Out of the closet now (Score 1)

Ive been reading /. for some time now and have never posted but w/ this topic im coming out of the closet. LEt me start off by saying ive been playing video games for an unhealthy amount of the day, everyday, since i was in the single digits (atari 2600 days). Heck, playing games even got me my first job. ANd the worst thing i think i may have gotten from it is some chalky skin in the summer from being inside more then i should (but hell, im sure some girls like chalky, pasty skin and im sure if the sun gives you cancer ill be alright... but if monitors give you cancer...) anyhow. I ask myself. Does/do video games tend to make me more violent? I think not. Does Jerry Springer make me want to dress up like a woman and date my sisters, uncle, cousins father? No. After playing a game of Counter- STrike, do i want to run down to the local army surpluss store and get me one of those dandy MP5's and take out the VIP? i think not. Does it desesencitize me to viloence? Sure it does. Does T.V. do the same? Sure it does. What came first? How do i know i wasn't pretty much already desencitized to the whole thing before the graphics got far along enough for people to complain about it. Or for the children today, im sure theve watched alot more T.V. before there gaming days begin. Lets face it, "Battle Tank" for the 2600 isnt going to make people violent (except maybe for that bored w/ the invisible tanks + bullets, i can see getiing pissed at that). So is it possible that the 14 or so years before that the Rape, and murders, and the evening NEWS would make me more violent? How can you do a study like this and single out one thing and say, study shows that..... There is alot more to life then playing video games. But maybe if they can clone a few kids, and not let themn have any interaction w/ anything excpet for video games they could prove a point, the scientists are wack! (poor cloned kids). But really. Why is everone (um...everyone: Everyone but us) always looking for the blame? Could it be parenting issue? Hell NO! There is nobody on the face of this plaent who has not done a perfect job in raising a little angle, you all know this is true. Every kid had the values and morals infused into them by there parents when they get home from work at the end of the day, after dinner, before the game or the movie, right before johnny goes to bed, that makes them perfect children. Ofcourse the deeper issue here is "the kid from across the street", they are always evil........ Is it possible that some of us have inherit traits, violence being one of them? Its o.k. if our dog gets out of the house a starts "rounding" up the neighbors cats as well as the neighbor. We can just say "well, thats what he was bred for, hes a hearding dog". And poeple will agree w/ that. Isn't it possible, after thousands of years of hunting and killing, each of us has a natural hunter instinct in us? Wether we respond to this in any form is dependent on the person, but its just as possible for Quake making me joing the neighborhood clan w/ the kid from across the street as long as i can bring my hatchet along. Are they gonna do a test to see if video games make you stupid also? They should get a whole bunch of kids, make them play UT or Q3 and then have them stand on the roof of a 4 story building and ask them whats the health/armour ratio loss if you were to jump? Then ask them to demostrate (ovcourse it would help if you put a carboard medipack at the bottom so they could get that +20 health at impact). Shoot, when i was young i made carboard wings and thought i could fly (thank god i didnt have access to the roof, or maybe too bad?). ok, ive rambled long enough and my MP5 is really starting to dig into my hip. My boss is like 10 cubicles down so im thinking of I duck and strafe inbetween cubicles, and providing there are no "secrets" on the way, i should be able to finish off the whole complex w/ 5 minutes. If not, its no big deal, i know the console command for god mode... but first it think im just going to walk around and test my FPS.