Video games don't cause violence, frustration with video games does

[Masark]

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter...to-aggression/

I find this plausible. Just ask any NES player how often they've flung the the controller across the room.

[Crissi]

FU Battletoads!

[Crissi]

In other news: Water still wet.


Edit: I played rp against some DK/rsham in S8 or whatever and was about ready to put my fist through my monitor. Such bullshit.

Reminds me of when we were trying to down VAEL in vanilla. So much frustration and anger. I did manage to make everyone laugh when posting a SS of me and another female guildie dying in a 69 pose. Druid pally love! but god damn Vael...month of solid tries til he died

[mvaliz]

FU Battletoads!

HAH! First game that came to my head as well! ^_^

PS. Back then, Euro-developed games kicked you repeatedly in the Bollocks! Everything from Shadow of the Beast to the first Rayman. Yeesh...

[mvaliz]

Reminds me of when we were trying to down VAEL in vanilla. So much frustration and anger. I did manage to make everyone laugh when posting a SS of me and another female guildie dying in a 69 pose. Druid pally love! but god damn Vael...month of solid tries til he died

You should've seen me when I got to Hexos in Brawl Club. I thoroughly quit Brawl Club due to that fight and it went from "Amazing" to "pure and utter crap" with that fight. That's not a fight - that's an embarrassment. >_<

[Ardeki]

Oh man, Battletoads...what was it, stage 3? The first time you had to do the dodging walls on the hoverbike routine. 7 year old me uttered many a screech at the TV back then...

These days I put whatever I'm playing down for a break long before I get to the controller-throwing stage, though.

[Zoaric]

Well... if ever there was a study to be a shoe-in for the cover of DUH! magazine, this
is it.

[mvaliz]

Raiding annoyed me, but anger was reserved for PVP.
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Oh man... when I was doing my last rep grind for Justicar as Alliance - it was Silverwing... which meant pugging WSG as Alliance.

Now, keep in mind IRL I'm a pretty big optimist and promoter of light-hearted humor and fun. ^_^

By the final stretch I was the most raging hysterical pessimist ever, punching walls IRL and just AFKing in corners yelling at people....

When I finally hit exalted (thanks to my guild helping me out after a mass nerdrage session I made in Guildchat) - I LITERALLY went and made myself two Rum n' Cokes just to calm my nerves down and to stop my hands from shaking. >_<

[Deleted]

So....frustration causes violence?

Why even bring video games into the equation? Frustration with ANYTHING can cause violence.

[Tradewind]

Many a NES/SNES controller has faced doom with the floor and/or drywall, so I tend to agree.

[Adam Jensen]

Well of course.

I was playing Skyrim, level 10, in a draugr dungeon and this Draugr Deathlord comes at me with an ebony waraxe. AT LEVEL 10. (Generally ebony doesn't start showing up until level 20+, maybe higher) So he just keeps one-shotting me while I try to figure out a way to kite this guy around. By the time I got him killed I was angry and frustrated. I didn't break or throw anything or yell, but I did swear a bit.

Oh I should also mention that this guy had friends too, another Draugr Deathlord with an orcish bow and a Draugr Wight that summoned Frost Atranarchs. So yeah, the three of them were fucking me up.

But the thing is, once it was dead, I cool off pretty quickly so I didn't go shooting a school full of innocent kids. I just decided that Solstheim might be a bit too hefty at the moment for me so I went back to Skyrim proper to level up.

And besides, I got a sweet ebony waraxe off of him so now I'm running around with an OP weapon (for my level) and enjoying it while it's OPness lasts.

[koodledrum]

Old school frustrations of getting to the end of Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time & a power cut destroying all that hard work....

[simsumre]

I agree. Many of times I have put an n64 controller through the tv.

[Deleted]

I've hitted some hardware out of frustration before, only when alone though. If theres people around I tend to just curse the frustration away...then again I think most people do.

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Old school frustrations of getting to the end of Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time & a power cut destroying all that hard work....

Finishing the pokemon league after 12365464968416458 attempts and running out of power during the Hall of Fame in gen first gameboys is surely up there as well. :P

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So....frustration causes violence?

Why even bring video games into the equation? Frustration with ANYTHING can cause violence.

Aye, the research was worth every penny.

[King Shark]

Broke your controller? Pfft, I broke the whole fucking system; ran that bitch over with my KITT pedal car, after Donatello got waxed in that fucking dam one too many times.

Fuck Nintendo.

[Deleted]

The title of the subject is wrong. They are saying that frustration is potential factor, not the sole cause, something that isn't exactly ground breaking. I actually just carried out a dissertation on video games and violence and had to remove frustration as a possible outside factor by setting games to easy. Any frustration increases levels of stress and in turn can cause aggression. In fact I even mentioned a possible increase in aggressive behaviors in online play such as LoL where your rank is determined by who has the most retards in your team, thus increased frustration which is linked to increased aggressive behavior.

My study supported the majority of the literature, showing that violent games and violent music exposure increased levels of aggressive behaviour.

[Pool of the Dead]

Frustration from ANYTHING causes anger/violence.

Hell I couldn't get my remote control for my TV working the other day and nearly flung it across the room.

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My study supported the majority of the literature, showing that violent games and violent music exposure increased levels of aggressive behaviour.

Violent people are violent by Nature.

[Revi]

My study supported the majority of the literature, showing that violent games and violent music exposure increased levels of aggressive behaviour.

Since no study has actually been able to prove that, and most thorough ones point to the contrary, I'd love to see your statistics/proof.

I'm surprised you haven't published, actual proof would get an article in newspapers across the globes.

And in the case of LoL, that just proves that the behavior of other humans that directly affect you can also cause frustration. Not exactly breaking new ground here...

[Yunru]

Oblivion on 100 dif. slider---- Have fun .

[Deleted]

Since no study has actually been able to prove that, and most thorough ones point to the contrary, I'd love to see your statistics/proof.

I'm surprised you haven't published, actual proof would get an article in newspapers across the globes.

And in the case of LoL, that just proves that the behavior of other humans that directly affect you can also cause frustration. Not exactly breaking new ground here...

I shown a direct link between priming effects of violent media and also a regression model showing increased aggressive behaviour with the more hours participants played violent video games per week. This isn't new nor was it the main hypothesis of my study. Most don't point to the contrary, like I said, I just wrote a dissertation about it, I read over a hundred published papers on the subject. If you would like, here is the latest meta-analysis on the subject released earlier this year - Greitemeyer, T. & Mugge, D. O. (2014). Video Games Do Affect Social Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of Violent and Prosocial Video Game Play.

Violent people are violent by Nature.

How do people become violent? Are you proposing all violent people are genetically at a predisposition? Learning through the environment and social interaction is mumbo-jumbo?