Christian
07-05-2012, 09:04 PM
My bonus brother works as a journalist and he wrote this, all credit goes to André. Sorry for bad translation:
A family is sitting by their dining table. A completely ordinary family where the parents work at days. A completely ordinary family where the kids goes to school. A typical Swedish Svensson-family. Just this day is the first day at sports-break. The kids had been home from school and spent this great day doing what kids of today usually do.
''Well son, what have you been doing a day as great as this one?'' Asks the mother softly and gently.
The son swallows his spaghetti and meatballs and says: ''Nothing out of the ordinary. I have been selling drugs, I have killed 539 gang members, 142 police-officers, a couple of civilians. Saved the world from aliens. Oh and I also completed my Super Mario game today.
''Oh, I am so proud of you, son.'' Says the mother.
Now, this scenario is really not realistic, HOWEVER it's what kids of today actually do on a regular basis in the ''gaming world''. The players rarely thinks of this truth and the parents usually close their eyes for the whole thing.
The player rarely choose to think of their actions because ''It's only a game''. Sure, you can think like that. But if you compare the games of today with the games of yesterday, you see a very big difference in realism. The games of today is supposed to be ultra-realistic, which the games of yesterday, certainly isn't. The worst thing you could see back then was a plumber squishing turtles with his feet.
Kids of today put their hands on games like Bullet-storm where you learn to kill with finesse. A game where you can separate the head of an enemy from their body to get a lot of points. How will their thoughts evolve? I don't believe in the discussion about how games are bad for our psyche is going to have a ending punchline in a near future. We will soon see more school-massacres, un-needed murder and **** of different kinds before we come up with a final reason of why it happens.
I can only speculate and say that it isn't because of the video-games. With these words, I am going to finish, because I and thousand of other Swedish people are going to. Keep killing.
To make this more clear for others, he does not think that video-games affects us in a bad way (Makes us more violent etc.) This is just something he wrote when so many others thought the opposite.
A family is sitting by their dining table. A completely ordinary family where the parents work at days. A completely ordinary family where the kids goes to school. A typical Swedish Svensson-family. Just this day is the first day at sports-break. The kids had been home from school and spent this great day doing what kids of today usually do.
''Well son, what have you been doing a day as great as this one?'' Asks the mother softly and gently.
The son swallows his spaghetti and meatballs and says: ''Nothing out of the ordinary. I have been selling drugs, I have killed 539 gang members, 142 police-officers, a couple of civilians. Saved the world from aliens. Oh and I also completed my Super Mario game today.
''Oh, I am so proud of you, son.'' Says the mother.
Now, this scenario is really not realistic, HOWEVER it's what kids of today actually do on a regular basis in the ''gaming world''. The players rarely thinks of this truth and the parents usually close their eyes for the whole thing.
The player rarely choose to think of their actions because ''It's only a game''. Sure, you can think like that. But if you compare the games of today with the games of yesterday, you see a very big difference in realism. The games of today is supposed to be ultra-realistic, which the games of yesterday, certainly isn't. The worst thing you could see back then was a plumber squishing turtles with his feet.
Kids of today put their hands on games like Bullet-storm where you learn to kill with finesse. A game where you can separate the head of an enemy from their body to get a lot of points. How will their thoughts evolve? I don't believe in the discussion about how games are bad for our psyche is going to have a ending punchline in a near future. We will soon see more school-massacres, un-needed murder and **** of different kinds before we come up with a final reason of why it happens.
I can only speculate and say that it isn't because of the video-games. With these words, I am going to finish, because I and thousand of other Swedish people are going to. Keep killing.
To make this more clear for others, he does not think that video-games affects us in a bad way (Makes us more violent etc.) This is just something he wrote when so many others thought the opposite.