it's called a "moral scapegoat", a reasoning for why bad parents cannot control or guide and recognize their children's malevolent, anti, or simply violent behavior. Because really, let's say we lived in an ultra-religous period (Amish) and electronic media such as video games WEREN'T allowed, that's not even many centuries back. Why would children behave negatively? They were POSSESSED, so they had to be "saved". Now, it's video games, it's a modern double standard for negativity.
Momentum139 1 year ago 2
What the hell, at 1:20 it says that the 9/11 hijackers never touched an airplane before the attack? They were in flight school! At least check wikipedia before your interview.
LordGothmog 1 year ago
Dylan Klebold was a jew.
tallswede80 1 year ago
This whole movie just oozes FAIL. A 9 year old kid playing an FPS? Not even gonna entertain the question.
rocketpunchgo1 1 year ago
Well, 4 years later, and the film industry still makes more than the video game industry.
Fail?
ReiTheSage 1 year ago
When your 9 year old kid is mistaking the game for reality, you don't blame the kid, you don't blame the game, you blame the school and the parents for not teaching the kid the difference between reality and fantasy.
assholes
rob6van1dam9 1 year ago 29
@rob6van1dam9 that is the truth my friend and say it louder cause they aint heard it yet
Blindmanfromheaven 1 year ago
You know, they won't learn anything about firing actual guns from a Shooter, unless its a sim like ARMA.
And with the fact that most kids play Halo and Call of Duty, and not ARMA, and that if they do play ARMA, that ARMA would not be the same as actually firing a gun themselves anyway.
We have nothing to worry about
TheRedBaron6565 1 year ago
"What do you think happens 9 a nine year old boy sits down and play first person shooters?" Well I think that his parents are failing because its pretty sure that the game is rated M, and yet they don't care that he is playing. Also I think that in the event that he goes and tries to kill people he will fail, because fps doesn't teach you how a gun is handled in real life.
Jofe000 1 year ago 3
haha, ridiculous.
video games have nothing to do with people being violent.
If a child doesn't have someone to guide them of course they're more likely to end up bad, even if they never played video games their entire life.
I personally played violent hack n slash and fps games as a kid yet i never had guts to kill that bastard who beat me up in 1st grade. wonder why? obviously because i know such thing is wrong.
this piece of shit is just plain, vain propaganda.
trOOKE666 1 year ago
what is funny is that most of the child suicides are due to parents taking away a child's video games. what i am wondering however is how many suicides we will have on our hands when they ban all violent video games. now i do not agree with children commiting suicide over games but seriously, this is like a mass genocide hahaha. by the way you just lost the game
number1cridic 1 year ago
Why at 2:03 do they say freedom of choice? Isn't this movie against choice? by trying to get rid of the art of video games?
johntheexile 1 year ago
I like how he said FPS but showed GTA. Which isn't one.
VideoGameCast 1 year ago
fucking stupid documentary just trying to make money at the expense of our rights. Fuck those who think video game violence leads to real life violence, humans are naturally violent. god damn this makes me so angry.
terran236 1 year ago
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" is the moral of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. In the book, he means that what we pretend to be in front of people--in this case, a Nazi Propagandist--is how they view us. It doesn't matter what you're really like if you present yourself as a bigoted dick or a bluetooth wearing douche.
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ZergRushJohnny 1 year ago
@ZergRushJohnny ...This does NOT mean that playing a game with a murderous protagonist makes you a murderer. This guy apparently thinks "You are what you eat" is literal, and the You Tube commenters shouldn't try taking morals so literally, lest they wish to look like they had trouble understanding Aesop.
ZergRushJohnny 1 year ago
Has anyone else noticed that videogame opponents tend to be completely batshit insane? First we have Jacko here, who talks about videogames the way Ann Coulter talks about liberals. Then we have Linda Sanders (Columbine widow) who tried to sue the game industry for an obscene amount of money (how DARE they exercise their 1st Amendment rights!) and says completely outrageous things like "videogames turn kids into MONSTER KILLERS!!!" Hating games makes you a psycho, not playing them.
roguetrip99 1 year ago
Was I the only one who could tell exactly which game each clip they showed was from?
Awesome...
frickfrock999 1 year ago
Next they'll be saying Hurricane Katrina happened because God played SimCity
roguetrip99 1 year ago
@roguetrip99 hahahaha EPIC!
robotcornholio92 1 year ago
So video games are to blame for everything from the Crucifixion to 9/11 to Jack Thompson's erectile dysfunction, I see
roguetrip99 1 year ago
This video was already hysterical when I watched it the first time (almost four years ago?!), but Youtube Audio Transcriber has rekindled that sense of hilarity by being marvelously BAD at what it is supposed to do.
I love you, Audio Transcriber. Please never leave Beta.
berzerker16 1 year ago
So realistic? HAHAHAA
If you're fucking retarded enough to think that you're in real life when you play, say, Saints Row, or some other famously violent game, despite the fact that you're, you know, holding a controller, than I think you're at that level where you forget to breathe.
TheCelticNinja 1 year ago
I've heard that the film is actually very rational, this trailer's probably just to get attention. However, I find it hilarious that they dropped a clip from Myst IV in here, given what they're discussing.
Chayreus 1 year ago
this vid made me install hitman again, thank you :)
d3LuXe3825 2 years ago
"rewards him for killing cops."
if the reward is when cops and the army go after you and kill you for what you've done, then i don't want to know what the punishment is.
ghostspider 2 years ago
if anybody see's Jake Thompson,
please cut his balls off....
