Penn & Teller: B. S. Game Violence Episode
July 13, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
If you have Showtime then you should be watching Penn & Teller’s: Bullshit. 
The format of the show is that they take a commonly held idea and then pick it apart. Past shows have been about things like astrology, orgasms and being green.
Episode 3 of season 7 is the one that you’ll probably be most interested in: video games violence.
I watched it the episode when it first came out and pretty much wanted to put my fist through the TV when Jack Thompson showed his zealot self.
The guys over at Game Politics posted three links on YouTube to the video game episode and I’m posting the videos here. I’m glad that they found the videos because I had no idea that someone had put them on YouTube. Thanks guys!
Part 1/3
Part 2/3
Part 3/3
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This hits close to home because I grew up playing FPS and now my kids are playing it too. My reason is that since me and my friends didn’t grow up to be homicidal-suicidal mass killers, then it must be ok for them to play it too.
Thanks, you inspired me to blog about it here
I think that Bull Shit did a good job of pointing out huge holes in the idea that kids who play FPS will end up massacring a school full of children. My husband and I have already had a conversation about whether we would let our 8 yr old [or however young/old] play FPS and we both decided that it will depend on our kids in a couple of years. Only the parent really knows their kid [or should know] and it’s definitely a matter of maturity.