Anne Diamond blah blah violent games blah blah photoshop lol

here we go again

Hmm, oh my god, she eats xbox-games .

Wow someone add that to the terrible photoshop thread.

I found the article laughable and narrow minded. Also it's the Daily Mail, they freak out other anything.

Germany, UK, who's next? :roll:

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Germany, UK, who's next? :roll:

lol, not Portugal I hope...

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lol, not Portugal I hope...

It will be Portugal, and they'll be banning your Crysis.

I bet someone at daily mail is a gamer himself and liked the idea of ruining the whole shitty article with a crappy shop

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Dr Tanya Byron, the television psychologist whose study was commissioned by Gordon Brown, said allowing children to play on computers unsupervised is as dangerous as letting them play outside on their own.

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...outside on their own....

Holy shit. That is really dangerous.

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...outside on their own....

Holy shit. That is really dangerous.

Yeah indeed. That single line just blew any credibility she might have had left for me. There is nothing damn wrong with playing outside on your own, it is actually because of the over concern in the last decade, with parents trying to protect their children at all times, that keeping your child indoors is kind of promoted, in turn actually promoting video games. I wonder if she figured that out already.

The Daily Mail strikes again... :roll:

That photoshop is absolutely hilarious however

From the sound of things she watched someone play a game for 10 minutes and wrote her opinion on it. I’m not exactly sure why a Celebrity Fit Club contestant is qualified to judge whether games are dangerous or not, though.

I've read the Tanya Byron article and it was pretty positive, all she was pushing for was a better rating system and age check on the console/PC (which I believe does exist on the 360, PS3 and Vista?) so it's definitely been taken out of context here… and that's hardly surprising because it's the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is in no way repressentative of anything, it’s read by the dregs of society.

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"It is important to note that there is no conclusive evidence of any link between playing computer games and violent behaviour in real life," the spokesperson continued. "Our concern is to make sure that inappropriate material is kept away from children. "The Prime Minister asked Dr Tanya Byron to lead a review to assess the effectiveness and adequacy of existing measures to help prevent children from being exposed to harmful or inappropriate material in videogames and on the internet, and to make recommendations for improvements or additional action.

"Dr Byron's review will be published shortly and Ministers will give careful consideration to any recommendations then." – Gamesindustry.biz

There’s a better article somewhere where the MP’s were discussing this in the house of commons but I can’t find the link. Basically someone had done zero research and was preaching how these are corrupting our youth, and a lady completely smashed down every argument he brought forward with things like logical reasoning and facts. It was beautiful.

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Resident Evil 4 - This violence can only be bad for you.

Where's Chris Morris when you need him? A BrassEye video games special would've been epic.

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...outside on their own....

Holy shit. That is really dangerous.

Yeah indeed. That single line just blew any credibility she might have had left for me. There is nothing damn wrong with playing outside on your own, it is actually because of the over concern in the last decade, with parents trying to protect their children at all times, that keeping your child indoors is kind of promoted, in turn actually promoting video games. I wonder if she figured that out already.

Problem with parents these days is they grew up in the 60's, took too much acid (I know it's hard to believe there's such a thing as too much acid), and when they finnally came down 40 years later they said "oh shit. wtf just happened" and are afraid their kids will do the same. They never grew up fully.

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Where's Chris Morris when you need him? A BrassEye video games special would've been epic.

Indeed lol

I always played outside by my own when I was younger, no kids my same age in the immediate area, or it would be me and a few friends. We definatly didn't get stabbed/kidnaped/mugged/murdered/raped .

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...outside on their own....

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Holy shit. That is really dangerous.

Yeah indeed. That single line just blew any credibility she might have had left for me. There is nothing damn wrong with playing outside on your own, it is actually because of the over concern in the last decade, with parents trying to protect their children at all times, that keeping your child indoors is kind of promoted, in turn actually promoting video games. I wonder if she figured that out already.

Problem with parents these days is they grew up in the 60's, took too much acid (I know it's hard to believe there's such a thing as too much acid), and when they finnally came down 40 years later they said "oh shit. wtf just happened" and are afraid their kids will do the same. They never grew up fully.

Sadly, I know a bunch of parents meeting those criteria. Of which one couple has a severe WoW-addict (the kind of addicts screaming "karazhan" while running through the school halls). Oh the irony.

$alphatest 1?

weird clipping error goin on with the game that is both in front of and behind her.

Photoshop disasters!