GTA4 Is Out: Police Chief Says It's Just A Game
It's GTA-Day in the US, and like vultures circling a wounded gazelle the media and political machine sprang into action to criticize it for corrupting out children. Yea, I know this is nothing new. The fantastic part is that in an interview with police chief Ronnie Smith of Kansas had an actual Rational thought.
Most of the young people who play these games know they're only games, they're smart enough to know they're only games. It's that small percentage that don't realize, or that start thinking the wrong way, and end up getting themselves in trouble by thinking, 'you know, this is cool, I can do this in real life.'This is all fun and games when you're playing these games, but turn them off and forget about it, and know that that's not real life. Because in real life you don't get up and walk away... In real life it's a totally different ball game.
He didn't completely discount that some people may be impacted from playing, but note how he didn't say this is the game's fault. Now if the rest of the press juggernaut shared his ability for simple reasoning, intelligent inferences wouldn't come as this much of a shock.
Police Chief: Most Players Realize GTA IV is Only a Game [GamePolitics]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 29 April 2008
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Bad stuff never happened before GTA came out.
for corrupting our* children?
This is a rarity, we should celebrate!
Josh is right...the world became shit because of video games. Before that it was a goddamn utopia around here.