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I disagree, I think a game setting like this is better than most RPG universes for an MMO. I'd love to play Sid Meier's pirates with another 100 people roaming the Caribbean.

I typically didn't use the rocket launcher against soft targets. Do you even have it at Ravenholm?

No one said Jagr can't play defense. This has much more to do with his offensive ability than his defensive ability. +/- is an awful measurement of defensive ability. Especially when considering an absolute amazing defensive player is not even going to be a plus-player if he has 4 hacks on the same line as him. For all you can tell by looking at +/- is that Jagr is riding the defensive capabilities of Nylander and Rozsival.

I'd always test my nerves by waiting as long as humanly possible to double shotgun blast those fast ones. I didn't want to miss! I found the black headcrabs scarier too. They had a wierd call before attacknig, and while they couldn't kill you, it was never a happy moment to be knocked down to 1 health instantly.

Grav gun is useful too. Exploding barrels are your friends!

Don't worry about screaming like a girl. I did...but it was worth it!

The demo I played of Scrapland seemed fairly violent. It's just the violence was directed towards robots.

Heheh. It was only 24 standard pages long

That's the real problem: there is a dearth of reliable intelligence on the subject. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Another part of the problem is that the only real people interested in disproving the video game violence myth are those working with the industry. As a result, much of their research is immediately discarded as being biased, despite having good scientific methodology. Yet people like Anderson are given a free pass despite concluding an increase in violent crime in todays youth. He cites the surgeon general's assessment, using one particular graph for one particular type of crime, with one specific age (18 IIRC). Despite the fact that a few charts later, in the very same Surgeon General's warning (I think it's one of the links I gave too), the SG concluded that on the whole, violent crime in today's youth has decreased. There's also other correlations, such as the increase in youth crime follow the increases in illegal arms distributions in the late 80s and early 90s.

Should we average them and Bioware together then?

Oh, one more thing. Some of these links might be more geared to TV violence than video game violence.

Ok, here's a whole bunch of links that I had used. Some were used to demonstrate the position of anti-violence activists (i.e. they aren't in favour of the violence), as well as though that counterpoint the arguments. There isn't exactly a wealth of studies being attempted to indicate that there is NO effect. Most "defense" studies point out inconsistencies (or absurdities) with many of the claims. Stating that there is zero effect is just as insane IMO. The studies that I have seen typically agree that video game violence can seriously affect SOME people SOME of the time.....just like anything (i.e. the phenomenon is not isolated to video game violence). Some of these links may not be appropriate, and some of them are from places like wikipedia (which may or may not go over well with your teacher. I used my Wikipedia link to find actual references to other discussions, and learn about people like Lt. Col. Grossman and whatnot. http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolutio...pact/myths.html http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/video.games.html http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance.htm http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/gvc.htm#Violence http://gr.bolt.com/oldsite/articles/violence/violence.htm http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyres...ameviolence.htm http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf200...s/freedman.html http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/teens.htm http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/cyberment...violence805.htm http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/yout...pter4/sec1.html http://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/010901.html http://world.std.com/~jlr/comment/tv_impact.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_video_games http://www.slate.com/id/2099203/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/...ain678261.shtml http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,606...n_story_related http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf200...pers/kafai.html http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/bandura.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/24/...ain676446.shtml http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/f...res/49517.shtml http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/yout...1.html#epidemic

That link was one of my references as well

No. It's because people have conveniently ignored it. (i.e. it isn't inconceivable, but the people against downloadable content continue to cite "hardcopies" and getting "screwed over" as reasons).

Still need to play FEAR. Though I have a new computer on the horizon, soo...

The Falcon is good. I can sustain fire on the enemies much more effectively.

Here's one that I found really good. http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf200...s/freedman.html I have a whole list of references, but many of them are DOJ links and whatnot to statistics, as well as references to TV violence (since I drew a parallel to it, since the media does as well). I can give you a larger list, some of which is good/bad for video game violence defense. For the most part, the non "fire and brimstone" studies point out inconsistencies with the other studies (the one I linked to you talks about a study that compared Myst to Wolfenstein3D, stating that the games are functionally identical in every aspect except for violence/aggression). It's an evaluation of the research on violent video games. If you want more links I can give them to you, but you'll have to do a bit more sifting through them (which I would recommend anyways).

I wrote a huge paper on the subject. Give me a second.

I remember studying Zimbardo's experiement in a Criminology class.

Yes.

Getting good vibrations?

I suspect PC just because they seem to be more MMO friendly.

Someone needs to keep the young ones in line. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Which is exactly why I don't put you on ignore

Seadawgs of course.

At a cost that was less than the cost of death. I suppose we could have just logged out and hoped he got bored.