British Media Blames Games For London Riots
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I'm sure high youth unemployment, a complete lack of hope for the future and a government run by toffs with no grip on reality has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Grand Theft Auto is the ________ trainer.
Is Rockstar North's office a training facility?
Grats, Johnny, You are going to R* North to learn to riot.
Games, Blame It When Bad Parenting and such doesnt work!
Is Rockstar North's office a training facility?
Grats, Johnny, You are going to R* North to learn to riot.
Games, Blame It When Bad Parenting and such doesnt work!
Sometimes I feel bad for my country both for our stupid scare mongering media and the violence parts of our society feel they have to resort to
Ah, a clash fan are ya? Groovy TimesEarnest Cavalli said:
[sub]getit, cos it's a clash...nevermind[/sub]
I feel the clash songs London's Burning, White Riot or English Civil War would have been a slightly better track to link it to (but then again, I practically listen to the clash 24/7 and am a tad obsessive...)
Why am I not suprised that they always blame games?
I mean, come on! Leave the gaming-media alone! Games had nothing, NOTHING, to do with theese riots.
And for that matter; why is games always the one to be blamed? Game developers have even stated that
they don't want to make games to make people more violent, it is meant as harmless entertainemnt, like
an action film.
Never blame the game, blame the gamer, I say.
I mean, come on! Leave the gaming-media alone! Games had nothing, NOTHING, to do with theese riots.
And for that matter; why is games always the one to be blamed? Game developers have even stated that
they don't want to make games to make people more violent, it is meant as harmless entertainemnt, like
an action film.
Never blame the game, blame the gamer, I say.
Citation needed.
"Hey, guys? Supposedly-reputable news source guys? Hey, we should probably go and get some kind of factual evidence before we insert opinionated comments like this... Guys?"
Allegedly now it's Bookface and Twitter.Realitycrash said:
Not, say, the despicable use of phone "hacking" that goes without recompense. That would be leaving the blame on the Standard's doorway where it belongs.
Are you having me on?! Things are still escalating and they want to start pointing the blame at video games? Oh dear.
I'm sorry, but we've got the former Mayor of London blaming the government, we've got the government blaming the police, the police blaming the gangs that have formed a truce and have gone out looting together and London's own chip-wrapper wants to blame video games. Great. Just great.
(Yeah I'm cross, I expect better of my nation).
I'm sorry, but we've got the former Mayor of London blaming the government, we've got the government blaming the police, the police blaming the gangs that have formed a truce and have gone out looting together and London's own chip-wrapper wants to blame video games. Great. Just great.
(Yeah I'm cross, I expect better of my nation).
Wait I am sorry, I have been hunting for a little bit and have not found a reason for the riots, what exactly is the issue?
OT: Oh God, is Rupert Murdoch involved again? Ten bucks says he is.
OT: Oh God, is Rupert Murdoch involved again? Ten bucks says he is.
The reason is that a suspected gang member was shot dead by the police during an attempted arrest (from what I can tell). The family and friends of the suspected gang member held a peaceful protest outside a police station demanding answers as to what had happened. Later, rumours on the internet circulated that the police had shot first/shot him on the floor at point-blank range and so the gangs in the area teamed up and started getting violent and then it all kicked off.silent-treatment said:
The Telegraph seems to have good coverage of the story as that's where I read about it earlier.
I remember The Standard from Hong Kong... yeah, they do have a branch here, and they still did that videogame-flaming shit, but they were also lashing at other media once in a while.
I remember some odd story about a Chinese man in his late 20s over in Kowloon, who kidnapped a 2 year old little girl from the neighbourhood whose parents he vaguely knew. The police traced back the disappearance up to him a few weeks later, and found her remains in the freezer. The guy ate the little girl. Her raw flesh. Day after day.
In The Standard's article on the aforementioned story, there was a quote from some of the guy's friends, who claimed "he once said he enjoyed the taste of human flesh" whilst they were watching a TV show/movie that somehow involved cannibalism (I'm pretty sure it might be True Blood on HBO); of course, his friends didn't take him seriously and thought he was only joking. Then the paper used that quote to go on for several additional paragraphs on how watching the show "pushed him to move to action", and on how several other shows, some of them having no connection whatsoever, should be taken off the air.
I remember some odd story about a Chinese man in his late 20s over in Kowloon, who kidnapped a 2 year old little girl from the neighbourhood whose parents he vaguely knew. The police traced back the disappearance up to him a few weeks later, and found her remains in the freezer. The guy ate the little girl. Her raw flesh. Day after day.
In The Standard's article on the aforementioned story, there was a quote from some of the guy's friends, who claimed "he once said he enjoyed the taste of human flesh" whilst they were watching a TV show/movie that somehow involved cannibalism (I'm pretty sure it might be True Blood on HBO); of course, his friends didn't take him seriously and thought he was only joking. Then the paper used that quote to go on for several additional paragraphs on how watching the show "pushed him to move to action", and on how several other shows, some of them having no connection whatsoever, should be taken off the air.