Penn & Teller Take On Videogame Violence BS
Well as Asterick warned you last month, it looks like tonight marks the night that Penn & Teller's Showtime program, Bullshit!, takes on the muck that is videogame violence. The show will be airing tonight a 10pm EST/PST on Showtime, and probably numerous more times in the following days on the channel. Among the many colored guests on the show, such as Chris Cooney in the video above, they are also going to have Jack Thompson which I'm sure will be hilarious as usually.
For those of you unfamiliar with the premise of their show, Penn & Teller take an issue each week and usually show how the public opinion on an issue is usually just complete "bullshit", hence the name of the show. They usually have on "experts" for the issue, and then rip apart the points that these people try to claim as fact. It'll be interesting to see how they confront the idea that videogames cause violent tendencies, and I'm sure we'll see a lot of recent videogame studies drawn out to refute the points the people are trying to make. As always, the show is for entertainment value, so take everything said with a grain of salt and with plenty of laughter.
Tivo Alert: Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Tackles Video Game Violence [GamePolitics]
PixelPoet
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games, Videos on 9 July 2009
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Can't view the video from the UK.
Which probably means I'll never see the full thing, which is a shame. Would love to see Jack Thompson taken down a peg or two... or a bar... wait that already happened :p
I used to respect them until they did an episode of Bullshit defending Walmart. Sorry guys, you can't defend pure evil. I mean, they might as well have defended Dick Cheney.
I saw this last night, and I have to admit, they handled the whole thing really well. Mind you, they didn't go after Jack quite as much as I would have liked, but they still handled the subject with a level head. Although the scene at the very end might have killed me just a tiny bit...