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Title: Video Game Violence Post by: DevilsAdvocate on March 24, 2005, 09:58:06 PM New guy here. Been lurking for awhile.
I figured this would be the best way to get the widest audience amongst those of you that I respect. Well, you know this one was coming. An interview on MSNBC.com about the school shooter in Minnesota blaming.... Yeah, video games. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7288381/ Well, discuss as appropriate, but it seems like everytime something violent happens, it's because video games gave the perpetrator the model or motivation. -Devil's Advocate Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Tebonas on March 25, 2005, 02:36:10 AM Video game violence? I'm all for it.
I'm also for violence against people blaming everything on the fad of the year instead of parents not actually parenting their children. Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Strazos on March 25, 2005, 04:07:40 AM About time...I called this last week when I first saw the little creep on TV.
Oh yeah, it's a stupid god damn crock of stinking horseshit, too. Instead of blamning a simple game, blame the parents; either they fucked up in their parenting methods, or they have bad genes. Either way, things like this never have, are, or will be, the fault of a game. "So, what's it smell like in there? Oh, you know, the inside of your ass, cause that's where your head is." Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Merusk on March 25, 2005, 05:50:34 AM What parents? In this case, Mom's in the crazy-house, Dad's killed himself a few years back and Grandpa's an old cop with a girlfriend. The kid was doomed. I'd rather blame his friends who came out after this and said, "Oh yeah, he mentioned shooting up the school a few times. We didn't think he'd do it.. he was just getting picked on a lot."
Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Murgos on March 25, 2005, 06:04:58 AM I thought they were trying to blame this one on Nazi's?
Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Paelos on March 25, 2005, 06:27:36 AM Quote from: Dumbass Doc If you pick up the average video game, you're going to see sequences that look just like the animation this boy produced. It's not something that we look at and say, “Oh, I've never seen that before.” You will see it a million times if you pick up any of the common video games available to teenagers today. I never knew Super Monkey Ball was teaching kids to kill. Oh noes! Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: HaemishM on March 25, 2005, 06:56:57 PM Wow, I hope that asshead doesn't get paid to do interviews like that, or study the school shootings either. Because he's basically said that everything a normal kid does and goes through, a school shooter goes through only the school shooter takes it further into violence.
/sarcasm How insightful of him to have figured that out, what with only many years of psychological schooling. I bet he was firstest in this class. /sarcasm He's looking for a link to tie these kids together, and he's looked at all the symptoms without taking one look at the disease. Fucking tool. Title: Re: Video Game Violence Post by: Strazos on March 25, 2005, 07:04:24 PM Nice redundance Haemish.
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