12th October 2005, 3:13 PM
Read it before I saw your response. Uncanny!
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/violent-gam...130254.php
So that explains it. The Penny Arcade e-mail bomb has struck again! That's why you can't get through today.
Yeah, the guy is basically wanting a game company to make a game where a father exacts revenge on the gaming industry for killing his kid.
Um...
Exactly what is this supposed to do really? $10,000 to a charity for that? What is the point? Is this vengance to be litigation related or violence? If he means vengence as in violence, he is promoting the creation of a violent game. The topic matter seems pretty irrelevent. I mean, what is the point? What is he trying to say?
I must take a small issue with your argument there though. You imagine that all psychology tests take place "in the lab". That's a bit off. Also, you suggest that any test won't reflect what may happen in the real world. If that is the case, in what way has a scientific test been conducted? The reality is scientists are welll aware of these limitations when they set up and conduct these tests. Any data they do gleam from them will be listed with exactly what limitations they know are in place. Reading a standard news site to get your scientific information is a bit of a middle man approach. I recommend reading the actual study straight from the scientists. Usually you can find these available at the web sites various institutes host. Then you can actually find the logical flaws in the experiment's design first hand, rather than giving a vague "well, I don't know the details, but science doesn't has it's limits!". If you look around, you may find that a lot of the tests may not have been conducted well and you can actually point out the flaws right there.
That's your best bet.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/violent-gam...130254.php
So that explains it. The Penny Arcade e-mail bomb has struck again! That's why you can't get through today.
Yeah, the guy is basically wanting a game company to make a game where a father exacts revenge on the gaming industry for killing his kid.
Um...
Exactly what is this supposed to do really? $10,000 to a charity for that? What is the point? Is this vengance to be litigation related or violence? If he means vengence as in violence, he is promoting the creation of a violent game. The topic matter seems pretty irrelevent. I mean, what is the point? What is he trying to say?
I must take a small issue with your argument there though. You imagine that all psychology tests take place "in the lab". That's a bit off. Also, you suggest that any test won't reflect what may happen in the real world. If that is the case, in what way has a scientific test been conducted? The reality is scientists are welll aware of these limitations when they set up and conduct these tests. Any data they do gleam from them will be listed with exactly what limitations they know are in place. Reading a standard news site to get your scientific information is a bit of a middle man approach. I recommend reading the actual study straight from the scientists. Usually you can find these available at the web sites various institutes host. Then you can actually find the logical flaws in the experiment's design first hand, rather than giving a vague "well, I don't know the details, but science doesn't has it's limits!". If you look around, you may find that a lot of the tests may not have been conducted well and you can actually point out the flaws right there.
That's your best bet.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)