[Prometheus]

I think that different people respond to voilance in the media/games differently.

A person well rooted in reality and sociotal conscience (like me) might look at a violent video game as a release, a tactical training, or a honing or reflexes. Or maybe just pure entertainment. It's entertaining to see a charictar in a movie dodge bullets and run up walls whil filling his enemies with lead. To most people, I don't think it is more significant than that.

On the other hand, you have people who don't like themselves or those around them. Often these people retreat into themselves. They construct thier own reality, often off of the media they experiance. You've seen them. They make Star Wars or Lord of the Rings thier reality. I don't mean to say that thye actually believe that it exists - it's just how they prefer to think and view the world. These types can latch onto something very easily, especially something like an addictive shooting game. People like this have a remarkabile ability to totally imerse in what they are doing, wheather it be drawing, playing an instrument or shooting people in a game. As they play a given game, they become much more immersed in the charictar and that charictars actions than most people do. In doing this they experinace a sort of reality, that is more easily played out in the real world.