DynastyWarriors6 wrote:I will admit I am more prone to do a violent act after playing a violent video game, and I bet most people are.
Less so. I often turn to video games when my anger/emotions boil up, or when I get extremely edgy/energetic. They actually solve as something that calms me down, especially when they're violent. One of my first instincts when I get angry/edgy like that is to turn on a game that will involve a lot of killing (in fact, I've told Andy "I just need to kill things for a while"). By the time I've played for a while, I've completely calmed down.
I will also note that I am not opposed to how women are depicted in video games, and I am a woman myself. Oh, I make jokes about how badly their breasts are rendered, and jokes about how scantily clad they are for their jobs sometimes, but I'm not in the least bit offended. I just think VG artists need to become a little bit more realistic in terms of female anatomy and form versus function.
I was raised with games all my life. Games never made me violent. My father's resorts to verbal violence with threats of physical violence leads me to be violent and bullyish at times, and I regret every moment that I lash out like that - but never once has a video game been my "inspiration" for violent things that I've done.
SlickSlicer wrote:I don't even think there's such a thing as emotional abuse. I don't agree with the whole idea of "Words hurt as much as violence." It seems dumb to me.
This really isn't designed for this topic: but it does exist. I've been through it. Try imagining a childhood when your father did nothing but talk down to you, tell you you were bad at the things you actually excelled in, slander you behind your back (I was first called a bitch when I was 8 years old), and generally put you down 90% of the time he talked to or about you. It affects you.
If you want to talk about it more, start a new topic in this forum, or just PM me if you want to talk privately - but I'm welcoming the opportunity to discuss my experiences in the open with the rest of the forum in a topic designed to discuss emotional abuse. Leave this topic to the games, though.
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