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octothorp · 07-29-2004, 02:29 PM

I hadn't heard about this story so I had to go find some more details on it. Here's a link on the BBC site for anyone interested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest...ire/3934277.stm

When I was young, I would play Tetris so much that when I would go to bed and close my eyes, I would see Tetris, literally. I would dream Tetris. Obviously, the game had lodged itself somewhere deep in my psyche. Now, Tetris was a fairly innocent game (though it gives me pause to wonder, what happened to the blocks when they were deleted, and did it hurt them?), but I can imagine that one would get the same effect from playing any high-adrenaline game. I think that in high-adrenaline situations, your mind absorbs things at a deeper level--there's a survival instinct at play here. I can imagine an impressionable youth playing a game like this and having some patterns from the game imprinted on him at a very deep level--keeping in mind that some kids are more impressionable than others. When one boy murders another with no apparent motive, and the method of the killing mirrors that of the video-game, one has to suspect that the video-game something to do with his actions. He was probably a messed-up kid with some dark fantasies before playing the game, but the game encouraged those patterns.

07-29-2004, 02:29 PM	#16
octothorp Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: not lurking Exp:	I hadn't heard about this story so I had to go find some more details on it. Here's a link on the BBC site for anyone interested. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest...ire/3934277.stm When I was young, I would play Tetris so much that when I would go to bed and close my eyes, I would see Tetris, literally. I would dream Tetris. Obviously, the game had lodged itself somewhere deep in my psyche. Now, Tetris was a fairly innocent game (though it gives me pause to wonder, what happened to the blocks when they were deleted, and did it hurt them?), but I can imagine that one would get the same effect from playing any high-adrenaline game. I think that in high-adrenaline situations, your mind absorbs things at a deeper level--there's a survival instinct at play here. I can imagine an impressionable youth playing a game like this and having some patterns from the game imprinted on him at a very deep level--keeping in mind that some kids are more impressionable than others. When one boy murders another with no apparent motive, and the method of the killing mirrors that of the video-game, one has to suspect that the video-game something to do with his actions. He was probably a messed-up kid with some dark fantasies before playing the game, but the game encouraged those patterns.