vidoe games do not suck
video games do not cause people to do crazy things
Any Fa**ot that thinks game cause shootings at school should die
video games are not the cause its the way the person is being treated at school is the cause
video games do not cause people to kill, as does a gun does not kill a person. there may be some games that have violence in it, but that could hardly be considered promoting it.
As silly as the 'violent video games cause school shootings' argument is, the defense of those video games by games enthusiasts is about as blind and stubborn as the defense of guns by the pro-gun lobby.
And I think you're jumping the gun here. You take a list of items recovered from his room and because 'video games' are not specifically mentioned, you assume that he had none? What about his desktop computer? What about those compact discs?
I think the sensitivity and defensiveness of the gaming community when events like these occur really demonstrates the fact that you all know that these games have a greater effect on players than you will want to admit.
'And I think you're jumping the gun here. You take a list of items recovered from his room and because 'video games' are not specifically mentioned, you assume that he had none? What about his desktop computer? What about those compact discs?'
I'm suprised that nobody else has asked that yet. When i got to the 'computer' part of the search list, i was wondering if the police has went on it and searched the hard drive. I'm sure they might find something there to there liking.
Cho was clincally depressed though, so thoughts of harm to himself or to others would have came eventually.
But i still would like to protect the notion that violent video games do not cause acts of violence. Even if Cho played violent video games, i think the enviroment he grew up in may have been a bigger harm to him than the game itself. The media described him as a 'Loner' and a person that had no friends. Maybe the fact that he didn't have anybody to turn to was the cause of this. Perhaps he was too afraid of the truth, and started using other people as his 'hate scapegoat'.
Counter-Strike was a fan-created 'mod' for Valve's 1998 game Half-Life. After Counter-Strike's enormous success, Valve bought the mod's development team and hired its staff. Counter-Strike: Source was developed by this team and Valve using the technology behind Half-Life 2 (specifically its new graphics engine, called Source).
I really am tired about hearing about the VA Tech slaying or whatever the media wants to call it.
About a year ago now a man had taken hostages at an Amish school and had killed some students and then himself it hardly got mentioned. Does that make it okay?
What it does is send a compelling message about our culture and show us that only the high visibility tragedies will be the only ones that are relevant.
Personally I am pissed off about it all and am saddened by the incident. I don't think that it is fair to undermine things that happen in our own communities every day.
The only reason this story is lasting this long in the media so long is because the kid is asian. Every asian kid obviously plays violent videogames, and the fact that they didn't find any in his room should have sent up a red flag. I bet this kid would not have killed so many people in real life had he owned a copy of counter-strike, or if Steam didn't make it so hard to play for free, because he probably would have pirated it at some point.
The moral of this story is to buy a lonely kid some video games before it's too late.
The reason the VT shootings is making so much news is because it was at a college which people can relate to and are therefore personally affected by it. The Amish school, on the other hand, was, well, Amish. I don't know any Amish people, nor have I been to an Amish town, therefore it feels alien and somewhat disconnected from me. Yeah, it's sad that I don't feel the same about both tragedies, but it's the honest truth. We (well, most people) are more impacted by events that we can relate to.
wtfApr 20th, 2007 - 16:44:26
vidoe games do not suck
video games do not cause people to do crazy things
Any Fa**ot that thinks game cause shootings at school should die
video games are not the cause its the way the person is being treated at school is the cause
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