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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Rated O for only fantasy

Video games are a source of many ways of progress toward a means.

Video games don’t have a bad influence on people in the real world.

They are a source where we can vent our stress, our frustration and our sadness into a fantasy world.

Recent buzz has surrounded the immensely popular “GTA V” because of the violence that is infused with the game.

Zachary Burgess was a person that recently that has been in the news for hijacking a truck and kidnapping a woman to replicate “GTA V.”

Another tragic episode linked to “GTA V” happened in Louisiana where an eight-year old boy shot and killed his grandma after playing “GTA V”.

Those are just separate incidents that don’t reflect the real problem that is going on.

It’s like watching a scary movie or reading a suspenseful book, you have fun watching them or reading them because of the way you interpret them.

We can’t have bad apples ruining the art that is video games.

The responsibility lies in the parents, in the case of eight-year-old who shot his grandmother.

There is no clear evidence that video games have a bad influence on other people.

There is the argument that playing video games is more active than watching television or seeing a movie due to the fact that people who play video games have a more hands-on experience with that type of entertainment.

Studies have shown that surgeons who play video games perform much better than those who don’t play video games.

Another point to add here is that video games can also be used as teaching tools.

It is up to people to choose how they interpret things, whether it would be playing video games or watching television.

But people should also understand the difference between fantasy and reality.

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Luis Guzman
Luis Guzman, Managing Multimedia Editor
Fall 2014 Hey guys and gals, my name is Luis Guzman. I am journalism student at Cerritos College, I’ve been going there for about three years now. I have been involved with Talon Marks, the newspaper for Cerritos College, for five semesters. I have done mostly everything there is to do in Talon Marks; covering breaking news, page design, video production, podcast production, and photography. I like to read in my off time, mostly books about science fiction and horror. I also like to write fiction of my own, mostly poetry and short fiction. The career I have in mind would involve anything that has to do with creative writing and maybe writing some articles for newspapers here and there.
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