Animal Slaughter Blamed on Violent Games

[paragon1]

Right, because people NEVER killed animals for sport before videogames. Especially not young men.

I mean, take me for example. This past autumn video-games forced me to go out with my friends in the early morning, wait a couple hours in a deer-stand drinking beer (only a little at a time of course, firearms and drunkeness not mix well), shoot a defenseless deer, and then take it to go get processed into tasty tasty venison. I'm certain no one has ever done that before FPS games became popular right? Otherwise this guy would be more full of shit than my septic tank.

 

[Abedeus]

Yes, I so want to kill animals in games, I no longer take my Barker in Dragon Age to my group, because I hate seeing him die or get attacked.

 

[ParadoxBG]

Bullshit. I've got wildlife books that lament the same thing happening to bison and caribou in the fifties, thirties, what have you, and well before.

The idea that games "always seem to involve human characters hunting down and shooting other human characters with automatic weapons, while being shot at themselves" just speaks of blatant ignorance of video games in general. Shooters are a FRACTION of video games.

Which means that the fact they were being played was a CHOICE.

Which means the kids were probably pretty heavy into the idea of shootin' stuff in the first place.

 

[brunothepig]

Now, though I like to see validation in my habit of declaring humanity as, kindly put, incredibly stupid, this is hardly news. If we were to find some kind of controversial occurrence that doesn't somehow shift blame to gamers, that would be news.
Still, why do these people assume that we can't distinguish between fantasy and reality? I myself have a very simple test. Reality has better graphics, and a less realistic physics engine.