Call Goes Out For Shooter Cease Fire
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So in the end, it is meaningless. Millions of people who are gamers have responded to the tragedy even though it did not affect them personally. That's more than enough, any more is just vanity.
If you want to stop spree killings for good, hug a future spree killer and give them a luxury holiday just as you do for those young terminal cancer patients who get VIP trips to Disneyland for free.
I play games to let off steam from a bad day of work, like so many other people do. It is sad that some crazy nutjob with a gun killed so many children, but forcing myself to suffer the intense stress of the day without a means of escaping it on harmless pixels is not going to help anyone. If anything, it's going to make me feel terrible. I may takeout the stress on friends or loved ones. No one wants that.
Now if I read the whole story right, this had more to do with the guy getting a royal screw-job on his brain from prescriptive mood pills and - in his crazy chemically-deranged state - he committed a terrible act by slaughtering his mother, and the children at the school she worked for. So how about, instead of calling off shooting games for a day, we tell everyone on the planet to call of prescriptive mind-fuckery pills for the day? No? You're saying that's a horrible thing to do? Then why expect gamers of the world to drop their controllers on a guilt trip?
edit - edited first sentence of second paragraph to get my point across better.
Now if I read the whole story right, this had more to do with the guy getting a royal screw-job on his brain from prescriptive mood pills and - in his crazy chemically-deranged state - he committed a terrible act by slaughtering his mother, and the children at the school she worked for. So how about, instead of calling off shooting games for a day, we tell everyone on the planet to call of prescriptive mind-fuckery pills for the day? No? You're saying that's a horrible thing to do? Then why expect gamers of the world to drop their controllers on a guilt trip?
edit - edited first sentence of second paragraph to get my point across better.
Same here. I was going to be going between Halo 4 and Minecraft, but the new update just came out today so I have plenty of reason not to play any shooters for the next few days/weeks.WanderingFool said:
That might have worked if they had gone the opposite route and refused to play or buy any Valve games for a week or two. Get enough people to do that, especially during a large sale or other event, and Valve will take notice.(good luck getting anyone to actually do that though)GoddyofAus said:
Well, seeing as I'm on winter break now, I don't have anything else to do. Might as well join it, so it looks like I'm playing the xbox version of minecraft all day tomorrow!
Granted, I don't play DW but I know the implications behind it.teh_Canape said:
Ah well. There's always Magic.
Sorry, but this is just a more elaborate version of
"lke dis if u cry evry tiem"
It also can be read that FPS gaming is responsiable for this type of thing.
"lke dis if u cry evry tiem"
It also can be read that FPS gaming is responsiable for this type of thing.
So that's 5 shots per minute for the first minute, which assumes he is even accurate considering he's using a smoothebore musket and is able to load while running after his now fleeing targets.wombat_of_war said:
The issue is, as always, how easy it is for a mentally unstable person to have access to guns. Considering how so many people have them it's quite simple for him to "borrow" one.
A lunatic in New Zealand is lucky if he can steal a golf club, let alone semi-automatic rifles.
Friends and family of the deceased are not going to care if people stop playing video games for some length of time to "support" them. If you want to "support" them then do something meaningful and make an actual sacrifice, like donating money for funerals. Funerals are expensive and stressful. A lot of families will be stretched thin.