HOOT -quote

[Pacman928]

HOOT

[Yonkey]

It's true!

[Delling]

yes, on so many levels, yes

[Gilgamesh]

Yes, it's good for everyone.

[racx_00]

LOL! That's good but errm... some may do it.

[icarus]

...Whatever.

[Deloria]

It's true.

[Shades2585]

Since that is a negative statement to begin with my answer is "No" because I do believe games can have an affect on kids, small or big. KQ is and example of the good that can come from games. Unfortunately there are far too many negative games out there. 

[Pacman928]

to the yes people, are you saying that video games dont affect kids?  are you saying that you DONT run around a dark room, eating magic pills, and listening to repetative electronic music?

[Yonkey]

Yup.  Can't say I have.

[Petra Rocks]

to the yes people, are you saying that video games dont affect kids?  are you saying that you DONT run around a dark room, eating magic pills, and listening to repetative electronic music?

Well, we are talking about degrees here.  People obviously don't imitate video games exactly as the quote illustrates.  It's not a matter of direct copying of the behavior, it's much more subtle.  It also depends on what games are played and how much, an hour spent playing computer solitaire is not going to make much difference to your personality, if you play WoW 7 hours a day obviously it's a large part of your life and will effect you in sublte ways. Not that you will kill people in the street and take their stuff to a pawn shop, but you will not be the same person you would be if you did not play the game(s)

[Deloria]

I just don't think they influence people that much. I mean, one needs to be able to not become completely immersed and remain unconvinced of the reality in the games and one will generally be fine. At least that's how I always understood it, but I could certainly be wrong.

[Jafar]

Oh, I totally run around collecting rings and jumping on mushrooms.
...Or was it jump on robots and collect coins?
Meh, they don't have as much of a psychological effect as people say.

[Petra Rocks]

It depends on how you define influence. They probably do not influence you more than some other activities, but anything you spend a lot of time on will influence you to some degree. Deloria mentioned her antiquarianism started with Conquests of Camelot IIRC, and I know my interest in history started with a game called Lords of the Realm II.  Influence can mean less things than that, if you hum a game's theme song in school you can be said to influenced by it, albeit not to a great degree.

If by influence you mean the belief some moralists have that all computer games are a priori bad, I don't believe that, except as in anything can be bad if taken to excess.

[Rosella]

I know that games DO influence people (considering almost everything around us influences us in some way) but I love that quote, so I voted "yes." XP

[racx_00]

I believe they do influence people, but not to the extent that some believe. An example of someone I disagree with would be J.T. the lawyer.

Won't put his full name because he might hunt me down, and accuse me of bullying people due to playing violent games.

[Jafar]

Ooh...I've heard of THAT guy. What a loonatic.

[Pacman928]

all video games are violent except tetris and elmos hidden island alphabet adventure.  if you hit , throw, kick, or apply force to anythig, it can be considered violent.

[racx_00]

Yeah but it doesn't mean the child playing it would go out and do it. Not unless they were like 5 and thought it was funny kicking people.

[Pacman928]

well, thats what congressmen think