Ohhh boy, make sure to get yourself a fast car and drive it as fast as you can into the military base, then steal yourself a harrier jet. Endless fun.

Video games don't "make" anyone do anything and don't influence the real world behavior of any sane or rational person.

I'm willing to bet that isn't true. Everything has an influence. Spending a lot of time engaged in fantasy violent behavior as a kid must have a significant influence. And then there is the tweak factor.

The question is, what is the influence? Obviously it doesn't turn you into a raging psycho, but it's hard to say what it actually does. It's nearly impossible to do a meaningful study on things like this.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099867

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The details would be interesting, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the effect to be higher aggression.

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Are you shittin' me? C'mon dude, smarten up. ST is a magnet for ridiculous and inane posts as we all know, but this one takes the cake.

I always find responses like this most interesting. I don't know how you may have interpreted what I have written, and yes maybe the bit about points should have been in pink, but may I question you? How in fact is it that you think GTA does not promote (support or actively encourage (a cause, venture, etc.); further the progress of.) the culture (the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.) of motorists (yes I will concede the point here, but I assume that some gamers are also motorists) Show me your smarts that prove that people are more likely to perform an action they have never known existed, over something they have seen done previously. The human race is simply not that creative, for example, many will often revert to questioning the personal traits of an author because they are unable to put forward any greater argument.

Well, my parent's generation aren't all batshit crazy murderers who think they're superheroes/villians from the gratuitous violence in comic books, so I don't think that GTA is going to do much.

In a similar vein, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12600403

"....and less adaptive/constructive forms of expressing anger while driving, ..." it is in this moment that I suggest that one is more likely to revert to an existing neural pathway.