High-Jinks: Shoot-Out Analysis

There has long been conspiracies about if violent role playing games are harmful or harmless. There is plenty of data to support each side. Violent role playing games can cause problems. Violent role playing games make kids want to see other kids in pain, they will throw away money just to play a game, and it makes kids miss out in school. In the article “ It’s a Duel:How Do violent video Games Affect Kids?” the author Shankar Vedantam suggests that kids who play violent video games are more violent than other kids. Social psychologist Brad Bushman at The Ohio State University had kids play violent video games (or in other words violent role playing games), then he had them play music as loud or as quiet as they like in other people’s ears. The result was that they were more violent. The kids who played violent video games blasted out the other person's ears. This indicates to me that kids who play violent video games are more violent than kids who don’t. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” Guy Martin says that there is a $20 entry fee that goes into the winner’s pot. This indicates that when you enter the game and don’t win you waste $20. This demonstrates that kids throw away money just to do something that they might not even be in for long. Other …show more content…
Although this is not always true. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin say that a game called Killer lasts for two weeks of school at the end of the year. Finals are at the end of the year. So while kids should be studying they are actually playing a violent game. Now you could say that this is just a harmless game to calm the nerves. This also can be proven wrong. In the same article Guy Martin say that there was a team who sat in a van and waited for a kid to come out of his house so the team could shoot him. So while you have to worry about finals you also have to worry about not getting shot by a squirt