Still not really an answer. I hope it is though because that is a real family heirloom and worth some serious money to boot. If not, then it is either scrap metal or trouble waiting to happen.
Call of Duty is no way realistic, no point have realistic visuals if nothing realistic happens.. 12 year olds play these games thinking they're soldiers! Screw it.
So lets see, not taking the bad guys NPC to trial and shooting them instead: bad Shooting at low poly models of churches and other shit some outsourced designer did: very bad Shooting at civilians IRL even during really dumb accidents like those in pakistan: no problem? Really, as weird as it sounds the red cross should actually thank these games for keeping war as a hot topic considering nobody gives a shit about all the conflicts going on, the people dying and the corrupt fucks making billions off it. Movies and tv barely touch the subject anymore 'cause the old people that still watches it are still too fucking scared with 9/11 and think its a downer to see movies about any war but wwII. Funny, considering most WWII vets are already dead or about to
The hell are you talking about? Having a problem with civilian casualties is a major part of what Red Cross does. The games sure haven't helped anyone get a critical outlook on war, just provided war porn so a new generation of 13-year-olds can jerk off to pictures of guns and military hardware. And nobody gives a shit about those conflicts despite all the video games, which I'd chalk up to people being so goddamn ignorant they don't care about anything that happens outside their own doorstep.
society is getting dumber, they need to protect us from idiots :/ That's the message I'm getting here.
Perhaps bother to read the studies that have already been done and if found to be flawed perform new ones that aren't flawed? I would be willing to bet the vast majority of those of us on this board have played a violent video game (even using the word violent loosely) and I would also be willing to bet the majority of us have yet to perform any acts of violence that would yield in an arrest or prosecution. I'm not going to include Office Space style printer beatings as violent in this hypothetical as that isn't someone's head, perhaps a personification of one. The article also points out that US law has ruled that video games fall under free speech protection, I'm not exactly sure which trumps which with international law but I'll be damned if the constitution will be usurped by something this flimsy. Truth be told I do find BF3 and MW3 "realistic" in that bullets come out of a barrel with simulated physics and end in the result of damage to person with that person potentially dying virtually. However, the realism ends there. People don't respawn. People don't get revived from complete death by shock paddles (you don't shock a flat line). People don't call in personal tactile nukes. People also don't murder each other for a Capture the Flag game. At least not usually.
The thing that annoys me is by and large the Red Cross does good work. Some people that donate though are going to see this and think "This is what my donation is going to?" and choose not to give. They are screwing themselves over a subject that nobody cares about and isn't going to go anywhere.
Well said. Did anyone catch the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode where they got the kid that played violent games out on a shooting range? I would imagine that same response coming from a lot of these kids when/if they ever encountered a real firearm.
Come back when you learn how to tell when someone is being sarcastic Its actually hilarious to hear this bullshit from the red cross, it almost seem like a distraction so nobody takes a look at all the real studies showing that charities like the red cross sometimes fuel conflicts and genocides Before you start a shitstorm try to read this: when you have a POS country with a skeleton government and rebel groups controlling most of the place you have NO ECONOMY, and theres no money to be made. So, how do rebel groups get the money they need? by killing people in the most horrible way so NGOs like the red cross send aid, which those rebels steal and sell for a giant wad of cash. Google it, its everywhere these days. Here's one article from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jan/14/internationalaidanddevelopment.internationalnews
