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| You are really a very stupid man, Jack Thompson... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 17 2007, 08:34 PM (333 Views) | |
| Crow Evermore | Apr 17 2007, 08:34 PM Post #1 |
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Hurf Durf
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So, apparently all the horrible thing happening at Virgina Tech... Jack Thompson is blaming it on video games. Again. http://kotaku.com/gaming/feature/feature-d...lies-252914.php And to cite my friend, Darth Snickers (LOL): "7. After Robert Steinhauser's deadly shooting at a school in Erfurt, Germany, police found "52 shooter games, most notably Counterstrike Half-Life which was his game of choice." Steinhauser "dressed up like the hero in that game for his assault." Darth Snickers-Skipzizzle says: COUNTERSTRIKE HALF-LIFE IS NOT A GAME Darth Snickers-Skipzizzle says: THOSE ARE 2 GAMES Darth Snickers-Skipzizzle says: 2 Darth Snickers-Skipzizzle says: DIFFERENT Darth Snickers-Skipzizzle says: GAMES" |
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| Roki | Apr 17 2007, 08:42 PM Post #2 |
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Woah. How did I know this was going to happen? I wish Tack Jhompson would butt out on politics. Hasn't it already been clear that he was mentally unstable? Or am I wrong? |
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| Crow Evermore | Apr 17 2007, 08:44 PM Post #3 |
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Hurf Durf
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I don't know about that, but...Yeah, he needs to GTFO our internets. Er, I mean politics. And now Dr. Phil's in on this. The *censored* ...
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| Darth Makar | Apr 17 2007, 08:52 PM Post #4 |
Eat Cheese or Die Trying
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While I think that some videogame decensitize society to violence, so do many movies and TV shows. I don't think that videogames should be fully responsible for this. And it is also no excuse for their behavioral problems, or their homelives, etc. |
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| Fullmetal | Apr 17 2007, 08:56 PM Post #5 |
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Moblin
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This is just like any school shooting. People cannot accept that the guy just decided to commit suicide while doing the most damage possible to get some attention. So instead of being seen in the newspaper in the dead people section, he's gonna be seen on TV, the newspapers, internet, radio, whatever. And the people needs something else to blame. Something HAS to have affected him so that he'd do that. So they blame anything that can be related in any way to violence. Video games, heavy metal, guns, whatever. I read an article in the newspaper. The guy who wrote it basically said that by rejecting people too much, our society is making human bombs. Ever noticed the fact that most of the school shooters are loners? All they have? Video games and music. Both are very easy to blame. Millions of people play violent video games and/or listen to heavy metal. These people aren't killers. They're like you and me. |
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| Fudge | Apr 17 2007, 09:46 PM Post #6 |
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i dont know who Jack Thompson is, but is he only sayin that due to the fact he is asian?. cud be just going on a stereo typical asian. You know how it is these days with racism/stereo typing. Im not asian myself tho btw. I hate stereo Typing. ohh also i 4got to mention in England some boy actually killed his friend in one of the ways u can kill ppl on the game ManHunt, after he just played the game. They banned the game from being sold in UK stores i think. Dont know if anyone actually wanted to hear that but anyways :\ |
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| Crow Evermore | Apr 18 2007, 07:57 PM Post #7 |
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I'm gonna go out and kills some people. Rammstein and Resident Evil made me do it. But seriously. Though they don't know Cho's true motives for his crime, I've ready many many articles about the situation and it's blatantly obvious that video games had nothing to do with it. Also, Jacky referred to the game that "caused" the incidents as Counterstrike Half-Life. Wtf. |
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| Naoko | Apr 18 2007, 10:17 PM Post #8 |
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I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS
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*Cough* I fixed the title, so you know... |
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| Fudge | Apr 19 2007, 10:11 AM Post #9 |
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Skulltula
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games dont make ppl kill someone, just like that, if someone's out they head thats what possesses them to do things like that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5N-nGVyDw&NR=1 Hes dressed a bit, as if you were in a game tho :| just the cream vest n that cap backwords. He didnt just throw on anything on the day that piece of scum died. |
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