Media Blames Videogames For Wannabe Bomber's Actions

[Action Jack]

Rational arguments won't work against this kind of zealotry. Sarcasm will only make it stronger, because they'll think we're agreeing with them.

The only way to fight these people is to be the same brand of impenetrable idiot right back at them. Let's show them we can link two unrelated facts together to support whatever fantastical claim we want, and maybe they'll see how stupid it looks.

I'll start. I drink orange juice, and I can't whistle. Therefore, I can't whistle BECAUSE I drink orange juice. Parents, don't let your children drink orange juice.

 

[Thaius]

After <url=http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fnews%2Fview%2F108065-Inside-the-Sick-Mind-of-a-School-Shooter-Mod&h=d7eae>the other article released today, I do not need this. I am going to spend the rest of the day pissed off now...

UGH.

 

[Super Toast]

Meh. No one will remember this shit in a couple of days, anyway.

 

[Wakefield]

No ones stupid enough to believe this crap? Right...?

 

[brodie21]

i blame it on the SPIDERSQUIRRELS!!!

 

[Canid117]

It's British news papers what do you expect?

 

[Bobbity]

I'm sorry, I zoned out at daily mail.

Seriously though, this is bullcrap. What's next?

This just in! Crazy plot to rob a bank inspired by video games, rather than poverty and factors in the robber's unstable personal life!

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When does RE teach you how to make bombs?
I have only played RE:5 so please tell me if I am dead wrong.
Granted the villain use chemical warfare, but you don't make bombs in the game, the "thing" you make, in RE:5 atleast, is better medicine and reload a gun, but never assemble bombs =/

Exactly It doesn't.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Only thing Resident Evil has taught is how to battle a lake monster with harpoons. Seriously fuck major news media outlets. I almost wish the hot button issue was Comics that supposedly cause Communism, so I could play my fucking Xbox in peace.

Call Of C'thulhu taught me to fight off unimaginable horrors from the deep sea with only a battleship from the 20s!

 

[Evilsanta]

For the love of...

Hell, the only thing that Resident Evil 4 thaught me is that the president daughter is equiped with balistics... >.>

And the 5 one that you need optimal altitude for COMPLTE GLOBAL SATURATION!

Erhm...

 

[odBilal]

Media Blames Videogames For Wannabe Bomber's Actions

...the Dallas home of former President Bush (which he identified as "Tyrant's House").

Wasnt the Virus that turned people in to zombies called "tyrant"? :O
I have to tell this Fox News!

 

[realslimshadowen]

I really didn't get why the media does things like this, until I realized that most major game companies aren't part of larger conglomerates (yet; I think--I may easily be wrong). They're their own companies, not subsidiaries of News Corp or General Electric.

So when the media owned by News Corp and General Electric et al decide that people want something to blame for something bad and no legit ideas are presenting themselves, blame video games, because it's not hurting them--and indeed, it's hurting competitors (i.e., video games monopolize time that could otherwise be spent watching TV, reading newspapers and magazines, etc.).

Activision, of course, is owned by the larger conglomerate Vivendi...but I don't think I've ever seen Vivendi saying, "Video games boooo!" Vivendi is also French, and despite their reputations, the French don't seem to get easily enraged about controversial media.

 

[cerebus23]

So glad the daily mail pointed this out it is of course the fact this guy liked to watch video games, rather than his "religious" outlook and belifs, because we know the neo facist islam is a warm cuddley safe religion that is just misunderstood, but video games make people in wanton killers, rapists and mass murderers.

 

[KrazyKain]

Media Blames Videogames For Wannabe Bomber's Actions

...the Dallas home of former President Bush (which he identified as "Tyrant's House").

Wasnt the Virus that turned people in to zombies called "tyrant"? :O
I have to tell this Fox News!

I think it was one of the bosses.. but yes I thought of this link too