Violence around us

And another lecture!

Lecture started with video of "headshot" compilation from different games.
In the game industry FPS games are becoming very popular and headshots are the best, fastest and in some games are even funniest way to kill! There are many other games, violence in games expanded even to online sector in example World of WarCraft and many many other online games... in which you have a choice whether to fight the NPC's or other players known as PVP (player vs player) and for killing others the winner might get rewards depending on how good you are, which in fact stimulates you to carry on doing it more and more repetitively.

PVP Arena in WoW

Many people criticise games with violence and demand to restrict them in one or another way. Couple of years ago when a game called Manhunt 2 was in development it was banned in many countries for its violence and all work on a game was stopped as far as i know and only after developers cutted down all the gore in the game it was launched, this game was litteraly a killing simulator! I dont blame people who criticise games like that, but from another point it is a stress relief that helps us to get rid of tiredness, anger and so on... but there are times when some take real guns in their hands because of those games...

         in example Columbine shooting in school. It was influenced by game called "DOOM"! As bil was reffering to this horrible event I did search for it later and discovered that one of the guys that was involved in shooting had a diary where he described his addiction to the game and his hate to entire world, blaming people saying what he hates in people and basicly that it makes him feel good when others suffer!

     At some point Bill showed us videos with very first few games and people considered them as a danger to a society(!) but when I saw these games it made me laugh that it was just bunch of pixels :D 

And still they have managed to develop into more realistic, games now are really good looking like CG videos that were cutscenes few years ago with unreachable graphics and realism when now most games dont even have pre created cutscenes, its just a live rendering with very good visuals which is still can be improved but thats another story!

 Some people recognize gaming addiction just as drinking, drug addiction, smoking...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wlmj0/Panorama_Addicted_to_Games/

Violence is everywhere around us and I think we dont take it seriosly anymore as we are constantly exposed to it even in cartoons, apart from the itchy and scratchy series in sympsons I remember that I heard or saw somewhere about Tom and Jerry cartoon that it is just as violent as everything else but just because it is a cartoon it is fine, so it was with the roadrunner cartoon.