The Nazi party ruined many things that are now considered by many countries and people as taboo... A big one would be the anything that resembles the Swastika where it is used in other religions and cultures as a peaceful symbol and goes way back by centuries compared to the Nazis...kasperbbs said:
Mass Effect being blamed for Connecticut shooting.
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That just makes it sound like he killed them to spare them a worse fate... I think thats even worse to think about...Rose and Thorn said:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-Ban-Mass-Effect/242897275840745Thespian said:
But this facebook page is now more popular, which makes me happy.
Quite simply...
FFS.
Y'know, this makes me angry. It really fucking does. Angry at all these morons saying they hope Bioware rot in hell for for producing a game that will warp 'our' children and make them do things like this, just because they need something to blame.
I'm going to just go ahead and quote Chris Rock on this one:
'Whatever happened to crazy?'
Captcha: emperor's clothes. What are you trying to say Captcha? That blaming Mass Effect is baseless, just like an invisible suit? I agree.
FFS.
Y'know, this makes me angry. It really fucking does. Angry at all these morons saying they hope Bioware rot in hell for for producing a game that will warp 'our' children and make them do things like this, just because they need something to blame.
I'm going to just go ahead and quote Chris Rock on this one:
'Whatever happened to crazy?'
Captcha: emperor's clothes. What are you trying to say Captcha? That blaming Mass Effect is baseless, just like an invisible suit? I agree.
People can't wrap their brains around the idea that certain people are capable of this. There was a case years ago, where two 10 year old boys kidnapped a two year old, stoned him to death and left his body on a train track.
I know people that worked in the courtrooms for the case, one kid was sobbing at what he had done, the other didn't understand what the fuss was about. He was plain and simple a psychopath.
The public and the media couldn't accept that this kid was capable of this, he must have been corrupted somehow. Eventually the media found out that the boys father own a copy of Chucky, and they latched onto this idea that somehow this film had caused it even though there was no evidence of any sort that the kid had watched the video at all.
With tragedies like this people always look for someone to blame, and who ever the target of this blame is (regardless of how involved they are) can get more hatred than the actual perpetrator.
I wouldn't be too concerned with the relatively little Mass Effect hate happening here, gaming is still gaining a reputation as a genuine form of entertainment like books or films so its an easy target. The same thing happened to films when they first became popular and widespread. Occasionally films and books still get this treatment as well, and this isn't like Brevik stating he used CoD to train for his shootings. The relationship is peripheral at best and will be forgotten about fairly soon, especially as it wasn't the person it was orginally stated to be.
I know people that worked in the courtrooms for the case, one kid was sobbing at what he had done, the other didn't understand what the fuss was about. He was plain and simple a psychopath.
The public and the media couldn't accept that this kid was capable of this, he must have been corrupted somehow. Eventually the media found out that the boys father own a copy of Chucky, and they latched onto this idea that somehow this film had caused it even though there was no evidence of any sort that the kid had watched the video at all.
With tragedies like this people always look for someone to blame, and who ever the target of this blame is (regardless of how involved they are) can get more hatred than the actual perpetrator.
I wouldn't be too concerned with the relatively little Mass Effect hate happening here, gaming is still gaining a reputation as a genuine form of entertainment like books or films so its an easy target. The same thing happened to films when they first became popular and widespread. Occasionally films and books still get this treatment as well, and this isn't like Brevik stating he used CoD to train for his shootings. The relationship is peripheral at best and will be forgotten about fairly soon, especially as it wasn't the person it was orginally stated to be.
I loled. I love that picture.Andy Shandy said:
People today are still using the wrong name, so yeah.Kungfu_Teddybear said:
This is one of the problems with the 24 hour news cycle. They spent most of yesterday repeating it, and now it's "fact."
What's the line from Liberty Valance? When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
It wasn't the people on Tumblr that were blaming Mass Effect. They were the ones raging about it being blamed on Mass Effect which was what brought it to my attention.NightowlM said:
Sadly they're not trolls. The Mass Effect Facebook page has loads of comments from idiots blaming the game and a 'Ban Mass Effect' Facebook page has even been created.EHKOS said:
I'm sorry, I've never played a Mass Effect game.
Can someone tell me if there's anything in the game that people are even remotely connecting to the shooting or are they just blowing smoke here?
Can someone tell me if there's anything in the game that people are even remotely connecting to the shooting or are they just blowing smoke here?
If you have the spacer origin, your mother appears briefly in Mass Effect 1. In the other origins your parents are either AWOL or dead. I assumed that they were killed by slavers and criminals, but apparently there's actually a scene where Shepard kills them that I wasn't aware of. Or so all of the middle-aged women are telling me.doggie015 said:
They're hardly anonymous since it has their names on Facebook.sleeky01 said:You sure about that? Because really:Kungfu_Teddybear said:
