Utah!

[robrecht]

I've heard there actually is some scientific debate over whether there is a such thing as video game addiction compared to drug/alcohol addiction, so I think video games in themselves deserve close scrutiny.

I'm not saying gaming is wrong, by the way.

I think we should be very careful with our kids playing video games too much, especially with some video games that have very poor content. I've even had job applicants working on advanced degrees mention video games in interviews. I'm like, "Seriously, dude? You want me to hire you for a job, and you're like talking to me about video games?" And he's like, "No, man, it's really cool, you hang with us and see what it's like." And I'm like, "Uh, no, I don't think so, dude. Whatever."

[robrecht]

We are discussing hypotheticals since as far as I know we've never had someone threaten to shoot people at an event then go on to shoot people at said event either. I do know that metal detectors aren't all that useful:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educati...etal-detectors

Yeah, they certainly can't protect people in a courtyard outside of the area that the metal detectors are attempting to be protected.

[Irate Canadian]

I don't think the vast majority of people on 4chan are Christian, or of any religious affiliation really,

That's a understatement.

...and yet you hear some of the most (or even mild and what would be deemed from the political left) racist and sexist conversations on there. That's kind of interesting to me.

It is.

[seanD]

I'm just trying to imagine a conversation between a 4chan user and a liberal. It would not end well.

I don't think the vast majority of people on 4chan are Christian, or of any religious affiliation really, and yet you hear some of the most (or even mild and what would be deemed from the political left) racist and sexist conversations on there. That's kind of interesting to me.

[Jedidiah]

Liberals are going to seriously regred having destroyed Christianity and left the vacuum open to be filled by people who think the Holocaust is good material for comedy.

And they will regret it too!

[Chaotic Void]

Some of these people are well intentioned but others are members of 4chan and are just in it for the lols.

For sure. Keep in mind that, I feel dirty sticking up for 4Chan, they actually banned GamerGate discussions on 4Chan which caused a lot of people to migrate elsewhere.

Thinking about this from a distance, it's sad that something such as video games is promoting such visceral reactions/emotions, but that's naturally what you get when people spend nearly 100% of their spare time and money on the same hobby. So many people (not only kids) spend way too much time playing video games and need to get back into the real world.

Video games have been doing that for years... as is whatever else is in vogue for entertainment mediums (Board Games, Comic Books, Movies... Live Theater).

[Irate Canadian]

The visceral reaction is to the encroaching puritanical liberalism and is hardly limited to games. The only difference between gamers and other fields is that gamers are, on the whole, far less tolerant of liberal cultural bullying than, say, the average conservative. The Internet helps in that being anonymous means a lot of people have the guts to say what they'd otherwise avoid. Liberals are going to seriously regred having destroyed Christianity and left the vacuum open to be filled by people who think the Holocaust is good material for comedy.

I'm just trying to imagine a conversation between a 4chan user and a liberal. It would not end well.

[Irate Canadian]

That it's all anonymous and/or behind a computer screen is the main reason. It's a whole lot different when your on the field or on the court with your competitor face to face.

This.

The problem with anything relating to the Internet is the above. We don't really tend to put faces to the people we disagree with, and hence we lose sight of the other persons feelings and other things.

[Darth Executor]

Thinking about this from a distance, it's sad that something such as video games is promoting such visceral reactions/emotions, but that's naturally what you get when people spend nearly 100% of their spare time and money on the same hobby. So many people (not only kids) spend way too much time playing video games and need to get back into the real world.

The visceral reaction is to the encroaching puritanical liberalism and is hardly limited to games. The only difference between gamers and other fields is that gamers are, on the whole, far less tolerant of liberal cultural bullying than, say, the average conservative. The Internet helps in that being anonymous means a lot of people have the guts to say what they'd otherwise avoid. Liberals are going to seriously regret having destroyed Christianity and left the vacuum open to be filled by people who think the Holocaust is good material for comedy.

[seanD]

I don't think the problem is video games, rather, it's the tendency of most most of my generation to do this with more that just one issue.

That it's all anonymous and/or behind a computer screen is the main reason. It's a whole lot different when your on the field or on the court with your competitor face to face.

[Irate Canadian]

I've heard there actually is some scientific debate over whether there is a such thing as video game addiction compared to drug/alcohol addiction, so I think video games in themselves deserve close scrutiny.

I'm not saying gaming is wrong, by the way.

Yeah, video game addiction is a thing. I can image a guy playing 12+ hrs if he has to train for a esports championship but a teenager/adult with responsibilies should make sure they don't get sidetracked.

[Zymologist]

I've heard there actually is some scientific debate over whether there is a such thing as video game addiction compared to drug/alcohol addiction, so I think video games in themselves deserve close scrutiny.

I'm not saying gaming is wrong, by the way.

People can seemingly get addicted to anything*, and video games would definitely be one of those things.

*This isn't really meant as a scientific use of the word "addiction," though. I don't really know if people get addicted to Pepsi in the same way they get addicted to alcohol, for example.

[KingsGambit]

I don't think the problem is video games, rather, it's the tendency of most most of my generation to do this with more that just one issue.

I've heard there actually is some scientific debate over whether there is a such thing as video game addiction compared to drug/alcohol addiction, so I think video games in themselves deserve close scrutiny.

I'm not saying gaming is wrong, by the way.

[Irate Canadian]

Could "video games" in this post be reasonably replaced with "theologyweb"?

I don't think the problem is video games, rather, it's the tendency of most most of my generation to do this with more that just one issue.

[Zymologist]

You used "reasonably" and "theologyweb" in the same sentence!

"Reasonable" wasn't modifying "theologyweb," silly. Nobody's that ridiculous.