The reality of shooter video games

Kimmy: What do you like most about war/shooter video games?

Mitchell: The competitiveness and the modren sort of weapons.

Kimmy: Why do you play the video games?

Mitchell: Because they're popular and I find them interesting.

Kimmy: How do you feel about the violence within the games?

Mitchell: It doesn't really bother me because I've become so use to it from the games that it doesn't really bother me at all. 

Kimmy: What game do you play the most? Or like the most?

Mitchell: Call of Duty series games because they are the most competitive.

Kimmy: How do you feel about the violence in this video?

Mitchell: It's very real but sort of what I expected. It's what war is really like.

Kimmy: What makes this video different from the video games you play?

Mitchell: It's not as action oriented but everything dangerous that happens is very real and it doesn't seem like you could be easily killed. Like that guy how got shot in the head, he could have easily died. And the people who shot at them were not making a show, they actually wanted to kill the soldiers. 

Kimmy: When you say 'it doesn't seem like you could be easily killed' what do you mean?

Mitchell: Like in a video game, no one would have gotten hurt in that situation because they would have been protected. But it's not the same in real life. 

Kimmy: How did watching this video make you feel?

Mitchell: It just sort of made me realize that stuff like this is real and is not just happening in video games, that it happens in real life. That these people can not just restart again, there is no coming back from it if they are killed. 

Kimmy: Do you feel any differently about video games after seeing this video?

Mitchell: Not really. It wasn't anything surprising. It didn't make me realize anything new, it was what I expected. It's war and it's what happens. And I don't feel like video games are an accurate interruptions of what war is but it could make someone else realize what really happens.

Wild bird

This is a picture of my pet quail Dougy. He is about 3 years old now but I have had him since he was only 2 days old. This picture is important to me because Dougy means the world to me. In this picture, Dougy was about 7 months old and he is laying next to his cage under his heat lamp to warm up. It was in the middle of December so the house was pretty chilly. I let him out of his cage and he was cuddling with me but decided to go over to his heat lamp instead.

In this picture, I edited out everything that is surrounding Dougie. I think be editing the picture, you loose a lot of context of the original picture. One may not realize that this bird is indoors and may just think he is in the wold. That the brightness to the picture is from the sun and not a heat lamp. In regards to the Wartime Photography video we watched, this shows that by editing a picture, you lose context and that you can not believe everything you see.