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Originally Posted by Toy Santa
Like I said, adult rated games featuring violence may well affect kids but so what? They're not supposed to be playing them, and that's not what this thread is even about. It's about a game with adult themes, designed for and marketed at adults, and whether or not certain content should be "banned" because it might reduce empathy. Whether or not someone's son / nephew / neighbours cousins TV repair man's clients kid gets mad playing Call of Duty (which incidentally, is not rated for children in the first place) is totally irrelevant.
It also has nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with the fact that it's competitive multiplayer gaming. It's not the games that are making these kids fume and throw things at walls - its the fact that they have LOST at a game AGAINST ANOTHER HUMAN.
If you want me to believe that those same kids are perfectly calm when they lose a game of football up the park, or lose a board game against their family... I'll have to ask you to pull the other one. They're lobbing their footie boots across the changing room and lobbing the monopoly board off the table just the same as the game pad.
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Reminds me of when my son had a friend around and we were all playing monopoly and the friend said his Mom had lobbed the monopoly board
and she is quite a mild mannered woman