Before I start this blog, I want to apologize for the language in the video I have in my blog, but this video not only tells the story of my blog discussion , but the speaker makes very good points about video game violence. On September 30th 2011, A 46-year-old UK man is facing jail time after tracking down and attacking a 13-year-old boy in revenge for taunting the unemployed father of three during a session of Call of Duty: Black Ops on PS3. According to UK's The Daily Mirror, Mark Bradford snapped after a particularly frustrating day of online gaming, and proceeded to hunt down and strangle the young player who had been tormenting him from a local friend's house.(Gamesradar.com). When I read this article, I was in shock that a grown man would do this to a child over a video game and knowing that he had 3 kids about the same age as this boy I think that a lot of people in todays world get caught up in what is fiction and what is reality in this world. When people use these live chats during violent video games, it distorts the brain from what is real and what is not. When you are talking to a live person while playing a game, it makes you feel as if you are really in that video reality world and when they hurt you or kill you, a person takes it seriously. Not only does it distort the brains reasoning of reality, but it sometimes raises the violence level in people. People know killing is not something you can just go around doing, but playing these video games, I think, makes people more acceptable to violence when it happens.
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