So, will you be participating in "Ceasefire friday"?

[Abrams63j]

I will not be participating, as this will not help anyone. If I want to pop in Call of Duty tomorrow, I will.

 

[Stein Inge]

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Yes, a group is trying to honour 18 dead children, misguided or not, and your response is to do the exact opposite of their suggestion in order to spite them...
Yes, that is absolutely the best way to get people to believe that video-games aren't warping your mind...[/quote]

I´m with you dude...

As far as I can tell the people behind this "No Shooter Friday" thing wanted to do something to show that "no, games doesn´t turn those who play them into murderers, and we´ll do this little symbolic gesture to show that we support those left behind from this senseless tragedy". I see no problem with this!

For fucks sake guys: children were murdered! And you feel butthurt because someone said something bad (and utterly irrelevant) about you fucking hobby!?

Shame on you!

 

[pat34us]

http://kotaku.com/5969100/video-games-and-the-sandy-hook-shooting-two-very-different-reactions



EDIT: By the way, OP has lied to us. Games were not blamed. Guns were not blamed. There are more articles about them being blamed than the blaming itself. These are myths. The only thing that is going on is mourning.

If they (whoever decided on doing this) spun it that way they might get a better response.

Such as:

How about we take a day off of playing shooters to represent a day of morning for the victims of the tragedy (like a flag at half mast or a moment of silence).

 

[Singularly Datarific]

It's not a blame of video games.
It's saying that maybe using mass murder with guns as entertainment might not be in very good taste given recent events, and it might do some good to raise awareness that the real use of these things isn't so happy.
For me, I think I'll be playing Recettear.

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

ya know, I had planned to just get drunk and hang out with friends watching shitty movies during the apocalypse... but now these window licking media people are blaming us for something completely unrelated...

So now, I'm getting half a dozen people, 2 Xboxes, a new router and a pile of batteries together for a lan party spectacular to erect the largest middle finger possible to these paste eating window lickers possible.

 

[DSK-]

Nope, I've never even heard of "No shooter Friday".

[Edit]

Alright, so I read the topic (silly) me and I don't see any reason not to play shooting games.

 

[sageoftruth]

What is this "no shooter Friday", or rather, where was this announced? I just googled it and only found a link to this forum thread. Is this really a thing?

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

Whos up for some half life? :3

In other words no, nope and never good day sir, i SAID good day SIR

 

[IndomitableSam]

Edit: ... Not following the above post with any funnies or anything. Can't really follow that at all.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I don't really play shooters but maybe I will on general principle just to counter that Friday thing.

 

[chiggerwood]

Honestly I see this "No Shooter Friday" bullshit as nothing more than mass masturbation; a meaningless act meant only to make those who participate feel good without having to do any actual work. It reeks of modern hedonism. If you want to do it fine, but please drop all pretension and have an orgy. Who knows if you do that then you might replenish the human lives lost from the recent tragedy. Besides I just bought Spec ops: The Line, Shadow Warrior, and One Unit Whole Blood like hell I'm not going to have fun.

 

[MarsProbe]

Definitely not. I may not be actually be playing any games on friday, but that will be because I'm working during the day then going out at night, not because it's "no shooter friday". If I was wanting to pay my respects to the victims of the tragedy concerned, I'd do that by actually paying my respects to them in some way that made sense, not by foregoing some form of entertainment based on the sentiments of some random group of individuals.

On that topic, maybe this would be the perfect opportunity to make some progress on my currently in limbo Borderlands 2 playthrough.

 

[Lucane]

Where the fuck did this idea come from? Why the fuck should we do this? Games have nothing to do with the shooting.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.396449-Call-Goes-Out-For-Shooter-Cease-Fire?page=1

This seemingly unknown/Not very well-known group presented the idea a few days ago.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

-video snip-

It's not a blame of video games.
It's saying that maybe using mass murder with guns as entertainment might not be in very good taste given recent events, and it might do some good to raise awareness that the real use of these things isn't so happy.
For me, I think I'll be playing Recettear.

Please forgive me ahead of time for getting mad about this.

Google "Syria" go to the news section, and feast your eyes.

If that's not enough, now google "Syria children", feast your eyes again.

If you can't be arsed to do that, I'll highlight a few headlines.

"Syrian refugee children are dying"

"Children in Syria are paying a very high price"

"Syrian refugee camps filled with child deaths."

"6 children killed by Car bomb"

"10 Children killed by cluster bomb."

^And all that? Took place in less than a month from today. And this has been going on for years.
I've seen literal videos of these things happening. You can search this stuff for yourself, if you can stomach it, and see with your own eyes.

So I ask you, I ask ANYONE who is taking part in this 'ceasefire'. Why now? Were you aware of what is happening in Syria? And if you were, did you even once consider 'showing respect' by not playing violent videogames?

Seems to me like you're picking and choosing exactly which horrendous tragic event to "show respect to".

I know you people mean well by taking part in this gesture. I'm not trying to attack or tear down any of you. But I can't help but look at this gesture, and feel grossly offended, because of all the tragedies of the exact same kind taking place worldwide, and not even acknowledging them.

