Are computer games too graphic ?

[yummylongsword]

Violent video games essentially fill the same role as porn. They "quench", in effect, our human desire to fight and cause pain. When you get angry and you throw something, haven't you ever felt better? Sometimes it's not enough to throw a pillow, sometimes you have to see something fall and shatter with a satisfying crunch before you feel better. The same thing applies to video games; seeing violent and/or gruesome deaths is satisfying after a long battle, just like seeing a nice cumshot is satisfying at the end of a porno.

Of course, there is too much of a good thing. Too much videogame violence, like too much porn, does weird things to our brain that range from becoming desensitized to becoming psychopathic. So one short, violent image is not inherently too violent. But when you put a lot of them together, it becomes problematic.

I'm not really sure what "age limit" I would set for video game violence and for porn, but I'd probably say anyone who has hit puberty (14, 15?) is old enough to handle the human realities of sex and violence. If anything, violence needs to be MORE controlled, since it's inherently wrong in all situations to commit violence, whereas sex is something far more benevolent.

 

[yummylongsword]

Uhh, I guess that is true if you're a psychopath? I have never felt like I wanted to see pain and death after I was angry.

The gore in the game posted is and has always been way over the top to where it just becomes goofy. And sometimes creative, which is why people want to see it. Sometimes a game has violence in it just because it fits the subject matter ie. A war game.

Yeah, and why do you think WAR games are so popular? Why are almost ALL popular games about fighting? People have a natural tendency to fight, and fighting goes along with playing. Competition and violence go together. That's where many sports come from: a safe, regulated way to wrestle and sprint into one another and BEAT someone else without actually physically hurting them too badly.

As for saying you never want to see pain and death after you're angry: you're right, you don't, because you've been (appropriately) taught that violence is wrong. But people hit things and other people when they're angry because they have a natural tendency towards violence, at least under some circumstances. It's just a fact: sometimes, you REALLY want to hit someone or hurt them, but you don't because you consciously know that it's wrong.

Same thing goes for sex. I don't think most people go "oh, I'm horny, I'd like to see some guy get pounded by two guys at the same time and then have them piss on him and then move on to a flexibility fucking contest where the winner gets to cum into everyone else's mouth". Most people just want to have normal, pretty vanilla sex. And yet, I'm sure there's a porno out there that has a crazy scenario like the one above. Porn and video games take natural human tendencies to the extreme.

 

[yummylongsword]

Because people like those genres of games? And people tend to hop on things that are popular? And people might enjoy the mechanics of a fighting game? Or because they're just inherently good at fighting/war games?

There was a episode of Penn and Tellers Bullshit where they took a kid who liked shooting games to a shooting gallery. When he fired the gun, he cried and didn't want to touch the gun again.

I enjoy fighting games because it is fun beating up another avatar, or because of the characters in the game and the mechanics to it all. But not because I'm vicariously getting gratification by causing pain to another 'thing' or someone.

Yeah. That's my point. People like playing games where you get to beat up other people. If you replaced enemy soldiers with targets, it would be a flop, even though objectively it's EXACTLY the same thing, without the human shape.

I would disagree with that considering there are plenty of games people play that are competitive that have absolutely no physical contact what so ever.

True, but what are the most popular games? Usually, a combination of simple puzzles and violence. Without the puzzles, it's too mindless and gory. Without the violence, it's not intrinsically satisfying enough. So you don't absolutely NEED violence to play a game, but the best games incorporate some sort of violence, even if it's just smashing goombas and beating up bowser.

We're all taught that violence is wrong, yes.

But what you're suggesting is that people who enjoy violent games or games that happen to be violent are playing these games because they can't take it out on people. Which is not true.

People taking anger out on objects and wanting to take violence out on a human being are 2 different things. The reason someone might take throw or punch some physical object is because they otherwise do not know how to handle their anger, not because they're choosing not to hurt another person.

Okay, first of all, I'm not saying people play video games JUST so they can get the satisfaction of hurting other people. That's obviously not true, but the component of enjoying the violence is definitely a factor, as I explained above.

Secondly, you're just plain wrong. You can't honestly tell me that you have not ONCE thought about hurting someone when you were angry at them, it's a natural human reaction. People hurt physical objects not because they don't know how to handle their anger, but because handling it in the natural biological way (ie, destroying the thing that's making you angry) is not possible, and breaking objects are the next best thing to breaking people. And, not all violence is seriously considered. If you get annoyed about the guy that shoved you at the train station, you might fantasize pushing him onto the tracks. But you don't imagine the splattering gore, and you certainly would never ever ACTUALLY push him; the fantasy is enough.

Even if all my analysis about why people break things and what people imagine is wrong, you still can't deny the basic fact that angry people want to hurt the thing that has made them angry. That's why arguments result in violence; it's a basic fact, and denying it is just silly.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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[GamerBear]

Mortal Kombat isn't the only game...

 

[dancinman]

sometimes yes sometimes no. limb dismemberment should be r18+ imo