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My thoughts are this:

It is possible for a game to influence a person to commit a violent crime or any nature, but only on one condition. The person was mentally unstable to begin with. Their state of mind and the chemicals making up their thought processes could simply have been triggered into something else by the game's actions. This is no big thing, as a balloon popping or dripping water does the same thing to pre-mentally ill patients. Something has to set these people off, and this means they commited the acts not because of the game, but because of their mental stability, which existed even before the game was published.

The game may be the "trigger", but don't shovel blame onto the industry because someone had an already occuring possibility of a mental disorder.

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Re: Games getting too real?

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Originally posted by NARFism
Do you think games will ever get too real?

Lets just say...Grand Theft Auto. Eventually technology will enable them to recreate the world perfectly.... graphics AND physics, you know...gravity, human behaviour etc.

This is incorrect. If you have ever studied design theory etc, as I have, you would know this:

1) No creation can be more complex than its creator.
2) No creation can be equally as complex as its creator, as no creator has the ability to know exactly his or her own complexity, the complexity of a creation can only asymptate towards the complexity of its creator. Asymptate means get infinitely close but never equal.

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See, games can never get too real so long as people have the common flippin' sense to realize its a GAME, and nothing more.

Exactly my feelings.

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yes i think that exessive playing would also result in tha sorta thing

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