Learn to shoot with video games says Hollywood

[Captain Cookiepants]

Anyone see the commercials for 'The Recruit' with Al Pacino and Colin Farrel?

"Where did you learn to shoot so well?"
"Nintendo"

SHIT. When're they gonna stop??
First xXx: "How did you learn to shoot so well?"
"I broke my leg and played First Person Shooters"
Now THIS shit.
HOW can you compare holding a controller, or using a mouse and keyboard to holding a gun?? Or even a light gun?? I've shot dozens of different models and NONE were like holding a controller or even close to a light gun.
Why does this STILL persist??
In a related note I will actually vote for the first time ever just so I can vote against Lieberman. (he has 'lie' right in his name lololololollol!!!11)

[Anonymous]

Exactly. Let's say you're a kid who has never shot a pistol before, but he's played plenty of FPS's.

Hold a gun in your hands. Odds are, if you're a wimp like me, the damn thing is heavy. Oh, it's not a brick, but it's not light, either. Even holding a pistol straight for a couple minutes isn't exactly easy.

Do you know how to control your breathing from a video game?

Does a mouse teach you how to "squeeze" the handgrip? You don't just pull the trigger; that just causes you to apply pressure on just one part of the grip, causing your aim to go high.

Does a FPS convey to you the amount of recoil? Does playing on a computer strengthen your arm muscles so your arm doesn't fly back?

Do you know how to actually load a pistol, chamber it, and take the safety off from a video game? Do you know how to dissamble and clean it from a video game?

Lieberman doesn't have a chance, anyway, and his video games are evil crap really disuades me from voting for him should he be the nominee, Dem that I am.

[chet]

Close your eyes and listen to Lieberman.

Who is he?









Wright Max. The guy from alf and norm show. It scares me how much he sounds like him.

Chet

[Rywill]

Massive overreaction, I think. I realize there are several people out there dumb enough to think that shooting in games helps you shoot in real life (and, in their defense, there are probably SOME aspects of shooting in a game that help you in real life, depending on the game--learning to lead, desensitization, etc.). But the lines from XXX and The Recruit are, you know...JOKES. Chill out, already.

[Lunch of Kong]

"Where did you learn to shoot so well?"
"Nintendo"

Seriously. This isn't true?

My first 10 shots out of gun went into the black rings at 25 yards. The v.p. of our Japanese office was videotaping me and he said, "Very good, Roger-san. You shoot a lot?" And I said, "no, I play a lot of computer games."

Yes, the gun and ammo were heavier than I expected, I cut my finger tips loading bullets into the clip, and I had to learn how to deal with the jams. But I still think video games and Hollywood helped me with the aiming part.

[Captain Cookiepants]

First: Roger you TROLL

Second: Yes I KNOW they are jokes, but they help to perpetuate the stereotype that is leading to widespread censorship on all video games. You don't think a 'concerned' parent will store that info in the back of their pea-brain? Or that morons like Jack Thompson WON'T use this sort of thing as 'proof'? "LOOK! Even Hollywood thinks so!"

What I'm saying is that video games are a harmless pasttime, UNLESS there are enough people stupid enough to want to save the children who're being 'harmed' by video games. Then video games become the number one killer of children, the cause of skin cancer, and the leading poacher of panda bears and we ALL must be protected from their evil.
Meanwhile us normal people sit back thinking that they'll come to their sense and stop being morons so we do nothing.

Things like this don't help, the sooner morons stop thinking of something, the sooner it's no longer a problem. Look at 'dangerous' TV shows like 'The Simpsons' or 'Married With Children', if a 'worse' show hadn't come along they might have been thrown off the air.
I'm sure that if 'Jackass' had just held on for awhile a show about two lesbians in edible underwear fighting crime in warehouses stocked with edible underwear solvent would have premiered and they would have moved on.

You see? Our goal shouldn't be to FIGHT these assholes, but to divert their attention with shiny objects, swears, or rainbows and sock puppets, they don't give up, but they do get distracted.

[Anonymous]

"Where did you learn to shoot so well?"
"Nintendo" >>>

You are missing the point. It's just product placement :wink:

[Captain Cookiepants]

Haha! If Nintendo had the balls to do that I'd buy another Gamecube just for fun!

'Nintendo Gamecube: $150

Time Splitters 2: $50

Dad's handgun: Free from hall closet

Getting revenge on the girls that laughed at you and the teachers that gave you bad grades: Priceless'