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dtewi on 21 September 2009
Garamond said:
Here is a better essay paragraph:

While the Wii may soar above the heavens of console bliss, there is a war staged between the rival High Definition consoles. Microsoft and its big, green monster battle against the equally powerful behemoth of ages ago, Sony and its Playstation brand. But all too forgotten in this war of console elitism is the violence these wars and the games that are born from them cause - all too forgotten are the days where we rose up against the pixel on pixel violence we witnessed on the Super Nintendo and the Colecovision. We take nary a second to question Mario and his antics, and how he is single-handedly making koopas and goombas an endangered species. Our kids learn from a very young age that jumping on turtles is fun and exhilarating, a sad fact when I walk down the local river and see these innocent reptiles victimized for their place in video game lore. And when these kids grow older and put down their oversized and overstuffed Nintendo 64 controllers for a much more expensive gaming device, they begin to "shoot" and all things real and imaginary. Just last night when I visited my cousin, I could hear the cries of his parents. "My kid was shooting at Big Daddy!", my aunt would mutter to my good friend Robert Dole. "And now I'm not getting that alimony check. It's time to sue Take 2." Video game violence is a growing phenomenon, and we must act quickly to curb its deadly effects on children and teens at large. No dad, big or small, deserves to be shot because his child likes to grind his gears in all out war against a big and bad metal beast known simple as "REX". Big Brother is watching, and we must make sure what he sees is PG or below.

That made my heart cry.



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Sugu yoko de waratteita

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Kantor on 21 September 2009
Garamond said:
Here is a better essay paragraph:

While the Wii may soar above the heavens of console bliss, there is a war staged between the rival High Definition consoles. Microsoft and its big, green monster battle against the equally powerful behemoth of ages ago, Sony and its Playstation brand. But all too forgotten in this war of console elitism is the violence these wars and the games that are born from them cause - all too forgotten are the days where we rose up against the pixel on pixel violence we witnessed on the Super Nintendo and the Colecovision. We take nary a second to question Mario and his antics, and how he is single-handedly making koopas and goombas an endangered species. Our kids learn from a very young age that jumping on turtles is fun and exhilarating, a sad fact when I walk down the local river and see these innocent reptiles victimized for their place in video game lore. And when these kids grow older and put down their oversized and overstuffed Nintendo 64 controllers for a much more expensive gaming device, they begin to "shoot" and all things real and imaginary. Just last night when I visited my cousin, I could hear the cries of his parents. "My kid was shooting at Big Daddy!", my aunt would mutter to my good friend Robert Dole. "And now I'm not getting that alimony check. It's time to sue Take 2." Video game violence is a growing phenomenon, and we must act quickly to curb its deadly effects on children and teens at large. No dad, big or small, deserves to be shot because his child likes to grind his gears in all out war against a big and bad metal beast known simple as "REX". Big Brother is watching, and we must make sure what he sees is PG or below.

That was amazing.

Like, REALLY amazing.

OT: It says video games cause violence. Delete the whole thing and change your hypothesis, and maybe we'll help you >=(



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The Ghost of RubangB on 21 September 2009

Your main problem is you're wrong. If video games caused violence, I would've killed the whole world by now. Have you even SEEN the things I do in SimCity? I set King Koopa on my hometown!!!! And I made Doom levels of my own house and my high school!!! But if I saw a real life goomba, I'd just put a fake moustache on it and raise it as my son and love it forever!



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Pyramid Head on 21 September 2009

both your threads so far are crazy flamebait, but im biting twice.

i love videogames, but i do think they lead to crime at times, but so deos anything else, lots of people see stuff then do stuff

could even be a play



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Kantor on 21 September 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Your main problem is you're wrong. If video games caused violence, I would've killed the whole world by now. Have you even SEEN the things I do in SimCity? I set King Koopa on my hometown!!!! And I made Doom levels of my own house and my high school!!! But if I saw a real life goomba, I'd just put a fake moustache on it and raise it as my son and love it forever!

In Black and White, a woman asked me to save her sick brother from a forest. I crushed her house with a rock and threw her into the sea.

Top that.



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avinash habashi on 21 September 2009

Dude, You Guys, I Am Not Making Flamebait Threads, Seriously. I Honeslty Believe The Wii Is Worth More Than The Ps3/360 For Me Personally. Jesus.

And As Far As This Goes, Yes, The Title Is Misleading, And I See How You Could Think It's Flamebait, But My Teacher Grades Essasy ONLY. So It Is Pretty Important That I Get Good Scores On All Of Them. I Was Just Seeing If You Guys Could Give Feedback On What I Have Written So Far.



mike_intellivision on 21 September 2009

More topic introduction, less citation in the opening paragraph. That beginning was rather dense. Tell me what you are going to tell me. Then start telling me. And conclude by telling me what you told me. (I. Introduction. II-VI. Body. VII. Conclusion).

Also, unless Bruce D. Bartholow is on the faculty where you teach, you probably need to identify his institution (and even if he is, you should do so anyway).

Mike from Morgantown



      


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avinash habashi on 21 September 2009
mike_intellivision said:
More topic introduction, less citation in the opening paragraph. That beginning was rather dense. Tell me what you are going to tell me. Then start telling me. And conclude by telling me what you told me. (I. Introduction. II-VI. Body. VII. Conclusion).

Also, unless Bruce D. Bartholow is on the faculty where you teach, you probably need to identify his institution (and even if he is, you should do so anyway).

Mike from Morgantown


I havent written an introduction yet. That paragraph you read is actually the second paragraph. The thesis statement is going to be the last sentence in my introduction, which I havent written yet. I am working on the third paragraph right now which has to do with single parent homes.

I also listed all that shit about Bartholow in the works cited page, I didn't think I would need to post that.



Garamond on 21 September 2009

include that paragraph i wrote and see if your teacher writes you up



avinash habashi on 21 September 2009
Garamond said:
include that paragraph i wrote and see if your teacher writes you up


I Totally Would, But I Don't Think My Teacher Wants To Hear About Goombas And Nintendo Specifically Since Video Games Is Going To Be A Small Portion Of My Essay. I Couldn't Anyways Because It Is On The Net And Would Be So Obvious That I Copied It. It Was Incredibly Well Written Though. Haha.