SuckerGamer 2 years ago
though I may not be a christian (like him) ,as I'm not an american I don't know exactly what he did but if he wanted less violent video games.What's wrong with it? Games don't have to be violent to be fun.
JeromeMatthewLam 1 year ago
god danm it!! old people are taking away our gamez!!
(lol :D )
SuckerGamer 2 years ago
Games have rating systems, like movies. They tell if their is violence, sexual content, or otherwise, which for mature and intellecutal audiance can help enhance the storytelling experience. It is now up to parents to take the initiative to read thise warning and determine if their kid is mentally ready for the content it presents, just like books or movies.
Stop shifting the blame to the gaming industry, im pretty sure they dont want killer kids either.
CrosswiredProduction 2 years ago
I would expect nothing less of a country that still thinks FOX is a credible news source.
Still though, time has proven that all of the 'concerns' of this video were utter bull. People thw world over (not sure about jesusland, any yanks want to fill in?) who use video games as a motive or corruptive influence are smacked in the face and told to get back to law school.
tl;dr- Sensationalist rubbish at it's very best.
Gohansan01 2 years ago
yeah death to america
navarone4031 2 years ago
OMG... i just realised... I'M BATMAAAN!!
*crack* aw shit i just broke my fuckin neck trying to fly an umbrella... thats just peachy... fuckin loosers don't know shit :|
Kgula 2 years ago
I've always wanted to be Superman and fly through rings.
roger62383 2 years ago
So when I play Borderlands I really am a Brick?
What? Are you saying I'm dumb?
Ericj9sd 2 years ago
"we are what we pretend to be"
lol
i pretended to be wolverine as a kid.
d33pthought 2 years ago
I have a violent message myself :
DEATH TO AMERICA
the filthy and accursed
KhyberBoy09 2 years ago
Video games are not the problem. All the violence in video games is simply a manifestation of what are culture already was.
xxslayer66xx 2 years ago 21
@xxslayer66xx Actually violent video games makes a the section of your brain that controls violent behavior less active so people will tend to be more violent in the future. Though becoming murderers and very aggressive from video games is BS. That usually depends on how people are raised.
Dallahan 1 year ago
I sense so much american failure that my mind will implode in a cascade of fail.
123BOGGEYMAN 2 years ago
at 0:15 the old dude brings up a interresting point: the bible, the most read "bestseller" :) has more murder, death, rape, betrayal and jezus in it than most of the games and it's legal!
BloodyBart888 2 years ago 3
Hmm where this medium is in 4 years? The teaser is from 2006 man we ar getting closer and I dont see people running around with guns more often. Maybe you were wrong?? (for those who dont know that was sarcasm ; )!
KingofMuz 2 years ago
15 seconds in you have Jack Thompson uttering a lie. Violence has been a virtue throughout human history...as long as it's in service of one's god, king or country. That the filmmakers are willing to use inflammatory remarks from a disgraced ambulance chaser shows that they are either cynical jerks or ignorant fools. Youth violence has has trended steadily DOWNWARDS as video games have become more pervasive and more graphically intense. I.e. violent video games REDUCE real world violence.
Wessmaniac 2 years ago 3
I don't mean the last sentence literally, but it's a heckuva lot more valid than the reverse claim. The correlation between more violence in games and less violence in the real world is irrefutable, but that is not sufficient evidence to claim a causal link.
Wessmaniac 2 years ago 2
Wait! I understand.
When I play Flatout, then I really am a professional driver.
Excellent.
ProfDrPeter 2 years ago 4
cause meka people are dumb
thats why
menglorstar 2 years ago
BTW, anyone know where I can find the full movie?
WolfmanNougat 2 years ago
"We are what we pretend to be"
Hm... so, I'm an Italian plumber, A green-clad elf, an anthropomorphic animal, a galactic Bounty Hunter, a smart-mouthed badass, a musclebound twat, a woman, and a legend of rock among other things...
Yeah, no.
WolfmanNougat 2 years ago 12
Ive grown up playing GTA, COD and HALO and I am fucking terrified of guns or any violence in real life!
I find killing sick yet i grew up with these violent games.
Jack is a fucking retard. If anyone ever sees him on the street please give him a kick in balls or something.
EliteSlayer542 2 years ago
Film Makers are just angry that games are a threat to movies. They said rock music was bad, they even said movies were bad, dont filmmakers remember that? Everyone just wants something to pick on. If my son's playing Call of Duty, I know he's not getting in to trouble
inagartenrules 2 years ago
*sigh* I went into this with an open mind, hoping that it would be a balanced opinion, But when you show Columbine High Massacre next to Halo, your obviously being biased.
AKA: WTF does columbine have to do with video games?!
runedeadthA 2 years ago
what are you talking about? the halo screens weren't even close to the columbine part
MyBrainIsMush 2 years ago
I was being kinda metaphorical
runedeadthA 2 years ago
what metaphor? it was just a statement of your opinion
MyBrainIsMush 2 years ago
The kids who did it played doom.
Therfore video games must be their sole motive for shooting up a school.
Fuck these guys, i doubt half of them have ever even played a video game. They make it sound like the amount of video game related crimes are off the charts, when in reality we only hear about them once and a while.
tkosullivan 2 years ago
"half of america plays video games"
And how many of those hundreds of millions of people are deranged killers?
nfrog 2 years ago