im surpsied he didnt get pwned with a mallet.

Look, you're obviously of the opinion that exposing your children to this level of violence at this age it ok. I completely disagree.

As I said in a previous post, people can grab stats to back up almost any viewpoint, but here is a roundup of many studies on the effects on children of violence.

It has some very choice experiments:

"In 1956, researchers took to the laboratory to compare the behaviour of 24 children watching TV. Half watched a violent episode of the cartoon Woody Woodpecker, and the other 12 watched the non-violent cartoon The Little Red Hen. During play afterwards, the researchers observed that the children who watched the violent cartoon were much more likely to hit other children and break toys.

Six years later, in 1963, professors A. Badura, D. Ross and S.A. Ross studied the effect of exposure to real-world violence, television violence, and cartoon violence. They divided 100 preschool children into four groups. The first group watched a real person shout insults at an inflatable doll while hitting it with a mallet. The second group watched the incident on television. The third watched a cartoon version of the same scene, and the fourth watched nothing.

When all the children were later exposed to a frustrating situation, the first three groups responded with more aggression than the control group. The children who watched the incident on television were just as aggressive as those who had watched the real person use the mallet; and both were more aggressive than those who had only watched the cartoon."

You think that this does nothing to him, and he is a well rounded kid. And he may well be... but why does he need to be exposed to any of this stuff in the first place? Why are you playing these games when he is awake and able to see and join in, why is he being exposed, even unintentionally to horror films?

I really hope that he turns out to be a great adult, but you're stacking thins up against him. You, and others here seem to forget just how young 4/5 really is, and seem hell bent on them growing up as quickly as possible.

Others too here are all on about 'you can bubble wrap your kids and protect them from everything'. Well, duh, of course you can, let them play, let them get hurt, let them experience play with other kids and the conflicts and such that come out of that, but do they really need, AT FIVE, to be exposed to violent games? Really? You think that in his mind he doesn't see people getting shot? OK then.

There seems to be a pretty good split here on those who think this is awesome, and those who don't... but I think a bunch of those that think it's awesome fail to realize how young 5 really is. That's my point... 5, (and 4 from your other video) is too darn young for these games, nothing of the sort of 'violent video games are evil' or anything like that. Just you need to be old enough to be able to handle them properly, and I don't think you can do that until you're much older than 5.

Dr. Mallet was also on This American Life.

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I saw this exact same thing happen at a college fitness center. Kid ran headlong into the glass back wall of a Racquetball court. It made a wondrous sound that I shall not soon forget. There was this same incessant wailing followed by a pronounced *FOOOOOOOM*, as if a giant bronze bell had been struck with a soft mallet, then three seconds of startled silence before the crying started.

oh yeah, forgot about that..big natural deformed mallet appendage....poor big-clawed bastards!

agree with the text chosen....too hard to read at first glance...
green on the coconut, perhaps a frog zappin a fly with its tongue, perched on the edge..

Viral needs the Bio-Haz symbol!

The Warhol reference reminds me of soup, not his pop-art trip...
A sift with paint splotch action, or Dali jugglin' the kitties, standing inside...

Animation, with the WB logo with Videosift across it.....DANGER! How bout a buncha celluloid hanging from the top, with one frame enlarged and colorized, with a cartoon mallet hitting a head with stars....etc.....?

Goddamn! Give Hiroshi some congas, this kid cooks! But what skills of a practical nature, are enhanced, as the result of his mastery of, blasting the notes of an etude, with a gopher mallet??