There was a thing on tv a couple days ago that made me laugh my ass off where they were talking about games

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>and one of the things that made me laugh my ass off was when they said that the columbine killers trained to use weapons witht he game doom...Now that is fucling hilairious to me because from what I know There really isn't much of a mouselook in doom....How the fuck can someone train to use weapons on doom. it was the dumbest fucking thing I had ever heard...</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>well duh! Everyone knows that aiming and firing a firearm is just like using the direction and ctrl keys. The Y axis is a myth!</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>FPS's don't train you how to use a weapon, but they can desensitize you somewhat. The Marines used Doom as a part of their training a few years ago to condition recruits to react to hostile targets while navigating through simulated battle conditions. Not sure what they're using now, though.

Of course, when a couple of hateful kids with guns becme desensitized, who knows what can potentially happen?</div>

[SineSwiper]

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The Marine training was just that: training. It's not a desensitizing course. The military has been using games for years. Remember Battlezone?</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>desentitize my ass-- I've been playing violent games for nearly a decade and the thought of bloody violence still turns my stomach</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>...you get used to it, but I don't think you get "Desensitized". They knew what they were doing when they walked in the door.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Soldiers who were familiar with games tend to react faster to moving and pop up targets (which in turn leads to less hesitation when shooting people). Keep in mind that this is in conjuction with actual field and weapons training, so I'm not saying that videogames alone causes kids to start riddling their classmates with bullets. But it can make it easier if the kids are already messed up.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>what I as commenting onw as that they said they were trained in weapons by doom....no tthat they were desencitized by it....used it to train to use a weapon.....god people ade dumb....train in what use of a chaingun or rocket launcher....dumb fucks</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Heh...nevermind.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>The fractions of a second in reaction time does not compare to the hours of pre-meditative planning of the shooting.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It doesn't take much skill to use a gun. I mean those two were OBVIOUSLY very sick in the head. They called Quake the best game of all time, what kind of sick f*** calls a piece of s*** like Quake the best game of all time?!??!?!</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah seriously, I mean, Thrill Kill...like...hello? DAMN GOOD GAME!</div>