Magnetic Pages Article | 1992-09-02 | 3KB | 10 lines
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46 DO VIDEO GAMES PROMOTE VIOLENCE?
F[THE SCENE IS ONE OF THE USUAL CHAOS WHICH SURROUNDS P.V.F.C.: ON THE BDESK, THE A500 USED TO COMPILE, PROCESS, FORMAT AND FINE TUNE THE FARTICLES FOR THIS MAGAZINE. ON THE WALLS, THE USUAL LARGE QUANTITY OF DGLORIA ESTEFAN AND VANESSA PARADIS POSTERS, AS WELL AS THE STAR MAP BFOR FRONTIER (which also happens to be a real star map, since the Bstars in Frontier are ones which actually exist. P.V.F.C.) ON THE FPOWER BRICK, A HALF EATEN SANDWICH WITH AN UNKNOWN COOKED MEAT INSIDE,FGETTING EVEN MORE COOKED FROM THE HEAT EMINATING FROM THE TRANSFORMER.?SITTING TO THE RIGHT OF THE DESK IS ED, WHO IS GETTING REALLY FRATHER TOO INVOLVED IN A GAME OF STREETS OF RAGE ON THE GAME GEAR, AND4OCCASIONALLY SHOUTS SWEAR WORDS WITH IMMENSE VOLUME.E P.V.F.C. SITS AT THE AMIGA NOW, WISHING THAT THE CD-ROM VERSION OF ETHE HUTCHINSON ENCYCLOPIDIA MULTI TASKED SO HE COULD LOOK UP SOME OF :THE THINGS ED WAS SAYING WHILE CARRYING ON WITH HIS WORK.]
EP.V.F.C.: Hello. In this article we will be discussing whether video D games really do make people more aggressive. Here to talk < about this is our very ed. So tell me, ed, do you 8 think video games make people more aggressive?BEDITOR: Look Phil, just fuck off will you? I'm in the middle of E beating the shit out of those two fucking slags at the end E of the third level, and I don't need some stupid twat like E you interrupting me. If you don't shut it, I'm going to ramD that disk drive so far down your throat you'll be able to / auto boot disks from your arse. Okay?8P.V.F.C.: As you can see, there's no truth in it at all.
3[ED STARTS TO REACH FOR THE EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE...]
B(This is all just made up really, video games don't make you more @violent or aggressive and they certainly don't throw the entire Eteenage population into epileptic fits, it's the scan line moving on Dthe television that does that, and only in a very, very, very small Cnumber of people. (Game Gears don't have scan lines, by the way) I Dthink it's about time that these people (Who are "they"? -P.V.F.C.) Fstop talking a load of rubbish about things they don't understand and Fnever play and start lobying the house of commons about the startling Famount of pet nudity on the streets instead. That's almost as amusing.BThe sad thing about all this is that people actually believe this Fballs, and so now we're left with the introduction of those stupid ageAguide lines on the back of computer game boxes. To add insult to Cinjury, the emblem they now have on as well is probably one of the Fsaddest, most awfully thought out cartoon characters ever. A smiling, >running television wearing trainers. I hate you all. You must Eseriously think we're brain dead, social rejects with no freinds and Donly a few porno PD titles to keep us company. You sad, sad people. FComing down to Teeside park for a game of ten pin bowling, Phil? (Oh, :don't mind if I do. You're paying, though. -P.V.F.C.) -ed)
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