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Re: Children and Violence
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:42:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes:
> Yeah, if kids are going to act aggressively they will do it whether or not they
> have an Ogel Control Center as a prop. My boys set up their new HP sets (4721,
> 4722, and 4705) over they weekend, then connived me into letting them use my
> 4702 and 4723 in their new "wizard town". I heard crashing noises downstairs
> and discovered they were "bombing" the town with Knex wheels (the heavy ones).
> I then had to rescue my Hermione minifig from a hit and run incident with a Hot
> Wheel vehicle (one of my rare airplane torsos was cracked that way)-- my
> Quirrell fig is now missing-- he probably got thrown behind the furniture on
> impact-- and when the Knex wheels were confiscated the kids switched to
> shooting rubberbands to damage the town. I guess you can add that to the
> anecdotal evidence (not to be oxymoronic!) that certain tendencies are innate.
Maggie -- these kids need light guns. The time has come. I recommend a
Sega Dreamcast system, and these three titles: House of the Dead 2,
Confidential Mission, and Death Crimson OX. For what it's worth, all three
games feature female and male protagonists -- so what's not to like? Babes
and guns!!! Need I say more...?
-- Hop-Frog (frantic shooting action for multiple players, multiple weapons,
mini-games, and branching story paths, recieve bonus points for
administering "Justice" and "Combo" shots -- wait, I just realized that Bush
Jr. gets all of his foreign policy ideas off the back of video game boxes!!!)
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| (...) This IS a great question, and I have trouble putting my finger on the difference too. Actually I'm not terribly familiar with many video games at all, so most of what I have heard is secondhand (and I prefer to keep it that way). My impression (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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