http://www.gamespy.com/articles/702/702785p1.html

As it turns out, people that play violent video games have a greater tendancy toward smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol.

OH YOU'RE JOKING!!!!!! Wow... I'm blown away. People get stoned and drunk when they play violent videogames? I would have never imagined a connection between getting trashed and playing videogames.... cause... of course, NO ONE ever does that.

If this woman told me she had found this "connection" I would reply to her in the only way I can possibly think of: ****ING DUH!

Yes! We know!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/12

I'm not going to say it.

Just smile and nod.

Haha. That's funny. I had not seen that yet.

Can we find a link between games and abortions?

Quick, let's mod pregnant women into GTA and abort them! >.>

Yeah, thats why I am a raving drunk, high, psycho lunatic... Really, I swear.

Civilization encourages me to have unprotected sex to increase city population.

but Halo2 isn't fun unless your stoned or drunk

Well, I like it. And I'm neither stoned or drunk.

I've been able to quickload previous points of my life since ever! Geez.

SAY IT! SAY IIIT!!

I don't think there's anything directly tying video games to alcohol drugs; I think they're all just popular activities in a specific age bracket.

Which is meaningless considering the average age of gamers continues to grow.

This was just MADE for this thread. :p

You guys are pathetic. You're responding exactly how Dr. Brady said you would, and encouraged you not to. She's making your case for you. If you don't like her findings, do your own research and prove her wrong. She even said that she would love to answer questions about her research methods and would love to see contradictory research.

Murder rates in the summer are much higher than any other time of year. Ice cream sales are also much higher than any other time of year. Therefore, ice cream makes you murder people.

I believe video games might have an influence on people who are young, inexperienced, influenciable, spoiled and a complete idiot... if the entired world was like this... I would say yes, but since it isn't, I will say no.

Video games can be good for people from my point of view. I've played many violent video games: Doom 1-3, Quake 1-3, Blood, GTA: SA and Vice City, CS, Americas Army, and many others. Of the ones I've mentioned, only Americas Army had a noticeable impact on me.

There are 3 kinds of people who play video games:
1.- The ones that are not affected (probably 50%)
2.- The ones that are affected negatively (25%)
3.- And finally the ones that are affected positively (25%)

Violent games can make you immune to violence, and/or as well violent yourself. I was alot more violent a couple years ago... now I'm much less violent, but I am immune to phyiscal and emotional violence. These doctors expect people to run from violence like old ladies, but when they see some one who is causing violence or is standing up to violence they just go: "video games".

I know the exact point you're getting at.

LOL.

I'm always drunk and high.

Although Zelda: WW is making me violent right now.

Yeah, false correlations.

...LOL

87% of statistics are made up on the spot.

100% of all Zlocs say that if a mature 13 year old such as Zloc were given a copy of GTA:SA and a controller in his hand, and he played the game, he wouldn't go have buttsex with a hooker and then kill her with a rocket launcher to get his money back in REAL LIFE.

100% of all Zlocs also say that these doctors need to pull their head out of their ***.

I thought violent video games were targeted towards drunks and drugies

After I played Super Smash Bros. I went through a phase of throwing turtle shells at people and writing black M's on all of my tomatoes. I was sorely disappointed when I discovered that this neither made people fly into the air nor made my tomotoes more nutritious.

Seriously, though... maybe they should do a study investigating the effects of online forums on people's memories. Specifically, looking for a gap somewhere around the two-week range.

I remember the times when Mario Brothers were considered violent...

There's another page to the thing (GameSpy did their own thing)

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/702/702785p3.html

I'm not sure if they're agreeing with her or not haha .. but they're trying to be fair.

That's because it's just not worth an intelligent response. It really isn't.

Is she hot?