So in my defense, this isn't me being some heartless spiteful bastard that cannot give up his violent videogames. This is me looking at this gesture/movement/whathaveyou, and thinking it is asinine.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

This Friday, I'll be playing the goriest game I can find, and then continuing my life as a perfectly well adjusted human being with no intent to murder.

Shame you can't buy Manhunt 2 anymore (or at least the AO version), or I'd say get that. I picked it up back when it was still D2D. I'm not playing any online shooters, but that is solely because after work tomorrow, I'll probably go home and play RAGE or Metroid Prime all night. Just started playing through both of them again.

 

[Flames66]

I probably won't be playing any shooters on Friday, not because of this but because I don't play many shooters at the moment anyway. If I did I would continue to do so as if nothing had happened.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

-video snip-

It's not a blame of video games.
It's saying that maybe using mass murder with guns as entertainment might not be in very good taste given recent events, and it might do some good to raise awareness that the real use of these things isn't so happy.
For me, I think I'll be playing Recettear.

Please forgive me ahead of time for getting mad about this.

Google "Syria" go to the news section, and feast your eyes.

If that's not enough, now google "Syria children", feast your eyes again.

If you can't be arsed to do that, I'll highlight a few headlines.

"Syrian refugee children are dying"

"Children in Syria are paying a very high price"

"Syrian refugee camps filled with child deaths."

"6 children killed by Car bomb"

"10 Children killed by cluster bomb."

^And all that? Took place in less than a month from today. And this has been going on for years.
I've seen literal videos of these things happening. You can search this stuff for yourself, if you can stomach it, and see with your own eyes.

So I ask you, I ask ANYONE who is taking part in this 'ceasefire'. Why now? Were you aware of what is happening in Syria? And if you were, did you even once consider 'showing respect' by not playing violent videogames?

Seems to me like you're picking and choosing exactly which horrendous tragic event to "show respect to".

I know you people mean well by taking part in this gesture. I'm not trying to attack or tear down any of you. But I can't help but look at this gesture, and feel grossly offended, because of all the tragedies of the exact same kind taking place worldwide, and not even acknowledging them.

So in my defense, this isn't me being some heartless spiteful bastard that cannot give up his violent videogames. This is me looking at this gesture/movement/whathaveyou, and thinking it is asinine.

That is what is sad. If it didn't happen in 'Merica, then it doesn't matter, but if it does happen here, the entire world is supposed to feel sorry for us.

 

[Maze1125]

I know you people mean well by taking part in this gesture. I'm not trying to attack or tear down any of you. But I can't help but look at this gesture, and feel grossly offended, because of all the tragedies of the exact same kind taking place worldwide, and not even acknowledging them.

And when do you acknowledge them?
Are you currently volunteering in those countries in order to reduce their suffering? Are you donating significant amounts of your income to people who are volunteering there? Are you doing anything at all?
Or do you just use it as a useful "gotcha!" when people start caring about events that happen in their own country? So you can go "Oh you care about those children do you? Well what about THESE?!?" as your excuse to not care about any of them?

You feel grossly offended do you? What right do you have to feel grossly offended on behalf of anyone? At least those people care about SOMETHING rather than constantly looking for excuses to care about nothing.

 

[veloper]

So I ask you, I ask ANYONE who is taking part in this 'ceasefire'. Why now? Were you aware of what is happening in Syria? And if you were, did you even once consider 'showing respect' by not playing violent videogames?

Good question.
Unless the players think that videogames and the school massacre are somehow related, there's no good reason to start now.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

That is what is sad. If it didn't happen in 'Merica, then it doesn't matter, but if it does happen here, the entire world is supposed to feel sorry for us.

I'd hate to pull that card. But it does, in a way, seem to be like this. Not that what happened here isn't a tragedy, I just wish these people would realize that this sort of horror is what other parts of the world have been going through on a daily basis for years.

And when do you acknowledge them?
Are you currently volunteering in those countries in order to reduce their suffering? Are you donating significant amounts of your income to people who are volunteering there? Are you doing anything at all?
Or do you just use it as a useful "gotcha!" when people start caring about events that happen in their own country? So you can go "Oh you care about those children do you? Well what about THESE?!?" as your excuse to not care about any of them?

You feel grossly offended do you? What right do you have to feel grossly offended on behalf of anyone? At least those people care about SOMETHING rather than constantly looking for excuses to care about nothing.

En guarde, Maze. I actually come from parts unknown that is currently being torn apart by violence, the sort of violence that a certain country in this world has a direct hand in.
What right do I have to feel grossly offended? Maybe because this sort of 'respect' was not given to my family. In fact, not a single fuck ever seemed to be given.

As for what I did, I did what mass media didn't. Raise awareness.
I watched every video I could to understand and take in every ounce of horror and misery the Syrians are going through with my own eyes, since YEARS back. Way before I ever heard a peep of it on mass media. And I told everyone I could. I mentioned it to everyone, so they could mention it to everyone, I talked about it online with strangers - all of which never knew about it. Until finally, the media picked up on it. Of course I don't take sole responsibility that the world is more or less aware of what's happening in Syria. But I tried.

So I'm sorry if I take this sort of subject very personally. Or perhaps you're going to tell me I don't have a right to?