I just don't like Video Games like 'America's Army' or 'America's Most Wanted'. Sure, normal Games are good slid fun, but that sort of hyper-patriotism seems unhealthy in a kids product...

I also can't stand Grand Theft Auto. I read an article a year ago about a Kid, maybe 16-18, who upon being arrested for speeding, was taken intot he station at which point he shot three officers dead using moves he'd learnt from GTA. When he was sentenced to Execution, he made his final statement in court: 'Life is like a Video Game. Sometimes, you have to die.'.

I'm American, and I find those games plenty ridiculous too. Perversion of an innocent entertainement medium. Another thing like that would be the religious game Left Behind... Don't get me started on media misinterpretations of role-playing games, online or not, like Dungeons and Dragons...

Yeah, that's fine, everybody's entitled to their opinion. And some people are just violent from the start and they pick up on things that help them in their sick goals... Be careful what you read, too, as the media is biased and the "news" can be poorly reported...

Oh, and on a note unrelated to the subject, I'm confused as to why Scarecrow is wearing what looks like a hillbilly gimp mask in the last two stories of Scarecrow Tales...

Yeah, why would a kid in my class be the smartest in my class and he plays video games all the time?

I actually prefer that mask. It's cool to show the two expressions, signified by the two mouths - the Mask's and Crane's. That way, you see both halves of his Psyche. Though the last story is awful (he gets, like, two pages of being in the background), the original cover (in the final pages) is pretty cool. I would have preferred it if Albright had become Mistress Scarecrow, though.

I think the best art in the entire book is the pinup on pg 42. I could make an entire story based on that image...

Video games get balmed way too much............I honestly think the music industry has a much bigger negative influence...........Its distiurbing to see people idolizing rapists, drug abusers, and, in some cases, murderers.............

I can't stand games like GTA.........Its unsettling to see the concept of what is basically terrorism as entertaining...............

Yeah... Thompson's a wacko indeed...

I loved some of the pinups in there, Scarecrow looked great...

Yeah, Marilyn Manson and the goth subculture were blamed for school shootings Columbine and other things, but everybody turns a blind eye to rap, even though it's on the "news" every day...

I don't like GTA either, but I'm talking about video games in general getting blamed...

Studies have shown that while someone wa playing a 1st person shooter game, their brain was scanned with an MRI or an EEG (I cant remember which, it was one of those things that showed which part of the brain is working.) During this scan it showed the parts of the brain showing anger light up and the ones showing symathy and compassion went down. Bewila's story is just disturbing.

However despite all these myths, there is no doubt the media has a massive influence on children, be it positive or negative.

Studies have shown that while someone wa playing a 1st person shooter game, their brain was scanned with an MRI or an EEG (I cant remember which, it was one of those things that showed which part of the brain is working.) During this scan it showed the parts of the brain showing anger light up and the ones showing symathy and compassion went down. Bewila's story is just disturbing.

 

However despite all these myths, there is no doubt the media has a massive influence on children, be it positive or negative.

FOR PETESAKE, VIDEO GAMES HAVE LITTLE OR NO ADVERSE EFFECT ON CHILDREN. It depends on environment, upbringing, personal choice, and health. If little Timmy picks up a copy of Super Mario and he smooshes a few Goombas, he's not going to turn into a little Ted Bundy. The media is biased and poorly reports these cases. The Associated Press, Reuters, and other news agencies provide most of the news nowadays and it's circulated everywhere. Reporters do little investigative reporting anymore, leaving the window wide open for a news magazine or a TV station's news cast on an event (based off of the article from where they got the news, of course) for error to occur. Studies are not only reported incorrectly at times, but the studies themselves can be biased. An example would be that Phillip Morris cigarette company's sponsorship of hundreds of thousands of studies over the years to prove "smoking isn't harmful to your health". So stop swallowing this gibberish. Yeah, in some cases kids shouldn't be exposed to violence. But thy have to someday. And the parents can use it as an opportunity to teach their kids that violence is bad and all that '30-second-moral-message-after-half-an-hour-of-a-violent-kid's-show' junk.

I agree with you to some, but if you strip away movis, video games, television, and media from the situation wouldn't life be a lot different.

Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than intelligence."

Ever since I read that quote, it stuck with me my entire life...............Keep in mind, I'm quite the intellectual......Its just that, without imagination, intellect alon would be uses, as there'd be nothing you could do with it..............