Ok, now it suddenly became a lot more posts these two last days – I guess I realized it’s fun to post often rather then post only when you feel you *have* to. So, lately, I’ve been hearing signs from oh-so-worried very-old-people that video games “makes our streets more violent” and blah blah blah. I’ve always been annoyed with that sort of un-based bullshit. Based on the Swedish ungdomsstyrelse (can translate to “council of youth”), they state that “Among the high-active gamers 24 percent states that they never drink alcohol, which can be compared to the 19 percent among those that never game”. And, following a tautology ((p^(p->q))->q), or “alcohol and ‘alcohol leads to violence’ combined leads to violence”, must mean that gamers are less likely to drink, and thus commit to violence. Anyway, just the other day, a (yet again very very old) man in a debate-article first gives an example in a Swedish TV-show when a husband shoots his wife with a gun in front of their common child, and then the child watches his mother slowly die – and then states video-games are extreme! And, with the exception of the Manhunt-games, I can’t find any single example […]