Mass Effect being blamed for Connecticut shooting.

[Dreamfiller]

I feel this video as a whole puts an end to all of this media nonsense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4

 

[deadpoolhulk]

right. i'll be off founding a city on the moon. WHO'S WITH ME!?

 

[Agow95]

The problem with blaming Mass Effect for a school shooting is that in the third game, Shepard is tormented constantly by the death of a single child.

 

[Formica Archonis]

The problem with blaming Mass Effect for a school shooting is that in the third game, Shepard is tormented constantly by the death of a single child.

Fifty bucks says most of the idiots blaming Mass Effect couldn't even NAME the protagonist, never mind something he/she did.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

I . . . but . . . wha?

The level of stupidity that some members of this species can descend to never ceases to amaze me.

 

[LoLife]

I thought Fox & CNN were trying to blame Starcraft???

 

[blackrave]

I think we already knew that during grief period, people and common sense don't share the same room.
So?

 

[HalfTangible]

So I'm sure most of you are aware of the shooting in Connecticut that left 18 children and 7 adults dead. Well it seems now, going by this image, that Mass Effect is somehow being blamed.

Now, I just saw this image on Tumblr, so I've not got a story on how Mass Effect has come to be blamed other than the shooter being a fan of Mass Effect judging by the likes on his Facebook page. But I wanted to bring this to your attention. What are your thoughts on this?

...You actually need a disclaimer saying that the game with physics defying tech, blue aliens, massive dinosaurs and other outlandish ieas IS NOT REAL?!

It utterly sickens me that there are people who are ACTUALLY this stupid.

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

Welcome to the internet, home of assholery, knee jerk response, and people incapable of fact checking.

 

[BleedingPride]

Argh, so many idiots! Can't we feed them all to the pigs or something?

"Feed 'im to the pigs, Earl."

 

[Wadders]

Argh, so many idiots! Can't we feed them all to the pigs or something?

"Feed 'im to the pigs, Earl."

"They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as a pig'."

Glad someone picked up on that.

 

[13thforswarn]

I'm staying out of this thread after this post. The sheer stupidity makes me angry.

 

[Oro44]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'd like to point out that in ME3, there is a mission where you SAVE a school from terrorists.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Sorry. This isn't shocking me anymore.
Humankind proved they were capable of idiocy this potent when they tried to use Night Trap as evidence of...any sort of thinking, let alone malicious.
Personally, I lost hope in humanity when I learned there were people who un-ironically like Freddy Got Fingered.

 

[Sean Wagner]

Media companies that are in direct competition with the gaming industry are blaming games for mass violence? Go figure...

 

[Dumoras]

idiots. the game was sold in the millions. did they not think some bad guys might like the game too. every popular product has a bad guy owning one.

 

[RedRuby185]

Just once i'd like to see this as a headline

"Bad Parenting, psychotic son and ineffectual school psychologists blamed for school shooting."

This will only happen when people outside the gaming community grow a brain.

 

[Lictor Face]

I love radical christians. Don't you? GAME IS WILL OF SATAN! OMG

How old is mass effect? 6 years? four?

Video games will always and forever be blamed for violence caused by young adults. I wonder what they blamed before video games were invneted. Gambling and drinking probably. But adults did that and they didn't want their past timest o be OGM CORRUPTIVE GEE-GAW. So, video games.