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Depends on the context.
If for example you're playing... Skyrim where the player character is a mortal born with the soul of Dragon-Serpent-Space-Time-God that has a bad case of split personality disorder, but is really just the fragment of a dream of an even bigger God... then you're not the psycho.
The whole point of playing a game is the ability to have the freedom to do whatever you want.
If I want to burn a marching band alive in the middle of a parade with a can of gasoline and proceed to pee on their corpses in a video game, it's because I can.
Depends on the context.
If for example you're playing... Skyrim where the player character is a mortal born with the soul of Dragon-Serpent-Space-Time-God that has a bad case of split personality disorder, but is really just the fragment of a dream of an even bigger God... then you're not the psycho.
the afterlife will be interesting for a Nord, Listener, Werewolf, Nightingale, Dovahkiin
I'm not crazy, the voice in my head said it to me.
Guest_TheDarkKnightReturns_*
the afterlife will be interesting for a Nord, Listener, Werewolf, Nightingale, Dovahkiin
Pshh afterlife. That's for ******. Real Dragonborn achieve apotheosis through violence, selfishness, and enlightenment.
A few minutes ago, I was a tyrant who sent a thousand men to die in a foreign land against superior foes, partly on purpose so I could free up some upkeep.
So yes.
Game's aren't real life, it takes a lot less work and the consequences are a lot less heavy in games then in real life. Top example, when you die in a game, you don't stop existing completely and the game doesn;t delete all its files, as it would in the real world to simulate the real thing.
You can't compare the two with the same standards because the inherent and fundamental laws of the universe and society do not operate the same in the game. It's like trying to put a rock in a beaker to get it to act like water. It won't work.
A few minutes ago, I was a tyrant who sent a thousand men to die in a foreign land against superior foes, partly on purpose so I could free up some upkeep.
So yes.
meanwhile I'm playing a king who decided turnips shall be the new national currency
Not caring about pixels makes you psychotic guys.
Apparently.
Laughing at absurdly unrealistic deaths also makes you a monster.
I spent an hour trying to steal the paintings in the center of the first town. >.>
Eh just use walk in shadows. Shouldn't take nearly as long XD
meanwhile I'm playing a king who decided turnips shall be the new national currency
You monster. I only settled for carrots.
I was psychotic from day one, it's not a lack of empathy it's the fact that people are *******s and I operate under that assumption unless they prove otherwise. Though they usually die first.
I shot Mordin... And guess what.
I laughed while I did it........Then later I let Tali jump of that cliff. Stupid suit rat.
Nah. This is why you can't make value judgements off limited information.
To start with, the people that post videos showing off how to be a jerk have a mentality where they believe being a jerk is something they should be proud of and to share it with as many people as they can. People that do good things often just do what's right without expectation of reward or recognition.
The majority of video games are about the player filling a heroic role. In DA:O lots of people get upset by the fact that they can't help Amethyne in the Alienage. There is a derogatory term applied to some gamers - "Carebear" - by other gamers, hardly a term that screams psychopath; though the people that use that term usually are psychopaths.
So no, we're not all nuts. 
nope most gamers are sadists or masochists or both as i've learned from online shooters
I remember reading somewhere that most Americans could be diagnosed with a mental disorder. Wouldn't be surprised if it were true.
Most people in what is considered the "Western" world can/will be diagnosed with a mental disorder. The most common would be depression.
It's more that they distinguish game from reality.
Not something I can really do that well myself.
I always wondered how that could occur.
^Being a psychopath doesn't translate to being a mass murderer or anything of the sort. It's just the personality I am talking about.
Exactly. The vast majority of psychopaths are non-violent, but thanks to television shows (Criminal Minds being the biggest offender) people think that all psychopaths are evil murderers planning to kill EVERYONE...
Most people in what is considered the "Western" world can/will be diagnosed with a mental disorder. The most common would be depression.
I think, as a society, we've become too obsessed with psychiatric diagnoses if we start calling our personal idiosyncrasies some form of mental or personality disorder.
EDIT: Seems like people prefer to just troll instead of discussing.
I think it could be a headline, which is a bit attention-grabbing.
We could have a dialogue about the relationship between players' actions in game and their thought process. But I think most people are going to be very much resistant to the idea of being considered a psychopath for killing (what often amounts to) nameless pixels. No more or less than people who watch Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad are sadists for enjoying a show that places such a huge emphasis on human suffering. It doesn't stop any of these people from living happy, productive lives or raising families.
If you just look hard enough you can find a mental disorder in every person on this planet.
The biggest lie in the universe IMO, this is how I see it, the most sane and trustworthy people I know are all gamers. The craziest and most untrustworthy (and frequently most violent) are frequently (not always) non-gamers.
When I showed Star Ocean 2 to my mom the other day, it occurred to me that it's one of the most gentle things there is, the first hour is basically just wandering town getting to know Rena and having fun exploring the village. It's a very light romantic thing.
Compare to your typical Hollywood/Michael Bay experience it's self-righteousness that would make Minsc blush, along with unremitting violence. Again, contrast to Super Mario, this silly plumber jumping over blocks, it became clear to me because I gravitated towards video games because they were significantly less violent than what the mainstream offered.
Honestly, it definitely seems like a few Hollywood directors for instance are more or less like psychopaths (Roman Polanski raping that woman, etc)
only game I went full on insane was black and white
just kept burning the villagers to death drowning their children and make them watch throw boulders at their homes and watch them suffer and get sick and die from hunger and sacrifice them
then realized i was doing what god does every day 
so its alright
Are gamer's psychopathic? All of us? Every last one?
Probably.
I think, as a society, we've become too obsessed with psychiatric diagnoses if we start calling our personal idiosyncrasies some form of mental or personality disorder.
It really depends. If you were to say that we were focused on taking medication to treat everything that we are diagnosed with then I agree. However, the thing that defines a mental disorder is being maladaptive (harmful/interrupting life).
If I were to have a habit of constantly washing my hands would I have a mental disorder? Yes and no. Yes in the fact that I am showing obsessive-compulsive behavior, but also no as long as I don't end up washing my hands to the extent that they start bleeding. A lot of people also meet the criteria for suffering from unipolar (major) depression, but it depends on how long the depression lasts to actually need treatment for it. Unfortunately, we have people that are depressed for three days, go to a psychiatrist (usually only prescribe medication) and suddenly think they are "cured" which leads to more of a problem later on.
Does having psychopathic tendencies (clinically known as antisocial tendencies) mean that you are a psychopath (antisocial personality disorder is the clinical term)? Absolutely not, people can show tendencies but this does not always mean that they will be diagnosed as psychopaths. Similarly, just because a person that plays GTA and constantly kills civilians does not mean that they are psychopaths. It can be considered worrisome, but we can not show a cause/effect between video game violence and real life violence.
We can show a correlation, but that's a different can of worms that is easily construed by people not educated in statistics.
If you just look hard enough you can find a mental disorder in every person on this planet.
Yes, but that does not necessarily mean that they actually have that disorder. There's an interesting book by Ethan Waters entitled Crazy Like Us about that subject.
only game I went full on insane was black and white
I once made a post about how you can max out your mana gain if you build kindergartens around your sacrifical altar and only sacrifice little girls (they worth the most mana).
I got shunned to Hell and back, don't know why.
People who are preaching you can't make a difference between reality and vidjagames while getting crazy about violence in games are the most funny example of cognitive dissonance ever.
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