So, will you be participating in "Ceasefire friday"?
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The idea is dumb and I will play DOOM as protest.
Refusing to play certain games as a result of a shooting is to (even on the simplest level) admit some sort of responsibility on part of games.
After all the gaming industry has gone through to prove they don't make killers of us all, refusing to play a shooter on Friday is a step in the wrong direction and despite how nice of a gesture it is, it will only serve as ammo for gamings detractors.
Refusing to play certain games as a result of a shooting is to (even on the simplest level) admit some sort of responsibility on part of games.
After all the gaming industry has gone through to prove they don't make killers of us all, refusing to play a shooter on Friday is a step in the wrong direction and despite how nice of a gesture it is, it will only serve as ammo for gamings detractors.
Truth be told I don't really play FPS's anyway. I much prefer a bit of RTS/ old skool TBS and chess-mastering my pawns across a battlefield.
Let's turn this around for a second: Are you saying that you won't stop playing a game for 24 hours, just because someone asked you to do so? Keeping in mind, it's not all games, but only a certain genre of game. Context aside, that's not healthy.
Protesting the protest sends this message to detractors. It's a no-win situation.
Protesting the protest sends this message to detractors. It's a no-win situation.
I won't be playing any games. But that is cause I'll be somewhere where I have no access to any games.
On sort of a on/off-topic note. Total Biscuit did a video on Video game violence and tragedy. It was quite good actually.
On sort of a on/off-topic note. Total Biscuit did a video on Video game violence and tragedy. It was quite good actually.
Are film fanatics agreeing to not watch an films with shooting in them?
Didn't thinks so, considering that films probably influenced his actions as much as gaming did, which as far as I'm concerned is not at all.
How many copies of BlOps 2 have been sold and there has only been one case like this?
My maths tells me that there were much deeper issues than "he played a few shooters"
Didn't thinks so, considering that films probably influenced his actions as much as gaming did, which as far as I'm concerned is not at all.
How many copies of BlOps 2 have been sold and there has only been one case like this?
My maths tells me that there were much deeper issues than "he played a few shooters"
I don't really care about this, media will find someway to put the guilt on games anyway no matter what we choose to do that day.
The amount of people here going "LOL NO! And you're pathetic for trying to do anything personal to honour the victims! Look at me, I'm so edgy I'm going to shoot things all day!" is kinda... sad.
I get not wanting to take part, but the need to belittle other people's personal good intentions is puzzling.
I get not wanting to take part, but the need to belittle other people's personal good intentions is puzzling.
Is the media going to stop covering the shooting on Friday?OtakuNinja said:
I read a report a couple days ago that theorized that he did it for attention knowing that the media would make a big deal about it (which is why he chose the location and victims).
I would think that a weeks worth of media coverage of real violence is more harmful than video games.
i'm going to do exactly the same thing i would have otherwise, which is try to finish that last trophy in FFXIII-2 and then start playing an Xmas gift: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, which yes is a shooter.
if violent video games actually caused people going nuts and killing people, we would have found out year ago...
and i don't think i'm being sympathetic to the victims. my wife is an elementary school teacher - so it hit kinda close to me via her.
if violent video games actually caused people going nuts and killing people, we would have found out year ago...
and i don't think i'm being sympathetic to the victims. my wife is an elementary school teacher - so it hit kinda close to me via her.
No. This is the first I've heard of it and it sounds stupid. Games are not the issue, Adam Lanza was mentally ill. I'm just going to carry on playing whatever game I feel like on that day. I might even go on a CoD binge and play the campaigns of all the CoDs I own consecutively. Maybe follow up by playing a few hours of each GTA I own. No shooter friday sounds stupid to me.ResonanceSD said:
There is a slight possibility I'm severely missing the point of the event though.
I won't join because I can't see this as an actual act of respect, but as a way to make gamers look better in the eyes of others.
Why just shooters? I just imagine someone going: "Oh, we know that your children died, so we decided to stop playing shooters for friday. You know, since the guy used guns." It's just seems so thoughtless and trying to please the people who are blaming video games for this, instead of actually respecting the dead.
Why do we not stop playing all video games instead for the day? That is something that would effect all gamers. It's seems like a cop out, considering there are tons of video game genres besides shooters. How is reminding people that people were specifically shot respectful? We might as well send money to the families of the people who died.
Why do we focus on the killer instead of the dead again?
Why just shooters? I just imagine someone going: "Oh, we know that your children died, so we decided to stop playing shooters for friday. You know, since the guy used guns." It's just seems so thoughtless and trying to please the people who are blaming video games for this, instead of actually respecting the dead.
Why do we not stop playing all video games instead for the day? That is something that would effect all gamers. It's seems like a cop out, considering there are tons of video game genres besides shooters. How is reminding people that people were specifically shot respectful? We might as well send money to the families of the people who died.
Why do we focus on the killer instead of the dead again?
Well I'm playing Dark Souls at the moment, so that's what I'll be playing every time I get a chance. But the idea that video games were the root cause of this, and the subsequent idea of not playing shooters to show your disapproval for a single day (which does so much towards showing how people are worried about the long term effects that are clearly at play), are so stupid that if I were playing a shooter, I would make sure to play it on Friday, and beyond that, if there was a shooter I had that could justify not playing Dark Souls, I would play that for one day just to spite it.