Damn, I'm  emotionally unhealthy and mentally unstable.

This reminds me of Mothers Against Canada (See South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

Blame Video Games! Blame Video Games!  The smut we must stop, the trash we must smash, laughter and fun must all be undone, we must blame them and cause a fuss before somebody thinks of blaming us!

UPDATE: Just who do you think you are? It's nowhere near close to april fools day!!1

Haha, if that's not satire I'm scared.  I bet MAVAV t-shirts will be the next big thing. Ingenious.

The worst part is "Developers profit...".
I am used to be called evil for being a game developer. But I just can't take the fact that people think I am also making good money out of it.

Here in Argentina, we founded ADVA (Argentine Videogames Developers Association). When the inspector came to approve the legalisation of the association, he asked: "Aren't video games unhealthy?".
We've been able to convince him otherwise, but a good answer would have been: "No, unless you are smoking while playing".

Just another brick in the wall :)

Cheers,
Daniel.

Eugh, I just sent them an e-mail. I'm sorry, but when a site says something like "Never assume drugs or otherwise is the problem for your child's poor academic performance", you just have to do something.

Great to see people crusading for good.  Someone should contact them (contact@mavav.org) and inform them of the horrors of Child's Play.  Those evil masterminds at Penny Arcade are working to distribute their electronic smut to poor, sick children!  They have to be stopped!

I love the solid backing of their claims:
"Do video games make people violent?
Yes. What was once a debatable question, is now fact. New research has concluded that video game violence and behavior related violence are in fact closely related."

And the word "addicting" still bothers me.  Merriam Webster doesn't have it defined online, and dictionary.com only lists it without giving a definition or example.  Besides, anything you are trying to say with the word "addicting" can be said with the word "addictive" in a more well-constructed sentence.

Dang, it was just a fake! I've just embarrassed myself again, didn't I? Thanks a lot, Ron!

Mission accomplished

I am just glad it is fake.

Wait, people are still just learning about this?

Great spoof.

However, I think its time we talked about the very serious danger of paper RPG's. This is drop-dead serious. Many of you have probably seen this, but it's worth mentioning for everybody's sake.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

I'm officially getting rid of my 20-sided die.

I supose you've got to be a bit mentally unstable when you spent 50% or more of your time on a MMO game, or on the sims or something like that, or anything to do with games...

Cause, then you'd be neglecting social activities(social internet activities don't count).
Cause, text on the internet is extremely impersonal,
you may find if you met half the people you know online in real-life they wouldn't act like they type.

I already know i'm mentally unstable.
So, i can play games all i want! mwhahaha!

Duke Nukem made me eat my family!

They say that game-addicted people would fail maths, every good FPS player knows that on a flat surface a headshot at 20 paces requires a gun elevation of +10.5 degrees ;-)

interesting point actually, marq - a very good quake3 player I know (called marv, in fact) once remarked to me that all high-level fps gaming is basically maths.

Unreal Tournament is better.  I used to get the "ripper" weapon which fired bouncing razor blades around a room, getting angles to cut somebodies head off became a skill, and damn good fun! ;-)

I didn't like Quake 3 and UT 2k3 much, they focused on "characters" rather than letting the player being the character. I didn't mind being Guybrush Threepwood and Manny Cavalera, because it was part of a story, but a FPS should just be mindless stress relief of total mayhem. Main reason I stayed away from "reality" mods, I didn't get UT to be releastic, I got it to release frustration by dying shed-loads while killing several thousand CPU bots.

yea i like the ripper too, i dont really like the newer versions of UT very much...too complicated

Sorry to drag on, but I think one of the troubles today is that games are too realistic. When I was a lad, and the C64 was new technology (80's child), games weren't realistic, but they were fun. There was blatent difference between C64 games and the real world (I still have my original C64 machine, and an emulator with all my games, and play them often! Great stuff!).

However, with games now mimicing real-world, including breathing, high definition graphics etc., I can see how people can be sucked in and get lost between the two. Yes, I believe that games can make people violent. Nobody will take a hypnotised monkey from a bar and use it as a "monkey wrench" in real life, but guns are accessible in both the game world and real world, and I believe that is where the problem occurs.

I'll stop jabbering now...

What a great site. I'd never realised all the hidden dangers of videogames before. I'm so glad you posted this site for us.

hi

Games made me splash bearded-men with root beer!