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There are unstable people in all places, anything might drive them to KILL, **** when i play starcraft i used to kill of my alies if they pissed me off ... but that is a GAME not life. Dude if i could shout all the bad drivers here, i would be the greatest mass murdere alive ....
no but i did read something about some game displaying some subliminal messages ... ???? have you guys heard anything about that ?
Vorlin -
well written. i actually came very close to posting on their forums untill i figured out that nobody would ever read it and i probably didnt have the time to give the subject its due. the only thing i would have changed if i could would be to throw in something about the "gore" of warcraft II and diablo being at about the level of the classic "frogger" where you would see a smushed frog if you got run-over, cause thats about all you see in those games...smoosed/slightly bloody and (in the case of WCII) pixilated.
Yeah really...the graphics weren't much to speak of, considering it was a mostly top-down slightly-kiltered isometric view and the "gore" wasn't anything to write home about. Either way, I hope someone pays attention to it. Then again, they probably won't because God help us if someone actually tries to represent the other side of the coin.
Don't you all see!?! It's all because of that product of an evil manufacturer, AGE OF EMPIRES 2. Microsoft intented this to happen. They want people to kill other people. Or what about that evil organisation called Blizzard? Damn, they work with the devil himself! Look at all the evil games they made! Where is this world going?:)
People should not blaim video games for violance, people should be blaimed.
(you know, that microsoft part wasn't sarcastic)
Hey Im not really suggesting anything against those games, but the games he was playing, dont you think they could of influenced him a bit?
See my posts about how if a person takes any game into context as part of reality, they need to be put in a padded room. There's a difference between trying to "escape reality" by being online and people that think they're invincible because they can die/respawn in UT like nobody's business and therefore think they can't be killed when they gun down X number of people.
iaceo crimen, ergo sum, criminosus
I will admit that games are getting more and more realistic when it comes to gore, AI response and so forth, but come on, just watch a few action flicks and you've got the knowledge to become a terrorist!
Dammit! It ain't just videogames, it's everything!
What people need to realize is that it takes someone with an ability to distinct between reality and fiction (Like vorlin said) and to be able to tell from right and wrong.
I just don't understand how someone can possibly blame the books. There are really only two reasons you'd pick up a book on assassins or something. One, you want to learn something about them. Perhaps to find out what motivates screwed up personalities and learn to better deal with them. And that's a perfectly innocent reason, most of us on this site have books like that.
Or, you plan to use the material to hurt someone. If the books were responsible for murder it's because the kid picked them up beforehand and figured out what he wanted to do later! Sane people don't just randomly pick up a book on assassins, read it, and then suddenly have the desire to kill. The books are only involved if you have that desire beforehand!
How ****ing stupid are the police and the media?
these werent books about REAL assassins, they were fiction books read for entertainment. one would not read those for either of those two reasons(unless they had a VERY messed up view of reality). The Day of The Jackal is a good example of fiction about an assassin.Quote:
Originally posted here by Alcatraz
I just don't understand how someone can possibly blame the books. There are really only two reasons you'd pick up a book on assassins or something. One, you want to learn something about them. Perhaps to find out what motivates screwed up personalities and learn to better deal with them. And that's a perfectly innocent reason, most of us on this site have books like that.