Glenn Beck is talking abauth video games

[Karreck]

I hate, really really hate, whenever some media talking head decides to spout off about video game violence. Instead of dealing with what the majority of research has shown, increased aggressive behavior in high consumers, they take it into fear mongering territory flapping their gums with their "video games cause violence" derp. The reasons people engage in violent behavior is such a complex issue that we can't say "That thing, that specific thing right there causes violence!" All we can say with any certainty is that there are risk factors that can lead to violent behavior and that the more of these risk factors one possesses, the higher the likelihood of violent behavior. I don't know what saddens me more. That media talking heads think they are qualified to talk about issues they don't understand, or that their listeners think they are qualified and believe them.

[anyaka21]

My deep knowledge of how large scale networks operates in combination with knowledge on how actual attacks can work and server management tells me he is telling outright lies trying to manipulate the people being his viewers in the session this thread is based upon. If he is different at other times, so be it.

People are not attacking his political views in this thread, they are calling him manipulative because he is in this instance telling lies and feeding his viewers them as the truth. Its called having critical thinking.

He is saying that by pushing a button on a gamepad, people learn how to hack. You wont even get into a simple WEP home network with that little effort, don't even think about devices designed for use in corporations.

I would guess that there is a no answer to the manipulative question and a yes answer.

If he knows what he is saying is untrue about video games, meaning the teaching to be a killer, and teaching people to hack, then yes, he's being manipulative. It seems pretty logical once you've played games or been a gamer that goes like these do not "teach" anyone to anything like what's being suggested that they do.

But if he really has no clue about the teaching aspect, and he's never played these games, then he's not really being manipulative as much as being completely naive about the subject matter.

To me, it can go either way. To me, it seems manipulative to suggest that 3 people in 100,000,000 have said they've done something violent because of the game. With those numbers in mind, there doesn't seem to be a causal relationship between committing violence and video games.

But then the flip side is that if he's never played Watch Dogs, or Assassins Creed, and what he knows is hearsay and what he's studied on the internet, it really makes him just naive on the subject. Though. to be honest, if this be the case, it does seem a tad hypocritical to address a subject like this and not really having actual game experience, or at least an actual rudimentary knowledge of how these games are played, and what a person has to do to "hack" into systems. if you are going to condemn a game like Watch Dogs, then have some actual knowledge of the game and it's gameplay before you do.

[Friendlyimmolation]

I played Outlast last night, does that make me a traumatized journalist now?

[Forsedar]

If only I could point my cell phone at ATMs and get thousands of dollars.

[Zoaric]

If only I could point my cell phone at ATMs and get thousands of dollars.

With one button push and little to no lasting repercussions, no less.

[Adam Jensen]

I was attacked by a wolf and so I ran.

After about twenty feet, the wolf ran back to its original location.

WoW taught me wilderness survival.

[teddytous]

I hear they all ate cereal too. CEREAL CAUSES GUN VIOLENCE. You heard it here first folks.

[tiporispit]

Rachel Maddow - Rhodes Scholar, Doctor of Philosophy in politics at Oxford University.

Glenn Beck - barely graduated highschool, washed-up drug addict and conservative darling.

Great comparison - the kind I expect from the average conservative

All that education, and he's the one with mansions all over the United States. Proof-positive that there is a large chasm between being able to absorb information, and being able to interpret and use the information. The valedictorian who can't change the oil in a car. You could memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, and still not understand a single world of it. You'd think that clown, Maddow, would have learned to present supporting evidence in her arguments, rather than non-stop propaganda and rhetoric, somewhere during that Ph.D. Meh, why bother. A Democrat would never understand the difference.

[LilSaihah]

I hear they all ate cereal too. CEREAL CAUSES GUN VIOLENCE. You heard it here first folks.

Well, it's not really a statement with no correlation like "vidyamagames cause gun violence". Nobody went on a mass murdering spree on an empty stomach.